Comments on: Just how close are we to Brexit? https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/just-how-close-are-we-to-brexit/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: ForeignRedTory https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/just-how-close-are-we-to-brexit/comment-page-2/#comment-700219 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:49:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92556#comment-700219 In reply to wj.

Britain entered into a compact for an ever closer Union through a democratic vote. If you disrespect that, you are no democrat. No change to that except through a referendum of ALL Europeans – full stop.

If that makes you cry, you need to follow Mayor Aboutaleb’s advice, which is to say, bugger off to another location.

‘There – all said without insulting people. It’s easy if you try.’
Why try? Europhobes are a contemptible stain, and deserve zero toleration.

]]>
By: AlanGiles https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/just-how-close-are-we-to-brexit/comment-page-2/#comment-700215 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 20:19:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92556#comment-700215 In reply to Cole.

It’s an old canard that it is only right wingers who want out of the EU. Tony Benn was hardly a right winger, Austin Mitchell isn’t, and it seems that it isn’t just Tories who support UKIP

]]>
By: Guest https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/just-how-close-are-we-to-brexit/comment-page-2/#comment-700212 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:34:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92556#comment-700212 In reply to Mike Stallard.

So, you want to be WORSE off that the Swiss, to give up – for the first time – a large chunk of democracy, to pay the EU for access to *some* of the markets, still losing access to others, etc.

Norway spends a lot of time and energy lobbying EU countries about things it wants passed.

But hey, the Swiss will be better off, and you can’t have us be even in that situation!.

]]>
By: Guest https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/just-how-close-are-we-to-brexit/comment-page-2/#comment-700211 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:32:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92556#comment-700211 In reply to wj.

You’re confusing your ideology with the EU’s.

]]>
By: Guest https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/just-how-close-are-we-to-brexit/comment-page-2/#comment-700210 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:31:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92556#comment-700210 In reply to wj.

Except you are insulting people – you’re trying to argue for your anti-democratic views, as you indicate that people who are not anti-European don’t have their own minds.

As you note you don’t pay tax, and say that only your coup can “save” Britain – i.e. smash lives and jobs.

]]>
By: Leon Wolfeson https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/just-how-close-are-we-to-brexit/comment-page-2/#comment-700206 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:56:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92556#comment-700206 In reply to ForeignRedTory.

Ah yes, ban, block, censor. Stop thought, etc.

Starting a trade war with the rest of the world, too, for that matter.

]]>
By: Leon Wolfeson https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/just-how-close-are-we-to-brexit/comment-page-2/#comment-700205 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:56:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92556#comment-700205 In reply to Mike Stallard.

So basically, you’re still whining you lost, as you try and pretend to “agree” with me.

You didn’t pay attention, quite different from your contention.

]]>
By: Cole https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/just-how-close-are-we-to-brexit/comment-page-2/#comment-700203 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:20:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92556#comment-700203 In reply to AlanGiles.

Really? Just vecause a bunch of noisy right wingers and newpaper magnates – often foreign – want it.

]]>
By: Cole https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/just-how-close-are-we-to-brexit/comment-page-2/#comment-700202 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:18:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92556#comment-700202 In reply to wj.

What a stupid, irrelevant comment. Still, that’s about the level kippers debate at.

]]>
By: wj https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/just-how-close-are-we-to-brexit/comment-page-2/#comment-700200 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:14:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92556#comment-700200 In reply to ForeignRedTory.

1. No – democracy has lost because you wish to close down opposing views.

2. Was Tony Benn or Bob Crowe a follower of Fuhrer Far(r)age – they wanted out of the EU. I don’t need to follow anybody – I have my own mind. Do you?

3. “Parliamentarians” don’t represent me – I don’t want any representation in the EU. How many lives and jobs are you prepared to sacrifice for your little empire. Do you want some of my “Confederate Money” – you may need some if the Germans pull the plug on the
euro.

There – all said without insulting people. It’s easy if you try.

]]>