So This Is How Democracy Works...

[bazwillrun]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36629324?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&;ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

you have a vote...it doesnt go how you like, so you stamp and throw your toys around to have another vote that does go how you want...thats if youre lucky

gotta luv the traito ..oops sorry lefties in the pic..

[Zacs-Master]

It's a measure of how much the younger generation feel let down by everyone else. After all it's their future.

[jackthehat]

Why is everyone who opposed leaving the EU being sneered at for being 'of the left'?

The petition for a re-referendum is a non-starter but it is a measure of how unhappy many Bremainers are.

[bazwillrun]

because from what i can tell they mostly are lefties

poll:do you think most of the stayers are lefties ? y/n.....i know where my money would be..

[bazwillrun]

and how many of the younger generation have been brainwashed into stayers by their parents/teachers etc and the garbage in the media..

i wouldnt want them voting on the future of this country with their for the most part extremely limited experience of anything

[jackthehat]

///because from what i can tell they mostly are lefties ///

Ahhh.....that'll be definitive proof, then.....

[Zacs-Master]

Your really not worth the effort of explaining where your ridiculous.........ah why bother.

[Gromit]

Yep.
Government petition only means the petition has to be considered by parliament.
Such as this one.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/105863

The EU Referendum result is also NOT legally binding. To invoke Article 50 to trigger leaving, the Referendum result would have to be debated in parliament and a bill would need to be passed. Except that most MPs are against Brexit.

[fiction-factory]

How do you define 'leftie', baz'? Someone called me that on a referendum thread. (And 'traitor'. And 'anti British'. )

[Zacs-Master]

Anyone who doesn't agree with them FF.

[fiction-factory]

I was also a 'hand wringing' something or other. Pointless labels

[Zacs-Master]

I think it's meant as a goad and/or a dearth of vocabulary FF.

[ToraToraTora]

looks like a tizzy from the ABT to me

[fiction-factory]

^ Yes, there's an example, Z-M

[Mamyalynne]

Sigh....

[Zacs-Master]

Perhaps the site should be renamed 'tired old clichébank'?

[Gromit]

Can we keep this thread on track and stop with the petty squabbling.

[fiction-factory]

>gotta luv the traito ..oops sorry lefties in the pic..

it's hard to take the 'question' seriously I think, Gromit

[CrapAtCryptics]

They`ll debate the referendum im Parliament but its political suicide if they try and engineer a way to ignore it. Who would ever trust them again - even if we did!

[New Judge]

There is little doubt that young people have been badly misled about some of the consequences of Brexit. I heard only a couple of hours ago on the radio a young girl almost in tears. Her dismay stemmed from her plans to tour Europe in her gap year. She looked forward, she said, to travelling across Europe but now she would have to obtain a visa for each country she wished to visit. Leaving aside that of course no changes will be immediate, there has been visa-free travel for UK citizens visiting most European countries for at least sixty years (i.e. long before the UK joined the EEC). Nobody in the remain campaign or in the rest of the EU had suggested this will change. Plus, of course, the EU is a border free zone and once in the Schengen Area visitors have free rein so even if she needed a visa she would only need one. But this youngster had obviously been misinformed by someone that her life would be made very difficult should she want to travel. An older person would not have accepted such nonsense on face value.

I think the most important point younger people need to grasp is that they cannot always have what they want and they must cope with disappointment following voting. It is said, though I don’t know how it can be proved, that young people predominantly voted to remain so their votes should somehow carry more weight because they have longer to live with the consequences. This does nothing to help them grasp the point. I have suffered many disappointments following voting. It's how democracy works. Only the EU asks people to vote again when the result is not the right one. And we all know what the Euromanics think of us voters.

[campbellking]

If the younger generation wanted to stay in because they were so well educated and informed, why couldn't they work it out that they needed to go down to the polling station and vote in order to have their opinion noted, rather than being the age group that recorded the lowest percentage turn out?