This is the referendum question, the only thing there was a mandate for.
Anything else you THINK you voted for is only in your imagination.
Starmer is not rejoining. That's just a fact. So no, he's not reversing Brexit.
"Ah but EEA or Norway is a betrayal".
Here's Nigel Farage proposing EEA or Norway as a solution.
"17 million voted for Brexit, Starmer got fewer votes"
The UK electorate is 41 million. 17 million isn't a "majority", just the biggest group of people who voted.
Starmer also got the biggest group of people who voted. Those 17 million could have stopped him. They didn't.
"He's usurping the will of the people".
So did Brexit. People voted to join the EU in 1972. They voted to leave in 2016. Now they've voted for Starmer, who promised to renegotiate.
Each vote supercedes the previous one. Otherwise democracy would have stopped 800 years ago.
"This isn't what I voted for"
Nobody knows what you voted for. They never did. Nobody wanted to define Brexit, cos if you define it, it looks either insane, impossible or feeble. That's why Brexit took 8 years to complete, and is a mess.
"We voted to leave the EU, so why are we in the ECHR, Europol, etc?"
Things having "Euro" in their name does not make them the EU. Having a trading relationship doesn't make us part of the EU. Being friendly doesn't make us part of the EU.
"You're just bitter cos you lost"
No, I'm bitter cos you idiots fell for a bunch of charlatans with no plan, who fucked off the instant their scheme required anybody to take responsibility, and buggered up the country. I'd have been fine losing to somebody honest or competent.
"You want to rejoin"
Yep. I'd love to. But Starmer isn't doing it.
A grown up, semi-detached relationship with Europe is the best we can get. But that is NOT reversing Brexit, because ... go to the first tweet and start again.
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I heard a theory today that US polls are being artificially skewed on both sides.
GOP pollsters are inflating their numbers to justify Trump's inevitable "stolen election" claims if he loses.
Dems are deflating their numbers to ...
... avoid any complacency among their voters, by making them think it's closer than it actually is.
The "evidence" for this is that the polls are weirdly similar. You'd normally expect at least a few outlying polls showing a clear lead for one side or another. But they're all...
... showing the same results, as close to 49-51 as it's possible to be. And (goes the theory) this is unnatural, and suggests party pollsters are playing with the numbers, while independent pollsters are scared of breaking the pattern.
It is reported that before 7 Oct 2023, 85% of Hamas fighters were orphans whose parents had been killed by the IDF.
Israel has since created over 17,000 new orphans.
No matter what your opinion on Gaza, no matter what "side" you take, Israeli actions will never bring peace.
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All wars end with talking, or with surrender. There's no third option.
Most end with negotiation. The Nazis and Japan surrendered, but only due to overwhelming global opposition and [the threat of] total military defeat.
That doesn't apply to Gaza or Israel, and never will.
Israel might have the military power to utterly destroy Gaza. But Israel is almost surrounded by largely Muslim nations, and there's no hope of them achieving a military victory as absolute as the one the world imposed on Nazi Germany. They'd still end up surrounded.
FAR RIGHT: The Southport attack was definitely done by Ali al Shakati
NORMALS: Ali al Shakati means "I have to go to my apartment"
FR: OK, maybe he wasn't called that, but he definitely arrived on a boat last year
N. Nope, he was born in Cardiff
FR: But he's definitely a Muslim!
N: Nope, he is literally a choirboy in his local Christian Church
FR: Mainstream media is trying to make us sympathise with him by only showing photos of him as a child
N: Maybe that's because he IS a child.
FR: Ah, but the justice system isn't telling us the whole truth
N: The justice system doesn't make everything public, because that makes it impossible to deliver a fair trail, and if you want justice to be done you'd let justice happen