Brexit, for once some facts.

oldgroaner

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Yet another way to lose votes.
Actually mainly only among the people who wouldn't have voted labour anyway., the have nots would see those policies as progressive.
 

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Those people financing the Leave campigns and Tory and BXP parties.
Next question?

Who are they? What are their names?

This sounds like a huge story. This is bigger than Trump. Even people over in the States stop on calling him and his backers fascists.

Do you know what a fascist is though? I wouldn’t want to look silly as I report this to the authorities.

You’re not just making this up are you?
 
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Tbf if Corbyn or McDonnell said they were privatising the BBC and giving the money as tax breaks to anyone earning over 40k you’d have a problem with it.

If they said they were going to make everyone on benefits wear compulsory identity badges to claim benefits and services such as the NHS you’d still have a problem with it.
Absolutely.
 
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oldgroaner

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Who are they? What are their names?

This sounds like a huge story. This is bigger than Trump. Even people over in the States stop on calling him and his backers fascists.

Do you know what a fascist is though? I wouldn’t want to look silly as I report this to the authorities.

You’re not just making this up are you?
Are you saying in your official capacity as a media guru, you haven't been keeping up with the news and who's who?
come on fingers
How about this for a start?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10735155/Nigel-Farage-I-am-proud-to-have-taken-a-third-of-the-BNPs-support.html
Nigel Farage: I am proud to have taken a third of the BNP's support
The Ukip leader says his party actively targeted BNP voters who were 'frustrated' and 'upset' by their changing communities
And what was the BNP?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party
The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom.


Tell me what sort of society are you expecting after Brexit? with it be fair, liberal and democratic, or riddled with lies and false promises, reinforced by propaganda?
Your turn
Name someone in the Leave campaign that you regard as a paragon of Democratic excellence
 
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Fingers

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Are you saying in your official capacity as a media guru, you haven't been keeping up with the news and who's who?
come on fingers
How about this for a start?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10735155/Nigel-Farage-I-am-proud-to-have-taken-a-third-of-the-BNPs-support.html
Nigel Farage: I am proud to have taken a third of the BNP's support
The Ukip leader says his party actively targeted BNP voters who were 'frustrated' and 'upset' by their changing communities
And what was the BNP?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party
The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom.


Tell me what sort of society are you expecting after Brexit? with it be fair, liberal and democratic, or riddled with lies and false promises, reinforced by propaganda?
Your turn
Name someone in the Leave campaign that you regard as a paragon of Democratic excellence

I didn’t make the claim that we are in the equivalent of 1930s Germany. You did.

I’m just asking to elaborate on this.

If you can’t then you should withdraw the comment and give apologies for alarmist nonsense.

If you can prove it though. Then that’s different. Who are these fascists?

I haven’t a clue and would be grateful for the information so I can pass it on to the relevant authorities.

Unless you are making this stuff up again?
 

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Come and ride, Rinse the Workers, Reward the Shirkers. It’s the latest attraction at Corbyn’s, the UK’s premier Communist Theme Park.

Corbyn’s, financial misery for all the working family.
One doesnt have to read ONS stats to recognise there's a problem with the distribution of wealth in uk. It's what fuelled brexit, what May's JAM's were about. I dont buy the bs that uk is a meritocracy where "hardworking families"(thought only politicians on today used that expression) are bled to death by shirkers. The UK has a relatively low income tax rate.
 

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If one looks over at the EU today, you will actually see democracy in operation. The top positions in the EU ..The presidents of various functions are being decided. There was an attempted stitch up by French,Germany,Holland a few weeks ago at the E20 meeting, but ... Other nations of the EU Council demand their say.
 

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I noticed hunt maundering on on the Marr show.
about being willing to damage businesses because there is no choice where the public directed the Government to leave the EU
The absudity of it is breathtaking

It was an Advisory referendum
It was a fraudulent result.
There is every reason to believe the majority of the public no longer want it

Ask the Voters again! if they still do, fair enough, but if the politicians imagine they are going to unite the country any other way, by imposing Brexit in any shape or form, they are even bigger idiots than they seem
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If one looks over at the EU today, you will actually see democracy in operation. The top positions in the EU ..The presidents of various functions are being decided. There was an attempted stitch up by French,Germany,Holland a few weeks ago at the E20 meeting, but ... Other nations of the EU Council demand their say.

It’s not democracy. It’s a bun fight. It’s a horse trading market. A good old fashioned crowning of an emperor Roman style.

It’s nothing to do with democracy.
 

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I didn’t make the claim that we are in the equivalent of 1930s Germany. You did.

I’m just asking to elaborate on this.

If you can’t then you should withdraw the comment and give apologies for alarmist nonsense.

If you can prove it though. Then that’s different. Who are these fascists?

I haven’t a clue and would be grateful for the information so I can pass it on to the relevant authorities.

Unless you are making this stuff up again?
Sorry fingers you simply don't understand what is going on, and apparently never will.
I have nothing whatsoever to apologise about for pointing out that you are being used by the likes of Farage.
By the way, when the government is in denial over illegal activity that its own MPs were involved in, who qualifies as the relevant authorities?
Any suggestions?
 

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It’s not democracy. It’s a bun fight. It’s a horse trading market. A good old fashioned crowning of an emperor Roman style.

It’s nothing to do with democracy.
Just like the Tories are crowning a new leader and PM now.

Just as they did with Theresa May.

Just like the unions crowned Ed Miliband.

The wider public having no say in any of those, showing how false our democracy truly is when elites want their own way.
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Fine, but . Cameron was operating outside his authority when he said that.. What he could and should have said is that, "any cabinet that I lead will propose to parliament that which you decide ..."
TM offered the same when she became PM and now her successor(s).
To exit from brexit, you need to kick out the conservative government.
 

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Sorry fingers you simply don't understand what is going on, and apparently never will.
I have nothing whatsoever to apologise about for pointing out that you are being used by the likes of Farage.
By the way, when the government is in denial over illegal activity that its own MPs were involved in, who qualifies as the relevant authorities?
Any suggestions?

I take your apology.

I just find it laughable when people invoke the Hitler argument. Reductio ad Hitlerum. Perhaps we should change Godwins Law to Geralds Law as you use it so often?

But you've said sorry so we can move on. Please stop saying it though as it makes you sound silly. Any evidence you have will be taken seriously and I will pass it on to the relevant authorities.

In this instance it will be the Metropolitan police and ultimately Europol. I will also pass it onto contacts I have in the journalism field. I know many are trying to find links to damage Farage and his backers so your information of them being fascists will be gratefully received.

Unless you are lying/don't understand the word/ its nonsense.
 
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Fingers

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Just like the Tories are crowning a new leader and PM now.

Just as they did with Theresa May.

Just like the unions crowned Ed Miliband.

The wider public having no say in any of those, showing how false our democracy truly is when elites want their own way.
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Very true. Although I could take part in any of those elections if I wanted to.

I couldn't when it comes to crowning the new cabal of EU leaders.

It's a closed shop. It's not a democracy at all.
 

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And in relevant headlines following that:

David Cameron resigns after UK votes to leave European Union ...

Court ruling means act of parliament would be needed for Brexit, says May

Theresa May announces she will resign on 7 June


Democracy with Law Courts & Parliament taking back control seems to in a sense to be working so a flawed Brexit by Government can't just be implemented....
 

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Very true. Although I could take part in any of those elections if I wanted to.

I couldn't when it comes to crowning the new cabal of EU leaders.

It's a closed shop. It's not a democracy at all.
Again not so... I had a choice in electing the Irish Government, they then selected their taoiseach, He has a voice in selecting the major positions in the EU various Presidents. He and the Irish cabinet will select the Irish EU Commissioner.
I had a direct vote and a choice in selecting our local MEP, she will have a choice in agreeing the portfolio that any of EU Commissioners ,and in accepting any of the nominations for EU presidencies.
Now if you choose to squander your vote on a Farage clone, well that was also your choice. The reason that the EU council need to be careful in nominations, is that they need to elicit support from the EU Parliament.
The problem with democracy in your world view is that it is open to others ,to vote differently to you. .. It is the same problem I share, but I console myself with a belief that those other people have the same rights as I.
 

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Again not so... I had a choice in electing the Irish Government, they then selected their taoiseach, He has a voice in selecting the major positions in the EU various Presidents. He and the Irish cabinet will select the Irish EU Commissioner.
I had a direct vote and a choice in selecting our local MEP, she will have a choice in agreeing the portfolio that any of EU Commissioners ,and in accepting any of the nominations for EU presidencies.
Now if you choose to squander your vote on a Farage clone, well that was also your choice. The reason that the EU council need to be careful in nominations, is that they need to elicit support from the EU Parliament.
The problem with democracy in your world view is that it is open to others ,to vote differently to you. .. It is the same problem I share, but I console myself with a belief that those other people have the same rights as I.

I thought someone might come up with argument but it doesn't wash in regard to EU's Executive Commission, the Parliament, the European Council, the EU's foreign policy chief and the head of the European Central Bank (ECB). Plus of course the top job.

Its a closed door power grab.

Tell me, have you ever been able to vote for Mr Timmermans? I haven't. He seems a decent enough cove but I have never voted for him nor had the chance to but it seems he is to become the new Emperor.

You may be happy with that. But it's not democracy.
 

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