British Politics Thread.

[Wolfshade]

Unelected people passing laws doesn't sound democratic...

[Mr Mystery]

Someone's got to do it, and the laws can be challenged and repealed - so it's not a cast iron permanence type thing.

Anyways, Judges don't make the laws, they just interpret it.

And there's one particular interpretation which has meant my job is safe for the foreseeable, even if it has proven a colossal headache to explain to peeps.

[Haighus]

https://www.facebook.com/RTUKnews/vi...6634110293133/
Made me laugh.

Ok, I can't get the video to embed in the post from FB for some reason. Hopefully the link works.

[Wolfshade]

They should get him to commentate on everything.

[Haighus]

Definitely. I found the comments on the video amusing too- half of them were raving over his accurate presentation of the facts, and the other half were bemoaning his extreme left-wing commentary. Somewhere within lies the truth...

I guess people like black or white perspectives.

[Mr Mystery]

[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-35458025]EU proposals now published[/url]

Interesting to see if this shuts down the possibility of the In/Out referendum.

I hope it doesn't, as I'm pretty confident it will be an 'In' vote, and that will possibly cause Farage to combust and implode at the same time.

[Psychosplodge]

It's not going to remove the possibility is it? They're definitely having one.
And there's a chunk of the populous who will vote either way regardless of proposals.
But the biggest issue I have is if the EU/pro-EU government takes a remain vote as pro federalisation, which the referendum most certainly isn't about, it's about staying/leaving on the EU as is.

[Mr Mystery]

It was my understanding that the Referendum would only take place if re-negotiation failed?

Though of course, exactly what constitutes failure there is key.

[Psychosplodge]

No the referendum is to take place regardless, the renegotiation is an attempt to sway favour for a remain vote.

[Mr Mystery]

Must have missed that.

Ah well. Given that when you look at it, the Out campaign is still reduced to mindless scaremongering and giving figures either plucked out of thin air or so far out of context they might as well have been (take the cost of being in. They never juxtapose it against what we get out, both tangible and theoretical).

Then there's people just wanting to see the smug, poop eating grin wiped off Farage's face.

Which reminds me, I don't think I'm registered to vote at my new address.....best take care of that now.