Brexit vote: What just happened and what comes next?
With only approximately two more months before a default no-deal "hard Brexit," the British Parliament has decisively rejected Prime Minister May's proposed plan for leaving the European Union.
There is a no confidence vote in works which, if successful, will dissolve the government and force another general election.
See also: Live: Latest as MPs debate no confidence vote
(Score: 4, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday January 16 2019, @07:35PM (5 children)
None of that is true.
The UK has spent 200 years (and more) fighting for the interests of the UK. (Ask the people of India for example).
The pro-Brexit bunch are, without exception, the privileged few that feel they are born to rule, and want to regain that. Do a quick search to find out how many of them have moved their money and homes to Europe. They also lied to con people into voting for Brexit. The NHS is not getting £245 million extra per week for example.
The EU has a parliament, which sets the rules. The members of that parliament are elected, just like any democracy.
Those points you make are the same discredited talking points the pro-Brexit people have been trotting out since 1973. They were lies then and they're lies now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 16 2019, @07:59PM (1 child)
My impression was that pro-brexiters are mostly victims of gentrification and growing economic inequality and other people who for whatever reason think that current government doesn't represent them.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Dr Spin on Wednesday January 16 2019, @09:12PM
You are right about the bulk of them. That does not undermine the claim that the pro-Brexit masses are sheeple led by deceitful but cunning lame wolves.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday January 16 2019, @11:04PM (2 children)
You're missing the point with your strawman, and being purposely dense while knowing the real answer. First, the parliament is not the only body that makes the rules, and oh boy do you have a surprise coming when you find out how many of the real rule makers are not elected. Second - guys from Bucharest, Riga, and Warsaw are electing those parliament people too. The British are then forced to take more immigrants they don't want, and sending an insane amount of aid to Eastern Europe while in return getting thieving uneducated Polaks in London. Right or wrong - they don't want this, and the EU forces it. EU elected people making rules for British people to follow, which the British do not like, is non-democratic. The definition of it. While this is not taxation without representation, as the British do get a vote for EU leaders, it a country is not the same as a USA state - all of which are under federal rule.
EU is more like a homeowner's association. You have other assholes telling you what you can and cannot do in your house. Guess what - the homeowners don't like that.
(Score: 1, Troll) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday January 16 2019, @11:21PM (1 child)
Nice bunch of assertions.
Thanks for your input Boris. Care to provide some links to back it up?
(Score: 1, Troll) by fakefuck39 on Thursday January 17 2019, @12:33AM
no, I don't care to provide you with anything but more shit for your open mouth. I've been to every EU country, lived in several. I don't have to prove shit to you - I just need you to open wide that sexy mouth of yours.