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  1. ¿ Yes let us all reject the referendum result and the outcome of the general election in the name of democracy! ¿
  2. Indifference is usually accompanied by fewer words. It's loathing.
  3. I think that's a big strong. I admit that Labour are socialist and authoritarian, but I'd stop short of comparing them to Hitler's lot.
  4. People don't like the idea of the voters for smaller parties getting another vote if their candidate loses. ---------- Post added 20-04-2017 at 10:29 ---------- Soon Labour will be disbanded and go back to their Communist roots, and stop wasting everybody's time. After that I expect UKIP will do fine.
  5. There's a difference between "not understanding" and rejecting your fake version of it. ---------- Post added 20-04-2017 at 10:25 ---------- I was not including you. There are a vast majority of decent people on both sides.
  6. Well that sounds much more reasonable. Have a look at income tax receipts from the recent period when the top tax rate was raised from 40% to 50% and then lowered from 50% to 45%. The laffer curve peak is very likely below 45%.
  7. Did you mean to address that to me? If so I challenge you to back it up.
  8. If they've broken the law and you can prove it then that's one thing. But you ignore the fact that in the process of acquiring that wealth for themselves they have unavoidably generated wealth for everybody else. This is such an old debate, and your side only persists by rejecting key facts. If you over-tax the wealthy (and yes you do intend to tax the rich and the upper-middle as well as the super-rich), then you deter them from making money. If they don't make money then neither do the people they would have employed and you can't tax any of this money you've destroyed at all and the whole system falls apart. This is so completely obvious, that I don't know why your side keeps pretending otherwise and with such persistence. Where's your shame?
  9. It's a free press. There's plenty of left wing press out there, but almost nobody reads it because it's mad as a bag of ferrets. The BBC has an anti-brexit left-wing bias and their influence is phenomenal. A referendum on making the voting system more proportional was rejected by the people by 2:1 only a few years ago. And that hardly matters as both main parties support Brexit, representing over 60% of the voters. Once again, you demonstrate that you don't believe in democracy. How do you live with yourself?
  10. I'm rather looking forward to the hold-out remainers hopelessly scouring around for some reason to reject the legitimacy referendum result, or its interpretation, when it has been followed up by a GE.
  11. How is it circular. I'm talking about the age-old debate of philosophy of government.
  12. No. It's about about a gang of intelligent [expletive deleted] attempting to organise the world by grand design and making an almighty mess of it.
  13. Tax can't fix it. There's a limit to how much the state can in practise collect in taxation. We need a hybrid healthcare system like most of Europe have. As long as we continue to pretend otherwise because of stupid idealistic nostalgia, our healthcare will continue to suck.
  14. You'd have people like me in charge. I'm smart enough to know the difference wisdom, character, and intelligence. There are a great many people who are of lower intelligence, but who have other qualities that make them better leaders than me.
  15. I don't like technocracy. I suggest this: Let the parties put forward lists and let the lords be chosen from those lists according to the party's vote share at the GE. Let all appointed and other non-elected lords be removed. There's nothing to stop the parties listing scientists and such if their membership desires it. Let the parliament act be retained, so that the lords remains subordinate (out of respect for the result of the AV referendum). Let all this be put to the people in a referendum, unless endorsed by them through a clear manifesto commitment going into a GE.
  16. I like PR too. We lost the AV vote, and I'm convinced from the debate on that, that we'd have lost a PR referendum even more convincingly. The mistake is to presume the righteousness of treating peoples' third choice at the ballot box as if it carried the same endorsement of the candidate as their losing first choice. The British people have rejected this. Vox populi etc.
  17. Some people hold the opinion that we'll be better off out. Others hold the opinion that we were better off in. The key difference seems to be that the second group is a little smaller, and of course the intense loathing felt by the second group for the first.
  18. Hence the referendum. ---------- Post added 19-04-2017 at 13:58 ---------- Which you will identify by seeing the result that you want. Morton's fork is not applicable. I suspect that you just heard it the other day and thought it was cool, which is why you mention it.
  19. And you see it when it gets you the result you want. With this election will come a massive endorsement for hard (i.e. not fake) Brexit. You should prepare now, your preposterous excuses as to why it shouldn't count.
  20. No. But it's not original. So Yahweh gets no credit for it.
  21. Compartmentalisation. I don't trust it. Clegg wholeheartedly believes in social progress.
  22. I liked Clegg. I don't see how a practising theist can be honestly socially progressive. The god of Abraham has nothing to teach us about how to do right by those who are different.
  23. Anglicans have largely made their peace with homosexuality except in the specific case of priests. The fact that Farron apparently still struggles with it is more about him than his church.
  24. Farage does not represent me. Read what I said.
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