> On 07 September 2018 at 00:28 Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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.
And, if it had voted to leave, do you think we would not be well on the way to another referendum? > > 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. Not so much its existence but the methodology (one vote can decide) that was at fault. > > 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 > -- 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.
