HQ Citizens Assembly (Brexit)

Yes please - to the NZ white!!
(just the one bottle????? - we may need more)
I ventured out today and forgot about it all (well nearly) but back under the duvet again now.

We can do nothing.

Jalima profuse apologies. But worry not, I have a spare king size. I also have a good supply (recently replenished) of a rather good NZ white and a portable drinks fridge.

But that's just the practical stuff. What we can actually do about this political mess is beyond me now.

And if we didn't feel the citizens assembly was representative enough we could have a referendum to see if we needed another citizens assembly and so on ad infinitum.
(Note I know all this brexit stuff is a nightmare!)

I am still under Maws duvet hiding away.
It was my duvet - or are there two
It could get a bit crowded
bring the Izabella, preferably Australian or NZ.

I am still under Maws duvet hiding away.

HQ your thoughts please or are all you all out christmas shopping?
scooping up all the Quality street

I don't feel qualified to join a serious argument as even brilliant legal brains I know have difficulty understanding what's going on.

Given that there are vast numbers of world-wide problems over which we have no control or direct influence, the conclusion would be that there is no point in discussing any of them then!
I was simply pointing out that on MN there was a better level of argument and that there are some issues that deserve being taken seriously.
Wouldn't life be easier if serious issues could all be treated as a bit of fun?

mcen, I’ve just read a few comments on MN and they seem to think , as I think we do,that it’s a bit late. Maybe a better discussion but I think we on GN can see that it’s a waste of time debating it so are just having a bit a fun.
Is that a really bad thing?

I think we'd have to work hard to dispel the myth that everyone over 50 is a right-wing brexit voter!
And however light-hearted comments may be about tea and cakes, they don't do much to get rid of the stereotype!

I propose a Granny Assembly. We'd get it sorted in time for tea.... and lay on a delicious home made spread.

Lots of sensible well-expressed views made on MN. Many different opinions but there seems to be a better level of debate than on GN.
On the proposed Assembly, I 'd assume it would be an advisory body and not a substitute for parliamentary debate and decisions.

A citizens assembly? How long would that take to set up?

but it would all be over before I had knitted the back of it, I'm very slow.

Are yellow gilets compulsory?
(I could knit one as I sit at the guillotine)

I take it you mean this thread

Maybe a few heads (politicians) should roll !

Guillotine and knitters?

Cherry...this sounds a bit like something set up during the French Revolution! ?