EU & Brexit Bunker

[BoldonLad]

What happens next... would be kinda interesting, don't you think? The EU, miraculously, still a major trading bloc, is still only 22 miles away. And, if you hadn't noticed, Starmer's been accused of surrender and betrayal, so it seems the Bexiters are still as obsessed as they ever were with our neighbours.

Well, Reform are having a groundswell of support (allegedly) for their support of an allegedly popular stance on immigration, coincidentally (perhaps) they were the Brexit party.

If rejoining EU was a popular view, wouldn't we expect to see a groundswell of support for a party who supported this? As far as I know, the nearest to this stance is Lib-Dem, but, even they are saying merely that it is a "long term strategy".

Sadly, I don't see any popular desire to rejoin.

 

[Xipe Totec]

So, democracy now means ignoring the wishes of the majority in a yes / no vote?

We give more credence to the votes of those who are in the minority than the majority?. Not sure that works

I honestly wish I'd made a note of which Tory politician it was, participating in a discussion here in Scotland, where 62% of the electorate voted to remain in the EU, when challenged with that statistic, affected surprise and mild outrage (confected? Who can say?) and indignantly responded - "38% is a lot of people, you know!"

 

[Psamathe]

And how well do you think the views of you and your constituency are represented in Parliament?

I have written to my MP several times since he was elected (last GE) and he has forwarded my concerns to relevant authorities who have responded and in some cases still considering. So he is certainly representing me in Westminster. And that's all our democratic system gives us. We don't elect a Government, don't elect a PM, just our own constituency MP.

Hence my comment in response to

Tell me which General Election had any realistic prospect of any party winning other than the main two?

in that. "winning" can only be a local constituency thing as that's all we get to bote on.

Ian

 

[Shortfall]

You might have noticed that I'm not reheating the stuff about the vote itself. As people say, it's in the past.

Tbh I stopped reading it quite soon after the result came in. I was in a minority of probably less than half a dozen on BR (Me, Stevo, Coopster?) who wasn't a Remainer and our views weren't very well received (see also virtually every other thread in Cake stop 😂). I don't suppose I'll be lurking in this thread for the same reason but knock yourselves out.

Edit Stevo was a Remainer before the referendum as I recall?

 

[Pblakeney]

Great invention there. No one here has suggested that there can not be another vote

Except that what we had will never be on offer again, and what will be on the table will be unacceptable. Joining the Euro for example.
Effectively I doubt there will be another vote in my lifetime.

 

[briantrumpet]

Tbh I stopped reading it quite soon after the result came in. I was in a minority of probably less than half a dozen on BR (Me, Stevo, Coopster?) who wasn't a Remainer and our views weren't very well received (see also virtually every other thread in Cake stop 😂). I don't suppose I'll be lurking in this thread for the same reason but knock yourselves out.

Edit Stevo was a Remainer before the referendum as I recall?

That's fine - I've no interest in football or cars, so I started two threads in CS for them specifically so I could avoid them. Others seemed to appreciate them though. There's a good 'ignore thread' function on here, so you can avoid having your feed polluted by things you want to avoid.