If there is an election.....

Has anyone looked to see how May voted tonight?

Oh, don't bother, I've looked. She voted with the government, against the motion.

venall Our entry into the Common Market was ratified by a referendum won by a majority of 34%. I think you'll agree that that percentage was larger than that of the 2016 referendum. Yet - not everyone accepted that result and some have been trying to overturn it ever since. So, why shouldn't Remainers seek a second referendum to replace the fraudulent first referendum?

Day6 Many people who voted in the referendum in 2016 had no idea what to do once they entered the polling booth. So, yes they do need educating. I have friends who have manned polling stations for more than 30 years and they were amazed at the behaviour of some voters. They were rude and aggressive and demanded proof that their ballot papers wouldn't be changed or destroyed.

I didn't see it myself but my partner says someone was talking on tv on Sunday morning about someone who proudly announced that they had voted leave and then asked what was the EU. I'll ask him what the programme was tomorrow.

There is a lot of ignorance about. A lot of people thought “Leave” meant all immigrants would have to leave.

Partly about immigrants which was nonsense, now it is mostly about being told what to do by foreigners. That is the line that most of my Brexit friends take ( they are still friends).

The Tories will be filling the vacant seats with nationalistic, populist candidates.

Mrs May supported Boris in the vote

Jane10 is not a Scot

Yesterday I met someone who had voted to leave because Italian border staff had lost his luggage. He never thought that leave would be the result!!

Well one good thing has come out of all this chaos...the British Public have thrown off their apathy re politics. Everyone now has an opinion, informed or not, and is not afraid to voice it!

One thing we did learn yesterday is that Johnson is useless at the dispatch box and cannot be remotely trusted, and Mogg is the epitome of arrogance, unpleasant sarcasm, entitlement and disrespect in his words and body language.

Exactly WW2 a stuttering, blustering, shambolic mess.

Exactly - neither did themselves any favours.

Can you imagine the outcry and uproar from the Leavers if JC and Ian Blackford had behaved the way those 2 did?

Appalling disrespect

twitter.com/annaturley/status/1168980398166237185?s=09

re a general election - what's the point?
What difference would it make to the current deadlock?
Just something different to try?

crystaltips, a friend of mine was told he would be out of a job ( he is an ESOL teacher) because " they are all going"

Indeed some of "them" are going and some "different ones" will be arriving.

Jane10 is not a Scot

Really?

And before someone says oil is running out....thats lies too

It may not be paddyann but unfortunately we may not need it.

Day6 Many people who voted in the referendum in 2016 had no idea what to do once they entered the polling booth. So, yes they do need educating. I have friends who have manned polling stations for more than 30 years and they were amazed at the behaviour of some voters. They were rude and aggressive and demanded proof that their ballot papers wouldn't be changed or destroyed.

Dinahmo so many rude and aggressive people could have voted remain with no clear idea what they were voting for.
After all, none of us knows what the future holds in or out of the EU.

I am told that after the referendum the most popular search on Google was 'What is Brexit? the story however sounds apocraphil.

I do know I heard vox pop interviews that included someone voting leave because his wife could no longer retire at 60.

I'm beginning to think that rather than a GE there should be a prolongued period of public education on the subject - compulsory for all voters - followed by a second referendum.
Problem would be, how to avoid bias. Mainly on the facts about the EU and how it operates, how it affects us etc.
The result would only be advisory of course.
Still can't see the point of a GE.

I heard an elderly lady on the radio, say she was voting Leave because she hated Europe as her dad had been killed in Europe in WW1!

Citizens Assemblies, Fennel.