Rum wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:26 am
Scot Dutchy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:15 am
No normal democratic country would rely on a simple majority for such a constitutional change which was all part of the game. It is all about the 1% money. The year new tax reforms will come into operation in the EU. Banning all tax havens and taxing monies kept there by EU citizens. This will cost the Brexiteers millions.
What do you mean 'normal democratic country' - and in any case big decisions are frequently made with referendums. There are some countries which repeat them until the elites get the answer they want! Your attitude to the UK as ever just reflects what appears rto be your hatred of the place. It drips from nearly all of your posts which relate to Britain.
They politicians here were committed to acting on the outcome. I don't agree with the outcome personally but not to carry it out would be pretty unthinkable.
That was my attitude to the result - I didn't like it, but the people had spoken, as it were, I thought we should make it the best Brexit possible. What I didn't account for was the fact that May's government were so fundamentally and ideological ruptured that it is incapable of acting in the national interest.
Nobody campaigned on the basis of the type of Brexit we should have, just on whether we should Leave or Remain. The so-called soft Norway option is just as Brexity as the fuck-the-lotta-ya-we're-off option, and yet the toff Brexiteers in government and in the press have wilfully conflated the referendum result to Leave the EU with their desired preference for the establishment of a new kind of anarcho-aristocratic fiefdom on the Russian model.
We all know that enormous environmental and economic challenges are upon us, and are only going to deepen, and it seems to me that the Brexiteers plan is to secure their self-declared authority and to use our money to fortify their castles. In a way they're behaving like the World War 1 officers who threatened to execute soldiers who refused to go back to killing the enemy after the 1914 Christams truce. In their eyes we're nothing but political and economic cannon-fodder.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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