Farage (noun) - The liquid filth that collects at the bottom of rubbish bins. I’ve just emptied the bin and now I’ve got to rinse the farage from it.
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Technically, Parliament can just ignore the vote altogether.
Westminster cannot bind its future decisions, so the referendum was strictly advisory. All it would take would be one vote in the (heavily pro-remain) house to reject the result. This would, however provoke a massive and immediate crisis.
I’ve been doing this for a while.
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I want the railways too so we’re not forced to stop in hostile territory. There are large parts of the country I find quite scary and I’m of white English and Scottish descent.
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You know what? I have a lot of sympathy for Scotland and Northern Ireland, but whatever London voted in this referendum, they deserve to go down with the ship.
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My theory is that although we all know they lie, lie, lie, we also know they all do it, and we have no-one else to vote for. We honestly believe in democracy, so participate, but make ourselves forget the lies and deceipts - we even laugh about them - in the hope we can just muddle on.
But an event like Brexit, which is more akin in impact to - I don’t know - a failed Arab Spring - undermines that for hundreds of years. We now stand shocked, look at ourselves in the mirror, and can’t believe we allowed this.
The awful truth is dawning - all UK voters must carry the can for this - because we didn’t stop it.
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Versus the alternative?
If it’s nonbinding…
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Why do we keep electing these lying politicians? Because most people will always believe the lie they want to hear over the truth they don’t.
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Yeah, the racist dogwhistles and “Southern Strategy” that work in the US apparently work everywhere.
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https://twitter.com/jimfitzbiz/status/746722921125654528
I’m continuing to cling to the hope that a not yet independent Scotland, a House of Commons which doesn’t want to trigger this by an enormous margin, and both major parties being in turmoil might yet stop anything happening.
In an interview with the Sunday Politics Scotland, she said that “of course” she would consider asking the Scottish parliament to vote down the legislative consent motions required for the legislation.
In her fifth major political interview of the morning, Scotland’s first minister told the show’s host, Gordon Brewer: “If the Scottish parliament is judging this on the basis of what’s right for Scotland, then the option of saying we’re not going to vote for something that’s against Scotland’s interests, that’s got to be on the table. You’re not going to vote for something that is not in Scotland’s interests.”
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Schulz continued: “Besides, the UK has already been held hostage by intra-Tory power plays.”
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Invoking Article 50 (or not) isn’t up to Parliament. The power to do so is part of the royal prerogative, which means it’s up to the Prime Minister.
Repealing the European Communities Act (which makes EU law supreme in the UK) is up to Parliament, though. So it would technically possible (though unlikely) for the UK to leave the EU and yet remain subject to European law. (But an awful lot of law applicable in the UK originates in Brussels and has no domestic equivalent, so if Article 50 is invoked, Parliament and the Civil Service are going to be busy plugging the gaps.)
It’s marginally more likely this weirdness could arise in Scotland. Under the Scotland Act, the devolved Scottish Parliament must act in accordance with EU law. It’s a constitutional convention that Westminster does not amend the Scotland Act without the consent of Holyrood: if the SNP and their Green allies feel like being awkward, they could withhold that consent (though to what end, I’m not sure).
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He will always be Nigel Ferengi to me.
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So Cameron is stepping down at the party’s behest so someone else can choose not to do so?
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Their Ridiculously Photogenic Panda-Hugging Feminist PM does seem like an appealing alternative…
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Just keep in mind that he isn’t our standard PM template. He’s an overreaction from his predecessor, a guy who is about as Republican as a Canadian can get (I’m not counting Ted Cruz — he’s one of you now).
Not that I’m complaining about the result, but, just to warn you, not all of us, not even all of our politicians, are Justin Trudeau.
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I hear Rob Ford is still dead.
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How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?!
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He sure as hell didn’t do much to put the record straight BEFORE the referendum.
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And now IDS is at it
I’ve been saying that he is dishonest for years now.
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Beware the march of IDS.
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