El Scotch posted:

Friends, a proposition:

If the Leave campaign wins, Pissflaps gets banned.

If the Remain campaign wins, Pissflaps gets banned.

Fans posted:

Everyone but Pissflaps gets banned.

Fans posted:

Everyone but Pissflaps gets banned.

JFairfax posted:

I would like to see recursive trolling

Baron Corbyn posted:

Dennis Skinner is voting Leave

Gort posted:

What the gently caress, why

quote:

He said: “My opposition from the very beginning has been on the lines that fighting capitalism state-by-state is hard enough. It’s even harder when you’re fighting it on the basis of eight states, 10 states and now 28.
“In the old days they could argue you might get a socialist government in Germany, but there’s not been one for donkeys’ years.
“At one time there was Italy, the Benelux countries, France and Germany, Portugal, Spain and us.
“Now there’s just one in France and it’s hanging on by the skin of its teeth.”
Mr Skinner said the prospect of the NHS being subject to the rules of the pro-privatisation TTIP trade deal between the EU and US was also a “significant” factor in his decision to vote Leave.
Labour warned this week that workers’ rights, such as four weeks paid holiday, maternity and paternity leave, equal pay and health and safety laws, could be at risk if Britain leaves the EU.
But Mr Skinner pointed out many of those rights are enshrined in British law and believes the Tories “couldn’t shift them.”
He said: “What [the EU] should be doing, if it wanted to convince people like me, is have a directive to get rid of zero-hours contracts across the whole of the EU. That’s what I’d be looking for.”
Mr Skinner insisted that his wish to leave the EU was not “based upon waving a flag or immigration.”
Instead, he said, the country needs to learn from the miners if it wants to achieve community cohesion.
“When I left school and went to work in the pits I was working with displaced persons from Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and so on,” he told the Star.
“The reason why that didn’t create a great many problems for the miners was that we insisted that they could not undermine our wages, they would be paid the same as us whatever job they did.
“And what’s more they had to join the appropriate union. That’s why there was harmony in the pits and that’s what should happen today.”
Although Mr Skinner will be voting differently to Jeremy Corbyn, he backed the party leader’s refusal to share a platform with political opponents during the campaign.
“I won’t join these Tory and Ukip campaigns, I don’t believe in helping to bolster their prestige,” he said.
“I told Tony Benn when he was surrounded by Union Jacks in Trafalgar Square that he shouldn’t be on that bloody platform.
“So I don’t play any part with them.”

Private Speech posted:

John Mann also declared for leave.

He said it's because of "immigration, freedom of movement and empowerment" though, so he's not exactly one of the good ones, more like Hoey.

Phoneposting so no link

Baron Corbyn posted:

Dennis Skinner is voting Leave

Brown Moses posted:

Virtually every ad I've had on YouTube today has been Leave's scaremongering on Turkey joining the EU. Is it just me?

Brown Moses posted:

Virtually every ad I've had on YouTube today has been Leave's scaremongering on Turkey joining the EU. Is it just me?

Tesseraction posted:

I've been rather enjoying watching the Tories on the other side of their bullshit lies and propaganda campaigning methods. The bitterness it's creating in the party is a joy to behold.

dispatch_async posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5zKbV1HXdU

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forkboy84 posted:

They really think nothing is more important than this loving referendum.

awesome-express posted:

talk about Britain leaving the EU that was hosted by Harvard Law professors and treaty lawyers specialising in European law

Brown Moses posted:

Fans posted:

Everyone but Pissflaps gets banned.

Guavanaut posted:

It's a shame there will never be one of these taking center stage in the British press, and if there was most people would ignore it.

awesome-express posted:

Will tbh this is the most impactful thing one can vote on. The EU referendum is a big loving deal. The way it has been organised, proposed, and discussed though...

Also, fun fact, my GF who is a Harvard grad, went to a talk about Britain leaving the EU that was hosted by Harvard Law professors and treaty lawyers specialising in European law back in Cambridge (the one in Massachusetts). The outcome was that:

1. New treaties will take on average 10 years to put in place, this is actually coming from the people who make these treaties happen based on the last 40 years of their collective work experience
2. The average voter has 0 idea how the EU benefits the UK and how it works, and they all vote on an emotional basis

So yeah, if someone says trade can be renegotiated in a matter of weeks or a couple of years, then lol. But then whenever something's not working, you can always put the blame on the foreigns.

awesome-express posted:

Yup... the average voter is not qualified to answer such a complex thing. But woo uneducated democracy and scaremongering gently caress yeeeee

awesome-express posted:

Yup... the average voter is not qualified to answer such a complex thing. But woo uneducated democracy and scaremongering gently caress yeeeee

Taear posted:

We're going to leave the EU because the polls said cameron was going to lose and he had to throw an olive branch to UKIP. It's horrendous.