The UK is Out - New PM - and whither now for Article 50
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I don't think it's fair that some people are accusing the older vote for stealing their future when clearly they didn't claim their future themselves. I think it a larger number of youth had voted the same way the gap between Remain and Leave closes.
We were given a choice.
We chose.
My team lost.
That's democracy.
1. Cameron blurts out to TV journalist that the next election is his last. He's desperate to win, so kicks off a prolonged leadership context within the Tory Party for the next 5 years for the sake of avoiding internal criticism in the ead up to the election. Cameron wins, Tory leadership contest starts
2. Bojo, Theresa, Gove et al attend to their images and start preening and muttering
3. Bojo enters the Leave campaign after deciding that this fits for his ambition to be Tory leader. He thinks the Reffo will be won by Remain anyway, and that he will emerge as a dignified leader of the right wing in the party and get a top job.
4. Bojo and Gove, both journalists, stay high profile, enjoy it and keep lying. Farage does his own thing in UKIP areas. Bojo goes everywhere, widens his campaign to make sure he always gets national coverage, and is encouraged to see that polls, bookies and the City still predict a win for Remain, even at the last.
5. Leave wins, Bojo and Gove and other Leave Tories are frightened by the implication of the results, overnight they all together say it's Cameron's "duty" to remain as leader.
6. Cameron immediately resigns in a hurried and muddled speech, but it does make Big Bojo and Little Gove the men who get the blame for the mess which includes a divided England and Wales, Scottish referendum and break up of the UK, new Welsh nationalism, the return of the border and maybe more in Northern Ireland, lasting enmity with European allies esp France and Germany, prob loss of Gibraltar, praise from Trump, slow-breaking recession and social unrest throughout Britain, realisation by a sorry English public that the campaign was based on a pack of lies. Farage sidesteps the Tory party imbroglio, isn't bothered about the mess but curses yet again that he is not an MP - they didnt like him in Thanet.
7. Tory party collapses under exactly same pressures as it has had since 1975 and maybe earlier. The century-long collapse of the age of deference has taken its last victim
Whoever drafted the Lisbon treat missed a trick. There should have been a 'sacking' clause in there as well. ;lol
"For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Galatians 6.7
Well, it is a Sunday........
Term has finished, most university students have gone home. Those that have not could have voted by post.
You couldn't move at my place for 'make sure you vote' posters.
The student union was very active in this regard.
Possibly from the Brexit campaign bus?
or from the official vote leave campaign slogans?
I'm ashamed to admit it but I didn't vote in the GLA/Mayoral elections as apparently the form I sent back last October never arrived, I had re-register (and I've lived at the same address since 1991).
I'm saying they had plenty of opportunity to get their voting ducks in a row.
Maybe they didn't want to.
The numbers debate during the referendum campaigns have been appalling by both sides. Let's just keep calm, and see what happens.
The question was not, and never should have been, a party political one. As has been written the ONLY (main) party backing Brexit was UKIP. So the Government didn't lose (although their official line was backing remain), the establishment did.
One of the main criticisms I have of the remain campaign was the number of times Brexiters were asked what they would do with economy/EU cash as if they would be forming a new Government. This was never the case as the Government will not change until the next General Election, even if there is a re-shuffle of the players.
Now the vote has been cast, the Government are being asked many questions before they have had a chance to consider the right approach, remember as I say above, the official Government position was Remain. Patience is required. There is a period of time available to consider and we should take it. The EU don't like it, but it's their rule and I don't remember them being helpful when Cameron was trying to negotiate reform - they were dragging their heels - you reap what you sow!
If the press could stop denigrating our country and actually try to report things accurately as opposed to the huge bias on display for the last couple of months, we might see less hysteria and less divide.
Also, isn't the turnout % of eligible voters?
Personally I think Cameron should have continued, pulled together the Government's Negotiating team with people from all parties and all sides and got on with it. In principal he still could in parallel to the Tory Leadership, but I don't see that happening.
The aside to this is the EU wants to get on with it partly due to their own concerns about national elections next year in France & Germany; and partly, in my view, so they can be seen to be tough on the UK. A little breathing space and time to reflect will actually be good for all, IMO.
Good question on the %, probably, I haven't see the exact figures
It took several phone calls and re-sending of forms before they got it right.
;whistle
The opportunity was there for everyone eligible to vote to make sure they were registered and then to make sure they voted.
As with anything if you decide not to take part you can't complain that you didn't win.
Wonder how many have been moaning since they decided that