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    Boris stitch up

    The referendum was nothing more than a Boris stitch up

    http://indy100.independent.co.uk/art...ue--bJhqBql0VZ





    If Boris Johnson looked downbeat yesterday, that is because he realises that he has lost.

    Perhaps many Brexiters do not realise it yet, but they have actually lost, and it is all down to one man: David Cameron.

    With one fell swoop yesterday at 9:15 am, Cameron effectively annulled the referendum result, and simultaneously destroyed the political careers of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and leading Brexiters who cost him so much anguish, not to mention his premiership.

    How?

    Throughout the campaign, Cameron had repeatedly said that a vote for leave would lead to triggering Article 50 straight away. Whether implicitly or explicitly, the image was clear: he would be giving that notice under Article 50 the morning after a vote to leave. Whether that was scaremongering or not is a bit moot now but, in the midst of the sentimental nautical references of his speech yesterday, he quietly abandoned that position and handed the responsibility over to his successor.

    And as the day wore on, the enormity of that step started to sink in: the markets, Sterling, Scotland, the Irish border, the Gibraltar border, the frontier at Calais, the need to continue compliance with all EU regulations for a free market, re-issuing passports, Brits abroad, EU citizens in Britain, the mountain of legislation to be torn up and rewritten ... the list grew and grew.

    The referendum result is not binding. It is advisory. Parliament is not bound to commit itself in that same direction.

    The Conservative party election that Cameron triggered will now have one question looming over it: will you, if elected as party leader, trigger the notice under Article 50?

    Who will want to have the responsibility of all those ramifications and consequences on his/her head and shoulders?

    Boris Johnson knew this yesterday, when he emerged subdued from his home and was even more subdued at the press conference. He has been out-manoeuvred and check-mated.

    If he runs for leadership of the party, and then fails to follow through on triggering Article 50, then he is finished. If he does not run and effectively abandons the field, then he is finished. If he runs, wins and pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over - Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a recession ... broken trade agreements. Then he is also finished. Boris Johnson knows all of this. When he acts like the dumb blond it is just that: an act.

    The Brexit leaders now have a result that they cannot use. For them, leadership of the Tory party has become a poison chalice.

    When Boris Johnson said there was no need to trigger Article 50 straight away, what he really meant to say was "never". When Michael Gove went on and on about "informal negotiations" ... why? why not the formal ones straight away? ... he also meant not triggering the formal departure. They both know what a formal demarche would mean: an irreversible step that neither of them is prepared to take.

    All that remains is for someone to have the guts to stand up and say that Brexit is unachievable in reality without an enormous amount of pain and destruction, that cannot be borne. And David Cameron has put the onus of making that statement on the heads of the people who led the Brexit campaign.
    Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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    We've already had this thread.

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      #3
      Are you plagiarising this well written comment from the Guardian as your own?

      Typical agent, takes the work of others and expects payment for it.
      "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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        #4
        Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
        Are you plagiarising this well written comment from the Guardian as your own?

        Typical agent, takes the work of others and expects payment for it.
        Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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          #5
          Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
          Are you plagiarising this well written comment from the Guardian as your own?

          Typical agent, takes the work of others and expects payment for it.
          Just to prove that I don't take your rampant denial personally, I have 'Liked' your post. If that offends you then I can 'Unlike' it.

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            #6
            Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
            Are you plagiarising this well written comment from the Guardian as your own?

            Typical agent, takes the work of others and expects payment for it.
            One of the great benefits that I have enjoyed as being a (winning ) member of the CUK forum is that I have learnt the skill of how to "cut and paste". This of course qualifies me to talk on level terms with clients and contractors
            Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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              #7
              Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
              One of the great benefits that I have enjoyed as being a (winning ) member of the CUK forum is that I have learnt the skill of how to "cut and paste". This of course qualifies me to talk on level terms with clients and contractors
              I would love to insult you, but that would be beyond the level of your intelligence.

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                #8
                Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
                I would love to insult you, but that would be beyond the level of my intelligence.
                FTFY
                When freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....

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