The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

[DungBeetle]

Juncker comments seem fair enough.

[TightEnd]

[TightEnd]

Richard Branson wants a second Brexit referendum - this time 'based on real facts'

https://www.indy100.com/article/richard-branson-second-brexit-referendum-based-on-real-facts-7645911

[TightEnd]

Private eye

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[nirvana]

Richard Branson wants a second Brexit referendum - this time 'based on real facts'

https://www.indy100.com/article/richard-branson-second-brexit-referendum-based-on-real-facts-7645911

Helluva piece that. I love the idea of real facts as opposed to the other types of facts

[DaveShoelace]

Douglas Carswell leaves UKIP to be an independent, so UKIP have nobody in Parliament.

Remarkable that given they had 10% of the popular vote in 2015 (or someink like that) and played a huge role in making Brexit happen, they have nowt to show for it in Westminster.

[TightEnd]

Lord Heseltine says Brexit is like letting the Nazis finally win the Second World War http://bit.ly/2mXl7m1

(er, over-reaction?)

[TightEnd]

Brexit talks will fail without compromise: José Manuel Barroso

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/25/brexit-talks-will-fail-without-compromise-jose-manuel-barroso?CMP=twt_gu

[TightEnd]

Douglas Carswell’s resignation confirms the end of Ukip – and no, it didn’t ‘win’ the Brexit vote

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/douglas-carwell-s-resignation-confirms-the-end-of-ukip-and-no-it-didn-t-win-a7649846.html

[TightEnd]

Big moment in Labour leadership battle as Len McCluskey gives Corbyn until 2018 local elections to turn things around. Very significant.

 LAB's performance in the May 2018 local could be decisive.

[Doobs]

Great useless trivia number 4563

The Finance Bill 2017 has more words than all 3 parts of the Lord of the Rings.

I had the misfortune of needing to read, and understand, a fair chunk of it last week.

Thank feck I didn't have to read Lord of the Rings instead.

FWIW George Osborne's mission was to simplify taxes.

[JohnCharver]

Lord Heseltine says Brexit is like letting the Nazis finally win the Second World War http://bit.ly/2mXl7m1

(er, over-reaction?)

Far more feasible to call being in the EU this than leaving it.

Enjoyed the comment "Imagine if Ken Livingstone has said this"

[TightEnd]

Historians on the question: is this the end of Labour?

(a good read)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/we-asked-a-lot-of-british-political-historians-the-same-question-is-this-the-end-of-the-labour-party-a7649446.html

[SuuPRlim]

good god what a mess lol.

Am i reading correctly, when it says "Britain must satisfy it's £50bn responsibility to the EU" does it mean, they want £50bn from us?

It would be interesting to ask everyone of the people who voted leave to see if they still stood by there vote after all this?

£50bn cash, no £350m a week saving as promised, prices of everything goes up, currency falls into the ground, lots of industries facing a decent crisis and you had to sit through a smug Nigel Farage speech...

[TightEnd]

this is an amazingly harsh editorial, 9 months after the vote still railing hard...

the first line sort of sets the tone

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'The hard Tory Brexit in prospect represents an epic act of self-harm'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/26/observer-editorial-triggering-of-article-50-jeopardises-60-years-of-unparalleled-peace?CMP=share_btn_tw