tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post342117748314241810..comments2024-03-26T09:38:39.888+00:00Comments on Borthlas: Handling a slippery customerJohn Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-31145226392534610682019-10-18T14:27:40.895+01:002019-10-18T14:27:40.895+01:00"He is doing what the vast majority ... publi...<i>"He is doing what the vast majority ... public want, getting the matter of BREXIT sorted as quickly as possible"</i>. I tend to agree that the majority want it sorted, but the problem is that they don't all want it sorted in the same way. The other problem is that he isn't actually 'sorting' it at all - he's just ending the easy phase before starting on the hard one. This saga is going to run for at least 10 years yet.<br /><br /><i>"Why should his hands be tied?"</i> Because we live in a parliamnetary democracy in which the majority voted to leave but left the details and timing of that to parliament to decide. It is entirely right that parliament should seek to ensure that the PM complies with parliament's decisions on those matters.<br /><br /><i>"I voted REMAIN but, like so many others ... agree we must implement the result of the first referendum."</i> that is, actually, exactly what has been happening. Parliament voted to give notice of departure and to open negotiations, but those negotiations have not to date - perhaps things will look different tomorrow - produced a result which parliament considers acceptable. That is what implementing the result of a referendum to leave without specifying the destination means.<br /><br /><i>"Who are all these people these people that want to wash away democracy just because of a few percentage points of economic growth?"</i> In what sense do you call parliament doing the job it was given 'washing away democracy'? Parliament debating the detail is exactly what it was expected to do. You seem to be working to a much narrower definition of 'democracy'.John Dixonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-62302514885918063022019-10-18T11:50:19.825+01:002019-10-18T11:50:19.825+01:00Why should his hands be tied? He is doing what the...Why should his hands be tied? He is doing what the vast majority of the British (and UK) public want, getting the matter of BREXIT sorted as quickly as possible.<br /><br />I voted REMAIN but, like so many others, including all the other REMAINERS' I know, agree we must implement the result of the first referendum. If we subsequently find ourselves victorious in another referendum, perhaps even on the same subject, we would rightly expect the same courtesy to be reciprocated.<br /><br />Who are all these people these people that want to wash away democracy just because of a few percentage points of economic growth? Idiots that's who, just listen to the climate change folk, we need to drastically cut back on our 'lavish' lifestyles (and that includes the colour television owning, can't and won't eat sandwiches every day 'poverty' stricken poor, or put more correctly, 'relatively poor' compared to the the rest).<br /><br />We need to take a good long hard look at ourselves. I doubt many will like what they see.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com