RE: General Election (8th June, 2017)
June 9, 2017 at 6:33 am
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2017 at 6:45 am by emjay.)
(June 9, 2017 at 5:51 am)Mathilda Wrote: If the UK tries to rescind Article 50 and stay in the EU, this will massively strengthen the EU because it will show that winning a referendum on leaving can end up with fucking up the economy and failing after two years of uncertainty before staying in. It will be a major deterrent to potential Euro-sceptic voters everywhere.
And it wasn't the older generation changing their mind but the younger generation finally getting out and voting. It has been suggested in the past that a deal could be struck by the EU to keep these pro-EU voters to remain somehow. We've seen in Scotland how the referendum got people interested in politics. That youth vote is not going away any time soon.
If it's a realistic possibility not just an optimistic possibility then I'm over the moon. I see the Brexit vote as the result of remain complacency... if remainers had come out in full force as leavers did, we probably wouldn't be in this mess. So I don't see it as truly representative, and if there were another referendum I'm sure we wouldn't make the same mistake twice. In my heart of hearts that's what I'm hoping for but if such a vote took place and leave still won, then I'd accept it as representative.
(June 9, 2017 at 5:40 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: My worry is the deal Mayhem's struck with the DUP. A return of "a protestant parliament for a protestant people" is on the cards.
I don't know what's going on yet, I haven't caught up yet, but if what you say is the case that's all the Tories need... an extra dose of religion /sarcasm
