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Tey are saying that thisis the biggest constituional crisis since WW2

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Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 14:05:24

But is it?

What about all those smaller wars we have entered into in recent times? With all the loss of (very often innocent) life. All the destabilisation of lives in foreign countries albeit the case that those lives were not completely hunky-dory beforehand?

Is it really all down to world economics. I don't think it should be.

Get our priorities right?

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 19:40:57

here you are then sweetheart

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 19:38:50

shock You are testing me!!! Testing my intelligence!

Blooming cheek! grin

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 19:37:39

Why would I?

growstuff Wed 28-Aug-19 19:35:04

Sorry, my mistake, Gonegirl.

Why aren't you discussing constitutional crisis?

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 19:34:56

Glad someone gets what I'm saying maddyone.

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 19:28:16

Well, I'm not actually gone.

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 19:26:32

You are the grow bit. I am gone. ?

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 19:25:44

I think I can get my head round it growstuff.

Why are you combining our names?

maddyone Wed 28-Aug-19 19:18:54

Totally agree with you Gonegirl.

Taking us into an illegal war and telling lies in Parliament strike me as more serious.

varian Wed 28-Aug-19 19:18:24

I take some small comfort when I see someone confidently stating "It;s definitely going to happen" in the memory of similar certainties being boasted about 29th March and some other date in April when it didn't happen.

Nothing is ceratin.

growstuff Wed 28-Aug-19 19:12:25

And, no, Growgirl, we're not all in it together by any means.

growstuff Wed 28-Aug-19 19:11:36

Do you understand what a constitutional crisis is? It doesn't appear so.

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 19:08:36

Well, we are all in it together now. It's definitely going to happen.

varian Wed 28-Aug-19 19:03:50

We never voted to be at war. We ended up at war in circumstances we could not avoid.

We never voted for a catastrophic no-deal brexit either - which should never be allowed to happen.

No nation would ever knowingly vote to be so much worse off in every way for a generation or more unless a large chunk of the population had gone mad - or been brainwashed for years by malign foreign forces with their own agenda - who do not have the interests of that nation at hear/.

MaizieD Wed 28-Aug-19 18:59:30

But there seems to be more outrage over all things Brexit than there ever was over the aforementioned.

In WW1 & WW2 the country was 'all in it together'

With Brexit, it isn't. It's very deeply divided.

I'm sorry if you can't see the difference, Gonegirl.

aggie Wed 28-Aug-19 17:47:01

Maybe they will if their Medicines are unobtaiable

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 17:30:24

Nobody will die because of this.

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 17:29:48

Ok. So maybe I chose the wrong term.

But there seems to be more outrage over all things Brexit than there ever was over the aforementioned.

This is not the worst thing that has happened to this country since WW2.

MaizieD Wed 28-Aug-19 17:23:56

None of the wars mentioned entailed a constitutional crisis. They may have been 'crises', but they were 'run' by constitutionally 'correct' governments. So while the thread title is accurate, the content of the OP is meaningless.

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 17:21:47

Got it yet?

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 17:21:33

I hate this leaving of the EU, but it can't be bad as our decisions to upset applecarts in other countries, the way we have in the recent past.

We can survive Brexit. Some things were not survivable for some.

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 17:19:24

I wasn't referencing WW2. Read the OP.

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 17:18:19

This is nothing like the rise of Nazism.

Gonegirl Wed 28-Aug-19 17:17:20

And that's more important than the loss of life in the wars I mentioned?! Does a constitutional crisis have to be about economics?

Not sure what powdered eggs have to do with it. confused

growstuff Wed 28-Aug-19 17:16:54

If people really have to reference WW2, maybe they should study the politics of 1930s Germany and consider the parallels with what's happening in the UK now.

People lost their lives to prevent it happening, but some numbskulls have caused history to repeat itself.