Far right making rumblings about a referendum.
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To be fair we haven't gone yet.
It was amusing yesterday when Mrs Jer became embroiled in a long internet based spat with our MP.
It turns out that he wished to respect the view of the people. He didn't realise that a referendum isn't binding and that Parliament is sovereign. I do hope there is someone sensible behind the scenes sorting this out!
Garage Joe posted:To be fair we haven't gone yet.
It was amusing yesterday when Mrs Jer became embroiled in a long internet based spat with our MP.
It turns out that he wished to respect the view of the people. He didn't realise that a referendum isn't binding and that Parliament is sovereign. I do hope there is someone sensible behind the scenes sorting this out!
Very true. I think some people believed from the second the result came in we were out. Also I believe that the turmoil in the financial markets has helped reinforce peoples belief that we are already out.
Not if they've got any sense
If you have already seen this what I nicked off Facebook .............
So, let me get this straight... the leader of the opposition campaigned to stay but secretly wanted to leave, so his party held a non-binding vote to shame him into resigning so someone else could lead the campaign to ignore the result of the non-binding referendum which many people now think was just angry people trying to shame politicians into seeing they'd all done nothing to help them.
Meanwhile, the man who campaigned to leave because he hoped losing would help him win the leadership of his party, accidentally won and ruined any chance of leading because the man who thought he couldn't lose, did - but resigned before actually doing the thing the vote had been about. The man who'd always thought he'd lead next, campaigned so badly that everyone thought he was lying when he said the economy would crash - and he was, but it did, but he's not resigned, but, like the man who lost and the man who won, also now can't become leader. Which means the woman who quietly campaigned to stay but always said she wanted to leave is likely to become leader instead.
Which means she holds the same view as the leader of the opposition but for opposite reasons, but her party's view of this view is the opposite of the opposition's. And the opposition aren't yet opposing anything because the leader isn't listening to his party, who aren't listening to the country, who aren't listening to experts or possibly paying that much attention at all. However, none of their opponents actually want to be the one to do the thing that the vote was about, so there's not yet anything actually on the table to oppose anyway. And if no one ever does do the thing that most people asked them to do, it will be undemocratic and if any one ever does do it, it will be awful.
Clear?
Just as an aside....
As predicted the FTSE 100 is now ABOVE its pre-referendum high...Armageddon postponed again...please check back again tomorrow!
squiggle posted:Just as an aside....
As predicted the FTSE 100 is now ABOVE its pre-referendum high...Armageddon postponed again...please check back again tomorrow!
Markets rise and fall all of the time, what we really need to see is a sustained period of stability. The pound could also do with regaining some of the ground lost.
velvet donkey posted:Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:squiggle posted:Just as an aside....
As predicted the FTSE 100 is now ABOVE its pre-referendum high...Armageddon postponed again...please check back again tomorrow!
Markets rise and fall all of the time, what we really need to see is a sustained period of stability. The pound could also do with regaining some of the ground lost.
The banks gambled on remain EC. Hence bank stocks are down.
Still nowhere near doomsday.
It couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch 
Does anyone else agree this has been the strangest week [politically] they've ever known? Each day reading the headlines, it feels like April 1st 
Moonie posted:Roger the Alien posted:Does anyone else agree this has been the strangest week [politically] they've ever known? Each day reading the headlines, it feels like April 1st
It is, isn't it Rog?
It's kind of funny.... though I want it to stop now Moonie 
It's certainly exposed politicians for the total chancers they are! 
Roger the Alien posted:Moonie posted:Roger the Alien posted:Does anyone else agree this has been the strangest week [politically] they've ever known? Each day reading the headlines, it feels like April 1st
It is, isn't it Rog?
It's kind of funny.... though I want it to stop now Moonie
At least two more years of this carp yet Rog
velvet donkey posted:Roger the Alien posted:Does anyone else agree this has been the strangest week [politically] they've ever known? Each day reading the headlines, it feels like April 1st
Breaking news on Reuters is that the Solomon Isles are about to invade
That's nae bad Velvet. At least aliens haven't landed
Moonie posted:Roger the Alien posted:Moonie posted:Roger the Alien posted:Does anyone else agree this has been the strangest week [politically] they've ever known? Each day reading the headlines, it feels like April 1st
It is, isn't it Rog?
It's kind of funny.... though I want it to stop now Moonie
At least two more years of this carp yet Rog
Ah jeebus! I'm unplugging the tv
Roger the Alien posted:velvet donkey posted:Roger the Alien posted:Does anyone else agree this has been the strangest week [politically] they've ever known? Each day reading the headlines, it feels like April 1st
Breaking news on Reuters is that the Solomon Isles are about to invade
As far as we know Rog
Roger the Alien posted:Moonie posted:Roger the Alien posted:Moonie posted:Roger the Alien posted:Does anyone else agree this has been the strangest week [politically] they've ever known? Each day reading the headlines, it feels like April 1st
It is, isn't it Rog?
It's kind of funny.... though I want it to stop now Moonie
At least two more years of this carp yet Rog
Ah jeebus! I'm unplugging the tv
Moonie posted:
As far as we know Rog
Love it lol,
velvet donkey posted:Roger the Alien posted:Does anyone else agree this has been the strangest week [politically] they've ever known? Each day reading the headlines, it feels like April 1st
Breaking news on Reuters is that the Solomon Isles are about to invade
Crikey! I'm off down the Co-op to stock up on single malt!
