O/T Politics: Congratulations

What a pitiful post by the OB! What I cannot understand, and I am a bit stupid I admit, is that there was a democratic binary vote...."once in a generation" I was told by the PM!!!!!!

it was an advisory referendum, it was written in the referendum act. anyone who read the act would have known that they were voting in a referendum that was not legally binding.

i get the feeling most people didnt read the act before they voted

So you'll accept written documents as binding but not speech?

Wow extrapolate that idea to it's logical conclusion, it'll be pointless talking or taking oral witness testimony in court

Welcome back Josh

1) when it comes to acts of parliament yes, i do think that written bills that have been ratified in both chambers mean slightly more than someone merely uttering it

2) josh?

So on that basis you are ok with politicians uttering lies to us on television then passing a different law in the house?

Nothing new what you getting in a labourite twist for? Or are you going to say labour wouldn't dream of doing such a thing?

Hello allen, i'm just making the case for all politicians being held accountable for what they pledge to do on television.

So congratulations if you wanted Boris Johnson as PM.

Please don’t celebrate too much, though, as you have work to do. You see us remoaners have spent three and a half years now telling you Brexit was wrong but we’ve finally and completely lost. There’s pretty much nothing we can do now to stop it.

So, it’s over to you leavers. You need to get yourselves into gear to make it work. We need to see some of these benefits you’ve been able to see yet unable to properly articulate since 2016.

I hope you don’t mind but I’ve taken the liberty of writing a to-do list for you.

1. Get Brexit done please. When we say done we mean as promised, so we’ll be looking for trade deals with the EU, Japan, Australia, Canada, etc. In fact there arevabout 40 deals covering 70 countries that need to be done, please. Also with the US that doesn’t involve the NHS or chlorine. We want what you promised us. That was that we’d be no worse off than when we were an EU member. You need to crack on as this was promised by the end of January. You have seven weeks.

2. The NHS. We want the cash that was promised please. £350 million per week is about 72000 nurses so please get recruiting. This is important.

3. Scotland. OK, so these guys were promised they would remain in the EU if they remained in the UK. They’re pretty pissed. In fact they’ve voted almost exclusively for the SNP so they might want to leave. Equally you said the UK wouldn’t split so you’ll need to both grant Scotland its independence and keep it as part of the United Kingdom. Good luck squaring this circle. N.B. This is urgent.

4. Northern Ireland. Oooookay then. You’ve really buggered this one up. There’s a chance they could look to reunify with the republic now because they didn’t want to brexit. Regardless you’ve caused instability there where we and they can least afford it. N.B. This is also urgent.

5. The economy. Johnson keeps talking about unleashing the potential of the country. We need to see this soon if possible. We don’t want to see the downturn that “project fear” predicted. We don’t want to be poorer. We don’t want to lose out.

6. You’ll also need to “bring the country back together”. This might be tricky as a lot of people seem to be really really angry with each other.

That’s as far as I’ve got. Should keep you busy. So go and get all British about things. Roll up your sleeves, pull your socks up, dig deep and deliver what you promised.

And remember, if you fail to deliver any of this it’s on you, Brexit and Tory voters. You wanted this so badly and now you have it. We honestly hope we’re wrong and that you can make a success of this but if you can’t then we will forever tell you that we told you so.

You’re nothing but a crybaby nuisance ffs