Nigel Come Back We Need You......

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37861487
UKIP's work is mostly done, we just need you so stop these treacherous popinjays from welching on the Referendum vote.

[naomi24]

anneasquith, people? Vote? You seem confused.

[ToraToraTora]

anne what are you talking about? Parliament has not voted on this, what is "last time"? It is well known that more MPs are remainers than leavers so they will need whipping and many will have to vote against their own personal view, and I for one do not trust them. Then there is that unelected shower, the Lords who'll no doubt cause agro. Yes I am apoplectic over this.

[naomi24]

TTT, I think she's talking about a second referendum. That's the only thing I can think of where the 'people' voted once before.

[ToraToraTora]

it ain't a neverendum, this ain't Scotland.

[anneasquith]

Hands up (she) was of on a tangent :-)

[naomi24]

:o)

[fiction-factory]

Nigel must have known the vote was only advisory at the time he was campaigning. I wonder whether he wanted to play it don or why he didn't kick up a fuss then

[Togo]

Watch Nigel in the next few weeks. He will rally the British for the storming of the ramparts of greed and self interest for one more time. He will conduct a siege and undermining of the weak willed hand wringers by nature, with rhetoric and implied threat of civil disorder that will leave the remainiacs in no doubt of the likely outcome if a scandalous cheating of the British people is wickedly condoned.

[Togo]

As Alf Ramsey said "you have won it once, now get out there and bloody well win it again".

[fiction-factory]

It would not be unreasonable for MPs to follow the wishes of their respective constituencies . I wonder what result that would lead to- was any analysis ever done by seat? I suspect Leave would still win but wonder how close it would be in case some MPs choose to go their own way.

[fiction-factory]

Yes, it was a flawed referendum question really. 'Out' can take many forms. One possible outcome is we leave the EU but still allow free trade, participate in the single market, follow many of the existing rules, keep EU laws and still pay something in. It would be 'out' but I doubt many Brexiters would be happy.

[naomi24]

Thinking about this ‘legal nicety’, if that law is actually in force why was it necessary for the issue to be brought before the courts at all? Didn’t anyone in parliament know about it? That sounds a bit fishy to me.

[naomi24]

fiction-factory, the options put before the electorate were very simple. 'Leave' or 'Remain'. That is what the electorate voted on - and they voted 'Leave'. Options weren't an option.

[DTCwordfan]

"Parliament over Royal Prerogative" smacks of 1629....oh so interesting constitutionally.

My view - an early gen election coming and Corpsboots will be binned, well and truly, the question being will the LibDems arise from their ashes?

[fiction-factory]

>fiction-factory, the options put before the electorate were very simple. 'Leave' or 'Remain'. That is what the electorate voted on - and they voted 'Leave'. Options weren't an option.

Yes. That's why I said the question was flawed.

[naomi24]

divebuddy, so the rule isn't set in stone as I've been led to believe.

fiction-factory, the question wasn't flawed. The majority of the electorate want to leave the EU - completely. That's what they voted to do. No options. Out.

[ichkeria]

The question wasn't flawed.
The idea of a referendum was flawed.
If you have a referendum it really has to be two options, or at most three.
But the whole thing was too complex to be boiled down to a simple "Leave" or "Remain".
A) Remain as we are
B) Remain but with Cameron's "deal"
c) Leave with a Hard Brexit
D) Leave with a Soft Brexit
etc
Can you just imagine it? It would have been like one of Ed's polls :-)

[fiction-factory]

Yes OUT can take many forms. It could even be on almost the same terms as IN as a face saving exercise for the EU and UK government. I assumed you and strong brexiters wouldn't be happy but maybe you would.