Brexit Thread 2

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How would you vote if we had to vote again?

Leave
12
7%
Remain
159
93%
 
Total votes: 171
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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by ignition » Sun Sep 23, 2018 8:49 am

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ignition wrote:Bit of a tangent, but I remember there being a great website which pretty much mythbusted all the anti EU propaganda - can anyone point me in the right direction?

I vaguely recall it being quite a basic site in appearance - perhaps with links directly in reference to newspaper headlines over time.


Is this it?

https://brexitlies.com/


Hmm similar approach, but I recall the site I'm thinking about being more specific about the EU in general rather than brexit. For example, mythbusting stories about the old bendy/straight Bananas furore from the 2000s.

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by captain red dog » Sun Sep 23, 2018 9:30 am

So surely Labour are going to back a second referendum at their conference. That would give quite a likely path to a second referendum in my opinion, as the Tory government is likely to fall over the absolute cluster strawberry float they are making of it.

EDIT: Another GE would be bad news for the tories in a lot of ways, Labour are far more likely to unite around the Europe issue and I can see the Tories being torn apart.

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by Camp Freddie » Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:18 am

ignition wrote:
Squinty wrote:
ignition wrote:Bit of a tangent, but I remember there being a great website which pretty much mythbusted all the anti EU propaganda - can anyone point me in the right direction?

I vaguely recall it being quite a basic site in appearance - perhaps with links directly in reference to newspaper headlines over time.


Is this it?

https://brexitlies.com/


Hmm similar approach, but I recall the site I'm thinking about being more specific about the EU in general rather than brexit. For example, mythbusting stories about the old bendy/straight Bananas furore from the 2000s.


You may be thinking of this:
https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/eu ... a-z-index/

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by ignition » Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:36 am

Camp Freddie wrote:
ignition wrote:
Squinty wrote:
ignition wrote:Bit of a tangent, but I remember there being a great website which pretty much mythbusted all the anti EU propaganda - can anyone point me in the right direction?

I vaguely recall it being quite a basic site in appearance - perhaps with links directly in reference to newspaper headlines over time.


Is this it?

https://brexitlies.com/


Hmm similar approach, but I recall the site I'm thinking about being more specific about the EU in general rather than brexit. For example, mythbusting stories about the old bendy/straight Bananas furore from the 2000s.


You may be thinking of this:
https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/eu ... a-z-index/


Bang on. Thank you!

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by Garth » Sun Sep 23, 2018 12:34 pm

twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/1043803105425592320


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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by BID0 » Sun Sep 23, 2018 9:28 pm

Some good news


The members have motioned that Brexit/second referendum is tabled for major discussion on Tuesday. Looks like it’s actually the unions that dot want a second vote, not momentum which has built up major support within the party for the last few months. Preparations for a snap GE in November.


3 blokes and an MP - Environment
- Food coming from further distances = higher carbon footprint
- Farm land area having to increase = hedges replaced with fence/barbed wire = less habitats for wildlife
- Banned eu chemicals to protect insects/workers etc will be allowed again
- Keeping refrigeration trucks running while queuing for customs
- Live animals shiting and pissing. Disease
- clean beaches that were possible from eu regulations. Gone
- from what I can make out it was with a room full of Lib Dems preparing for a second refendum and campaign tactics

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by Hexx » Sun Sep 23, 2018 9:36 pm

He can say that because he knows the party conference won't be set up a formal vote to make 2nd Referendum party policy he has to follow

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by Photek » Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:41 pm

Everyone vote labour please (if it leads to a 2nd Referendum)

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by Garth » Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:40 pm

Dominic Raab says Canada-style trade deal is 'off the table':
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 51026.html

'Majority of Cabinet' now supports move towards Canada-style Brexit deal:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... le-brexit/

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by Garth » Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:57 pm

twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1043995240783380482


One Labour delegate inside the room told The Independent: “There were endless speeches from all sides of the debate, a lot of push and pull. But the majority who wanted the support for a referendum strengthened won out.”

An early draft of the motion put forward by the Labour leadership was six pages long and only mentioned a new public vote on Brexit as an option to be considered, but a more tightly worded version was proposed by the Remain-supporting TSSA union boss Manuel Cortes.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 51736.html

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by more heat than light » Mon Sep 24, 2018 6:38 am

Photek wrote:Everyone vote labour please (if it leads to a 2nd Referendum)


Even if my vote did make a difference, I couldn't bring myself to vote for that shower of shite.

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by Squinty » Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:15 am

Garth wrote:Dominic Raab says Canada-style trade deal is 'off the table':
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 51026.html

'Majority of Cabinet' now supports move towards Canada-style Brexit deal:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... le-brexit/


Canada style agreement doesn't solve the border :lol:

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by Tafdolphin » Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:40 am

more heat than light wrote:
Photek wrote:Everyone vote labour please (if it leads to a 2nd Referendum)


Even if my vote did make a difference, I couldn't bring myself to vote for that shower of shite.


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by Errkal » Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:50 am

Squinty wrote:
Garth wrote:Dominic Raab says Canada-style trade deal is 'off the table':
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 51026.html

'Majority of Cabinet' now supports move towards Canada-style Brexit deal:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... le-brexit/


Canada style agreement doesn't solve the border :lol:


If we ignore the issue it will go away.

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by Gemini73 » Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:50 am

Corbyn has been a very outspoken Euro skeptic his entire political career so why, and I'm not talking about folk here when I ask this, is there this belief across the interwebs that he is somehow going to be the man to save us from Brexit?

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by Errkal » Mon Sep 24, 2018 8:59 am

Gemini73 wrote:Corbyn has been a very outspoken Euro skeptic his entire political career so why, and I'm not talking about folk here when I ask this, is there this belief across the interwebs that he is somehow going to be the man to save us from Brexit?

Because he is a big leftie and leftie idiots are blind to the fact he is a euros epic because they are so hard at the idea of a full on leftie labour leader.

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by Hexx » Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:15 am

Errkal wrote: a euros epic


:o

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by captain red dog » Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:15 am

I think it's more to do with his move to make the party more democratic, so he will be bound by what the membership agrees.

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by Hexx » Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:21 am

Gemini73 wrote:Corbyn has been a very outspoken Euro skeptic his entire political career so why, and I'm not talking about folk here when I ask this, is there this belief across the interwebs that he is somehow going to be the man to save us from Brexit?


Because he (obviously bregrudingly) campaigned for Remain.
He leads a party that's mostly remain (although they're busy courting the Gammon vote and assuming others will vote for them anyway)
He's meant to be opposing the government (unfortunately to him this means the position "You can't deliver the Brexit Unicorn. Labor will!")

He's the only one realistically positioned to pull up Brexit (possibly with SNP support) and people are clinging to hope

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PostRe: Brexit Thread 2
by Hexx » Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:30 am

twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1044125026402881536



Can't let anything get in the way of that socialist utopia the EU is holding us back from

We are so strawberry floated


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