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If there was a second Brexit referendum how would you vote?


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GT49er

Well-known member
Feb 1, 2009
47,267
Gloucester
Shadow minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned from the Labour frontbench, telling the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, that she could not reconcile herself to the party’s three-line whip to vote for triggering article 50.

Awww! ..... generation tulip!
 




pb21

Well-known member
Apr 23, 2010
6,444
What he means is that a majority vote has prevailed ahead of a minority vote, you couldnt make it up really ...

Actually the vast majority don't want a hard Brexit that is undemocratically being foisted onto us. It's the angry vociferous minority who do. You couldn't make it up really...
 


The Rivet

Well-known member
Aug 9, 2011
4,524
Shadow minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned from the Labour frontbench, telling the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, that she could not reconcile herself to the party’s three-line whip to vote for triggering article 50.

That three-lIne whip was never going to work.

The more that Labour are fractured the better. Throwing their toys out of the pram about article 50 still wont get the dissenters what they obviously crave.
 








BigGully

Well-known member
Sep 8, 2006
7,139
Actually the vast majority don't want a hard Brexit that is undemocratically being foisted onto us. It's the angry vociferous minority who do. You couldn't make it up really...

Why are you adding the 'vast' bit to the majority, quite simply the referendum was won by Leave and lost by the Remain, adding your own caveats on each Leavers brexit preference as if you really care is irrelevent, you only really want to skew the future direction of Brexit so it might represent your own view, which really isnt the intention of leaving the EU, you will see it as 'hard' and Leavers will see it as appropriate and what was intended.
 


Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park
NSC Patron
Apr 5, 2014
24,284
To me it is straightforward.

We are leaving the EU. It has to happen.

But.. The terms of the exit are another matter. These need proper debate. Many who voted to stay and leave wanted single market access and the retention of some EU laws ongoing.

There should be no 'hard BREXIT'. I don't believe that is the will of the majority.
 


Green Cross Code Man

Wunt be druv
Mar 30, 2006
19,999
Eastbourne
Actually the vast majority don't want a hard Brexit that is undemocratically being foisted onto us. It's the angry vociferous minority who do. You couldn't make it up really...
What was the question again on the referendum? Oh yeah, do you want to leave the EU.

In the campaign we were warned countless times of the dangers of voting out and that it would mean leaving the single market. Essentially 'hard Brexit'. It is a myth that emerged from the remain camp that this was somehow never mentioned. This term has been invented anyway as a way that remain politicians can try to water leaving the EU down. It appears you could make it up.
 




melias shoes

Well-known member
Oct 14, 2010
4,830
You really are clutching at straws aren't you? The negotiations will be with one body, the EU. If just one of the 27 other nations think the deal offered to the UK is too generous they can veto it, end of deal. The Maltese have already drawn a line in the sand saying that WHATEVER the deal is, it must be inferior to being part of the club. Good luck everyone.
Then we walk away. Goodbye.
 


The Rivet

Well-known member
Aug 9, 2011
4,524
The change in attitudes by Europhiles across this whole thread has been so insightful. Starting out as arrogant and aloof and deriding anyone with a view to leave they now sound miserable and pathetic. A bit like a child throwing tantrums at the checkout because mommy says no sweets.
 






melias shoes

Well-known member
Oct 14, 2010
4,830
Brexiteers see any questioning of article 50 or any process that, regardless of it's crucial role in Brexit, appears to slow Brexit down as high treason and the taking over of democracy by a totalitarian regime. It's democratic process. It takes a bit of time. Honestly, bunch of thin skinned, whinging crybabies. It brings to mind a toddler whose been promised a treat and pesters their Mum for it all shopping trip.
You got your way, now please let the adults sit down and try to make the best of the shambles leave voters have made of the country. It will take a bit of time.

I don't mind waiting for the inevitable. Enjoy your evening.
 


Buzzer

Languidly Clinical
Oct 1, 2006
26,121
You really are clutching at straws aren't you? The negotiations will be with one body, the EU. If just one of the 27 other nations think the deal offered to the UK is too generous they can veto it, end of deal. The Maltese have already drawn a line in the sand saying that WHATEVER the deal is, it must be inferior to being part of the club. Good luck everyone.

What usually happens is that the Germans tell everyone which way to vote. Occasionally countries disagree with this and veto a deal as the Belgian regional government recently did with the EU-Canada trade agreement but then the EU offer sweeteners in exchange for doing as the Germans tell them (like with the aforementioned Belgian regional government).
 






Soulman

New member
Oct 22, 2012
10,966
Sompting
Why are you adding the 'vast' bit to the majority, quite simply the referendum was won by Leave and lost by the Remain, adding your own caveats on each Leavers brexit preference as if you really care is irrelevent, you only really want to skew the future direction of Brexit so it might represent your own view, which really isnt the intention of leaving the EU, you will see it as 'hard' and Leavers will see it as appropriate and what was intended.
in a nutshell.
 


melias shoes

Well-known member
Oct 14, 2010
4,830
What usually happens is that the Germans tell everyone which way to vote. Occasionally countries disagree with this and veto a deal as the Belgian regional government recently did with the EU-Canada trade agreement but then the EU offer sweeteners in exchange for doing as the Germans tell them (like with the aforementioned Belgian regional government).

She usually gets her way in the end.
 


melias shoes

Well-known member
Oct 14, 2010
4,830
To me it is straightforward.

We are leaving the EU. It has to happen.

But.. The terms of the exit are another matter. These need proper debate. Many who voted to stay and leave wanted single market access and the retention of some EU laws ongoing.

There should be no 'hard BREXIT'. I don't believe that is the will of the majority.

We was told Leave means Leave. No one I know who voted leave wanted to stay in it a bit...... So to speak. Out.
 






GT49er

Well-known member
Feb 1, 2009
47,267
Gloucester
Actually the vast majority don't want a hard Brexit that is undemocratically being foisted onto us. It's the angry vociferous minority who do. You couldn't make it up really...

Good to hear from someone with incredible blind faith in his/her ability to know what the vast majority want. Have you been an MP for long?
 




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