A Brexit Glossary

by snugglebunny 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  snugglebunny

  "i" news, Jan 10, 2019:

  A Brexit glossary:

  People’s Vote – a second referendum. But nice. Brexit referendum – not truly a vote of the people. Also nasty.

  Brexiteer – someone either lying to gullible people or gullible enough to believe liars.

  The People – a group who ought to be obeyed, as long as they agree with you. See: “People, Will of the”; “Gammon” Gammon – the same as “The People”, but when they don’t agree with you.

  Once in a generation – every three years.

  Agreeing to a common rulebook – obeying EU law.

  Brexit – Brexit. (Source: Theresa May.)

  Experts – experts I agree with.

  Elites – experts I do not agree with. Hard Brexit – leaving the EU.

  Soft Brexit – staying in some or all of the EU.

  Crashing out – leaving the EU without agreeing to stay in some or all of the EU.

  A bad deal – not as good as a good deal.

  A good deal – better than a bad deal.

  No deal – also better than a bad deal, but not as good as a good deal. See: “Apocalypse”, “Armageddon”, “Ragnarok”.
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  The Fall Guy

  It's interesting that Parliament's politicians decided that a call for a General Election requires the support of 75% of MP's.

  But to leave the EU only required 38% of the voting electorate to defeat the other 35% who voted.

  More than 26% didn't vote, resulting in Brexiteers winning by a majority of 1,269,501. (3.78% of all who voted)
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  cofty

  It was a big turnout by normal standards.

  Remoaners have been very resourceful in trying to discredit the legitimacy of the vote.
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  smiddy3

  If more than 26% of eligible voters didn`t vote ,who are they or anyone else to complain about the result ?

  Were they too lazy or indifferent to the issue ? in the first place but now they complain because the vote didnt go the way they thought or hoped it would without their vote ?
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  snugglebunny

  It's interesting that Parliament's politicians decided that a call for a General Election requires the support of 75% of MP's.
  But to leave the EU only required 38% of the voting electorate to defeat the other 35% who voted.
  More than 26% didn't vote, resulting in Brexiteers winning by a majority of 1,269,501. (3.78% of all who voted)

  Presumably the 26% who didn't vote didn't care one way or the other about the result. Or maybe they were on their phones. Or maybe still in bed. Accordingly, the non-voting 26% can't figure in any way in meaningful statistics as to who wanted in or who wanted out. It's as though they simply didn't exist. Which was their choice.
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  snugglebunny

  The words used to frame a debate have a huge influence on our feelings about it, and thereby on the outcome. Abortion is the classic example. Neither side defines as “pro-” or “anti-” abortion, rather as “pro-life” and “pro-choice”. Each term is an ambush – implying that to disagree is to identify as “anti-life” or “anti-choice”, and thereby inherit an unappealing platform.

  On the subject of same-sex marriage, the term most in use these days is "marriage equality", the inference being that if you don't support same-sex marriage then you're anti-equality. Another ambush.