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Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

Remain a member of the European Union
222
80%
Leave the European Union
57
20%
 
Total votes: 279
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Meep
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PostRe: Brexit
by Meep » Sun Dec 17, 2017 11:39 am

The working time directive already allows you to work as much as you want; it's employers it restricts by stopping them setting the minimum number of hours too high. Getting rid of it takes power away from employees and gives it to employers.

So strawberry floating stupid.

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PostRe: Brexit
by Errkal » Sun Dec 17, 2017 11:42 am

Meep wrote:The working time directive already allows you to work as much as you want; it's employers it restricts by stopping them setting the minimum number of hours too high. Getting rid of it takes power away from employees and gives it to employers.

So strawberry floating stupid.


Proper British employers! Employers get the power back to set proper British working days, proper British overworkedness for proper British workers!

Proper British businesses know what is right for proper Britishness!

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PostRe: Brexit
by Garth » Sun Dec 17, 2017 11:44 am

PROJECT FEAR!!!1

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PostRe: Brexit
by Garth » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:48 pm

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PostRe: Brexit
by Tineash » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:23 pm

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:

twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/942329422463586304



I guess “taking back control” really meant that the upper classes would be taking back their control over the peasants. :datass:


Lexiters are the dumbest mummy strawberry floaters on earth. We said this would strawberry floating happen, that it would be a Tory-driven brexit!

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PostRe: Brexit
by Meep » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:49 pm

Non-voters were always heavily on the side of remain. The problem is they are well, non-voters. It doesn't matter what they think. I think if there is a 60% lead for remain we should push for another referendum. The polls need to show an overwhelming anti-Brexit sentiment before we can risk the divisiveness of rerunning the whole awful thing.

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PostRe: Brexit
by Moggy » Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:16 pm

Meep wrote:Non-voters were always heavily on the side of remain. The problem is they are well, non-voters. It doesn't matter what they think. I think if there is a 60% lead for remain we should push for another referendum. The polls need to show an overwhelming anti-Brexit sentiment before we can risk the divisiveness of rerunning the whole awful thing.


Of course it matters what they think. Not voting doesn’t make you a non person forever.

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PostRe: Brexit
by DML » Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:20 pm

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:
Meep wrote:Non-voters were always heavily on the side of remain. The problem is they are well, non-voters. It doesn't matter what they think. I think if there is a 60% lead for remain we should push for another referendum. The polls need to show an overwhelming anti-Brexit sentiment before we can risk the divisiveness of rerunning the whole awful thing.


Of course it matters what they think. Not voting doesn’t make you a non person forever.


Lets be completely honest though, that is not really a good argument against. If they had an opinion they should have voted last time. It wasn't like it wasn't abundantly clear how important the vote was.

I have much more concern with those who were unable to vote on their future.

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PostRe: Brexit
by Moggy » Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:24 pm

DML wrote:
Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:
Meep wrote:Non-voters were always heavily on the side of remain. The problem is they are well, non-voters. It doesn't matter what they think. I think if there is a 60% lead for remain we should push for another referendum. The polls need to show an overwhelming anti-Brexit sentiment before we can risk the divisiveness of rerunning the whole awful thing.


Of course it matters what they think. Not voting doesn’t make you a non person forever.


Lets be completely honest though, that is not really a good argument against. If they had an opinion they should have voted last time. It wasn't like it wasn't abundantly clear how important the vote was.


It’s a damn good argument against if 60% or more of the country would now vote to remain. Whether or not they voted in the referendum, they are still citizens who are allowed their opinion.

If you exclude the non voters from the last referendum then you’ll really struggle to fight Brexit.

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PostRe: Brexit
by DML » Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:32 pm

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:
DML wrote:
Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:
Meep wrote:Non-voters were always heavily on the side of remain. The problem is they are well, non-voters. It doesn't matter what they think. I think if there is a 60% lead for remain we should push for another referendum. The polls need to show an overwhelming anti-Brexit sentiment before we can risk the divisiveness of rerunning the whole awful thing.


Of course it matters what they think. Not voting doesn’t make you a non person forever.


Lets be completely honest though, that is not really a good argument against. If they had an opinion they should have voted last time. It wasn't like it wasn't abundantly clear how important the vote was.


It’s a damn good argument against if 60% or more of the country would now vote to remain. Whether or not they voted in the referendum, they are still citizens who are allowed their opinion.

If you exclude the non voters from the last referendum then you’ll really struggle to fight Brexit.


But out democracy DOES rule them out. Hence the struggle!

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PostRe: Brexit
by Moggy » Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:39 pm

DML wrote:
Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:
DML wrote:
Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:
Meep wrote:Non-voters were always heavily on the side of remain. The problem is they are well, non-voters. It doesn't matter what they think. I think if there is a 60% lead for remain we should push for another referendum. The polls need to show an overwhelming anti-Brexit sentiment before we can risk the divisiveness of rerunning the whole awful thing.


Of course it matters what they think. Not voting doesn’t make you a non person forever.


Lets be completely honest though, that is not really a good argument against. If they had an opinion they should have voted last time. It wasn't like it wasn't abundantly clear how important the vote was.


It’s a damn good argument against if 60% or more of the country would now vote to remain. Whether or not they voted in the referendum, they are still citizens who are allowed their opinion.

If you exclude the non voters from the last referendum then you’ll really struggle to fight Brexit.


But out democracy DOES rule them out. Hence the struggle!


But a massive demand for a second referendum would rely on them changing their minds and stating they WOULD now vote.

Not voting is stupid, I agree, but it shouldn’t mean those people are voiceless forever.

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PostRe: Brexit
by Xeno » Sun Dec 17, 2017 3:13 pm

Christmas CrackErrkal wrote:
Meep wrote:The working time directive already allows you to work as much as you want; it's employers it restricts by stopping them setting the minimum number of hours too high. Getting rid of it takes power away from employees and gives it to employers.

So strawberry floating stupid.


Proper British employers! Employers get the power back to set proper British working days, proper British overworkedness for proper British workers!

Proper British businesses know what is right for proper Britishness!


Time for a cuppa mate then back to the picket lines with ya.

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PostRe: Brexit
by Meep » Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:26 pm

Part of the reason people are even talking about another referendum is because the result was so close last time. This would apply to any other vote if the result went the other way. If it is just a few percent difference then leavers will cry foul and demand yet further re-runs. Only with a decisive victory on one side can the matter be put to rest for good.

This is why it is no good to have a second referendum unless you can get a result to draws a line under things. If remain won 60-40 people would be angry but no one could seriously demand a third vote or ague for recounts and such.

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PostRe: Brexit
by Moggy » Sun Dec 17, 2017 5:05 pm

Meep wrote:Part of the reason people are even talking about another referendum is because the result was so close last time. This would apply to any other vote if the result went the other way. If it is just a few percent difference then leavers will cry foul and demand yet further re-runs. Only with a decisive victory on one side can the matter be put to rest for good.

This is why it is no good to have a second referendum unless you can get a result to draws a line under things. If remain won 60-40 people would be angry but no one could seriously demand a third vote or ague for recounts and such.


Yep.

That’s why it’s odd to see strong Remainers like DML write off non-voters. If Brexit was ever going to be overturned in a second referendum then it will absolutely require the people that didn’t vote last time.

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PostRe: Brexit
by That » Sun Dec 17, 2017 5:28 pm

Tineash wrote:Lexiters are the dumbest mummy strawberry floaters on earth.

Agreed.

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PostRe: Brexit
by Moggy » Sun Dec 17, 2017 7:43 pm

twitter.com/domwalsh13/status/942182034243575808



:lol:

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PostRe: Brexit
by Errkal » Sun Dec 17, 2017 7:45 pm

:lol:

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PostRe: Brexit
by Moggy » Mon Dec 18, 2017 11:40 am

I posted this before but I am still seeing people saying that people in the 70s referendum didn’t know what they were voting for/only voted for the common market.

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:Remember those Leave lies that the referendum in the 1970s was only about trade?

Even the strawberry floating Daily Mail in the 70s knew what we were joining. :lol:

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I’d say it was 1-1 on EU referendums. We need a third one to decide the winner. ;)

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PostRe: Brexit
by Lagamorph » Mon Dec 18, 2017 9:38 pm

This work has started, and includes a range of estimates calculated by the Financial Times suggesting that the value of Britain’s output is now around 0.9 per cent lower than was possible if the country had voted to stay in the EU. That equates to almost exactly £350m a week lost to the British economy — an irony that will not be lost on those who may have backed Leave because of the claim made on the side of the bus.


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Literally gone from highest growing economy in the G7 to lowest.


WORTH IT TO TAKE BACK CONTROL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111111

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PostRe: Brexit
by Squinty » Mon Dec 18, 2017 9:42 pm



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