Brexit Thread

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

We call that "baby barfing" on this side of the pond. Thought you'd enjoy the alliteration.

Yes, very Anglo-Saxon.

fun fact: I fitted my new RX480 whilst tipsy - seems fine so far.

[Husar]

fun fact: I fitted my new RX480 whilst tipsy - seems fine so far.

Since we don't seem to agree on a lot otherwise, maybe we can be RX 480 buddies? Also, welcome to the club!

[Gilrandir]

We're only having Brexit now because the Lisbon Treaty was forced on us,

You are having Brexit because some politicians spouted too many fairy visions of the Promised EUless land.

So, now we have a REAL Constitutional crisis instead of an imagined one looming. Great fucking job, guys.

I thought you lot didn't HAVE a constitution. We went and printed ours up and everything. Sometimes, our political leaders even follow it.

You don't have to have a constitution to enjoy constitutional crisis.

[Husar]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...P=share_btn_tw

On Thursday morning, the high court ruled that parliament – and not the prime minister by use of prerogative powers – would need to trigger Article 50 to start the UK’s exit from the European Union.

On Thursday evening, a portion of the British media exercised its own prerogative: to attack the judges behind the ruling.

Apart from the obvious issue of not respecting the highest court (disagreement obviously happens here as well, but never as strongly as in this case AFAIK), I would also like to ask why the judges look like sad christmas presents wearing carpets from the 70s on their heads?

I get that judges are meant to look ridiculous in every country, but those wigs really take the cake.
And no, that does not mean one shouldn't respect the ruling, it is merely about maybe updating the looks just a tad little bit once in a thousand years. I mean they probably also, hopefully, don't talk anymore like they did in the 1070s.

[Sarmatian]

To paraphrase dear old Furunculus, there's no connection between demos and kratos in the UK.

The people clearly want out, but the bureaucratic machine won't let them. Maybe Brits should get the EU to help them cut through all that red tape and regulations.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

To paraphrase dear old Furunculus, there's no connection between demos and kratos in the UK.

The people clearly want out, but the bureaucratic machine won't let them. Maybe Brits should get the EU to help them cut through all that red tape and regulations.

City mice/country mice. The city mice "know better" and think the country mice voted Yes for silly reasons.

[edyzmedieval]

You don't have a constitutional crisis - the UK doesn't have a constitution. At most you have a discussion about the rule of law, and let's not forget the referendum was advisory and in no way legally binding.

And the High Court judges simply respected the rule of law.

[Pannonian]

City mice/country mice. The city mice "know better" and think the country mice voted Yes for silly reasons.

The city mice know the country mice voted for stupid reasons. They know this because, immediately after the result, the country mice asked the government to guarantee what the EU had previously given them. When the tendency over the past few decades indicates that the government has little inclination to give them that, and in some cases (eg. Liverpool), deliberately starve the region into irrelevance in favour of the city mice. Given the option of spending 5bn on London or spending numerous packets of 100m in outlying regions, Westminster can be relied on to give London 4.8bn while the regions have to make do with 10m each. Londoners know this, despite the regioners desperately asking Westminster for assurances that they won't miss out on the 100m that the EU had previously given them. The city mice have little sympathy for the almighty shafting that the country mice are going to get in coming years.

[Furunculus]

To paraphrase dear old Furunculus, there's no connection between demos and kratos in the UK.

The people clearly want out, but the bureaucratic machine won't let them. Maybe Brits should get the EU to help them cut through all that red tape and regulations.

this voter is quite content with the court ruling, people are getting a taste of what the sovereignty of parliament means in practice, and they will grow to like it. we are refounding the link between the demos and the kratos, and this leaver is smiling.