15-11-2016, 23:35
(15-11-2016, 17:01)talkSAFT Wrote: I don't quite get why Brexit went to a Referendum anyway.
There's 650 MPs who the Public vote for to make these decisions for us (commoners). Every one of them have access to accurate statistics spelt out for them by the Treasury etc. Instead, though, we get twats like Boris Johnson, George Osborne giving the commoners false information, and nothing is done to stop them. There was nothing to stop Johnson from telling us we'd all be millionaires if we came out, or that we'd send all the nasty Poles back home. Nobody corrects them when they talk bollocks, so how are the Public supposed to know what's best?
It's pretty irrelevant in my book. Parliament (the 650 ish) decided to throw the vote to the people, as they did when we first joined what was essentially a free trade agreement with our European neighbours back in the early 70's and also a couple of years later in the mid 70's when Teddy got kicked out on the back of it. Just because they didn't get the result they wanted doesn't mean they can say "ah well, we didn't really mean it and we've changed our minds because we didn't expect this and it's all for your (sic) own good".
This shit about not going through with it, started by the Lib-Dems, is appalling It actually tells people that their vote is not worth a wank
and the same wankers will be moaning about low turn outs at future elections as if our opinions and votes actually mean anything
and no, Boris did not sway me in any way I can see for myself what the EU brings to me
and complicated