For the Brits: When will BREXIT referendum happen ?

[flabbybody]

I'm happy to admit that much of my insight into BREXIT and all things British is thanks to posts by Stavros.
Of course, as you state, most HA eyeballs are here for the subject of tranny cock, which is why the site was constructed with a separate politics & religion section.

And who says the two subjects are mutually exclusive?

[buttslinger]

I'll let you guys in on a little secret: I'm not here to win friends and influence people. I'm here for laughs.
Brexit proved I got my racist bone from my English DNA.
You had to read between the lines, but it might as well have been the vote whether or not to make England white again.
White as Kate Middleton's butt.
The truth comes in flavors.
And nobody here uses their own names.
You should all be ashamed of your selves!!!!!
Beneath all the politeness people are animals.
Trained Animals.
Hail to the Redskins!!!
HA HA HA HA!

[hippifried]

You had to read between the lines, but it might as well have been the vote whether or not to make England white again.

Thank you.
I was trying to be polite in my other post. Guess that's just helping the denial. Maybe not really just white either. God save the defender of the faith, language, superior blood lines, culture, and currency against all those other people.

[hippifried]

One more observation:
Just seems like one of the biggest problems the Brits have with the EU is that they're not in control of the EU.

[buttslinger]

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[buttslinger]

Happy Independence Day!!!

[Stavros]

One more observation:
Just seems like one of the biggest problems the Brits have with the EU is that they're not in control of the EU.

Hippifried this is close to the mark. The UK was not involved in the creation of the EU and has thus never been able to feel it had any 'ownership' over the project even though in the 40 years since we joined the UK has become one of the 'Big Three' along with France and Germany, and has had a major role in the creation of EU law and its regulatory framework, making the claim that 'our laws are made in Brussels' hollow to the extent that Hungarians for example could complain that EU law is in fact made in London.

The absence of the UK from the emerging EU fit in with possibly the greatest curse of the post-1945 world, namely the UK's belief in its 'Special Relationship' with the USA and the fact that with the exception of Edward Heath, the Prime Minister who took us into Europe, every Prime Minister from Attlee to Blair believed the Atlantic Relationship was the most important of the UK's alliances, through the Cold War and in particular in the case of 9/11 and regime change in Iraq. Tony Blair in 1997 when he became Prime Minister claimed he would put the UK 'at the heart of Europe' yet by 2001 was more concerned to partner the US, incredibly because he thought he would be able to contain the worst excesses of the US in Iraq, where, once Saddam had been overthrown, the British part of the 'Coalition Provisional Authority' was barely a shadow to supremo Bremer and the UK was rarely consulted on major decisions.
The Chilcot Report into Iraq will be published on Wednesday July 6th.

For those interested, there was once a proposal, prior to the creation of the Common Market in 1957, that France and the UK merge. The proposal was made by the French Prime Minister in 1956, Guy Mollet, who not only proposed the merger but, in spite of being a socialist, was prepared to accept Elizabeth as 'la Reine' of the new partnership which some wags have said might have been called Frangleterre....
You can read about it here-
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...k-6229169.html

[peejaye]

Just over a week after the result and we hear interest rates may be cut EVEN further to help protect the economy and every'ones friend "George Osborne" rumoured to be cutting some sort of business taxes to encourage overseas investors to the UK!
Thank the Lord we never listened to you lot and hung ourselves!

[Stavros]

Just over a week after the result and we hear interest rates may be cut EVEN further to help protect the economy and every'ones friend "George Osborne" rumoured to be cutting some sort of business taxes to encourage overseas investors to the UK!
Thank the Lord we never listened to you lot and hung ourselves!

Peejaye it is too early to say where the economy is heading. I thought interest rates would rise but I was wrong, but I still think at some point in the future rates and taxes must rise to raise revenue for the government even though the Chancellor has said he will not meet his target of achieving a budget surplus by 2020 and that comes on top of his statement in March that he will not be able to cut debt as a share of GDP this year. On top of that today trading was suspended in three major commercial property funds handled by Standard Life, Aviva and M&G, and some of the Russell group universities have said that universities in the EU are declining to seek UK involvement in new pan-EU research projects.

The legal situation is no clearer today. Oliver Letwin, who was appointed by David Cameron after the Leave vote to head the 'Brexit Unit' has said both that the Prime Minister can use the Royal Prerogative to invoke Article 50 without a vote in the Commons, but that the Commons would indeed vote-
Letwin claimed that although government lawyers had said the triggering of article 50 was a matter for the royal prerogative and not parliament, MPs would have a role in the process of Brexit since it would require the repeal of the European Communities Act 1972.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...nt-lawyers-say

This still makes it possible for the Commons to reject the government's decision to invoke Article 50 just as the Commons could reject any negotiated deal if it doesn't think it is good enough. There is also an elegant argument by a professor (emeritus) of public international law -Philip Allot- that the Referendum on the EU does not give the UK government the right or authority to exit the EU, and amongst others he makes the cogent point that-
...the original motivation for the holding of a referendum seems not to have been the public interest, but the particular interest of a political party.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...unlawful-eu-uk

So far this week began with the resignation of Nigel Farage, and may end with Theresa May being named as the next Prime Minister. But as Harold Wilson once said, A week is a long time in politics...

[hippifried]

Okay everyone. Enter the hand basket in an orderly fashion. Hell's thataway.