JoshL
4107
Remember Millions the Danny Boyle movie where a kid finds a duffel bag full of British Pounds right before the UK was about to switch to the Euro? Good times.
1m - 1.5m remainers. No trouble. No problems. No issues.
A few hundred Brexiters.
The replies to that Tweet with the pic are golden.
Be aware, though, that tweet was a parody.
jpinard
4112
Here’s the thing. Things will never go back to the old ways unless Britain were to fully isolate themselves from everything in the world. Big box will continue to dominate and the little stores will continue to go out of business. What’s insane is the British leavers will have less money because of Brexit, so going away from the big stores and Amazon will mean smaller stores with bigger markups, further reducing their buying power.
Constantly looking to the past is not a recipe for the future. It will only doom them.
I figured something was off, but I can’t put my finger on it.
wrong building? picture from the remain March?
opened up the Twitter, yup, liverpool building.
The really funny thing is people replying in the comments without reading any of the previous replies…
The Liverpool football crowd is a meme because the right wingers have been using it for years to show how big their turn out was.
but there’s a good few hundred here, telling a MP to “go home to her own country”
I enjoyed this although Yanis’s Greek accent elevates his IQ by about dozen points to my ears :)
Anyway he is critical of the EU & May, comes across as broadly pre reform EU. Thinks her deal makes the UK a vassal state.
Alstein
4117
I think it would make more sense for the EU to say- for there to be a new extension, you must have a GE or 2nd referendum, or no deal.
I think the EU will be very wary of doing anything like that, given that this would be seen as an attempt to influence the domestic politics of a country.
But it’s certainly approaching the point where something has to give. I think for a further extension to occur, the UK will need to demonstrate that there is a plan in place which will resolve the issue.
Ethonationalism (because telling somebody to go back to their country can’t be economic anxiety) it’s a strange fedfellow of extreme pro-union movements in countries that are a plurality of peoples, but they are common bedfellows indeed.
We have the same over here, the extreme right giving wings and actual reasons to the independentist movements, in a weird effort to try to curtail them by antagonizing.
Menzo
4120
There can’t be another extension, though, right? EU elections are coming up, and they certainly don’t want the UK being a part of that vote, so there’s a real hard stop to this process.
That’s a real “Who the fuck knows” question. Don’t allow extension, EU says it’s prepared, but I doubt anyone wants to test it. Allow extension, get ready for a batch of crazy MEP’s, maybe another crazy government to add to the ones already in.
Dunno.
The EU has stated that an extension beyond May 22 could be possible, but only if the UK is willing to hold elections for MEP. May doesn’t want to do it, for obvious reasons - and truth to tell, the EU isn’t all that keen on it either. But I’d not say it’s ruled out at this point.
No one in the EU wants to be blamed for a hard Brexit, so I think that a UK government with a solid plan and timeline for the way forward, and a clear need for an extension, could get it. The EU isn’t going to be unreasonable, in such a situation. But with the current clown car of a UK government? Patience is understandably getting frayed.
Wasn’t there a suggestion that perhaps the UK could retain its current MEPs for the extension period? I thought I’d read that was at least a possibility.
The current position of the EU is rather not having an EU election would deprive UK citizens (who would also be EU citizens in that case) of the right democratic representation.
Which, you know, makes sense.
At is point I think an election (maybe a late one) will be necessary if the UK is to stay.
There was a suggestion, but it was from an advocate general at the ECJ, so not anyone actually involved in the decision. Also, she was the British advocate general, so not exactly disinterested.
Aceris
4126
The EU’s stance has been to try and avoid Brexit introducing any irregularities into the MEP election process, so I just can’t see them permitting this. FWIW I agree on this one - allowing people to stay on once their mandate has expired is just wrong.
