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This is about the peoples choice, They voted leave in 2016. But it is not a dishonest analysis of the results to see a majority for Remain in the voting patterns from the EU election. Particluarly since all the latest polls on this issue put Remain on top. Whatever the Tory and Labour party politicians committed to in their manifestos was decisively rejected by the electorate and a clear demand for revision of those policies was declared. The BREXIT party wants a hard BREXIT as soon as possible and thought the Tories were simply not delivering. The Lib Dems and Greens and Nationalists and Change who together got some 6% more votes than the BREXIT and UKIP combined rejected the deal on the table and expressed a clear preference to remain in Europe. The official policies of both parties will probably be revised as a result of the wipe outs that Labour and the Tories experienced. The Tories are likely to elect a hard BREXiTEER though how he is going to implement that against the wish of parliament and the people is anyones guess. Labour are dominated by hard left activists who want to build a Marxist state in the aftermath of the BREXIT disaster and what they think will be the inevitable fall of the Tory government after implementing BREXIT. So as long as these people are in charge of Labour any calls for a second referendum might not even include an option to vote remain.

In your blind desire for BREXIT you are missing what is happening here. BREXIT is going to be a disaster, Corbyn will probably become PM in the wake of that disaster and that will mean a double whammy for Britain with a government that cannot rule in charge of an unmitigated disaster.

The only way out of this dilemma is Revocation and the public actually see that and want that. What is criminal here is the deliberate obstruction of their politicians and especially in the Labour party of their expressed wishes.


Isaiah5v20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
(............….and who substitute winners for losers and losers for winners.)


There's no point in me entering into a discussion with someone who calls black white and good evil.
Until you start using the normal commonly accepted interpretations of words, sentences, and arithmetic, instead of your private meanings, you will REMAIN entirely correct in your own little world.
But beware, the scripture I quoted is a warning. Woe is not just a quaint appendage to the verses. It has meaning to all those who transgress the words.

Isaiah5v20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Proverbs12v17He who speaks the truth declares what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.

Proverbs12v22Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
 
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Why did the people vote BREXIT in the first place. IN part to simply stick it to the man in charge in Westminster who was massively unpopular and a complete phony.
People had been campaigning to leave the EU whilst Cameron was still at school!
 
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Isaiah5v20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
(............….and who substitute winners for losers and losers for winners.)


There's no point in me entering into a discussion with someone who calls black white and good evil.
Until you start using the normal commonly accepted interpretations of words, sentences, and arithmetic, instead of your private meanings, you will REMAIN entirely correct in your own little world.
But beware, the scripture I quoted is a warning. Woe is not just a quaint appendage to the verses. It has meaning to all those who transgress the words.

Isaiah5v20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Proverbs12v17He who speaks the truth declares what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.

Proverbs12v22Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.

Are you for real? The facts speak for themselves. A dispassionate analysis of the results reveals an underlying majority for remain in these EU election numbers. A fact denied by the two main parties who appear to still be committed to BREXIT despite the strong remain inclinations of many of their supporters. A fact supported by recent polling on Europe and by this article in the Guardian for instance.
Remainers won these elections – and they’d win a second Brexit referendum | Polly Toynbee

Their analysis concluded that there was a slight majority for remain in the underlying results:
Remain v hard Brexit: what the UK's EU election results tell us

The latest polling says 53% support remain and only 47% want to leave
EURef2 Poll of Polls

You may want to repent of your own false testimony mate rather than going around calling other people liars.

Also since when has the EU been EVIL. That is really pushing it.
 
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Interesting article. Any trade deal with the US will be one sided in Trumps favour.

I could say the same thing about any trade deal with the EU, at least any that is put in place before Brexit. Say whatever else you want about WTO trade rules, at least they provide a level playing field.

If the UK negotiates with the US the way it negotiated with the EU, then yes, you may be right.
 
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I could say the same thing about any trade deal with the EU, at least any that is put in place before Brexit. Say whatever else you want about WTO trade rules, at least they provide a level playing field.

If the UK negotiates with the US the way it negotiated with the EU, then yes, you may be right.
Sorry but the UK trades freely within the EU, and is able to take full advantage of trade deals negotiated by the EU. And guess what a body that has the economies of Germany, France and the UK etc. Is able to negotiate far better trade deals than individual countries on there own.

Put it this way if you are a supermarket chain with 50 outlets, will you get a better deal from suppliers than one with 500 outlets?

Of cause we are leaving the EU:doh:
 
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Sorry but the UK trades freely within the EU, and is able to take full advantage of trade deals negotiated by the EU.
No we do not trade freely with the EU, we pay exceedingly heavily for that so called privilege.
Trade with the EU has cost this nation the destruction of many businesses and industries, plus £millions in contributions every month.
 
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No we do not trade freely with the EU, we pay exceedingly heavily for that so called privilege.
Trade with the EU has cost this nation the destruction of many businesses and industries, plus £millions in contributions every month.
British business disagrees.
 
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No we do not trade freely with the EU, we pay exceedingly heavily for that so called privilege.
Trade with the EU has cost this nation the destruction of many businesses and industries, plus £millions in contributions every month.

We developed core competencies which prospered on a European level e.g. Banks, insurance. The cost of this was industries that did not compete on that level e.g. British Leyland. Per capita income doubled in the UKs time in Europe (though it has largely stalled since 2007). But now the UK is on a par with France and Germany whereas before it lagged behind them.

The cost of BREXIT will be felt most keenly by those companies that did best in a full European context. Maybe there does need to be a rebalancing of the British economy but the jury is still out as to whether that will leave people as a whole better off.

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Garbage.
I owned a manufacturing business about 12 years ago which was completely destroyed through unfair competition created by the EU.

My customers suddenly started buying elsewhere, and as we located their source in the EU, we found they could buy the finished products far cheaper than we could possibly buy the raw materials.

Our competitors were 2 brand new factories, filled with hundreds of brand new machines, all to the highest specifications.
The whole enterprise was directly funded by special grants from the EU, which were not available in the UK.

We stood no chance whatsoever.
Countless UK businesses have been destroyed by EU mass interference in the market place.
 
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Boris Johnson looks like becoming the next PM with a Hard Brexit agenda that will happen without the consent of parliament. Corbyn continues to dither and a referendum on revocation looks unlikely at this point. This despite recent polling and the European result which indicate a majority for Remain.
 
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As an American, I'm fine with having full and free trade with England. The problems don't occur when we trade with other first world countries. Its probably too late, now with the Muslim problem there but in a previous Era I would have been OK with open borders with a non EU England as well. There is no country on earth with which we have shared as much. Except for that little scuffle we had to get to this point. :)

In fact I think a free trade zone involving the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand would work well.
 
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Boris Johnson looks like becoming the next PM with a Hard Brexit agenda that will happen without the consent of parliament. Corbyn continues to dither and a referendum on revocation looks unlikely at this point. This despite recent polling and the European result which indicate a majority for Remain.
There you go again, deluding yourself that Remain won the EU elections.
 
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There you go again, deluding yourself that Remain won the EU elections.

You do not want to hear a result that contradicts your outlook but a honest look at the evidence of the recent election coupled with recent polling indicates a majority for Remain of about 52-48. Which means that if Boris wins he will be leading Britain into the abyss against the will of the people.

Remain v hard Brexit: what the UK's EU election results tell us

EURef2 Poll of Polls
 
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Boris is now PM and looks like he is bringing some energy and organisation in to the BREXIT campaign. He has committed his government to achieving this with or without a new deal from Europe. From the sound of his spending pledges he has already spent the money that would have been given to the EU. It seems the choice now is Boris and BREXIT or Corbyn with the vague promise of a referendum that might include a revocation option or BREXIT with Marxism. For those of us who support revocation till the bitter end there is no party with a chance of winning representing us in the Commons
 
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Boris is now PM and looks like he is bringing some energy and organisation in to the BREXIT campaign. He has committed his government to achieving this with or without a new deal from Europe. From the sound of his spending pledges he has already spent the money that would have been given to the EU. It seems the choice now is Boris and BREXIT or Corbyn with the vague promise of a referendum that might include a revocation option or BREXIT with Marxism. For those of us who support revocation till the bitter end there is no party with a chance of winning representing us in the Commons
It’s worse than that, in reneging on paying the 39 billion owed the UKs lenders are likely to downgrade our credit rating. Coupled with big tax cuts, the UK will be an economic basket case.
 
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It’s worse than that, in reneging on paying the 39 billion owed the UKs lenders are likely to downgrade our credit rating. Coupled with big tax cuts, the UK will be an economic basket case.
I'm looking forward to buying big ben in your garage sale.
 
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Boris is now PM and looks like he is bringing some energy and organisation in to the BREXIT campaign. He has committed his government to achieving this with or without a new deal from Europe. From the sound of his spending pledges he has already spent the money that would have been given to the EU. It seems the choice now is Boris and BREXIT or Corbyn with the vague promise of a referendum that might include a revocation option or BREXIT with Marxism. For those of us who support revocation till the bitter end there is no party with a chance of winning representing us in the Commons

"there is something more powerful than the brute force of bayonets: it is the idea whose time has come and hour struck"

Gustave Aimard, Les Francs-Tireurs
 
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