New Posts For Thread: No Deal Debate -VD - BBC2 nowhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31494493/no-deal-debate--vd---bbc2-now.........and given Leave / remain was a cross-party issue, who exactly was mandated to keep this so-called 'promise'?It was an invitation to debate and focussed everyone's attention on how much we pay to the EU.As such it worked brilliantly and is the gihttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31494493/no-deal-debate--vd---bbc2-now?post_id=556403177#556403177.....and given Leave / remain was a cross-party issue, who exactly was mandated to keep this so-called 'promise'?It was an invitation to debate and focussed everyone's attention on how much we pay to the EU.As such it worked brilliantly and is the giMon, 14 Jan 2019 14:35:56 -0600they did not promise to spend 350 on the nhs - it just said 350 to the euunderneath the nhs was mentioned but not putting the 350 into the nhshope this helpshttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31494493/no-deal-debate--vd---bbc2-now?post_id=556401767#556401767they did not promise to spend 350 on the nhs - it just said 350 to the euunderneath the nhs was mentioned but not putting the 350 into the nhshope this helpsMon, 14 Jan 2019 12:41:03 -0600Hanx... thanks for posting. I can't disagree with any of that.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31494493/no-deal-debate--vd---bbc2-now?post_id=556396229#556396229Hanx... thanks for posting. I can't disagree with any of that.Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:19:00 -0600The Remain narrative is truly awful: ‘relax, we just need to wait because Leavers are all OAPs who are slowly dying off.’ This, I think, is about as nasty and divisive as any of the anti-immigration scare stories of the Leave campaign. It’s alshttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31494493/no-deal-debate--vd---bbc2-now?post_id=556393749#556393749The Remain narrative is truly awful: ‘relax, we just need to wait because Leavers are all OAPs who are slowly dying off.’ This, I think, is about as nasty and divisive as any of the anti-immigration scare stories of the Leave campaign. It’s alsSun, 13 Jan 2019 13:29:36 -0600Hanx,I would go so far as to suggest that all EU members had a compulsory vote every 25 years (one a generation) to be all in/ all out.Then the club that is the EU might have some constructive self assessment.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31494493/no-deal-debate--vd---bbc2-now?post_id=556391443#556391443Hanx,I would go so far as to suggest that all EU members had a compulsory vote every 25 years (one a generation) to be all in/ all out.Then the club that is the EU might have some constructive self assessment.Sun, 13 Jan 2019 09:38:53 -0600One man's facts are another man's spin.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31494493/no-deal-debate--vd---bbc2-now?post_id=556391441#556391441One man's facts are another man's spin.Sun, 13 Jan 2019 09:38:52 -0600Johnizere, no I'm well aware that not everybody who has died would have voted to leave and that not everybody who was denied the vote (even though they would be the most impacted) would vote to remain, but the point is that we do not know whether thehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31494493/no-deal-debate--vd---bbc2-now?post_id=556391351#556391351Johnizere, no I'm well aware that not everybody who has died would have voted to leave and that not everybody who was denied the vote (even though they would be the most impacted) would vote to remain, but the point is that we do not know whether theSun, 13 Jan 2019 09:32:19 -0600Democracy is not just a point in time, it is ongoing. Nearly 3 years on and many many things have changed. That time moves forward is an irrelevant existential point. Tomorrow things will be different and we will know more than we do today. In a yearhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31494493/no-deal-debate--vd---bbc2-now?post_id=556371283#556371283Democracy is not just a point in time, it is ongoing. Nearly 3 years on and many many things have changed. That time moves forward is an irrelevant existential point. Tomorrow things will be different and we will know more than we do today. In a yearThu, 10 Jan 2019 16:12:05 -0600I agree that democracy is ongoing.It tokk 40-plus years for a second referendum on our memebership of the EU (well, it was The Common Market back in the day before, er it got more autocratic and less democratic) before 17.4 million people were allowehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31494493/no-deal-debate--vd---bbc2-now?post_id=556369541#556369541I agree that democracy is ongoing.It tokk 40-plus years for a second referendum on our memebership of the EU (well, it was The Common Market back in the day before, er it got more autocratic and less democratic) before 17.4 million people were alloweThu, 10 Jan 2019 12:26:29 -0600It is really strange. You don't get this fuss over other votes/elections, so why the fuss over this one. Particularly as the result appears to be actively interfered with. Imagine a general election result like this and wrecking the result. ho hohttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31494493/no-deal-debate--vd---bbc2-now?post_id=556369339#556369339It is really strange. You don't get this fuss over other votes/elections, so why the fuss over this one. Particularly as the result appears to be actively interfered with. Imagine a general election result like this and wrecking the result. ho hoThu, 10 Jan 2019 11:56:19 -0600