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Whitewavemark2 Sun 01-Sept-19 07:49:40

There are rumours that the Prime Minister Dominic Cummings is going to call a general Election next Thursday in order to stuff the House of Commons.

Throughout the U.K. people are on the streets protesting at our loss of sovereignty. Just how far is Cummings prepared to go in his mad game plan?

GrannyGravy13 Tue 03-Sept-19 20:39:57

Varian & Pantglas1 I totally agree with both of your posts....round and round and round............

varian Tue 03-Sept-19 19:54:36

I don't have that much faith that wouldn't happen Pantglas I wish I did.

Pantglas1 Tue 03-Sept-19 19:51:36

I wish I had your faith varian that the vested interests would tell the truth and not put their own spin on leave/remain and we’ll be back in the same boat, rowing in ever decreasing circles!

varian Tue 03-Sept-19 19:03:01

You could argue that none of us were properly informed at the time of the fraudulent referendum in 2016,

That is why we should be properly informed about the implications of whatever type of brexit the government is proposing and then given the opportunity to chose between that and Remaining in the EU with all the advantages we presently enjoy.

Pantglas1 Tue 03-Sept-19 09:50:35

Well who knew... the remainers who believed the government flyers were just as trusting as the leavers who followed the bus and Facebook!

westendgirl Tue 03-Sept-19 09:44:38

Of course they are. Hence the mess we're in now.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 03-Sept-19 09:43:42

It would seem so pant

Pantglas1 Tue 03-Sept-19 09:39:54

OMG! I wouldn’t buy a loaf of bread based on what politicians had put on Facebook, buses and government flyers....are people really that gullible?

Whitewavemark2 Tue 03-Sept-19 09:33:12

Cummings admitting that Facebook was used with Cambridge Analyticas help to win the referendum for leave in the last 4 days.

Carole Cadwalladr

Yep. Here’s Dom Cummings admitting Vote Leave’s strategy rested on 1.5 billion ads in last 4 days. This was money that we now know was illegal. First item on parliament’s business must be to demand he gives evidence to parliament. It’s untenable he advises PM while in contempt.

#DominicCummings says Vote Leave targeted 7 million people on Facebook with 1 and half billion ads in the last four days of the Referendum campaign (holding back most of their budget to do so)

varian Sun 01-Sept-19 18:08:57

Boris Johnson chief 'could face ethics probe' over aide's 'Mafia-style' sacking

Tory and Labour MPs are calling for a formal inquiry into Dominic Cummings over his dismissal of 27-year-old aide Sonia Khan

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-chief-could-face-19119741

Barmeyoldbat Sun 01-Sept-19 17:28:46

I say bring on the GE it will be the downfall of the Tories. As for having Labour in, well it certainly can't be any worse than the dictatorship we have.

Grandad1943 Sun 01-Sept-19 17:19:56

growstuff Quote [Nobody's whipping me into any kind of frenzy.] End Quote.

growstuff, what's a frenzy as I feel I have never been in one. ??

growstuff Sun 01-Sept-19 17:15:15

Nobody's whipping me into any kind of frenzy.

GracesGranMK3 Sun 01-Sept-19 16:52:37

Day 6, you must be aware people are protesting from all parties and none. Your posts are beginning to sound a tad irrational.

Firecracker123 Sun 01-Sept-19 16:50:16

Day6 it's Dominic Cummings who's whipping the Remainers (on this forum anyway) into a frenzy lol.

crystaltipps Sun 01-Sept-19 16:42:43

Parliament has been sovereign actually a teeny % of laws are shared with the EU. With which we were party to passing. I expect you believe the EU organises all our domestic legislation. Talk about myths.

crystaltipps Sun 01-Sept-19 16:40:00

Corbyn has not whipped me into a frenzy. I won’t be voting for him but I will go and protest like hundreds of thousands of other non labour supporting protesters.

growstuff Sun 01-Sept-19 16:24:33

Errmm, sorry to tell you this Day6, but Corbyn hasn't been whipping me into a frenzy. Are you OK? You sound a bit rattled.

growstuff Sun 01-Sept-19 16:23:19

Do you have a link to that, Whitewave?

Day6 Sun 01-Sept-19 16:16:16

Throughout the U.K. people are on the streets protesting

....and being whipped into a frenzy by that well known Marxist hypocrite and Eurosceptic, turned remainer, Jeremy Corbyn.

Heaven help us all if he ever leads the country.

varian Sun 01-Sept-19 15:50:50

PM ‘must launch urgent inquiry into Dominic Cummings’s reign of terror’

Ex-civil service chiefs join critics of Boris Johnson’s aide as protests against ‘coup’ spread across UK

www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/31/boris-johnson-must-launch-inquiry-dominic-cummings-reign-of-terror

Whitewavemark2 Sun 01-Sept-19 15:49:22

God knows, nothing surprises me at the moment.

Who ever thought that we would have a PM who has never answered to Parliament, shut down parliament so that he doesn’t have to answer during the biggest crises in peacetime history?

Or that we would hear a member if the cabinet suggesting that the government will ignore the rule of law?

Or that we would have a government with only a majority of 1 because of the support of another political party, intent on pushing through a no deal, for which they have absolutely no mandate.

Anything seems possible in these times

varian Sun 01-Sept-19 15:43:42

The Sun is not always right but, if it is, surely that must be illegal WW?

Whitewavemark2 Sun 01-Sept-19 15:39:46

According to The Sun, Cummings is considering taking the security passes away from any rebel Tories, thus rendering whole swathes of the country disenfranchised.

POGS Sun 01-Sept-19 13:58:55

crystaltipps Sun 01-Sep-19 13:37:54

"Are Unelected bureaucrats ok for leavers as long as they’re not foreign (or remainers obv) ? Rasputin springs to mind when I think of Cummings."
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Why is it a Brexit related question for Leavers.?