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In reply to the discussion: I am amazed - really quite amazed - at some of the Brexit opinions I am reading here on DU [View all]Hekate
(93,580 posts)58. Aghast, is my word of choice. Ta, Stinky.
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I am amazed - really quite amazed - at some of the Brexit opinions I am reading here on DU [View all]
Stinky The Clown
Jun 2016
OP
what do you mean by officially endorsed? if you mean historically accurate then you are right
La Lioness Priyanka
Jun 2016
#6
There are channels for Parliamentary proposals to be presented to Brussels for study and approval.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#81
The post with the quote "the governing body in Brussels isn't elected..." was hidden.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#232
Your argument would make more sense if the UK didn't have the unelected House of Lords.
Metric System
Jun 2016
#129
People were saying they didn't trust "experts" and trusted this Trump-like politician. Sort of like
kerry-is-my-prez
Jun 2016
#140
I think you're confusing that with the real unelected body known as the House of Lords...
truebrit71
Jun 2016
#221
Buyers' remorse is setting in. Cameron foolishly set the referendum as a simple majority . . .
brush
Jun 2016
#80
Not only will he not survive, he will be reviled as the incompetent jackass who
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#141
Perhaps what Jim Messina, political advisor to Cameron and Hillary superPAC co-chair told him
JonLeibowitz
Jun 2016
#121
The tools available to the general public are votes, torches or pitchforks. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2016
#28
Could you perhaps summarize what the problems are in the establishment itself?
ancianita
Jun 2016
#100
i know. so many dumb and informed posts backing xenophobia and other far right values
La Lioness Priyanka
Jun 2016
#5
You're welcome. I live in France, so like everybody on the Continent I feel directly concerned.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#165
Well we can't let those poor groups of elites lose anything that would suck for them.
Rex
Jun 2016
#14
Entertainment from bizarro land?. Chuckles since all that primary whack is gone I guess
Person 2713
Jun 2016
#73
Because Brexit was at its base xenophobic rather than any altruistic desire to shake the yoke...
truebrit71
Jun 2016
#219
Yeah, like the sun now sets on a much smaller, less influential, read "non-existent", empire.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#57
There wasn't an EU at that time, so it was hardly a case of England choosing isolation
LeftishBrit
Jun 2016
#59
Sadly there is a lot of overlap between some elements of the populist Left and populist Right.
Odin2005
Jun 2016
#36
This is the danger of uninformed voters. Had the leave crew been pressed for specifics, I doubt
Laser102
Jun 2016
#38
Seems clear to me that the austerity politics of the Eurozone motivated many people
Akamai
Jun 2016
#65
IMO a big cause of this is the disproportionate influence of Germany on EU economic policy.
Odin2005
Jun 2016
#96
I have been saying this for a while now. The open border policy of the EU was just the last straw.
modem77
Jun 2016
#85
Older people "lazy ignorant fucks" voted to leave because we remember.
Boudica the Lyoness
Jun 2016
#82
Nice meander down nostalgia lane. This "Mary Poppins" Britain did not disappear under EU influence.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#93
No, but six months gives you a pretty accurate view of the lay of the land.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#107
The wrong-headed nostalgia sounded pretty sincere. I don't believe the poster
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#144
This is a prime example of people voting against the best interest, why did UK vote for nearly...
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#94
If you expect to live in a shit then you will live in a shit hole.
Boudica the Lyoness
Jun 2016
#102
The irony of an ex-pat voting for a gauzy dream England that hasn't existed for decades.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#127
I still remember the bemused reactions of the Brits when, during my first visit back in the late
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#250
People wouldn't have had to sacrifice their lives in the trenches if there'd been no wars
LeftishBrit
Jun 2016
#248
I have been in the UK the last couple weeks, and my British friends and colleagues here
Vattel
Jun 2016
#92
Yes, cognitive disconnect is very upsetting, I hope you get over it soon. nt
bemildred
Jun 2016
#113
It's not cognitive dissonance to be disgusted that some here want to side with the far-right UK
Hissyspit
Jun 2016
#148
considering that many of the people who voted for it, at least in what I am reading, didn't actually
niyad
Jun 2016
#114
somebody should have reminded these people of an old adage: "if something sounds too good to be
niyad
Jun 2016
#135
Being confused, I usually say nothing. But I'm not getting what you're saying about what
ancianita
Jun 2016
#117
There are already over 1,000,000 signatures on a petition to do just that.
Surya Gayatri
Jun 2016
#157
Yup, you already know if the vote went the other way it would be the "the people have spoken
TheKentuckian
Jun 2016
#245
I did a calculation; the weather made little difference compared to the margin Leave won by
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2016
#189
If you know so much, who was the guy who fucked a pig? And did the pig figure in any of this?
Teamster Jeff
Jun 2016
#133
You can have any opinion you wish, but you can't have your own set of facts.
Stinky The Clown
Jun 2016
#137
Agreed. People here defending a referendum set up by a right-wing PM to appease the
Hissyspit
Jun 2016
#142
Absofuckinglutely spot on. I just posted another thread about this, should have read yours first.
auntpurl
Jun 2016
#166
Trump loves backruptcy, so no wonder he loves Brexit. Watchingh money disappear, such fun!
L. Coyote
Jun 2016
#206
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. ~ Yogi Berra
fleabiscuit
Jun 2016
#216
So many tin ears: calling those who want anything but the status quo BOTH racists and duped.
Betty Karlson
Jun 2016
#233