** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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661-Pete wrote:I finally got in my signature after several attempts - and then I had to wait a long time for the confirmation E-mail. Up to 1.185M last time I looked. Is this number all amassed in a single day? I'm not clear about that. If so, beyond precedent surely!

It's not even 24hurs yet!
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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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And another half a million less than 7 hours after my previous post - past the 1.25 million mark now. Despite the frequent crashes & "down for maintenance" messages.
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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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The site just crashed again. :?
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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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mjr wrote:
Psamathe wrote:.... The money we pour into Westmister and they are a bunch of total incompetents who do little more than revel in their own ideologies blinkered to the rest world. What seems to be going on is unbelievable. E.g. undemocratic for the electorate to be asked a 2nd time (despite 3 years and a lot changed) but “completely democratic” for MPs to be asked a 3rd time agter just a few days when nothing has changed (beyond a lot of bullying) - talk about hypocrisy.

Welcome back. Please direct your fire at Whitehall (the executive) rather than Westminster (the MPs), though. This Brexishambles is mostly down to Chairman May's refusal to listen, compromise or build consensus. I can quite understand why the EU are unwilling to renegotiate with May: she negotiated with them in bad faith, basically, by suggesting she could get her deal approved when she was comically far from that.

I accept your comments (I’m coming to this without the history, just a snapshot). But, I get the impression (maybe incorrectly) that in addition to May, the two parties called the “Conservatives” are in part to blame. I can’t believe MPs like Ress-Mogg (et. al.) are helping smooth anything along.

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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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reohn2 wrote:The site just crashed again. :?

It cannae take the strain Jim! :D
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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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RickH wrote:
reohn2 wrote:The site just crashed again. :?

It cannae take the strain Jim! :D

well can't take 17m/hr

you know how it will all end?

mps take their revenge
mps take their revenge
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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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Psamathe wrote:I accept your comments (I’m coming to this without the history, just a snapshot). But, I get the impression (maybe incorrectly) that in addition to May, the two parties called the “Conservatives” are in part to blame. I can’t believe MPs like Ress-Mogg (et. al.) are helping smooth anything along.

Ian

It's Reece Moggie and other far rightwingers in the Tory party who caused the referendum in the first place,then May(who should be renamed Mayhem the stupid )who then determined that it would be Mayday(sorry) and now looks as if it will actually be Mayday 21st going of the news as that's all that the EU are willing to extend A50 to :?
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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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reohn2 wrote:.... May(who should be renamed Mayhem the stupid ).....

I like the name I saw the Guardian use Lino (for Leader In Name Only).

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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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Psamathe wrote:
reohn2 wrote:.... May(who should be renamed Mayhem the stupid ).....

I like the name I saw the Guardian use Lino (for Leader In Name Only).

Ian

That'll do,though I must admit I've uttered a few more,most four letter ones, since she became LINO :? :roll: :wink:
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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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RickH wrote:
reohn2 wrote:The site just crashed again. :?

It cannae take the strain Jim! :D
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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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mercalia wrote:
RickH wrote:
reohn2 wrote:The site just crashed again. :?

It cannae take the strain Jim! :D

well can't take 17m/hr

you know how it will all end?

caesar.JPG

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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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pete75 wrote:
pwa wrote:I do see the point of it as a protest, but only as a protest.


Maybe - but Brexit hasn't happened yet. It could yet be that Brexiters won the first battle but lose the war - to put it into the we won you lost context that leavers seem to like.

Bit of a playground jab?

Speaking only for myself, I never saw it as a win without cost. I regretted that others felt upset by it. I still do.
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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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reohn2 wrote:It's Reece Moggie and other far rightwingers in the Tory party who caused the referendum in the first place,then May(who should be renamed Mayhem the stupid )who then determined that it would be Mayday(sorry) and now looks as if it will actually be Mayday 21st going of the news as that's all that the EU are willing to extend A50 to :?

This is not the time to be discussing road building, shirley?
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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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pwa wrote:
pete75 wrote:
pwa wrote:I do see the point of it as a protest, but only as a protest.


Maybe - but Brexit hasn't happened yet. It could yet be that Brexiters won the first battle but lose the war - to put it into the we won you lost context that leavers seem to like.

Bit of a playground jab?


Hardly - it's what may yet happen.
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Re: ** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'

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Bonefishblues wrote:
reohn2 wrote:It's Reece Moggie and other far rightwingers in the Tory party who caused the referendum in the first place,then May(who should be renamed Mayhem the stupid )who then determined that it would be Mayday(sorry) and now looks as if it will actually be Mayday 21st going of the news as that's all that the EU are willing to extend A50 to :?

This is not the time to be discussing road building, shirley?

Don't call me Shirely! :wink:
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