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Will Britain ever just piss off and get on with Brexit? -mod warning in OP (21/12)

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    You've changed your mind, so? ;)


    Eh no. Lets recap...



    My point was that the bill being drafted is basically worthless. Your point was that it is law and cannot be changed. Now you are saying "well, yeah it can be changed". It is you who has changed their mind whilst trying to hide behind semantics. You are not fooling anyone here mate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,018 ✭✭✭knipex


    If he teams up with Farage he will have a fairly big majority. Contrary to what your reading in the papers and watching on BBC/Sky news, the British people want to leave

    Farage and the Torys will be fighting over the same votes.

    I strongly suspect that if there was a vote tomorrow based on Brexit you woudl have a hung parliament.. (which goes to show just how unelectable Corbyn actually is)


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This is like watching a trainwreck, but instead of train tracks, it's this thread, and instead of a train, it's a poster's credibility.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,757 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Semantics

    ah here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭woohoo!!!


    Tactically the correct thing to do is to refuse an extension, if a request is forthcoming. Let the exit issue be brought to a close, so that focus moves to the future relationships status. These talks will take a long time to conclude, agree and ratified. They will never get off the ground whilst the manner of leaving is in dispute.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,542 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Eh no. Lets recap...

    My point was that the bill being drafted is basically worthless. Your point was that it is law and cannot be changed.
    I never said that, or anything like it.

    When you have to make stuff up to argue against, I'll take that as a concession that you can't argue against what was actually said.
    You are not fooling anyone here mate.
    Ooh, the irony! It burns! It burns!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Eh no. Lets recap...



    My point was that the bill being drafted is basically worthless. Your point was that it is law and cannot be changed. Now you are saying "well, yeah it can be changed". It is you who has changed their mind whilst trying to hide behind semantics. You are not fooling anyone here mate.

    If it was worthless members of the UK Government wouldn't have gone on record stating they are actively looking for loopholes which will allow them to legally get around it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    If it was worthless members of the UK Government wouldn't have gone on record stating they are actively looking for loopholes which will allow them to legally get around it.


    It is worthless, I have explained how, you are wrong. They are looking for loopholes around it for the current parliament. It is worthless in the next parliament, assuming Boris has a majority. I hope that answers your question.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    We will just ignore the 21 who acted as 'parliamentarians' and not Tory government members too, it seems.

    None of the 21 were government members.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    The ironic thing is that the new law being drafted is actually worth more than the bloody referendum result.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,181 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    woohoo!!! wrote: »
    Tactically the correct thing to do is to refuse an extension, if a request is forthcoming. Let the exit issue be brought to a close, so that focus moves to the future relationships status. These talks will take a long time to conclude, agree and ratified. They will never get off the ground whilst the manner of leaving is in dispute.
    Now that would be interesting, if the EU27 refused an extension


    I wonder then when faced with the harsh binary reality of no deal crashout or revoke article 50, what the parliament would do!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    It is worthless, I have explained how, you are wrong. They are looking for loopholes around it for the current parliament. It is worthless in the next parliament, assuming Boris has a majority. I hope that answers your question.

    Rather unlikely that Boris would have a majority. His polling is worse than May’s before she called her election, and he’s gutted his candidate pool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,707 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    alastair wrote: »
    None of the 21 were government members.

    If the poster is talking about 'majorities' in parliament then they are part of the government party. The fact is that Boris cannot depend on that 'party'. Hence his lame duck Government.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    It is worthless, I have explained how, you are wrong. They are looking for loopholes around it for the current parliament. It is worthless in the next parliament, assuming Boris has a majority. I hope that answers your question.

    If the question was "does kidchameleon understand how the relationship between parliament and legislation works?" It certainly answered that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,935 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    If the question was "does kidchameleon understand how the relationship between parliament and legislation works?" It certainly answered that.

    a stunning example of the dunning-kruger effect.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    If the question was "does kidchameleon understand how the relationship between parliament and legislation works?" It certainly answered that.


    Perhaps I don't. Answer me this, assuming the bill becomes law, assuming a GE is called, assuming Boris remains PM but with a majority, can he remove the bill from law?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,062 ✭✭✭davedanon


    It's also worth mentioning that Boris is a total coward. He's also a crowd pleaser. He wants people to like him more than anything, because he's basically an entertainer. If I was a Tory he'd be the last man I'd want when it came to dying on the Brexit hill. Boris caves on things at the last second. The EU are well aware of this.

    "Assuming Boris wins". "Let's say Boris wins the next election. He will have a huge majority".


    HAHAHAHAHAHA.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 91 ✭✭interactive


    Very simple now for Boris to leave without a deal.
    France is hinting that they would not agree to a extension.
    Boris just has to come out and say "the French dont have the balls to not give us a extension, they have a history of surrender and they will cave into our extension request".
    They would have to reject the extension or be a world laughing stock


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    Perhaps I don't. Answer me this, assuming the bill becomes law, assuming a GE is called, assuming Boris remains PM but with a majority, can he remove the bill from law?

    Only parliament can do that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    Very simple now for Boris to leave without a deal.
    France is hinting that they would not agree to a extension.
    Boris just has to come out and say "the French dont have the balls to not give us a extension, they have a history of surrender and they will cave into our extension request".
    They would have to reject the extension or be a world laughing stock

    Not so easy when parliament has removed no deal exit from the equation.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    alastair wrote: »
    Only parliament can do that.


    Oh jesus christ, another semantic argument. You know what I freaking mean!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,935 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Perhaps I don't. Answer me this, assuming the bill becomes law, assuming a GE is called, assuming Boris remains PM but with a majority, can he remove the bill from law?

    If parliament agree. but boris cannot remove the bill on his own or ignore it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    Oh jesus christ, another semantic argument. You know what I freaking mean!

    Not semantic at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    alastair wrote: »
    Not so easy when parliament has removed no deal exit from the equation.


    AFAIK, they would exit by default on the 31st on WTO terms in those circumstances.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    If parliament agree. but boris cannot remove the bill on his own or ignore it.


    Nobody is claiming he can


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 91 ✭✭interactive


    alastair wrote: »
    Not so easy when parliament has removed no deal exit from the equation.

    "We want a deal, but the pesky French wont give us one, they refuse to give us a extension, so we are not leaving without a deal, we are being kicked out!"

    Boris would instantly rocket up the polls in Britain, he would win a election with a huge majority


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    AFAIK, they would exit by default on the 31st on WTO terms in those circumstances.

    They have enacted a law to ensure that doesn’t happen. The likelihood is that article 50 would be revoked to ensure sufficient time for a renegotiated exit deal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,935 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Nobody is claiming he can

    apart from when you did
    You are wrong. In the UK there is what is called "parliamentary sovereignty". Meaning that any government formed after a general election can disregard laws made by the previous parliament. A new government would not be "bound" by the previous parliament. Look it up, I am right and you are wrong.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    Before mods thread-ban me for "soap boxing", which of course, everyone else is doing except me, I'm going to leave. I don't want to be thread banned on the 31st. Bye friends, I'm preparing a meme sh1storm for you all :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    apart from when you did


    Where did I say "Boris" could disregard a law? I stated it was the government who would do so, look at the post you quoted and read it properly.


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