"T i m" wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 13:06:00 +1100, "Rod Speed"
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T i m wrote
dennis@home wrote
harry wrote

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/200165

You have already won, get over it!

What worries me is that whilst he (and the other Brexiteers) have
'won' (or not so far, depending on what each of them actually
thought they would be getting for their vote), we could all have
lost (as a population) if the plot continues as it has so far.

Its certainly possible that that fool May could end up agreeing
to all of the EU demands and end up paying forever as much
as Britain would have paid if it had stayed in the EU, but at least
that would mean that Britain wouldn't have to pay anything to
try to bail out the eurozone or the EU if it implodes completely.

True.

And even if she is that stupid not everyone would lose
by that stupid outcome anyway. The pound would still
have been devalued and that will always benefit some.

Not ideal though eh.

Every day this sorry tale unfolds it really looks like
the case 'Fools rush in' and once promised it will
happen, it will at *all costs* (to all of us). ;-(

It will never be to all of you lot.

But more that it was at the time before this whole thing started.

Time will tell on that. IMO Britain will do fine out of the EU,
essentially because even if the EU does impose tariffs on
some of what Britain currently exports to the EU, that is likely
to be less than the price has dropped due to the effective
devaluation of the pound, so that stuff will actually be cheaper
in the hands of those who import it from Britain, so British
exports to the EU will continue fine at the same level or better.

Sure, the devaluation of the pound will have some effect
on the cost of imports, but with many of them Britain will
be free to import tariff free when outside the EU and so
those will in fact be cheaper with Britain out of the EU.

Doesn't really seem how a sensible democracy would work ... ?

There is no alternative with a political choice as important as that,

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It is suggested that's it's exactly the instance where a poll *shouldn't
be used.

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/134646/referendums-bad

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/05/w...on-santos.html

https://www.libdemvoice.org/opinion-...ter-39017.html

http://theweek.com/articles/632538/b...ever-good-idea

So the alternative is to do what the fools who proclaimed that Britain
would be better in the eurozone than outside it want, and it was those
fools that pushed for the deregulation of the banks which saw Britain
end up with an immense cost to bail out the banks in 2008. With a
record like that, please explain why they should decide what happens.