sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Maybe maybe not
I just think if you cared then you would have voted either way. I used to vote for labour, they never got in but i didn't want another go.
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I just think if you cared then you would have voted either way. I used to vote for labour, they never got in but i didn't want another go.
Not a lot more disgusting than some peoples' Brexit-favouring (or Lexit-minded) and just plain lazy line of thought that implies that very single person who would have prefered to remain is a liberal Guardian-worshipping sneerer at the ignorant racist working classes
ETA : And obviously, Remain voters are absolutely incapable of ever criticising anything about the EU either. And equally obviously, "we" can't wait to meet Barnier, or Juncker because we dream of licking their boots, with licking their arses as a delectable desert
FFS DotCommunist ... you can do a LOT better** than that!!
**(even when pisstaking, which you're normally pretty bloody good at
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Maybe maybe not
I'm quite critical of those old folks who voted Brexit
, but to balance that, I'm also quite critical of those young folks who couldn't be arsed to vote Remain </sterotyping based on some element of truth
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I'm quite critical of those old folks who voted Brexit
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One option (getting a bit off topic) would be compulsory voting, small fine, no criminal record, more like a parking ticket. You would obviously need a 'none of the above' option or other option to spoil.
That said, I don't really favour it, and in any case political engagement in the young is (slowly) rising, has been since the SIndy ref.
Yes, I don't favour compulsory voting either.
"You're going to enjoy freedom and democracy, whether you like it or not, peasant!
Compulsory voting has to be the most underpants-on-head stupid idea I have ever heard. Totally missing the point.
You're not Australian I'm guessing.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
I've heard that Australia has that idiotic policy. Given that it doesn't seem to be significantly different to all the other bourgeois democracies, I'm not sure what problem compulsory voting is supposed to solve.
If voting was compulsory here I'd be tempted to stay away from polling stations at all times just on general principle.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
The results speak for themselves. Australia is not noticeably any less dysfunctional than any other bourgeois democracies so far as I can tell, considering that worms like Krudd can get so far.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I think there should be a referendum open only to those who had the good sense not to vote in the last one.
The question should be: the devil or the deep blue sea?
MightyTibberton
Well-Known Member
Further to the "Skint Nigel Wants 2nd Ref to Remain Relevant and Employed in TV Studios" conspiracy theory being put about by the likes of, erm, me, Nige is being done for fiddling his expenses at the European Parliament, and because he hasn't paid it back is having around half of his salary docked until it is paid back. Tragic news.
Helen Back
:-)
My thoughts:
A narrow result (+/- 5 points or so) for ANY election / referendum should result in a second vote.
The flood of refugees from the Middle East that dominated the news that summer heavily influenced the result.
The government should stop saying "The British people have voted Leave". No, only half (who voted) want to leave. Are the wishes of the Remainers invalid and not to be remembered, then?
Oh, and stop calling them "Remoaners". It's disrespectful, rude, condescending and patronising and smacks of "We won, so... nyah".
Old people and white nationalists who wanted to pull up the drawbridge from across the channel also made up the majority of the Leave vote.
Now that the Leave campaign misinformation has been seen as such and the economic negative effects are starting to be felt then voters in a second vote would be more informed.
Reduce the voting age to 16. Let young people have a say in their future instead of being dictated to by old people who have less of a future, some of whom remember WW2.
Prediction: we leave the EU but apply to rejoin in 10 years or so when the UK has all gone to shit.
A narrow result (+/- 5 points or so) for ANY election / referendum should result in a second vote.
The flood of refugees from the Middle East that dominated the news that summer heavily influenced the result.
The government should stop saying "The British people have voted Leave". No, only half (who voted) want to leave. Are the wishes of the Remainers invalid and not to be remembered, then?
Oh, and stop calling them "Remoaners". It's disrespectful, rude, condescending and patronising and smacks of "We won, so... nyah".
Old people and white nationalists who wanted to pull up the drawbridge from across the channel also made up the majority of the Leave vote.
Now that the Leave campaign misinformation has been seen as such and the economic negative effects are starting to be felt then voters in a second vote would be more informed.
Reduce the voting age to 16. Let young people have a say in their future instead of being dictated to by old people who have less of a future, some of whom remember WW2.
Prediction: we leave the EU but apply to rejoin in 10 years or so when the UK has all gone to shit.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
MightyTibberton likes this.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Those dreadful old people with their memories of WWII.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Scum, the lot of ‘em.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
little makes me - who voted remain - more likely to vote 'out, like my fucking trousers are on fire', like the utterly vile pronouncements and attitudes of the remoaners.
and yes, i say remoaners, knowing with utter certainty that had remain won, and leave campaigners were still griping at the result, the abuse would be flowing at full whack at them for not accepting the result.
fuck 'em, i hope they fucking choke.
Best retreat, Helen Back ... you'll only ever get abuse here on Lexit75
Us 'Remoaners' will only ever be accused of 'elitist' 'liberal' 'condescension' if 'we' even dream of suggesting that the Leave 52pc/Remain 48pc result might principally have been driven by differential turnout**
**Plus by a whole lot of completely justifiable anti-Tory/anti-Toryism anger, and by the thorough incompetence/complacency of the Cameron/Osbourne led Remain campaign ....
Us 'Remoaners' will only ever be accused of 'elitist' 'liberal' 'condescension' if 'we' even dream of suggesting that the Leave 52pc/Remain 48pc result might principally have been driven by differential turnout**
**Plus by a whole lot of completely justifiable anti-Tory/anti-Toryism anger, and by the thorough incompetence/complacency of the Cameron/Osbourne led Remain campaign ....
gosub
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You think leavers are happy with the campaign they ran?Best retreat, Helen Back ... you'll only ever get abuse here on Lexit75
Us 'Remoaners' will only ever be accused of 'elitist' 'liberal' 'condescension' if 'we' even dream of suggesting that the Leave 52pc/Remain 48pc result might principally have been driven by differential turnout**
**Plus by a whole lot of completely justifiable anti-Tory/anti-Toryism anger, and by the thorough incompetence/complacency of the Cameron/Osbourne led Remain campaign ....
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
tbf, I don't think many of them are very happy with the way Brexit's going either.
gosub
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Most people want(ed) a trade relationship with EU and that's EFTA.. Dismissed by both sets of lunatics early on in the referendum
gosub
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Leave LEADERS put fuck all previous effort into understanding the issue and how to get out of it. The only effort they put in to the hard core that grasped the realities was so they could tick box in order to pick up the state funding
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Fuck off.
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
I can't think why!
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Reduce the voting age to 16. Let young people have a say in their future instead of being dictated to by old people who have less of a future, some of whom remember WW2
Old people and white nationalists who wanted to pull up the drawbridge from across the channel also made up the majority of the Leave vote.
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gosub
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Fuck em and the ideals of democratic accountabily they put their lives on the line for. People can't handle shit like that.. It gets in the way of playing Nintendo
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