The Consequences of Brexit [part 5] Read 1st post before posting

[retep 68]

Because the Electoral Commission simply act based on the law in force at the time of the election.

If the various Leave campaigns believe that they should have the right to exceed the campaign spending limits or be exempt from penalties imposed then they should lobby to have the law changed.

 

The Electoral Commission doesn't make the law, it simply enforces it.

 

Or otherwise,

 

"BREXIT bias among the Electoral Commission has sparked calls for members to resign after it emerged that almost half of the board breached the association’s impartiality rules."

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/939997/brexit-news-jacob-rees-mogg-electoral-commission-bias-vote-leave-remain

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Or otherwise,

 

"BREXIT bias among the Electoral Commission has sparked calls for members to resign after it emerged that almost half of the board breached the association’s impartiality rules."

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/939997/brexit-news-jacob-rees-mogg-electoral-commission-bias-vote-leave-remain

 

Yeah because the express and rees mogg aren't bias at all. You might have well made it up yourself - it carries about the same weight.

[retep 68]

Yeah because the express and rees mogg aren't bias at all. You might have well made it up yourself - it carries about the same weight.

 

Not half as much as the electoral commission it seems.

 

The shoot the messenger wears as thin as the guardian readership.

[Top Cats Hat 10]

Or otherwise,

 

"BREXIT bias among the Electoral Commission has sparked calls for members to resign after it emerged that almost half of the board breached the association’s impartiality rules."

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/939997/brexit-news-jacob-rees-mogg-electoral-commission-bias-vote-leave-remain

 

You really aren't getting this, are you? (and neither is Jack Boot).

 

It doesn't matter what any of these people say in public as long as they apply electoral law impartially and to date, no one has shown that they haven't. The EC is very similar to the CPS in that they can only make decisions based on existing law. The Director of Public Prosecutions may be a raving racist* but if the police arrest a black man and ask her for a charging decision so that he can be charged with being black, she can't do that as it is not an offence under UK law to be black.

 

(*obviously she's not!)

[Magilla 510]

If the result of the largest democratic vote ever held in the UK is 'scrapped', as you eloquently put it, millions of angry people will be aware that democracy has died in the UK and what comes next will certainly NOT be economic, political and social stability.

 

Quite the opposite in fact.

 

Most people would be happy to scrap it, they just need the appropriate mechanism in place to say so officially

 

One way or another Brexit, in the form promised by leavers if not totally, is dead

[Top Cats Hat 10]

 

One way or another Brexit, in the form promised by leavers if not totally, is dead

 

If not dead, it was always very ill.

 

If the Leave campaign had had a shred of honesty, they would have told the British public that to disengage with the EU without causing lasting damage to the UK would take at least ten years.

 

The big lie was 'we did OK before the EU came along' deliberately ignoring the 40 years of social and economic integration that have taken place in that time and the fact that the world is a very, very different place now.

[Magilla 510]

The big lie was 'we did OK before the EU came along' deliberately ignoring the 40 years of social and economic integration that have taken place in that time and the fact that the world is a very, very different place now.

 

Indeed, the irony being that before we joined (the EEC) we really weren't doing OK.

[Cyclone 10]

If the result of the largest democratic vote ever held in the UK is 'scrapped', as you eloquently put it, millions of angry people will be aware that democracy has died in the UK and what comes next will certainly NOT be economic, political and social stability.

 

Quite the opposite in fact.

 

It's entirely democratic to recognise that a large proportion of those tricked into voting leave have now changed their minds.

[Top Cats Hat 10]

millions of angry people will be aware that democracy has died in the UK and what comes next will certainly NOT be economic, political and social stability.

 

Quite the opposite in fact.

 

That sounds very much like a threat!

 

Do you really think that if Brexit is scrapped there will be mass revolt? If you do then you don't really know the British people. Most will just breathe a massive sigh of relief and be glad the whole thing is over.

 

If there is any 'social unrest' it will be the usual cranks, racists and xenophobes of the far right and UKIP whose track record for organising anything is pitiful. As usual, they will end up falling out with and fighting each other, as will the likes of Faridge, Johnson and Rees-Mogg who will be seen as self serving pariahs in a 'post Brexit fiasco' world.

[retep 68]

It's entirely democratic to recognise that a large proportion of those tricked into voting leave have now changed their minds.

 

Or not,

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7047947/british-voters-give-brexit-verdict/

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Or not,

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7047947/british-voters-give-brexit-verdict/

 

You do make me laugh!

 

What have I told you about using credible sources to back up your arguments?

 

1. The Sun is not a credible source of information about anything other than sports results.

 

2. The headline claims that 'Half of Britons want to leave the EU in March next year', but their own poll puts the figure at 47% which is not only less than half, but is 5% less than the Leave vote in 2016.

 

3. The poll was an 'online survey' of less than 2,000 people.

 

4. It was carried out by a crowd called Deltapoll which was founded only four months ago, has no track record and says that their polls are based on an 'emotional response' to questioning.

 

Funny how every other poll including the 'poll of polls' have put the remain vote greater than the leave vote for the last 15 months (with the gap growing every month in favour of remain)

 

Rearrange the following to make a well known phrase.

 

Piper tune the pays calls whoever the.

[retep 68]

You do make me laugh!

 

What have I told you about using credible sources to back up your arguments?

 

1. The Sun is not a credible source of information about anything other than sports results.

 

2. The headline claims that 'Half of Britons want to leave the EU in March next year', but their own poll puts the figure at 47% which is not only less than half, but is 5% less than the Leave vote in 2016.

 

3. The poll was an 'online survey' of less than 2,000 people.

 

4. It was carried out by a crowd called Deltapoll which was founded only four months ago, has no track record and says that their polls are based on an 'emotional response' to questioning.

 

Funny how every other poll including the 'poll of polls' have put the remain vote greater than the leave vote for the last 15 months (with the gap growing every month in favour of remain)

 

Rearrange the following to make a well known phrase.

 

Piper tune the pays calls whoever the.

 

You become more laughable by the minute, desperation comes to mind

 

Rearrange the following to make a well known phrase.

 

Messenger shoot the.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6075871/No-10s-policy-director-says-Remain-voters-changed-Leave.html