UK Politics Thread (Part 3)

Of course not, but the key factor here is that the change we’re talking about has been a substantial one, with the potential to be highly detrimental to those living in Scotland, not something more run of the mill.

As John Maynard Keynes said;

“When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?”

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The key fact is that it was put in a manifesto and the party elected on the basis of that.

In the UK, the constitutional convention is that anything that is a major change to how the country operates should be included in the party’s manifesto.

There will be cases of national emergency such as war, pandemic and so on that require extraordinary measures but these are meant to carry broad consensus.

The problem is that the UK operates on gentlemen’s agreements rather than a codified constitution.

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When Scotland is free?

mel gibson braveheart GIF

Is it just her, or is the whole country trying to graduate to Bond villain status?

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As in they will explain their fiendish plans at length and then cock them up?

I’m sure she’ll fail miserably because she’ll try a convoluted way of cutting a refugee in half with the world’s worst precision laser.

Yup.
Show it on STV the night before the referendum.
In fact, show it at tea time, just as the kids get home from schoo to let them see what they’re voting for.
It’ll help promote radical minsets before deciding the long term future of a nation.

I would suggest it’s more like buying a lottery ticket and once you bought it they take some numbers out,one of which you have.

As for the brexit vote,that was completely geared towards england ,irrespective of what the people in the other 3 countries wanted.

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Reminder that majority in NI and Scotland voted against leaving, so pain foisted on us by English and Welsh voters who were lied to

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Also, I remember reading that Wales overall voted for Brexit only because of the English retirees living there.

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Most Welsh people voted to remain. What swung the vote was English people living in Wales voting to leave.

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oops … only just saw this.

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But we are still better together…

Apparently the train manager wasn’t even aware of the cancellation. How on earth does a train operating company so incompetent get a 9-year extension? Does Boehly now run the Department for Transport or something?

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Braverman saying that multiculturalism has failed.

Just fuck off, you odious bint.

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She’s living proof that it has failed. It was supposed to enrich society by introducing new ideas and perspectives, but instead it has brought poisonous hate monsters into the heart of government.

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Isn’t that more to do with the state of the Tory Party? It’s the natural home of hate mongers, regardless of race.

There are plenty of conservative minded folk who find that kind of behaviour abhorrent.

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generally avoid this thread as I work in politics…

But seeing as we’re discussing all the better together thing: I say we throw the towel in and have a socialist republic of Celtic nations and sound northern towns (Liverpool obviously more an Irish/Welsh outpost than English anyway :wink: ).

With all due respect to my southern family and friends, this country is irreparably damaged in my opinion. The rainy fascist island trope becomes more of a truism by the day.

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https://twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1707495302830186983

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Please don’t deport Suella. She’s UK’s mess.

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FIFY

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