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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Tubey said:
Because it was implied.

It's like a footballer being sent off for kicking someone repeatedly in the head and moaning about why the referee didn't tell him it wasn't allowed beforehand.
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And here's me thinking people are only talking about it after the vote because it didn't come up until then.
 
I voted Remain and I think leaving the EU is a mistake for reasons of trade, but I'm uneasy about all this talk of parliament blocking the expressed wishes of the people.
 
Tubey said:
To bypass parliament with a law - pretty much any law - is absolutely unheard of, yet people think this should have happened.
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Really?

I know I harp on about it - but when Cait Reilly won her workfare case, IDS 'retrospectively' changed the law to avoid paying those who'd been sent on the 'work experience' scheme, either their benefits, or NMW.

Reilly's case was brought under article 4 (2) of the ECHR (“No one shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour”). and the Govt lost the case.

But here's the kicker - Nobody's got the money they were (rightfully) owed. Companies using the scheme were estimated to have made as much as £1bn from it.

Instead, it's cost the taxpayer (Not including payments to work provider companies - the parasitical 'poverty pimps') upwards of £16.9m.

And what's the EU done about it? :oops:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/15/dwp-law-change-jobseekers-poundland
 
Blair becomes leader of the opposition, May makes a citizens arrest in the commons on charges of crimes against humanity and treason which leads to a 1000 year Tory reich.
Everyone's a winner.
 
gorgeousgeorgeEFC said:
I voted Remain and I think leaving the EU is a mistake for reasons of trade, but I'm uneasy about all this talk of parliament blocking the expressed wishes of the people.
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It was always a stitch up. The 'will of the people' doesn't exist. They wouldn't have allowed the referendum unless they could benefit from either 'result'. For a football forum the term 'moving the goalposts' is extremely apt in this case.
 
magicjuan said:
It was always a stitch up. The 'will of the people' doesn't exist. They wouldn't have allowed the referendum unless they could benefit from either 'result'. For a football forum the term 'moving the goalposts' is extremely apt in this case.
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Pretty sure they will do the necessary to pass an act to invoke C50, but it will be alongside/not until, some of the key negotiations with the EU have been concluded.

All of which will be a protracted dance whilst we just get on with stuff.
 
roydo said:
Pretty sure they will do the necessary to pass an act to invoke C50, but it will be alongside/not until, some of the key negotiations with the EU have been concluded.

All of which will be a protracted dance whilst we just get on with stuff.
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Yes this isn't going to effect it in a straight in/out sense imo.
 
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