Paul the Wolf
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Thanks I willGet well soon and come back fighting.![]()
Thanks I willGet well soon and come back fighting.![]()
As I'm currently in hospital just had my sinus es opérated on, and trying to post with french suggested text on, which is nigh on impossible, i will be quiet for à Day or two' hoorah they say but will be back with a vengeance short ly
P s french hospitals are wonderful
Of my use of the word 'clearly' or the notion that single market membership wasn't on the line during the EU Ref? To me it was pretty damn clear, and i knew that walking into the polling station. The unknown back then, and it remains so now, is the level of access we have once the dust has settled. An idea our suggested last year, was a more modest annual fee in maintain certain aspects of existing cooperation (May hinted at such in her speech).
Yet your fully informed vote could be cancelled out by someone who never gave it a moments thought other than being influenced by a cynically misleading advertising campaign. Sound familiar?
Get well. They are not keeping you, right?
Better food I hope.Thanks, Yes 2 nights, Last night and tonight single room tv etc modern, sounds just like an NHS hospital
Better food I hope.
As I said I am now very much against referendums because it is clear the public as a whole cannot make informed decisions about something as complex as this.
4% would have been a massive difference tooIf remain had won, we wouldn't be seeing comments like this.
If remain had won, we wouldn't be seeing comments like this.
4% would have been a massive difference too
If remain had won, we wouldn't be seeing comments like this.
*insert Farage's comments re: 52-48 Remain win here*4% would have been a massive difference too
I said it before the referendum when remain was favorite. For me it makes no sense.
Cameron believed that Britain could prosper within a *reformed* EU, and this is how he pushed the campaign. That's why it wasn't successful, because, as Theresa May pointed out, the EU wasn't flexible at all.
No, I meant of Vote Leave.
This is sort of the issue though, isn't it? What was said (and this is true for every issue in the campaign really) allowed you to go in to a polling station 'damn sure' of what you were voting on, and also allowed someone who has completely differing views - other than the over-arching aim of leaving - to do the same.
Case in point, you've argued before you voted Leave because you want to see a 'fairer' immigration system, and thats your prerogative, but that puts you on the side of the debate that doesn't care about 'fairness', but simply volume.
Isn't that hugely problematic in your opinion?
It had more to do with Leave being able to offer pie in the sky, ridiculous bollocks I'd argue.
1. The Union shall develop a special relationship with neighbouring countries, aiming to establish an area of prosperity and good neighbourliness, founded on the values of the Union and characterised by close and peaceful relations based on cooperation.
2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, the Union may conclude specific agreements with the countries concerned. These agreements may contain reciprocal rights and obligations as well as the possibility of undertaking activities jointly. Their implementation shall be the subject of periodic consultation.
None of these pesky foreigners who are better at your job than you are. All the money for the NHS (pwomise!). Better trade deals, because... reasons.It had more to do with Leave being able to offer pie in the sky, ridiculous bollocks I'd argue.
Cameron believed that Britain could prosper within a *reformed* EU, and this is how he pushed the campaign. That's why it wasn't successful, because, as Theresa May pointed out, the EU wasn't flexible at all.
Thanks, Yes 2 nights, Last night and tonight single room tv etc modern, sounds just like an NHS hospital
The bedfellows it created on immigration would certainly be problematic in an everyday environment, however both sides of this coin were constrained by the EU status quo and its political imperatives. Controls on EU immigration and a reduction from its current record high were implicit IMO, although not the mythical 10,000s target of Cameron's. How fair we make it over the medium-longer term is up to us but my aspirations are well enough known. We've read of the stories on here of posters and their relations having to pay exorbitant amounts, and i'd vote to end such if at all possible. FoM might well be an ideological pillar of the European Union, yet it's not the singular expression of a liberal migration policy.
Matters are less problematic when it comes to single market membership. As while it was possible for individual personalities to make our potential access appear overly rosy, even a cursory examination would have told a voter that border controls and repatriation of powers were not consistent with continued membership. Call me harsh, but i would I have little sympathy for protestations of being outright misled. It would have been totally unrealistic (unreasonable as well) to expect an end to FoM, withdrawal from ECJ's jurisdiction, zero annual contributions and unaltered single market privileges.
True. If remain had won that would have been the end of it, leavers would have quietly accepte the result and we'd all have lived happily ever after.If remain had won, we wouldn't be seeing comments like this.
I think it had more to do with the term "Real Reforms" and the incredibly stupid decision to let Obama stick his nose in, I think that was the nail in the coffin for remain.It had more to do with Leave being able to offer pie in the sky, ridiculous bollocks I'd argue.
So its ok for Vote Leave to deliberately attempt to mislead (as you conceded in your post to Pogue on the last page), but the fault of people who can't, won't, or didn't investigate their claims, for falling for it?
True. If remain had won that would have been the end of it, leavers would have quietly accepte the result and we'd all have lived happily ever after.
There would have been serious disappointment to be sure, but next-to-no likelihood of another referendum in the years ahead. Many people would have had little choice other than to adopt a pragmatic outlook. Farron wouldn't be calling for a a second referendum that's for damn sure.
Of course Farron wouldn't. Just like Farage isn't now. I almost always disagree with your posts but they aren't usually as pointless as that.There would have been serious disappointment to be sure, but next-to-no likelihood of another referendum in the years ahead. Many people would have had little choice other than to adopt a pragmatic outlook. Farron wouldn't be calling for a a second referendum that's for damn sure.
You can't possibly know that for sure unless you are Farron himself
Of course Farron wouldn't. Just like Farage isn't now. I almost always disagree with your posts but they aren't usually as pointless as that.
There would be little prospect of another vote, but loud calls for one. Especially if it had been close.
On more than one occasion Farron has described Leave voters generally as intolerant, insular and lacked decency. His MPs have also committed to voting against A50 long before May's speech. He has only disdain for people such as myself, for all that we might share other Liberal Democrat policies.
You don't think that the composition of the Commons and its two-thirds support for EU membership makes a rather practical difference? Eurosceptics don't have the numbers to bring about a repeat, whereas those supportive of Brussels could well vote down the final deal. Even though they've lost the referendum, Remain has a political influence that would not be the case if the roles were reversed.
Farage is an unelected showman whose party has an MP in name only much of the time, not what i would consider comparable to the Lib Dems.
If you disagree with almost all of my posts, you must be more conservative and hawkish than i imagined you to be.![]()
Ok well Farage or anyone else, if your side loses you call for another go, it's fairly standard stuff.On more than one occasion Farron has described Leave voters generally as intolerant, insular and lacked decency. His MPs have also committed to voting against A50 long before May's speech. He has only disdain for people such as myself, for all that we might share other Liberal Democrat policies.
You don't think that the composition of the Commons and its two-thirds support for EU membership makes a rather practical difference? Eurosceptics don't have the numbers to bring about a repeat, whereas those supportive of Brussels could well vote down the final deal. Even though they've lost the referendum, Remain has a political influence that would not be the case if the roles were reversed.
Farage is an unelected showman whose party has an MP in name only much of the time, not what i would consider comparable to the Lib Dems.
If you disagree with almost all of my posts, you must be more conservative and hawkish than i imagined you to be.![]()
On this specific point, it does make some difference, which I think is only right given we have a parliamentary democracy.You don't think that the composition of the Commons and its two-thirds support for EU membership makes a rather practical difference?
On the subject of Leave campaigners misleading voters as to the implications of Brexit, this is pretty damning.
True. If remain had won that would have been the end of it, leavers would have quietly accepte the result and we'd all have lived happily ever after.
For starters, constantly quoting Hannan is not pretty damning. Most people on the leave side were a little confused where he stood. He was against a tight control of free movement, and believed there could be a compromise.
Secondly, the UK will definitely have access to the single market, as this is the only way to trading with EU countries. The issue is at what cost. The UK already meets EU regulations, and so we're all waiting to find out what the EU will agree to in order to for us to continue trading with EU countries, and for them to trade with us.
That post is so wrong in so many ways.
First it has nothing to do with my post but that's okay.
And secondly, you highlighted the problem with the UK from start to finish you acted like strangers, as if you weren't part of the "inflexible" EU. Your last bullshittery has been to toy with the EU instead of moving your ass to Brussel and actually try to discuss with your partners, actually try to convince people to see what you wanted to propose.
You never wanted to reform the EU for the EU, your only goal was to exploit EU citizens for your own benefits without compromises. You don't understand the meaning of community.
Using that logic, the US and China also "have access to the single market". Which is clearly not what anyone in the video was implying how things would pan out.