What Is It About Democracy That These Fools Cannot Comprehend?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41678715
"I was so frustrated with the Brexit process," - the silly public disagreed did they? PMSL!

[jno]

what's the problem? Farage said he'd keep on fighting if he lost the referendum 48-52. Why are you so terrified if others do the same?

[ToraToraTora]

"What really fired me up was when I went on holiday to Holland just after the Brexit vote and my five-year-old son said he would like to live there when he grows up. I said 'you might not be able to because of Brexit'." - propaganda to his own children, nice!

[ToraToraTora]

why don't all the remainers who feel so strongly about being controlled by a corrupt foreign power simply use this time to move to the EU? then they'd be happy.

[jno]

since nobody's sorted out migration rules post Brexit, "might not" sounds pretty accurate.

[ToraToraTora]

of course HE would keep on fighting, jno, he's in the UK independence party, derr! But most of us would accept the result and move on.

[ToraToraTora]

Cobras, project fear still alive, move there now F\F\S if worried.

[jno]

I'm already ruled by a corrupt foreign pwoer, who even today are fighting to hide their Brexit impact reports from the people they claim to represent. I'll continue to cope.

[ToraToraTora]

I suggest crossing the channel jno, you'd be happy there.

[jim360]

Until such time as Radical anti-Democratic Remainers launch a military coup, then protesting, dissent and political disagreement are hardly anti-Democratic. Trying desperately to quash dissent, on the other hand...

[Khandro]

//Mr Roberts was a chief inspector with Greater Manchester Police but took early retirement to campaign to keep Britain in the European Union.//

What a lying geezer! He simply grabbed the wonderful opportunity of taking early retirement which was on offer - a superb deal financed by taxpayers, and the slimy sod wants us to think he is some sort of hero.
Hypocrite and scumbag and shame on the BBC for even 'reporting' it.

[Old_Geezer]

Campaigning to keep Britain in the European Union is not going to make anyone a hero. Quite the reverse.

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - // What a lying geezer! He simply grabbed the wonderful opportunity of taking early retirement which was on offer - a superb deal financed by taxpayers, and the slimy sod wants us to think he is some sort of hero.
Hypocrite and scumbag and shame on the BBC for even 'reporting' it. //

That's a bit unfair I think.

The gentleman's facility to retire is the same as anyone else's in his position, and just because we as tax payers fund his severence and pension, it doesn't give us the right to dictate how he spends his retirement.

I think he is misguided, but that's his choice, we can offer our opinions (as indeed you have!) but then, so can he - that's free speech for you.

I see no inference that he thinks we should see him as a hero, or indeed that he is slimy.

[emmie]

what a plonker..

[Baldric]

Even he (Mike Roberts) does not appear to have a great deal of confidence in his new Party

///"I am probably on a right loser but I want to be able to say to my children I did everything I could - even registering my own party - so I can look myself in the mirror and say I tried to stand up for the values of this country."///

[Khandro]

andy; //The gentleman's facility to retire is the same as anyone else's in his position,//
I don't know the particular circumstances in that force, but it is unlikely that all chief inspectors in the land can avail themselves of an esarly retirement deal- do you know what it involves? his years of service will be enhanced and he will get a generous index- linked pension and there is nothing stopping him from taking up another full-time job, probably as a well-paid consultant.
Fighting Brexit? my ****!

[ToraToraTora]

"So I can look myself in the mirror and say I tried to stand up for the values of this country" - by collaborating with a foriegn power to undermine your own nation? Kids will be proud!

[Gromit]

The country voted in a referendum in 1975, and every since, people campaigned to change that. They were not being undemocratic, and neither is this fool.

Your incontinence problem seems to be getting worse.

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - // andy; //The gentleman's facility to retire is the same as anyone else's in his position,//
I don't know the particular circumstances in that force, but it is unlikely that all chief inspectors in the land can avail themselves of an esarly retirement deal- do you know what it involves? his years of service will be enhanced and he will get a generous index- linked pension and there is nothing stopping him from taking up another full-time job, probably as a well-paid consultant.
Fighting Brexit? my ****! //

I have no idea why this gentleman's future plans irk you so much, but my point stands - if the police service offer him early retirement and he chooses to take it, that is his right, and does not mean that the public get to dictate what he does next.

Why not just ignore him? Everyone else will.

[Khandro]

andy; /I have no idea why this gentleman's future plans irk you so much, //
Because nothing irks me so much as hypocrisy and cant. Taking early retirement, which he obviously wants anyway, - and maybe the powers above him are happy to see him go, (just look at him!) and have the affront to try to use Brexit as an excuse and even demonstrate his martyrdom, is the act of a real hypocrite.

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - // andy; /I have no idea why this gentleman's future plans irk you so much, //
Because nothing irks me so much as hypocrisy and cant. Taking early retirement, which he obviously wants anyway, - and maybe the powers above him are happy to see him go, (just look at him!) and have the affront to try to use Brexit as an excuse and even demonstrate his martyrdom, is the act of a real hypocrite. //

You have absolutely no idea about this person's motivation for retiring, or whether his superiors are pleased or sorry to see him leave.

We can reasonably assume that, unlike you, they have not based their feelings on the way he looks - but then they don't need to because they obviously know him far better than you do - which is not at all.

You have taken a puff piece about a stranger with inflated ideas about his own importance in the scheme of things, made a series of unfounded and uncalled for negative assumptions about him, and hit your keyboard.

If you think he is a hypocrite, then fine - noted, I suggest you cease wasting any more time worrying about him, and I will similarly cease in this pointless exchange with you about someone we don't know, and one of us doesn't care about.