On 6/9/18, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed: >Why do you say there is no going back?
Because a referendum was held. It was a very close call, but the country voted to leave. I personally don't believe we should have had a referendum at all. We live in a parliamentary democracy - we vote the members of parliament in, and they are there to represent us and out views. Even if one lives in (say a Conservative) constituency, and one is a Labour voter, that should not prevent any constituent from going to see their MP and voicing concern. The vote was held, some would say foolishly, and the result must stand. There has been a lot of calling for a 2nd referendum. Nonesense in my view. Maybe we should have a 3rd and a 4th as well? Have one or none at all. I think there might have been mileage in Labour going into a snap election on a 'Stay in Europe' ticket, but there are 2 things wrong with that - 1) Labour have come out in support of the referendum and 2) the current leader - Jeremy Corbyn - is unelectable in my opinion. Labour has no chance with him in power, but worse - there's no chance of replacing him anytime soon - too many party activists love him, and they are not as old as you might think! It's a Catch-22 that will run for a while yet. Many thought Theresa may would be stabbed in the back and tipped into the nearest dumpster ages ago - yet she clings on. Mainly because there is no credible alternative - yet. Some thought Boris was jockeying - and he still could be - but I think that, too, is a dud scenario. Mark my words - keep your eye on Jeremy Hunt. Currently Foreign Secretary, he is just the kind of weedy, limp-handshaking, middle-of-the-road, steady- as-she-goes, with a bit of patriotic-jingoism-thrown-in-for-good-measure-type of weedy politician that typically succeeds to become leader of the party. What can we do? May is totally ineffectual, Boris is a madman, Hunt is a total twat, Corbyn a withered has-been dragging his apparatchiks along, and nobody with any stamina or passion waiting in the sidelines long enough to stick there head above the parapet before it's (in the words of a mr C Eastwood) 'blown clean off'..... >I have no opinion as to what the UK should do, but if Brexit is a mistake, >someone should bite the bullet and undo it. Define 'mistake' ! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit and || (O) | Live Broadcast News ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
