Does a little bit of you...... (It's about that)

Here's the link which contains the above - it might just be another scare story:
uk.businessinsider.com/green-eu-referendum-not-legally-binding-brexit-2016-6

If leave win and Parliament won't pass it, then the government can't invoke it? Have I got this right? because if so, why on earth are we having this referendum?!! Why not just have a commons vote in the first place, saving both money and dreadful grief in every sense of the word!!!

Oh well, that should drag it out for a few more years...

To answer your question, Jings, I think that whatever side wins, they'll be exhilarated, celebrate for a few days, then start to wonder, "so what do we do now?"
Or, if Brexit wins, Cameron will find some way of wriggling out of it and it will have been a complete waste of time.
" Article 50 would make Britain’s EU membership a legal matter. However, even if the June 23 referendum produces a Leave majority, the government would not be obliged to invoke the legislation."

Quoting roses "I think Jingl means there may be a sense of schadenfreude about after Friday, or even that politics has been shaken up by it all and will become more interesting."

No. I meant exactly what I have said.

Sounds like a barrel of laughs...don't think I'll bother, thanks.

Here is John Oliver for a bit of fun and light relief:

youtu.be/iAgKHSNqxa8

warning, some bleeped swearing and racist quotes from some Ukipers.

I'm just happy to have David Beckham around as eye candy (sigh)

Even Shakespeare's tragedies had interludes inserted where the comic peasants cracked a few jokes between the murders and treason. It gave the audience a chance to de-stress for a few minutes before diving back into the mayhem.

Bit like The Archers then

I agree Elegran ....'the road less travelled' or the other way? We only know afterwards.

your DH [oops]

Badenkate
Tell you DH that England needs Beckham
well, the football team does anyway!

I think I mentioned that film Sliding Doors on another thread Elegran - was it with Gwynnie Paltrow?

Perhaps the 'we've moved' card got delayed in the post Jalima! To be honest I have no idea, but since everyone else in the world seems to be expressing an opinion, why not the Beckhams.

don't be unkind
he does seem like a lovely man

Hurray for a light hearted thread on a serious subject. Even Shakespeare's tragedies had interludes inserted where the comic peasants cracked a few jokes between the murders and treason. It gave the audience a chance to de-stress for a few minutes before diving back into the mayhem.

What a pity it is not yet possible to make a documentary in the future and beam it back in time to Iplayer. We could view the consequences of alternative results and adjust our vote accordingly. As it is we can only read guesses and predictions from people who know no more than we do (and some of the more emphatic predictors know damn-all)

Badenkate perhaps he thought it was remain in the US?

doesn't he live in the USA? or have they moved back and didn't let me know?

Don't worry, David Beckham has declared for Remain this morning . DH did query whether he knew it was the EU being discussed which I thought was a bit unkind.....

I think Jingl means there may be a sense of schadenfreude about after Friday, or even that politics has been shaken up by it all and will become more interesting.
'May you live in interesting times'.......

Jalima- a bit of respect please
Respect for whom?
Olders and betters?

a moot point

I watched Billy Bragg the other night, he was on a panel for Remain.

However, at the end he said he was more In, Out, In, Out, Shake it All About

Perhaps Christine Hamilton, one the panel members for Out managed to convince him

gj I am not taking it lightly, it will affect those of us living in the UK as well as ex-pats, but I thought this thread was supposed a bit more HIGNFY than serious parliamentary debate.

Enough of the " silly GN thread " if you please gj! It's a very deep and insightful thread.

Well, I don't exactly want to. But it would be interesting.