Current Affairs EU In or Out

In or Out

  • In

    Votes: 688 67.9%

  • Out

    Votes: 325 32.1%
  • Total voters
    1,013
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tadao said:
If there was ever a time for the SETI Institute, to give postive results, it's probably about now.
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What are you saying - that Brexit is not an intelligent decision?

Leaving an EU that has only existed a relative few years, that we were never given a vote to join, that is extremely undemocratic, that is an increasingly failing attempt to impose a collective identity on a number of disparate countries, that allows more racism and xenophobia in some of its countries that it (incorrectly) accuses Britain , in trying to leave, of, that shores up an increasingly failing global political economic system (and does that very badly).

This is not Trump (though a population increasingly disenfranchised helped to vote both of them in).

I accept that people have different opinions on it but your post stirred up mine so end of rant!!
 
edge said:
Cheaper to just give the English one to see if we want any of them.
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I dare say London would quite happily jettison the rest of England as well tbh. Could take Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol et al with us and leave the shires to cope on their own. Maybe in a nod to our new American buddies, we could make Boston, Lincs the new capital.
 
JonS said:
What are you saying - that Brexit is not an intelligent decision?

Leaving an EU that has only existed a relative few years, that we were never given a vote to join, that is extremely undemocratic, that is an increasingly failing attempt to impose a collective identity on a number of disparate countries, that allows more racism and xenophobia in some of its countries that it (incorrectly) accuses Britain , in trying to leave, of, that shores up an increasingly failing global political economic system (and does that very badly).

This is not Trump (though a population increasingly disenfranchised helped to vote both of them in).

I accept that people have different opinions on it but your post stirred up mine so end of rant!!
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Similarly to how your kid(s) will never get a vote to leave, will they be as bitter?

The UK pursued joining the EU for quite a long time (about a decade?) until they did in the early 70's as well.

Hope it's seen through and the UK's fine afterwards at any rate.
 
DualityNSNO said:
Similarly to how your kid(s) will never get a vote to leave, will they be as bitter?

The UK pursued joining the EU for quite a long time (about a decade?) until they did in the early 70's as well.

Hope it's seen through and the UK's fine afterwards at any rate.
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The UK pursued joining a Common Market where trading terms were favourable. It was not a vote for a political & Legal (in the Judiciary sense) union. That crept in after the fact in later years/decades without any kind of vote...
 
Old Blue 2 said:
The UK pursued joining a Common Market where trading terms were favourable. It was not a vote for a political & Legal (in the Judiciary sense) union. That crept in after the fact in later years/decades without any kind of vote...
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1973 - Britain joined the European Community. Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath took Britain in.
1975 - Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson had a referendum on Britain’s membership – the last national referendum this country has had. 66% voted yes – to stay in the European Community
1987 - The Single European Act was signed. This was to create an internal market; “an area without frontiers in which the free movement of goods and persons, services and capital is ensured.”
 
Bruce Wayne said:
I dare say London would quite happily jettison the rest of England as well tbh. Could take Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol et al with us and leave the shires to cope on their own. Maybe in a nod to our new American buddies, we could make Boston, Lincs the new capital.
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I'd vote for that. Of course we could introduce punitive taxes for the use of any roads and railways running through the shires, cancel HS2 and close down the airports and power stations. Food will obviously only be provided for shire folk. We will obviously have to forego the joys of inner city life and travelling on the underground with miserable people who don't even bother saying hello or good morning to each other.......
 
peteblue said:
I'd vote for that. Of course we could introduce punitive taxes for the use of any roads and railways running through the shires, cancel HS2 and close down the airports and power stations. Food will obviously only be provided for shire folk. We will obviously have to forego the joys of inner city life and travelling on the underground with miserable people who don't even bother saying hello or good morning to each other.......
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Don't listen to Pete's project fear.
 
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