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Bremain redux
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Posted by onthebeach, Friday, 24 June 2016 9:19:07 PM
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Yep I'll certainly have a beer on it Graham.
A great result, which will ultimately lead to the end of the EU, & it's attempt at total control of people by bureaucrats. Hell with any luck it could be the beginning of the end of the planet's most corrupt organisation, the UN. Dominos do have that habit of taking others with them. There is a chance we could see, in the very near future, Boris Johnson as UK PM, the Trump as US president, & anyone but Turnbull Oz PM. There must be a god after all. If it all came to pass we'd have to be very nice to Poirot. She'd be devastated, He He He. Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 24 June 2016 9:39:54 PM
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Accusations of Labor being "totalitarian" regarding
same-sex marriange need to be corrected. After-all it was Tony Abbott who did not allow a "conscience vote" on the issue. It was John Howard who changed the Marriage Act in this country to read that marriage was to be only between a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others. Therefore totalitarian does not apply. Perhaps the confusion lies in the words. What was meant was not that Labor was "totalitarian," but that the Liberals were "authoritarian." Posted by Foxy, Friday, 24 June 2016 10:33:30 PM
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cont'd ...
As for elites getting what they want? Now which party has been accused of supporting the big end of town? Posted by Foxy, Friday, 24 June 2016 10:36:48 PM
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I would have liked a bigger gap in the poll, but a win is a win.
Lets have a referendum on immigration here as well and see what the result is. I'll bet the zero net side would win hands down. We could start by deleting those groups that won't integrate. 'love it or leave' Can see why they don't want a referendum on same sex 'marriage' Don't believe that Labor represents the working class. Posted by Banjo, Saturday, 25 June 2016 12:18:09 AM
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Here's one take on the seismic shift:
"I spent most of Friday walking around in a daze wondering if I was having an out-of-body experience. It was partly down to lack of sleep. But it was mostly down to the shock that millions of people I had faith in could be so naive, insular and gullible as to buy the cheap and nasty Little Britain cure-all that had been hawked by a band of dodgy, snake-oil salesmen." "And as I watched the Prime Minister resign, the Governor of the Bank of England give a state-of-the-nation address as the Pound went through the floor, and ashen-faced politicians admit nobody knows what will happen now, I began to wonder if I’d stepped on to the set of a post-Apocalypse movie. ".....without an economic plan, a trading strategy, or a credible leader, making the average Briton’s future more uncertain than any time since the Blitz." "How did we allow the comfortable baby-boomer generation to jeopardise the future of our already debt-ridden young people (75% of whom voted to stay in Europe) through some misguided belief that by voting Brexit their home towns would return to the same ethnic mix they had when they were growing up? I’ll tell you how. By too many people ignoring the facts and willingly buying into the divisive vision of a man who has built a political career whipping up hatred for foreigners. A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of the people and convinced millions of disillusioned working-class voters he was on a mission to smash the rich elite he belonged to. Fair play, Nigel Farage. You did us all up like a Ukipper. But let’s not give him all the credit. He’s simply part of a three-card trick that has been played on the British people. The biggest con in the history of British voting." http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/congratulations-youve-taken-country-back-8277456#ICID=sharebar_twitter Posted by Poirot, Saturday, 25 June 2016 7:32:43 AM
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Perhaps that is one of the things wrong with the now previous arrangement, that some elites got what they wanted but the general population did not.
One of the really contemptible reactions leading up to the vote was Labor's and leftists' assertion that democracy wasn't everyone voting, as in a referendum, it was pollies denying the electorate that choice and making decisions for them. Typical of the totalitarian left who don't believe that their own voters can be relied upon to make the correct (as the left sees it) decision if given the chance.
There is the very same tactic being used by the totalitarian left in Australia where they are trying to deny the electorate a vote on trashing the Marriage Act for 'same sex marriage'.