Brexit Thread

**Kralizec** · 10-23-2016, 16:36

Just curious, what makes May and the rest of the government think that there's a mandate to leave the single market?

Slightly less than half of the population voted for the status quo. A razor thin majority voted for leaving. I can believe that a majority of the Leave voters wants out of the single market in order to curb immigration, but since when is the Will of the People (tm) determined by a 'majority of the majority'?

**Fragony** · 10-23-2016, 17:08

Originally Posted by Kralizec

Just curious, what makes May and the rest of the government think that there's a mandate to leave the single market?

Slightly less than half of the population voted for the status quo. A razor thin majority voted for leaving. I can believe that a majority of the Leave voters wants out of the single market in order to curb immigration, but since when is the Will of the People (tm) determined by a 'majority of the majority'?

Oh common Europe is a continent, the EU an overhead.

**Kralizec** · 10-23-2016, 18:33

I disagree, smoked mackerel is much tastier than salmon.

**Fragony** · 10-23-2016, 19:41

Originally Posted by Kralizec

I disagree, smoked mackerel is much tastier than salmon.

Depends, mackerel is used for bait mostly. But yeah it's tasty. Add moyonaise, a lot

**Sarmatian** · 10-24-2016, 17:55

Originally Posted by Kralizec

but since when is the Will of the People (tm) determined by a 'majority of the majority'?

Since always, pretty much.

One could argue that with such an important issue, there should have been a requirement of a minimum 60-70% of people coming out to vote for any result to be valid, but the general agreement is that those who don't have an opinion shouldn't hold back those that do have one.

If you think the issue is important, get out and vote.

**Kralizec** · 10-24-2016, 19:26

That reminds me of the guy who started the petition requiring a second referendum, if the turnout was low or the result was close. He filed it before the referendum was actually held, in the expectation that Remain would win, since he himself was in favour of leaving.

As it turns out, Leave won and the petition was then signed in huge numbers by Remainers....and the guy who originally started the petition then scorned the Remainers for trying to overturn the result.

**Greyblades** · 10-24-2016, 20:19

Oh yeah that was hillarious, especially when it ended up flooded by foriegn proxies with the vatican city signers outnumbering the cuty' population 2 to 1.

**Kralizec** · 10-24-2016, 22:29

Hyperbole is nice, but sources are better. This article says that there were some 77.000 fraudulent or suspicious signatures, of more than 3 million signatures at the time (it peaked at over 4 million). Less than 3 %.

Edit: the point was, of course, that the person who started the petition is a hypocritical POS.

**Greyblades** · 10-25-2016, 00:18

The salt must flow.

22 Hypocrytical brexiteers vs 4 million bremain sore losers/democracy underminers, probably not the best place to claim moral superiority over.

**Kralizec** · 10-25-2016, 22:17

Excercising the legal right to petition your government does not undermine democracy. It's a cornerstone of democratic government. Your way of thinking is bizarre.

And the person who started the petition is still a POS.