End of Brexit Season 2 · 9:34am Oct 18th, 2019
Once again the UK is just weeks from crashing out of the European Union. Back in March, we took to the streets and it ended up being postponed and Theresa May was defeated. Now we have an even bigger villain of a Prime Minister with an even more evil plan, while the opposition parties squabble with each other instead of working together.
It’s now time to take to the streets again and hope that Boris Johnson will get blasted with rainbows, or at least that we get another extension, then move on to Brexit Season 3, and the final epic battle where Magic of European Friendship will triumph.
People’s Vote March London Saturday 19.10.19
If anyone else is going and wants to try to meet up, DM me and I’ll send a google map link for my location on the day.
I wish I could be there, but I made other plans a long time ago. Maybe next time. Good luck!
Good luck! I guess. Watching Brexit is the only thing that makes our own politics bearable right now. Knowing that another country, at least sometimes, has it worse. My money's still on Boris being out of office before Trump, but who knows. Everything is crazy these days.
I wish you luck. It's pretty horrifying to see how successful a strategy it's been for the worst people to just continue being awful until people get tired of objecting
Im afraid Ill have to say Im just going to ignore them from now on except in self defence, because theyvve long gone past compllaining, and moved right into screaming like a demaning baby, politician or Blueblood.
We have had pretty much all the answers for the last 40 years, but noone wanted to implement them while energy was cheap, because energy was cheap so they said, why need alternatives?
Old quote.
Make hay while the sun shines, also includes build extra barns and prepare more fields while you can.
The simple questions that should be demaded of goverment should be, why havent compact heatpumps been legislated for instead of condensing boilers the last 30 years. Why hasnt replacing car engines with serial hybrid modules, saving the cost of a whole new vehicle been legislated. Why hasnt mandated local energy storage per renewable source been mandated? Extra 10% cost in batteries? The price has dropped faster than that some years.
Dont forget, Coil, Oil and nuclear power stations have MONTHS of energy storage. Even Dinorwic is a couple hours? For the cost of that new nuclear power plant, you could give almost every house in the UK an hours battery store.
If you are going to scream, scream coherently.
Good luck to all the British folks. You are, unfortunately, going to need it.
Season 3 is going to be half as long, involve reforming Theresa May to Labor, and end when everyone's accents get switched around then reversed with old magic.
Well... the British need more time Juncker has demanded that there be no more extensions - and crash out tomorrow with no deal Farage wants an extension now. Then again, he probably just always says the opposite of what the EU says (and it may finally have dawned on him that he'll lose his nice MEP paycheck if Brexit goes through).
Anyway, best of luck.
Brexit is still highly entertaining, but it stopped being funny long ago.
Also, the writers seem to be running out of ideas and the plot looks more and more contrived. Getting harder to suspend disbelief. I mean, main characters like oafish rufflehair Alexander Boris de Pfeffle Johnson and evil Harry Potter knockoff parliament bench-lounger Jakob Rees-Mogg... that's just silly.
Serious question: why do people keep calling for more people's votes when the referendum was supposed to be the deciding factor? Doesn't this just set up a precedent of whoever the loser is demanding more and more votes on the off chance enough votes were cast by "misled" voters?
5141948
The situation has changed since the original referendum. At that time nobody seriously thought 'No Deal' could happen. We all assumed there would be an agreement. The vision of Brexit that was offered at the time by the Leave campaigners bears so little resemblance to the reality we are facing now that many people have changed their mind and want another vote.
The argument that it is just the loser calling for another vote until they get the right answer had some validity straight after the first referendum, but so much has changed that it's not a good argument now. Refusing to hold a second referendum on such grounds now would set a dangerous precedent of letting a government trick people into voting one way, then completely rewriting what it was they supposedly voted for, and saying 'you can't back out now', like a dodgy salesman.
5141658 That's basically how Trump keeps coming out of every bankruptcy apparently richer than before. He makes himself so obnoxious, and refuses to recognize any legal authority so effectively, that everyone else basically paid him money to go away.
This is not a tactic which can work this time, alas. Nor would it work at all on either Johnson (who always prized power over wealth) or Farage (who is a true believer in fascism and white supremacy).
I'm on the other side of the globe, but be sure that my thoughts are with you. Defeat this evil, because the world has enough of that in it.
5141968
It's a bit odd to me that the whole second vote push is predicated on the idea that everyone who voted for Brexit was manipulated into doing it, because every vote ever held is essentially parties trying to manipulate people into voting for something. Especially since as far as I'm aware people claimed the first referendum was an attempt to push responsibility away from Parliament anyway and onto the people. But we'll see what happens, I guess.
I shall quote myself again:
The thing is that the referendum did not truly pass:
For reversible things, a simple majority (50% plus 1 vote) is fine, but for irreversible things, one should require ⅔ plus 1 vote to make certain that one does not jump over a cliff from people in the mushy middle saying "Meh, I guess that I shall vote yes, although I am just as inclined to vote no."
On another note, the people calling for the vote had no plan for leaving the EU. That is like deciding to jump out of a plane in midflight and then, while falling, trying to decide what to do:
Jumper A:
"I guess that we should have taken parachutes with us."
Jumper B:
"Hind sight is 2020. ¿How could we have anticipated that jumping out of a plane at over a myriad (a myriad is 10,000) meters high would be a bad idea?"
Since BrExit passed by far less than ⅔ plus 1 vote, you should throw it out. If the supporters of BrExit want to try again, tell to them that, if they have a complete detailed plan for BrExit, and they have to present the plan to the general public. They can have another vote, but they will need to get ⅔ plus 1 vote to pass.