Brexit

[Scat]

I think I'll start saving up for my UK trip. I've wanted to visit for a long time, maybe this will bring prices down enough to make it affordable.

Trump said the exact same thing. Now more people can visit his golf resort in Scotland. I guess great minds think alike.

 

[Scat]

Nope, that's bigotry. You can maintain your traditions at a personal level all you want, but when you start demanding that society freeze in time and everyone else maintain the same traditions and way of life, you're a bigot. When you demand that your neighbours stay the same colour or religion as you, that's bigotry. There's no ifs or buts about that.

*rolls eyes*

 

[Gameface]

Trump said the exact same thing.

He has to save up?

How many British hookers is he planning to bang?

 

[Gameface]

*rolls eyes*

Roll your eyes all you want. Culture is an ever evolving thing. I'm glad our culture today is different than it was 200 years ago. And I don't think any culture owns any nation. I'd fight against any such thing to my dying breath.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

Roll your eyes all you want.

Thanks. I thought you'd never ask.

 

[moevillini]

anyhoooo

back to Brexit and the EU - - I just noticed this announcement on a blog I do via google blogspot:

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:rollseyes:

 

[Scat]

Roll your eyes all you want. Culture is an ever evolving thing. I'm glad our culture today is different than it was 200 years ago. And I don't think any culture owns any nation. I'd fight against any such thing to my dying breath.

So, if someone fights against cultural change they are a bigot but if they accept other cultures and adopt them they are committing cultural appropriation which is viewed as oppression of said culture. **** it. I'm going to go make a taco and drink some Corona. I refuse to listen to mariachi music however.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

So, if someone fights against cultural change they are a bigot but if they accept other cultures and adopt them they are committing cultural appropriation which is viewed as oppression of said culture. **** it. I'm going to go make a taco and drink some Corona.

Embrace your bigotry.

 

[BabyPeterzz]

Some interesting perspective on the politics behind Brexit. Trump supporters, pay attention.

https://indy100.independent.co.uk/a...-david-cameron-and-brexit-is-true--bJhqBql0VZ

If Boris Johnson looked downbeat yesterday, that is because he realises that he has lost.

Perhaps many Brexiters do not realise it yet, but they have actually lost, and it is all down to one man: David Cameron.

With one fell swoop yesterday at 9:15 am, Cameron effectively annulled the referendum result, and simultaneously destroyed the political careers of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and leading Brexiters who cost him so much anguish, not to mention his premiership.

How?

Throughout the campaign, Cameron had repeatedly said that a vote for leave would lead to triggering Article 50 straight away. Whether implicitly or explicitly, the image was clear: he would be giving that notice under Article 50 the morning after a vote to leave. Whether that was scaremongering or not is a bit moot now but, in the midst of the sentimental nautical references of his speech yesterday, he quietly abandoned that position and handed the responsibility over to his successor.

And as the day wore on, the enormity of that step started to sink in: the markets, Sterling, Scotland, the Irish border, the Gibraltar border, the frontier at Calais, the need to continue compliance with all EU regulations for a free market, re-issuing passports, Brits abroad, EU citizens in Britain, the mountain of legislation to be torn up and rewritten ... the list grew and grew.

The referendum result is not binding. It is advisory. Parliament is not bound to commit itself in that same direction.

The Conservative party election that Cameron triggered will now have one question looming over it: will you, if elected as party leader, trigger the notice under Article 50?

Who will want to have the responsibility of all those ramifications and consequences on his/her head and shoulders?

Boris Johnson knew this yesterday, when he emerged subdued from his home and was even more subdued at the press conference. He has been out-manoeuvred and check-mated.

If he runs for leadership of the party, and then fails to follow through on triggering Article 50, then he is finished. If he does not run and effectively abandons the field, then he is finished. If he runs, wins and pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over - Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a recession ... broken trade agreements. Then he is also finished. Boris Johnson knows all of this. When he acts like the dumb blond it is just that: an act.

The Brexit leaders now have a result that they cannot use. For them, leadership of the Tory party has become a poison chalice.

When Boris Johnson said there was no need to trigger Article 50 straight away, what he really meant to say was "never". When Michael Gove went on and on about "informal negotiations" ... why? why not the formal ones straight away? ... he also meant not triggering the formal departure. They both know what a formal demarche would mean: an irreversible step that neither of them is prepared to take.

All that remains is for someone to have the guts to stand up and say that Brexit is unachievable in reality without an enormous amount of pain and destruction, that cannot be borne. And David Cameron has put the onus of making that statement on the heads of the people who led the Brexit campaign.

 

[Jamezz]

I really hope this triggers a dismemberment of the EU and we go back to when each country governed itself and had it's own currency. All we have now is a bunch of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels who say what, when and how things need to be done in each country in the EU. An oligarchy that needs to end at once!

The Spanish people pay taxes to the Spanish government, who owes money to the Spanish Central Bank, who owes money to the European Central Bank. Bring the wealth closer to the people, too many hands on it! AAAAARGH!!!

España Libre coño!!!

 

[Jamezz]

I MISS YOU PESETA *SNIFF

 

[Scat]

I really hope this triggers a dismemberment of the EU and we go back to when each country governed itself and had it's own currency. All we have now is a bunch of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels who say what, when and how things need to be done in each country in the EU. An oligarchy that needs to end at once!

The Spanish people pay taxes to the Spanish government, who owes money to the Spanish Central Bank, who owes money to the European Central Bank. Bring the wealth closer to the people, too many hands on it! AAAAARGH!!!

España Libre coño!!!

https://www.express.co.uk/news/poli...ndum-German-French-European-superstate-Brexit