The difference ekan, is Leave would have accepted the result and allowed it to be implemented, just as the leave campaigners did in the 1975 EEC referendum. And btw, it was Remain campaigners who said this would be once in a generation vote, a once ...

UK Lawmakers Reject PM Johnson’s Request To Hold An Early Election

Here is how General Elections and referendums work in the UK, three examples: 1. At every General Election in the UK in the last 100+ years, the losers allow the winners party to get their term. 2. In the Scottish independence referendum, the SNP ...

UK Lawmakers Reject PM Johnson’s Request To Hold An Early Election

Tory gain.

Rudd Quits U.K. Cabinet, Conservative Party Over No-Deal Brexit

Yes, it’s silly. The EU is a very different beast from the EEC. At no point from 1975 until 2016 did the British public have a direct say via referendum on any of the treaty changes. Nobody is suggesting that the public cannot change their mind in ...

UK Lawmakers Reject PM Johnson’s Request To Hold An Early Election

The EU didn't exist in 1975, so that's silly. We joined the EEC, and I suspect that if it were still the EEC the UK would not have voted out. As an elected politician, Farage can go to the EU and do whatever he wants - provided it is lawful. That ...

UK Lawmakers Reject PM Johnson’s Request To Hold An Early Election

It does only apply to Conservatives. However since the EU has said it won't negotiate a new deal it's not clear Labour would get anything different from the EU. Their manifesto said that "Labour accepts the referendum result".

UK Lawmakers Reject PM Johnson’s Request To Hold An Early Election

If you only believing in democracy when your side wins then you aren't a democrat, and it isn't a democracy. It's not supposed to be a running 'battle' or 'war'. When the Leave side won there was a legitimate and democratic expectation that result ...

UK Lawmakers Reject PM Johnson’s Request To Hold An Early Election

At a bare minimum, the EU referendum result should be implemented, and the UK should Leave the EU. Democracy depends on the losers allowing the winners their victory.

UK Lawmakers Reject PM Johnson’s Request To Hold An Early Election

The stats about constituencies are before the 2017 GE. The stats about the number of MPs elected on manifestos to accept the referendum result are after the 2017 GE. Respecting the referendum means many things, and no-deal is one of them. The ...

UK Lawmakers Reject PM Johnson’s Request To Hold An Early Election

Parliament’s power and legitimacy are derived from the people. Democracy only works when the losers are willing to accept defeat, and yet continue to give their consent to be governed. As the losers, it is Remain’s democratic duty to allow Leave ...

UK Lawmakers Reject PM Johnson’s Request To Hold An Early Election

Thank you None of your business.

Brexit anti no-deal motion passes: UK government loses

Or relaxing... come one.

Brexit anti no-deal motion passes: UK government loses

Anyone have the list of Tory's who voted against the government?

Brexit anti no-deal motion passes: UK government loses

Osborne was the most outspoken, and the figures released from the Treasury were the most cited, but the making us poorer argument was consistent throughout. I understand this is a report from the official campaign for Remain: url

European Union (Withdrawal): Motion Submitted Under Standing Order No 24

How would you categorise the following activities of China: years of currency manipulation, massive state subsidy, flouting of WTO MFN rules, restricted market access, forced technology transfers, and hacking of patents?

China Vice Premier Liu He: China firmly opposes trade war

Plenty of talk about a break up of the UK from memory, not sure if I remember much about the Irish border, but it's OK, because the Irish government said many times there was not going to be a border. Even Juncker said it: url

European Union (Withdrawal): Motion Submitted Under Standing Order No 24

Not sure what I said Cliff.

European Union (Withdrawal): Motion Submitted Under Standing Order No 24

It was explained many times that Brexit would leave us worse off. Immediate recession and 820,000 jobs lost: url Emergency budget and austerity: url House prices could drop 18%: url Brexit would cost every household £4,300: url

European Union (Withdrawal): Motion Submitted Under Standing Order No 24

It was explained: url

European Union (Withdrawal): Motion Submitted Under Standing Order No 24

Why have any referendums or general elections at all when the result isn’t implemented? If there was a second referendum, and leave won, Jo Swinson and Caroline Lucas have both said they won’t accept that result either. What these type politicians ...

EU should not let itself be scared into Brexit renegotiation: Merkel ally