Six Years on

[The_Artful_Todger]

I certainly don’t. England especially is grossly overpopulated and it isn’t going to end well.

[Maree]

@realspeed

The French -German - Normans- Danes- etc all wanted to rule us and we beat off all of them. What is it with the continentals who are not happy with the country they are in ? what they lack in undestanding is we are an ISLAND nation with our own monachy, the French and German monachy? well we all know what happend to them.
Those against brexit I don’t understand if they are so keen to be in the EU why they don’t go and live there. that would free up our Housing and NHS issues. If they don’t like living in the UK as it is now GET OUT and LEAVE

Because this is our country too. We are proud of our country and of being Brits and patriotic which is why we are so furious with the Brexiters who voted to diminish and shame our country and cripple our future.

So we’ll stay right where we are and fight protect GB from further damage from Brexiter thinking and save our glorious country from what you’ve done

[Tedc]

I’d argue that are not proud of your Country, Maree, as you refuse to support the Majority in a Democratic Vote.

What’s the point of voting if you won’t get behind the result?

[The_Artful_Todger]

But membership of the EC resulted in the UK losing sovereignty.

[Maree]

@Tedc

I’d argue that are not proud of your Country, Maree, as you refuse to support the Majority in a Democratic Vote.

What’s the point of voting if you won’t get behind the result?

Because majorities often make bad and immoral decisions, it can be just mob rule and the tyranny of the majority, as happened with Brexit

In this case, the majority was very small and the oppressed minority very nearly as big

And the result was skewed by Brexiteer lies and false promises and our having an age top heavy population. So the old were able to outvote the young and ruin their future

[realspeed]

Maree

How wrong your thinking is. If we had it your way we would be loosing everything that is English. Who wants to ride around on push bikes with a string of onions around their necks or having to goose step instead of a nice stroll. I don’t want to be ruled by foreigners dictating what we are and not allowed to do. I don’t want to have frogs legs for dinner instead of a nice pie and mash, I don’t want to forget the english language and speak some foreign tongue, because that is what will happen if we stayed in the EU , use Euros instead of our £. No if that is what you want go live abroad

When we voted originally those who didn’t vote were considered to be all for going into the EU not the actual votes which were against even back then, because that is what the government wanted not what the people wanted

[Tedc]

No point in voting for anything, then.

Let’s get Putin in to run the Country for us!

[Bruce]

What an interesting post.

I am fascinated to know who was telling you to eat frogs legs or goose step about the place before you sought the freedom of Brexit.

You better tell those damn Germans living in Buck House to bugger off too before they start making you eat sauerkraut and wear lederhosen

Come to think of it perhaps some of the Scots, Welsh and Irish would be glad to lose some of the things that are English

[Donkeyman]

@Maree, So in your opinion then Marree, we should be governed by a
minority government ??
Just so you feel better about it !Get a bloody grip woman !!
Donkeyman!

[Donkeyman]

@Tedc, “ld argue that you are not proud of your country”
Exactly that Ted !
Unfortunately a lot of remainers are like Maree, and they disolve into
hysterical meltdown when discussing brexit !!
Ask Maree if she can point to the advantages of membership for the uk
and you wont recieve reply ??
Only a lot of waffle about passports and crap like that ??
You cannot argue with stupidity lm afraid !
Donkeyman!

[JBR]

@Tedc

It would have been much better to have had the opportunity to vote way back when they took us into the EU.

“No ifs, no buts, YOU’RE IN!”

There’s the mistake, right there!

That’ what caused most, if not all, of the problem.

Yes, exactly. That was the initial error which caused all the trouble that followed.
In fact, as we were never consulted (living in a democracy) and our sovereignty was simply handed over to a foreign power, someone (Heath?) should have been taken to court to answer for his actions.
Similarly, perhaps we were never legally in the EU for that reason?

[JBR]

@Maree

Because this is our country too. We are proud of our country and of being Brits and patriotic which is why we are so furious with the Brexiters who voted to diminish and shame our country and cripple our future.

So we’ll stay right where we are and fight protect GB from further damage from Brexiter thinking and save our glorious country from what you’ve done

I’m just grateful that the proportion of people who wanted us to hand our country over to Hitler 80 years ago was so very much smaller than the proportion who apparently want us to hand our country over to the EU Empire today.

[The_Artful_Todger]

It wasn’t Sailor Boy, it was John Major.

[JBR]

@Maree

Because majorities often make bad and immoral decisions, it can be just mob rule and the tyranny of the majority, as happened with Brexit

Ah! I have the solution! In the next general election in 2024, we should award the position of government to the party which receives the second highest number of votes.

[JBR]

@The_Artful_Todger

It wasn’t Sailor Boy, it was John Major.

I stand corrected. The ‘Grey Man’ then. Thank you.

[Tedc]

@Donkeyman

@Maree, So in your opinion then Marree, we should be governed by a
minority government ??
Just so you feel better about it !Get a bloody grip woman !!
Donkeyman!

I seem to remember that a couple of Countries voted against being in the EU, only for the EU to tell them they had got it wrong & to go back & vote again.

Which they did!

Didn’t Ireland have to vote two or three times before they “got it right”?

That’s EU style democracy!

[Percy_Vere]

@Tedc

Didn’t Ireland have to vote two or three times before they “got it right”?

Twice they voted but wasn’t that something to do with the Lisbon Treaty?

[JBR]

@Tedc

I seem to remember that a couple of Countries voted against being in the EU, only for the EU to tell them they had got it wrong & to go back & vote again.

Yes. Both Norway and Greenland voted against joining the EU, in fact with similar proportions to us: 47.8 for and 52.2 against. (Ours: 48.1 for and 51.9 against)
Even better, Switzerland voted against joining the EU by 23.2 for and 76.8 against!
Referendums related to the European Union - Wikipedia

Strangely, I haven’t heard of masses of remoaners protesting in Norway or Switzerland.
Even better, I haven’t heard of the EU doing their best to punish Norway or Switzerland like they have to us. Something to do with our being their ‘cash cow’ perhaps?

[Aerolor]

@Bruce

Personally, I think that there needed to be a more decisive vote, this just scraping past with a tiny majority on such an important issue was in nobody’s interest. It needed more than a simple majority to be accepted, as it is half the population is dissatisfied with the result hence all the squabbling.

If the remainers had won by a small margin there would be less squabbling because it was just the status quo. A change needs a much bigger majority

There speaks the voice of commonsense

[Tedc]

Nom point in trying to re-write History!