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British Parliament Rejects (Only) Brexit Plan

posted by takyon on Wednesday January 16 2019, @05:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the Why-Not-Re-Referendum? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday January 17 2019, @08:50PM (1 child)

    by urza9814 (3954) on Thursday January 17 2019, @08:50PM (#788021) Journal

    the number of foreign born residents of the UK has doubled recently over a twenty year period (from 1991 to 2011 [wikipedia.org] - roughly 6.5% to over 13% in 2011

    Roughly the same increase occurred in the USA [migrationpolicy.org]...which as you may be aware, is not part of the EU. 8% in 1990 to 14% in 2010. This change could also be due to cheaper travel, globalization, corporate fucks and their constant demands for more exploitable labor...lots of possible causes.

    If you wanna claim this is due to the EU, you're going to need some actual evidence of that...

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 18 2019, @01:39PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 18 2019, @01:39PM (#788223) Journal

    Roughly the same increase occurred in the USA

    The "same increase occurred over a time period of 25-30 years, ending in 2017, not 18 years, ending in 2011, and ignores that the UK had a bunch of huge years of immigration after 2011 (which were the highest levels of immigration since at least 1975).

    If you wanna claim this is due to the EU, you're going to need some actual evidence of that...

    Like large scale net immigration after the EU was formed in 1993, but not before? The graph I cited above shows almost no net immigration prior to 1993 and a substantial climb in immigration after. Further, let us note that I wasn't claiming that immigration was due to the EU, even though that's probably substantially true in light of this substantial correlation over time, but rather addressing the claim "Britain was never part of Schengen so it never had the actual problems of immigration".