Reply With QuoteReports are suggesting that the petition has a high number of signatures, from people living outside the UK, so don't get too excited by the numbers.
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Shouldn't that read 33 million who may vote? Many of them don't, be it local, national or European elections. If you choose not to vote you choose to accept what the majority of those who did bother to turn out voted for. If you don't like what they voted for, tough 5h1t. Its called democracyOriginally Posted by mistaram
rA, your comment about MF, is that ah as in soul?
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Reports are suggesting that the petition has a high number of signatures, from people living outside the UK, so don't get too excited by the numbers.
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I signed from abroad...but you have to have a verifiable UK address before your ‘signature’ is accepted, Adi.
Context is everything...and this is a huge petition.
No MA...’ah’ as in rear end...and to say ‘if you don’t like what they voted for...tough sh1t’ seems a tad over simplified by your standards.
Implementation of Democracy surely involves people voting on the basis of truth and the vote reflecting a majority of the electorate. Obviously in a General Election when there are a number of choices then it gets more complex but in the binary choice offered by the Brexit Referendum both truth and majority of the electorate were clearly missing.
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AhSoul it is then
Those who decided not to vote. IMO it is TS for them. They have, IMO, no right to complain. Those who voted Remain, IMO, do have a right to vent their frustration at the current state of affairs.
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Swale you should know that, after calling you out many times for the unsubstantiated rubbish you write, I would have my ducks in a row re provenance. Check YouTube, type in will self brexit and open the politics live debate from 3rd March. He says it after 30 seconds. AND he says what you said he said, just to reinforce his bigotry.
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Yes, I'm sure you provided your passport photo too.
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MA what I'm trying to say is if 33,551,983 voted in the referendum Then until theve signed the online partitions then we have not got a clue how any second referendum will goShouldn't that read 33 million who may vote? Many of them don't, be it local, national or European elections. If you choose not to vote you choose to accept what the majority of those who did bother to turn out voted for. If you don't like what they voted for, tough 5h1t. Its called democracy
rA, your comment about MF, is that ah as in soul?
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Oh here we go...it’s all a conspiracy...they’re all foreigners petitioning, it’s all a fix. C’mon Adi, you’re better than that and the biggest ‘fix/con’ was the Referendum itself.
Before it would let me sign from abroad I had to provide a valid email address and my UK postcode...that’s just fact, as is the idea that this country has been held hostage to infighting by the various factions of the Tory party for three years now. That’s how this fiasco started and it’s still going on.
An unhealthy alliance between infighting for control of the Tory party and bigoted populism is what this has all become about.
Sorry MA...I’d just woken up...as in ‘soul’ indeed!
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No, its not a fix, but its unreliable, easily cheated by any capable 8 year old, and playground antics at best.
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You might find that such votes are skewed by the fact that more remainers (and I include myself in this) have time to fanny about on computers than Leavers, who for the most part are out there actually getting on with something useful
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