@davidallengreen (a) a glorified opinion poll never provided a mandate for anything
(b) a democratically elected majority government has a mandate to do pretty much whatever they please
@law_and_policy @happyhippy2015@davidallengreen Maybe Emma should have read your comment properly, tried to understand the point that the Tories have won, and not deliberately talked about different abuses to strawman me. Doing so twice is just trolling
@MuteDialog@Femi_Sorry No, because they were as vague about what their negotiated brexit would look like as the Tories. That's not nuance. They were also totally clear they would press ahead with their "jobs first brexit" from the start. The public vote on it was last minute, but only a small shift
@happyhippy2015 @law_and_policy @davidallengreen This thread is about leaving the EU, which would not be unlawful. Please don't muddy waters by suggesting it's about something else
@happyhippy2015 @law_and_policy @davidallengreen Independent judiciary is not linked to the EU and will be sorely missed if it's torn down due to further attempts to use the system against government with massive majority
@MrBrendanCox Better question: why don't more on left see through the faked reasonableness of nationalists? "Not against immigrants, just want strict laws" is revealed as nonsense b/c there's no attempt to say what's wrong with current immigration limits or any plan beyond "fewer immigrants!"
@happyhippy2015 @law_and_policy @davidallengreen How about: "stop fighting to preserve what we have left"? If fighting continues against a majority government with no interest in discussion, they will tear down every institution in their way, and we may miss those when they're gone even more than EU membership
@bloomsburykid@EPOorg It's not accurate because if you withdraw an application, you don't have an application any more. My example of applications that aren't published was actually a realistic and reasonable example rather than an irrelevant nitpick
@bloomsburykid@EPOorg Weirdly irrelevant, not entirely accurate correction. If you want to nitpick, then applications found relevant to national security in the country of origin should be your first point of call
Hostess didn’t get that Frozen II license but that ain’t gonna stop ‘em!
(Still, they’re so scared of Disney’s lawyers that they put an asterisk on the word FROZEN to explain they mean PUT IN A FREEZER)
@derekjames150@acgrayling Everything bad that happens for the next 45 will be the fault of not being in the EU. Doesn't matter if it's true or not... Sadly I doubt daily fail, Torygraph or express (do they have a pseudonym?) will publish those sorts of propaganda and lies
@acgrayling Tough call but, on balance, my money would be on the express misquoting or at least wildly misrepresenting her. Require a credible source before I'm confirmation-biased into believing this
A merry Christmas to all with my new game "Xmas Matchup". With art by @neschof and my new arrangement of "Santa Claus is coming to town" to keep you humming until the new year! https://t.co/58P6LmjtXI
@sturdyAlex@StevePeers Unfortunately, it doesn't matter if they fail since they have not only got their excuses prepared, they won the election based on that excuse: "Corbyn would have been worse".