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[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread


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Sorry to say, but some of you are really simple-minded. To equate 52% of UK voters with "the English" is the same as saying the orange juice tasted awful while it actually contained 55% of oranges and 45% of at least 3 more different fruits. :lol:

 

A close and split decision is always treated as "the nation has chosen".

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3 hours ago, Quasit said:

Sorry to say, but some of you are really simple-minded. To equate 52% of UK voters with "the English" is the same as saying the orange juice tasted awful while it actually contained 55% of oranges and 45% of at least 3 more different fruits. :lol:

 

A close and split decision is always treated as "the nation has chosen".

if you say this for me, i didnt say the 52% of the voters are english BUT in England wins "leaving" and in Scotland wins the "stay", Wales and North Ireland dont have many voters than England.....

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Apparently some guy called James O'Malley crated a petition for Sadiq Khan to declar London independent and join EU and in 2 days it has over 120 thousand signatures :lol: Funny as it sounds, it just shows in how deep crisis the not-so-united-anymore Kingdom is right now, possibly  even bigger then UE's crisis, with Scotland and NOrthern Ireland wanting to leave, trouble with Gibraltar and now this...

https://www.change.org/p/sadiq-khan-declare-london-independent-from-the-uk-and-apply-to-join-the-eu

My favourite Volleyball position: LIBERO. You ask why? Look here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyIOarNAONk

 

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On ‎25‎/‎06‎/‎2016 at 11:28, VolleyRuller96 said:

Apparently some guy called James O'Malley crated a petition for Sadiq Khan to declar London independent and join EU and in 2 days it has over 120 thousand signatures :lol: Funny as it sounds, it just shows in how deep crisis the not-so-united-anymore Kingdom is right now, possibly  even bigger then UE's crisis, with Scotland and NOrthern Ireland wanting to leave, trouble with Gibraltar and now this...

https://www.change.org/p/sadiq-khan-declare-london-independent-from-the-uk-and-apply-to-join-the-eu

The UK is divided not least on a generational basis with the young voting strongly to stay and older people voting to leave. However, it worth remembering that when the UK last voted on this issue in 1974, England was the strongest supporter of EU membership followed by Wales and Northern Ireland with Scotland the least enthusiastic. 42 years later and that order is completely reversed.

 

Scotland will have another referendum on independence but only if the SNP government is certain it can win it. They would still have to leave the EU though and apply for membership. Is that guaranteed given the views of some of the other countries, e.g. Spain? As for Northern Ireland there will be no referendum on either independence of Irish unification as there is simply too little support for either. I'm sure the UK And Irish Republic will work together to try and maintain an open border in so far as that is possible. As for Gibraltar this isn't actually part of the UK but a self-governing (except defence and foreign affairs) British Overseas Territory. The same old pattern will occur with both sides maintaining their intransigent positions. This will only change when Spain starts reaching out to Gibraltarians in a positive way instead of trying to bully them. In any event Gibraltar's future will be decided by its own people not by the Spanish Foreign Minister in Madrid making inflammatory statements.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Shit has hit the fan in Turkey, fighter jets flying low over Ankara and Istanbul, military in the streets, bridges closed by armed soldiers etc. 

 

Rumours of both a military coup or an attack on the highest military authorities. 

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22 h 14: Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, denounced an "illegal attempt to overthrow the government" by "a part of the army." The population is expected to stay at home. A curfew was imposed.

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