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Brexit: On a scale of 1 to 10, where do you stand?

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Bagatelle Wed 21-Jun-17 20:26:38

Given that the result of the EU referendum was hardly a landslide, I can't see that a 'hard Brexit' was ever justified.

Leave: 37.5%
Remain: 34.7%
Neutral/confused/apathetic: 27.8%

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 as stay as we were and 10 as leave the EU as far behind as possible,
- where did you stand when you voted (if you did) and
- have your thoughts changed since?

Luckylegs9 Wed 28-Jun-17 17:20:40

Daphnedill,is thick, not agreeing with you, or people that have learning difficulties?

durhamjen Wed 28-Jun-17 17:16:59

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/23/spending-watchdog-condemns-risky-expensive-hinkley-point-c-nuclear

durhamjen Wed 28-Jun-17 17:14:28

UK oversight? A bit like oversight of high-rise housing, then?

whitewave Wed 28-Jun-17 16:53:48

Report in the Sunday Times which has implication for the nuclear industry.

" plunge the nuclear industry power plants, cancer treatment centres and research facilities into chaos within two years" because the QS contained a bill which will ensure that the UK leaves the EU safeguarding procedure and instead replace it with UK oversight. It does not apparently match the EU safeguards, therefore will result in the EU refusing to export radioactive material to the UK.

Dyffryn Mon 26-Jun-17 19:15:28

Yes Welshwife. I live in Wales ?

MaizieD Mon 26-Jun-17 18:25:52

I understand why he gets the blame, Rigby. It just isn't justified when you look at the data on voting party by party.

durhamjen Mon 26-Jun-17 16:48:45

Can't possibly have been Mayhem's fault.

Rigby46 Mon 26-Jun-17 16:26:31

Oh Maizie you do understand why he gets the blame grin

MaizieD Mon 26-Jun-17 15:41:24

His half - hearted message lost the vote for Remain

As two thirds of Labour voters(65%) voted to remain as opposed to tory's 39% (just over one third,or, to put it another way, fewer than half) I don't understand why Corbyn gets the blame.

Look at the figures, it was tory voters who lost it, not Labour.

grannygranby Mon 26-Jun-17 13:55:57

1 meaning stay. My commitment got stronger as I saw who the leavers were - the hard right; Farage- certainly didn't want to side with them. I think Gisela Stuart was deluded coming from the Lefts euroscepticism as Corbyn did. His half - hearted message lost the vote for Remain and he could have got youth on his side but he didn't make the effort. In a binary situation saying you were 7/10 committed wasn't good enough. Now it's a dreadful mess and we will all have to pay dearly.

GillT57 Mon 26-Jun-17 13:39:18

Gosh people are so clever, I love that!

whitewave Mon 26-Jun-17 11:50:29

grin good stuff

Eloethan Mon 26-Jun-17 11:27:38

That is so clever.

WilmaKnickersfit Mon 26-Jun-17 01:46:12

The No1 trending video on YouTube

Theresa May and the Holy Grail

MaizieD Mon 26-Jun-17 01:15:00

A retraction due to many not wanting it is a very democratic thing to do

I'm glad you think that, saak. The polls are showing that an increasing majority of people don't want Brexit. So you'll be quite happy if it's democratically decided not to do it.

stillaliveandkicking Sun 25-Jun-17 23:07:11

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daphnedill Sun 25-Jun-17 23:05:06

"you are"

daphnedill Sun 25-Jun-17 23:04:36

I wouldn't be so bold to suggest which one you re saak.

daphnedill Sun 25-Jun-17 23:03:44

But there aren't any nutcase Marxists in the HoP!!!

Unless you happen to be a nutcase right winger (or thick), of course!

stillaliveandkicking Sun 25-Jun-17 23:01:23

Promises? A retraction due to many not wanting it is a very democratic thing to do. A government that listens to the people is happening. I don't want to listen to a nutcase marxist. If you do then shame on you. I also don't want to belong to a defunct club, again if you do shame on you.

GillT57 Sun 25-Jun-17 22:55:00

Oh well if that betrayal of promises makes you happy saak i have nothing more to add. You evidently have very different expectations of manifestos and what you vote for, as long as it wears a blue rosette you will vote for it and expect nothing more, let alone a commitment to what you think you voted for. I now understand how Brexit happened. Goodnight.

Rigby46 Sun 25-Jun-17 22:52:41

Well rar I expect it was a typo and we don't criticise those do we?

rosesarered Sun 25-Jun-17 22:48:03

Gill57 the poster's user name is stillaliveandkicking or saak for short.
Are you intentionally twisting it to saad ?

stillaliveandkicking Sun 25-Jun-17 22:29:21

The queens speech did state exactly what I wanted Gill. I will get what I voted for. Which was to be out of the EU.

GillT57 Sun 25-Jun-17 22:27:07

Yes, buy you don't get it do you SAAD? You voted, for whatever your reasons were, admirable or otherwise, for a manifesto and you didn't and won't get what you voted for! personally I am delighted, but that is not the point. You were lied to yet again, promises were made and not included in the Queen's Speech. Are you seriously happy about this?