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Would anyone really care if we remained in the single market and CU but left the EU?

Ok yes I get the point we'd have no say but considering all the benefits we'd keep, our economy wouldn't go to shit and most of us wouldn't be affected by not having a say in EU legislation. Brexiters would moan but they were the ones who might possibly force us into this situation.
 
Wibble said:
It won't happen but that woulld be great.

And then we never speak of this silliness again.
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If another referendum would cause some terrible divide (like we don't already have one) then I'm pretty sure the government just cancelling the whole thing would be far, far worse. Although it would be funny, so hey..
 
horsechoker said:
Would anyone really care if we remained in the single market and CU but left the EU?

Ok yes I get the point we'd have no say but considering all the benefits we'd keep, our economy wouldn't go to shit and most of us wouldn't be affected by not having a say in EU legislation. Brexiters would moan but they were the ones who might possibly force us into this situation.
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It’s the least harmful way of leaving and I’d settle for it as an acceptable fudge at this stage. However, it does beg the question “why bother?”. In terms of the concerns of the various leaver tribes (immigration, new trade deals/neoliberalism, sovereignty), it doesn’t change the immigration rules, requires the UK to maintain regulatory alignment and it does let Brexiteers run with the line that rules are being forced on us by Brussels. In other words, leavers would still be angry and, if they are going to be angry anyway, then why not just retain the current EU membership deal.
 
iKnowNothing said:
I haven't been very up to date on Brexit but I thought the deadline was march 2019. So how can the UK stall it beyond that?
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They can't, maybe the other member states will agree but that's not a given.
 
iKnowNothing said:
I haven't been very up to date on Brexit but I thought the deadline was march 2019. So how can the UK stall it beyond that?
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They can't but British politicians on all sides are still basically convinced that the EU will go along with whatever they want ultimately. British exceptionalism isn't just a far right phenomena.
 
horsechoker said:
Would anyone really care if we remained in the single market and CU but left the EU?

Ok yes I get the point we'd have no say but considering all the benefits we'd keep, our economy wouldn't go to shit and most of us wouldn't be affected by not having a say in EU legislation. Brexiters would moan but they were the ones who might possibly force us into this situation.
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262 posts in this thread & you're asking that? :wenger:
 
GloryHunter07 said:
What does that mean? Cancel Brexit? How is that better than another referendum?
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If the government had any courage that's exactly what they'd do, cancel it. A vote like that should never have been put to the public in the first place, a vote that most people didn't understand. They elect politicians to deal with these issues, not to put them to their vote. The government should be cancelling this mess now when it's become apparent how much it's going to feck up the UK.

But they won't, because they only care about votes and themselves, so here we are, on the cliff edge.
 
LONDON — The UK government is due to hold emergency talks with industry leaders today after discovering that the country doesn't have the right pallets to continue exporting goods to the European Union if it leaves without a deal next month.

Pallets are wooden or plastic structures which companies use to transport large volumes of goods. Under strict EU rules, pallets arriving from non-member states must be heat-treated or cleaned to prevent contamination, and marked to confirm they meet a series of standards.

Most pallets currently used by British exporters do not conform to the rules which non-EU countries or "third countries" adhere to, as EU member states follow a much more relaxed set of regulations.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/brexit-michael-gove-ministers-to-hold-emergency-meeting-over-no-deal-chaos-2019-2?r=US&IR=T

Monty Python Brexit. :lol::wenger:
 
Some of you are never happy. Corbyn acceptance referendum result - ‘omg betrayal of the Labour membership’. Corbyn announces support for 2nd ref -‘omg Jezbollah with the u-turn’.

It’s so predictable at this point.
 
GloryHunter07 said:
What does that mean? Cancel Brexit? How is that better than another referendum?
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Yes just revoke article 50, need some honesty from our politicians. This process is a shambles with no good options, they just need to admit that and kill it.

It leaves it open to be dealt with in the future, giving something to everyone as still hope for leave, also plenty of time to reflect on the whole process from 2016, examine why it's all gone horribly wrong, from the announcement of the 2016 vote to now and come up with sensible solutions.

Part of that need to be everyone realising that the 2016 arguments were made based on us negotiating with the EU to get what we wanted, not just a unilateral decision we could take by ourselves. No one considered how they would implement a leave vote and that seems to be the crux of the problem to me. Leaving us with the squalid farce May has cooked up that would not satisfy anyone, except May.

The idea a second referendum would be accepted and solve anything seems ludicrous to me. It will further division, I suspect leave would boycott it, wouldn't be surprised to see mass demonstrations and "blood" on the streets. Why not have a 3rd and 4th one, what about Scotland etc. Just a nightmare of an idea.
 
So if there was a GE right now with the Tories campaigning on leave, and Labour on remain, who do you think would win? And by what margin?
 
Honest John said:
So if there was a GE right now with the Tories campaigning on leave, and Labour on remain, who do you think would win? And by what margin?
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Impossible to say. I'd like to think in the last 2.5 years enough leaver's would have swayed to remain based on all the negativity since then, but also it's likely they haven't and are more determined than ever to go.

Remain would probably win by a very narrow margin which wouldn't solve anything, that's the problem with a second ref.
 
horsechoker said:
Would anyone really care if we remained in the single market and CU but left the EU?

Ok yes I get the point we'd have no say but considering all the benefits we'd keep, our economy wouldn't go to shit and most of us wouldn't be affected by not having a say in EU legislation. Brexiters would moan but they were the ones who might possibly force us into this situation.
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While it seems an attractive option in the short term it would lead to madness in the long term. All those lies brexiteers kept telling about the EU dictating stuff would become true to an extent (through their action, oh sweet irony).

I think in the long term this might be more harmful than anything else. A proud large nation can't become a rule taker indefinitely simply because it's current government is utterly incompetent. From a European perspective I really hope this does not happen.
 
Massive Spanner said:
Impossible to say. I'd like to think in the last 2.5 years enough leaver's would have swayed to remain based on all the negativity since then, but also it's likely they haven't and are more determined than ever to go.

Remain would probably win by a very narrow margin which wouldn't solve anything, that's the problem with a second ref.
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My feeling is that it would be a Tory landslide because of the first past the post system and the loss of Labour marginals that clearly voted leave.

Whether the realities of leaving has dented the leave vote is difficult to say. Many would vote the same through sheer bloody mindedness.
 
JPRouve said:
@Paul the Wolf, you remember the mention of pallets in this thread?:lol:
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Ah yes, the pallets.:lol:

Packing materials are extremely important.

It was amusing when our rivals shipped containers of material to the West Coast USA and were inspected by US Customs only to have them shipped back to where they came from at enormous costs because they didn't use the correct packing.
 
Mb194dc said:
Yes just revoke article 50, need some honesty from our politicians. This process is a shambles with no good options, they just need to admit that and kill it.

It leaves it open to be dealt with in the future, giving something to everyone as still hope for leave, also plenty of time to reflect on the whole process from 2016, examine why it's all gone horribly wrong, from the announcement of the 2016 vote to now and come up with sensible solutions.

Part of that need to be everyone realising that the 2016 arguments were made based on us negotiating with the EU to get what we wanted, not just a unilateral decision we could take by ourselves. No one considered how they would implement a leave vote and that seems to be the crux of the problem to me. Leaving us with the squalid farce May has cooked up that would not satisfy anyone, except May.

The idea a second referendum would be accepted and solve anything seems ludicrous to me. It will further division, I suspect leave would boycott it, wouldn't be surprised to see mass demonstrations and "blood" on the streets. Why not have a 3rd and 4th one, what about Scotland etc. Just a nightmare of an idea.
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In recent times the UK has had two what could be called Constitutional Referenda (only we don't have a written constitution to refer to for guidance) in one Parliament got its way, but in the other it didn't; in both referendums the losing sides wanted a re-run (what a surprise). You are right, a second referendum solves nothing whatever the outcome, even if the margin for whichever side wins was larger than before, the genie is out of the bottle, because the initial referendum question defined the terms.

Another solution has to be found, either cancel Art 50 (and thereby Brexit) or Leave without a deal (because no deal can be found that satisfies a majority, either way!).Its time we moved on, May has to decided but whatever she decides will continue to haunt the UK for decades, so we might as well get on with it, whatever that 'it' is!
 
Maticmaker said:
In recent times the UK has had two what could be called Constitutional Referenda (only we don't have a written constitution to refer to for guidance) in one Parliament got its way, but in the other it didn't; in both referendums the losing sides wanted a re-run (what a surprise). You are right, a second referendum solves nothing whatever the outcome, even if the margin for whichever side wins was larger than before, the genie is out of the bottle, because the initial referendum question defined the terms.

Another solution has to be found, either cancel Art 50 (and thereby Brexit) or Leave without a deal (because no deal can be found that satisfies a majority, either way!).Its time we moved on, May has to decided but whatever she decides will continue to haunt the UK for decades, so we might as well get on with it, whatever that 'it' is!
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How would a remain vote in a second referendum solve nothing? It solves everything and whether leave voters accepted it or not is irrelevant. UKIP types already bemoan every element of life in this country and the pensioners who carried leave are dying out anyway.

It might have future impact in causing a rise of the far right parties but the idea they'd be riots is ridiculous.
 
Mb194dc said:
Yes just revoke article 50...

The idea a second referendum would be accepted and solve anything seems ludicrous to me. It will further division, I suspect leave would boycott it, wouldn't be surprised to see mass demonstrations and "blood" on the streets. Why not have a 3rd and 4th one, what about Scotland etc. Just a nightmare of an idea.
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Those two statements just dont compute.
 
Honest John said:
My feeling is that it would be a Tory landslide because of the first past the post system and the loss of Labour marginals that clearly voted leave. Whether the realities of leaving has dented the leave vote is difficult to say. Many would vote the same through sheer bloody mindedness.
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Surely you'd have a block of new remain voters though? Sure most leave voters (but not all) will dig in and stick to their guns, but there'll be those that voted leave but have since changed their minds, and those that didn't vote before out of apathy (more likely remain), and those that are now eligible to vote (more likely remain).
 
Wibble said:
It won't happen but that woulld be great.

And then we never speak of this silliness again.
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Massive Spanner said:
If the government had any courage that's exactly what they'd do, cancel it. A vote like that should never have been put to the public in the first place, a vote that most people didn't understand. They elect politicians to deal with these issues, not to put them to their vote. The government should be cancelling this mess now when it's become apparent how much it's going to feck up the UK.

But they won't, because they only care about votes and themselves, so here we are, on the cliff edge.
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It was all just a bad dream. They lived happily ever after. THE END

*roll credits*
 
Smores said:
How would a remain vote in a second referendum solve nothing? It solves everything and whether leave voters accepted it or not is irrelevant. UKIP types already bemoan every element of life in this country and the pensioners who carried leave are dying out anyway.

It might have future impact in causing a rise of the far right parties but the idea they'd be riots is ridiculous.
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Oh dear, we really don't know what we are doing do we?
 
Maticmaker said:
In recent times the UK has had two what could be called Constitutional Referenda (only we don't have a written constitution to refer to for guidance) in one Parliament got its way, but in the other it didn't; in both referendums the losing sides wanted a re-run (what a surprise). You are right, a second referendum solves nothing whatever the outcome, even if the margin for whichever side wins was larger than before, the genie is out of the bottle, because the initial referendum question defined the terms.

Another solution has to be found, either cancel Art 50 (and thereby Brexit) or Leave without a deal (because no deal can be found that satisfies a majority, either way!).Its time we moved on, May has to decided but whatever she decides will continue to haunt the UK for decades, so we might as well get on with it, whatever that 'it' is!
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Referendums.

'Referenda' makes no sense in this context in Latin or English. If you're going to create pseudo-legal terms to try and give your point more gravitas at least get it right. :smirk:
 
Well at least we’ll get to see just how irrelevant Labour’s position actually is.
 
NinjaFletch said:
Referendums.

'Referenda' makes no sense in this context in Latin or English. If you're going to create pseudo-legal terms to try and give your point more gravitas at least get it right. :smirk:
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Thank you for the correction, it should have been referendums!

Nothing to do with gravitas as such, I was simply trying to make the point that not having a written constitution to aid Governments when framing Referendums, can lead to unintended consequences, interpreting the outcomes
 
NinjaFletch said:
Referendums.

'Referenda' makes no sense in this context in Latin or English. If you're going to create pseudo-legal terms to try and give your point more gravitas at least get it right. :smirk:
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You are also wrong about the Latin btw, 'referendum' (=to-be-referred-thing) is the gerundive of 'referre' and 'referenda' is the correct plural form.
 
Sassy Colin said:
Sorry, but it is the plural of referendum.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Ref...da&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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horsechoker said:
It's correct though, I checked Cambridge dictionary and Merriam Webster both of which say referendums or referenda can be used.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/referendum
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Yeah, but that's an issue of dictionaries being descriptive of usage rather than prescriptive.

It's a Latin gerundive (and can't be used as a noun). In Latin 'referenda' would mean 'things (plural) to be decided'.

Its use in English is entirely a construct of the English language, so would get a standard plural s ending. It's a nonsense to give it a plural 'a' ending, as bad as 'irregardless' to mean 'regardless' and 'literally' to mean 'not literally' (both of which you will also find in the dictionary), and on a par with words like octopus being pluralised 'octopi' because people incorrectly assume it's a Latin second declension.
 
ctp said:
You are also wrong about the Latin btw, 'referendum' (=to-be-referred-thing) is the gerundive of 'referre' and 'referenda' is the correct plural form.
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No, I'm not. See above. 'referenda' is the plural form of the gerundive, but it doesn't mean 'two referendums' it means 'things (plural) to be brought'.
 
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afrocentricity said:
Surely you'd have a block of new remain voters though? Sure most leave voters (but not all) will dig in and stick to their guns, but there'll be those that voted leave but have since changed their minds, and those that didn't vote before out of apathy (more likely remain), and those that are now eligible to vote (more likely remain).
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The current polling on Leave or Remain has Remain in front. But 78% of the Labour marginal seats were heavily in favour of Leave. In a GE (which isn't PR), Labour's new stance could see those seats lost to the Tories.
 
Honest John said:
The current polling on Leave or Remain has Remain in front. But 78% of the Labour marginal seats were heavily in favour of Leave. In a GE (which isn't PR), Labour's new stance could see those seats lost to the Tories.
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I think you are right, most traditional Labour voters that I know (not scientific I realise) wouldn't vote labour again, ever... almost regardless of the official stance on Brexit. Its one reason I suspect Corbyn has decided to swap horses on the second referendum in order to cut his losses and hope for a swing to labour in remain voters in the South .

If the Labour parties private polling in these once heavily labour inclined seats is anything like my personal experience, they know they will definitely lose seats , maybe not all but enough, in their once famous strongholds in the North.
 
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