So what's Brexit really about?

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I'd wager 90% of those who voted Brexit didn't have a clue what it meant, beyond this bleak "out of the EU" response. I'd even wager 90% didn't have a clue how the EU operates or what it does.

The Brexit vote was fear-driven, a vote catalyzed by liars. All it does is highlight the gullibility of 'the majority' of British English people.

[perrykneeham]

Yeah, it's funny how, despite the best efforts of the smug and selfish Bremain camp, the self-evidently wonderful EU was still rejected by the grown-ups.

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Blather

[perrykneeham]

Brexit won. Fact!

[jimboky]

Mar 18, 2018 16:29:03 GMT @oneofthelessergods said:

I'd wager 90% of those who voted Brexit didn't have a clue what it meant, beyond this bleak "out of the EU" response. I'd even wager 90% didn't have a clue how the EU operates or what it does.

The Brexit vote was fear-driven, a vote catalyzed by liars. All it does is highlight the gullibility of 'the majority' of British English people.

Isn't that what democracy is? the loser also claims that THEY should have won

[perrykneeham]

Tantrum-throwing bad losers are still losers.

[perrykneeham]

Mar 18, 2018 17:02:54 GMT @oneofthelessergods said:

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh..

Case in point. Just like that.

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Ah beat me to it...I deleted because I thought it was a bit childish, copying van and mids' standard response.

[flatandy]

Mar 18, 2018 16:55:46 GMT perrykneeham said:

Brexit won. Fact!

While this is undoubtedly true, it is a hilarious illustration of the lack of imagination of the Brextremists that this becomes the stock response when it's pointed out that there are technical difficulties in Brexit, that it's not clear what the outcome is going to be, or how it can possibly happen in the way that's presented by the government.

For example, the opening post does illustrate some clear problems with how the government is trying to implement leaving the EU, yet rather than engage with this, the Brextremists are unable to think beyond their cry of "We won! Get over it."

[perrykneeham]

Yeah. So, get over it. Loser.

[mids]

It will surely go down as the longest tantrum in history.

[flatandy]

Yeah. Longest and silliest. I think the tantrum started sometime not long after we joined the EU, and is still going on

[mids]

It also amazes me that the remainiacs still, still, don't know what the referendum was about. It said it right there on the ballot paper but they still don't understand. Amazing!

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

[flatandy]

It's astonishing that the Brextremists can't think beyond the answer to that single question, to anything even slightly more subtle or nuanced - like "what kind of trade agreement would you like now?". Instead they retreat to the single question because they either lack the imagination, or the intelligence, to deal with anything more complex.

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Mar 17, 2018 7:34:19 GMT @oneofthelessergods said:

Theresa May has been accused of planning to "throw open" Britain's borders after Brexit, by a cross-party group of pro-European MPs.

It comes after Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said there won't be any border checks at Dover when Britain leaves the EU in March next year.


So, union payments to continue for at least 5 years after March 2019, EU citizens still being allowed in, customs union almost in place, ECJ still to be adhered to, and now this, open borders.

By the time all this is over, May and Co will be out on their collective ear, and Brexit will have died a quiet death.

link

Fisheries now...link

The way it'll end up (as pointed out by several media pundits) is that the UK will continue to pay and will to all intents and purposes remain (as a sort of hologram) in the EU, with all the regulations and legally-binding mechanisms...... but without any say-so in its management.

What a balls up. Still, you won. Get over it.

[flatandy]

Interesting agreement today on between the EU and UK on the negotiations, where it appears that the UK government has finally accepted that the EU were right all along about everything, and that for all their bluster Treeeeza and Boris were just making sh*t up. Particularly interesting is the statement that NI will have full regulatory alignment with the EU if the British government can't create their magical Borders2.0 electronic seamless, er... thing, that... er... technology will make this work... yeah.... that's it...

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Mar 19, 2018 17:12:04 GMT flatandy said:

Interesting agreement today on between the EU and UK on the negotiations, where it appears that the UK government has finally accepted that the EU were right all along about everything, and that for all their bluster Treeeeza and Boris were just making sh*t up. Particularly interesting is the statement that NI will have full regulatory alignment with the EU if the British government can't create their magical Borders2.0 electronic seamless, er... thing, that... er... technology will make this work... yeah.... that's it...

Here you go...

[perrykneeham]

So, excellent progress then, yeah?

[flatandy]

Yes, excellent progress. It looks like the disastrous No Deal Brexit is basically off the table, because it would be moronic and disastrous and really, really, really f**k**g stupid. And it looks like the EU was basically right all along that the UK owed the money for the stuff that the UK has got, that the Good Friday Agreement basically means that NI has to stay in the customs union, that the rights of EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens in the EU are guaranteed, and so on and so forth.

[perrykneeham]

Yep. Well done Tezza and Two-Brains. Great stuff.