Ireland should have been allowed to vote in your dumb Brexit referendum, seeing as it will probably be sunk by it. Cunts.

Nobody should have been allowed to vote in the referendum because it never should have happened.

Yossarian wrote:

Nobody should have been allowed to vote in the referendum because it never should have happened.

Aint that the truth

I read somewhere that Scottish Law allows the court to take action where it can write to the EU if dick boy refuses to

He's going after the mail too. I told you all he seemed a decent fella.

The best thing about it is he's got such a good public image the papers are going to fine it extremely hard to go after him the way the do with other people that try and take them on. I hope he destroys them. Most likely result is that they get a relatively insignificant fine though.

Minnesänger wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

Because it seems a bit shitty to take part in a vote that has zero bearing on him but which does affect the lives of those of us living here.

I'm saying he's lived there, could live there again, and may have family there.He may well have a vested interest in voting. 

Yossarian wrote:

Why are you so desperate that he try to circumvent the fact that this vote has clearly been set up in such a way as to exclude him for the reasons given above and vote anyway?

Because I live abroad and have a British passport. I still care about my country. I grew up there. I respect and want my country to get better. I like democracy. Not democracy for my own ends. Actual democracy.

If Charlie has just moved overseas, he is probably still registered to vote. The register is what matters.

If he has been taken out of the register, he can vote as an overseas elector, but, if I recall correctly, that's only at parliamentary elections. Since GLA is elected according to the local govt franchise, I suspect that won't help him vote in 2020. But worth doing now as a general election could come any second. You register via notional residence at your last place of residence. You probably want to vote in person or appoint a proxy because postal votes can get delayed being sent oversees.

That goes for you too cinty, 15 years from your move. Govt policy is I believe a vote for life for overseas electors.

Heidi Allen has joined the Lib Dems.

One less number to not be supporting Corbyn then.

Boris, Cummings and the whole gang of shits are cornered rats lashing out viciously. The Benn act totally fucked their plan and now they are desperate and irrational.

There is no way around the Benn act on this side of the Channel. No EU state will go it alone to veto it, it would leave them deeply lacking in favour when they want something. We can't offer any EU nation anything that the EU can't better.

MEPs have also already voted in favour of offering an extension if requested, all be it in a non-binding vote. That passed 544 to 126 with 38 abstaining .

This is all bluster and panic from the brexiteer side. It will get nastier as well as we lead up to it but you can bet your arse Boris will request that extension even if he forces it on the courts.

So Parliament's been suspended again?
We're heading for no-deal, aren't we...

That's kinda' reassuring... The Cons seem very passive at the moment, and I wondered why that was...
Felt like they had a plan of some kind. But if there's another extension, then at least now we can count on either an election or referendum.

The news today is all about negotiations collapsing. Truth is they collapsed the day Boris was voted in as PM.

I think they plan to try and make it undesirable to the EU to grant the extension. The publicising of the Merkel conversation doesn't read right. Merkel has stayed out of things for the most part, why would she now be demanding that Northern Ireland stay in? That wasn't even part of the WA. Which the EU would still accept.

The stitch up is on guys. Boris won't send the request on the grounds that the EU are only interested in a deal which breaks up the union and that would be enough of a justification to not ask for an extension as the EU would be seen as being in bad faith.

The UK will leave on the 31st October and the aftershock will be felt through Europe for decades, all so some rich shits can get richer by shorting the markets. Once article 50 was called, it was only a matter of time.

RedDave2 wrote:

Boris won't send the request on the grounds that the EU are only interested in a deal which breaks up the union and that would be enough of a justification to not ask for an extension as the EU would be seen as being in bad faith.

He will swiftly be taken to court and ordered to send the request.

Trying to predict anything seems crazy these days, but I can't see them weaseling out of the extension or convincing another member to reject it. An election based on the most divisive campaign imaginable seems likely, with them hoping there's just enough Brexit fueled anger and disunity among the remoaners to get them back in with a majority.