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#197954 19-Jun-2016 23:27

This link will show you a long film about Brexit.

I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty of that, because Mauricio has already stomped wisely on someone for talking nonsense in another thread and I am not breaking the rules (at least not knowingly!) by starting that again.

I did however notice a lot of people wondering why Britain might want to leave the EU. If you are wondering, this video would be educational.

(In fairness the video is designed to promote leaving, so is slanted that way, but it is still both true and worth watching.)

(Mauricio - please feel free to lock this if you think it best: I only wanted to share the video, not start another conversation!)

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#1580439 26-Jun-2016 10:42

I find it disturbing how some Brits seem to be taking this vote as a licence for public expressions of racism and xenophobia.

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#1580714 26-Jun-2016 22:26

mattwnz:
Rikkitic:

It is fascinating to see how this plays out. Is it possible that Parliament could legislate to invalidate the result in view of the reactions? Would they even have to, since the referendum wasn't binding? With enough public support, could they not say it was in the national interest to ignore the result or to hold a second vote?

I suspect at least some who voted to leave probably thought they were just casting a protest vote against the government. That seems to be indicated by some of the responses. How could they be so stupid, indeed?

With the pm resigning that would be unlikely to happen. They will just have to live with it. Maybe they can negotiate with them and get a better deal.

The next PM could be on a hiding to nothing.

Decide to ignore the referendum and you have almost 52% of the voters angry that you overrode their democratic rights. Most of them are older people who turn out to every election and won't forgive you.

Be the one to invoke article 50 and you're going to be remembered as the one to blame, by the more than 48% who voted to Remain. Those people are mostly young and could be voting against you in every election until you retire from politics.

if it turns out bad and you don't deliver the things that were promised, the ones that voted Leave will punish you at the next election too.

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#1581634 28-Jun-2016 06:01

The truth starts to appear now....

"So much for all those promises. Leading politicians in the campaign to pull the U.K. out of the European Union are back-pedaling fast on a number of pledges, particularly over extra money for health care."

http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/27/news/economy/brexit-broken-promises/

Broken promises:

Campaign promise #1: We'll give EU cash to the National Health Service

Campaign promise #2: We'll take control of the UK's borders

Campaign promise #3: The economy will be fine