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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Here's an interesting chart. Straight from a cross Whitehall briefing.

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A pity this type of analysis wasn't available to voters in 2016.

Wales one if the worst to be hit no matter what sort of Brexit.....yet they voted to leave ...
 
Joe, you repeatedly make obscene hand gestures towards people so you're in a glass house in terms of setting the correct tone.
That's been put there by the GOT moderation team - certain posters craved for that it's far better than calling posters toe rags - idiots - racist etc etc I personally would wish either was not used ......
 
That's been put there by the GOT moderation team - certain posters craved for that it's far better than calling posters toe rags - idiots - racist etc etc I personally would wish either was not used ......
This is why we need neg rep.... so we can kit you up good and proper
 
this sham of a parliament

Sorry, what? Did the actual elected representatives get replaced somehow on their way to Westminster? Alien clones, or Kremlin-controlled robots programmed to gridlock the country's democratic process?

For better or worse, these are the MPs that have been voted in by the British electorate. If they are particularly unimpressive maybe it's time to look again at the merits of the FPTP system, or how we've ended up with areas of the country so skewed that the idea of 'safe seats' can occur.

Or perhaps you just think the Executive should be able to force through whatever legislation it likes without having to get the elected body to approve it?
 
A Flexiextension .....a GE may get called today with a LiB Dem SNP motion if Labour turn away from a GE.......

Makes zero difference. International law trumps domestic law.

Three more months is almost locked in as there is virtually no chance of that deal being agreed before late Jan, if at all.
 
A thought I had on the way to work this morning:

I've seen a lot of comments on here and elsewhere recently that have two similar starting points - the first (which I think was actually said originally by a Tory minister - Gove?) is that "things work differently with a minority government, and the opposition should seek to support legislation" and the second being "Labour etc should recognise that the government can't run the country as a minority and should support an election ASAP to provide a new government with a clear mandate".

What happened to the option of "a minority government should recognise that it requires opposition votes to legislate and therefore only bring proposals before the House that might engender opposition support, rather than try to rule as if they had a majority and then complain they keep getting voted down".

It seems we're so wrapped up in the idea of big majorities allowing unfettered government authority that when a situation arises that should force compromise, everyone just moans about it.
 
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