October 31St - A Time For Celebration.

[diddlydo]

Funny how the Brexiteers have gone very quiet tonight. How long will it be until they admit that Boris is a lying, incompetent, arrogant and dangerous fool and give him the election result he deserves (I read that the Tories are already seeking out a safe seat for him rather than standing again in his current constituency.....says it all really)

[KARL]

Oh, and as for democracy, historically there have been elections which had calamitous results worldwide. The electorate has and continues to occasionally get it wrong and the consequences of the following semi-religious bullying frenzy in the name of the result have been foreseen. In the past it has taken years and even decades for the errors to be acknowledged (by nearly everyone).

[gulliver1]

Shall we make Nov 1st a public holiday like they do in Spain,and France, we could call ours .
" The day of the Ditch "

[drmorgans]

So will the Tories root out pro-EU / soft-Brexit candidates? Will the Lib Dems, Green and SNP continue to demand a second / confirmatory referendum? Will Labour ... what is their "policy"?

[diddlydo]

Great idea Gulliver - we could call it D-Day for short.

[gulliver1]

Better still public holiday on 31st OCT in honour of Thatcher,and 1st Nov Johnsons Day
The day of the Witch and the Day of the Ditch.
Witch and the Ditch weekend.

[naomi24]

Perhaps it’s time for another referendum, this time posing the question:

Do you want to live in a democracy? Yes or No.

[THECORBYLOON]

If the majority did not want a democracy and the result were ignored, what could they complain about?

[diddlydo]

Naomi - a true democracy is impossible unless ALL the people vote i.e. voting is made compulsory. I'd like to remind you that the turnout for the referendum was only 72% so to claim that the Brexiteers "won" is a flawed argument.

[theshedman]

D-Day is a very important day in history diddlydo. We may not have had the democracy we have now without it. So for you to try and make a brexit type joke out it is in quite bad taste.

[THECORBYLOON]

If voting were made compulsory, there would be nothing to stop folk spoiling or leaving the ballot paper blank.

[naomi24]

Diddlydo, You’d like to believe it – but if that were true no vote would ever be valid and we’d see this disingenuous, hypocritical charade after every election – none of which entice 100% of the electorate. Do try to keep it real – if only a little.

[naomi24]

theshedman at 12:09, I agree entirely. No honour, no shame.

[THELOONYCORBYN]

"I'd like to remind you that the turnout for the referendum was only 72% so to claim that the Brexiteers "won" is a flawed argument."

a votes result is based on those that actually bothered to go and voted...ergo Brexiteers did win and by a majority of over 1million...so what part of that do you and the other sour and salty mugs like you fail to comprehend ?...all of it is the answer

[drmorgans]

I did not vote for my MP. My expectation is that he will exercise his judgement for the good of the constituency and country. I would not expect him to only consider the wishes of the people who voted for him.

[THELOONYCORBYN]

what time do tweedledde and tweedledum get dragged back to the village ?...

[ichkeria]

Following Corby’s point:
In a referendum “Do you want to live in a democracy” (What The Funicular anyway) the public votes “no”: so does that mean the result must be ignored and paradoxically we carry on living in a democracy?
It’s only a paradox if you subscribe to the dubious notion that democracy exists solely in abiding by the results of referendums.

[mushroom25]

//It’s only a paradox if you subscribe to the dubious notion that democracy exists solely in abiding by the results of referendums. //

you can always call more of them until the electorate is no longer too stupid to get the result wrong, eh?

[diddlydo]

OK Shedman - let's call it DDDay i.e. Die in a Ditch Day

[gulliver1]

I just feel sorry for those on answerbank who have had to cancel their Exit Brexit Party , and have a Trick or Cheat Party instead , just to support Boris.

[diddlydo]

Nice one Gulliver! BTW, the latest is that there may not be a GE after all, depending on whether an amendment is accepted. You couldn't make it up could you?