The Brexit referendum thread: potential consequences for GB, EU and the Brits in CH

[SponPlague]

It seems the petition’s creator is a nasty piece of work...

https://order-order.com/2019/03/22/r...-take-commons/

[bowlie]

	Quote:	SponPlague
	It seems the petition’s creator is a nasty piece of work...

Not sure why this would be relevant. The citizen in our clan that voted is a very nice person.

[greenmount]

Pretty much my opinion too. I know ya'll hate Macron and everything that comes from his piece of land, so that's why I'm offering his full view...

How does this work?

For the Remainers - anyone else here watched Alexander Betts' series of ted talks (Why Brexit happened and what to do next)? He's quite eloquent and spot on.

[Blueangel]

4,000,239 @ 10:11 and people trolling Farage with photos of the queue for their coach to London being longer than his disaster of a march.

[Blueangel]

Love this photo... You can feel the indignation.


https://twitter.com/hel_curran/statu...72578051907584

[eng_ch]

	Quote:	greenmount
	For the Remainers - anyone else here watched Alexander Betts' series of ted talks (Why Brexit happened and what to do next)? He's quite eloquent and spot on.

Do you have a link?


In the meantime, Jonathan Pie:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IL2XwSkFJQ

	Quote:	Blueangel
	4,000,239 @ 10:11 and people trolling Farage with photos of the queue for their coach to London being longer than his disaster of a march.

Your hero reckons no deal is on the cards

EU leaders 'want rid' of 'Brexit poison'

[Blueangel]

	Quote:	Loz1983
	Your hero reckons no deal is on the cards

I only have one hero and it's not Peston, but don't worry your noggin trying to guess who it is because I seriously doubt you'll have heard of him. He was a class act.

[Rob]

	Quote:	SponPlague
	It seems the petition’s creator is a nasty piece of work... https://order-order.com/2019/03/22/r...-take-commons/

To be honest I'd take anything coming from Guido with a pinch of salt the size of Runcorn.

[eng_ch]

The Grauniad is learning tactics from Theresa May

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ite-bill-delay

[Troublawesome]

They claim 1m marched in London today, I'll wait for the Police estimate but still is much more than last time and looks like the biggest in many decades, if ever.

[eng_ch]

	Quote:	Troublawesome
	They claim 1m marched in London today, I'll wait for the Police estimate but still is much more than last time and looks like the biggest in many decades, if ever.

I did read that the police had estimated 1.5-2 million, but the organisers are sticking with 1m figure.


Even that would be 5 times the number at the Poll Tax riots, which prompted a U-turn

[Troublawesome]

Any links for police estimate?

Lest we forget the estimates the last time there was a losers march.

[eng_ch]

	Quote:	Troublawesome
	Any links for police estimate?

No, it was an entry on the Sky News live feed, but as the main reports and the organisers' estimates remain at 1m, I suspect it was simply an unsubstantiated on-the-ground throwaway guestimate

[John William]

	Quote:	eng_ch
	I did read that the police had estimated 1.5-2 million, but the organisers are sticking with 1m figure. Even that would be 5 times the number at the Poll Tax riots, which prompted a U-turn

No doubt the Brexiteers will claim the million plus crowd was only a mirage tomorrow.

	Quote:	greenmount
	Pretty much my opinion too. I know ya'll hate Macron and everything that comes from his piece of land, so that's why I'm offering his full view... How does this work?

The speech is wise and good, yet coming from the country that allows live ammo against his own people: https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/so...u_2068780.html

It's a strange world.

[greenmount]

	Quote:	k_and_e
	The speech is wise and good, yet coming from the country that allows live ammo against his own people: https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/so...u_2068780.html It's a strange world.

Uhm....protesters demanding low prices for gas and not satisfied asap you say? How dares their government. Of course, I simplified. But these protests turned into something else than simple anti-government manifestations quite a while ago. Don't offer this subject as an anti-EU argument, seriously. Or anti-Macron or whatever the point you wanted to make.

[Blueangel]

	Quote:	eng_ch
	Even that would be 5 times the number at the Poll Tax riots, which prompted a U-turn

But similar to the anti-Iraq War demo which was held simultaneously with demos in many UK towns and cities, and up to 600 cities across the World, and they didn't change policy.

The petition currently stands at 4,799,100 signatures, and quite a few press 'oracles' are implying that we could have David Lidington of Michael Gove (god forbid!!!) as PM by the end of the week.

Something that bugs me about the Lidington articles is, he's being framed as massively pro-EU because he claimed to be a Remainer, yet his parliamentary voting record implies the exact opposite. https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10...ylesbury/votes There's no doubt that he's an intelligent man - https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/b...lenge-1-608797 - but I have a sneaking suspicion that his loyalties lie with the PM over and above anything else, and that he'll see himself as duty bound to continue down the same path.

[bowlie]

From the petition website: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584.json

	Quote:
	{name":"Switzerland","code":"CH","signature_count" :4984},

4.8 million signatures in total.