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Probably the same view as they hold for Ebola, Typhoid, Zika, and all other Microbes of Mass Destruction.

Every election / poll / referendum has sore losers. Only the US Presidential Election of 2020 has shown us how much damage to democratic principles an individual can do, and how gullible people are willing to become inspite of common sense, in the face of incontrovertable evidence, and the reality of the situation.

Can you really not work it out ? Potesters protesting a legitimate result is perhaps comparable, the way Trump, his hangers-on, and fanatic supporters have reacted, abused the media, the Courts, and the Constitution make it a completely different picture - on a far more dangerous level. How many protesters over here claimed that the election was 'stolen' ? How many claimed that polling numbers were deliberately and artificially manipulated ? How many believed that the polling process had been illegally altered so as to 'fix' the result ? How many claimed that dead people had been inserted onto the elctoral roll to inflate voter numbers ? Where was the Twitter feed from the Leader of the Opposition constantly berating anybody and everybody who failed to agree with his assertion that he had won the 'legitimate' vote ? Where were the claims that the 'Main Stream Media' were part of a conspiracy ? How many Court cases were launched to overturn parts of the poll and disqualify hundreds of thousands of legitimate votes ?

Sex is power ?

It would not be hypocritical.

No. Where were the allegations of 'ballot stuffing', foreign interference, trying to use the Courts to overturn the popular vote, the leader of the losing party blitzing the media because he had a sulk on ?

You're not suggesting that Scally might be correct, are you ?

Aren't Honda, Toyota, and Nissan all here because of the EU ? We might have offered the most advantageous 'package', but I don't think they would have established here without an unfettered route into the SM.

I didn't make an assessment of your prediction record, I queried whether you or GM had so far been the more successful. If your running total is one, the Norway option, then you are ahead of GM. 😉

He should be buried by one.

As they tend to be about what might happen after Jan 1st 2021, very few, if any. On the other hand GM's historical record is quite poor, so at the moment it is probably neck and neck.

Who has the better prediction record, you or GM ?

So which are you, Cpl Jones or Pvt Godfrey ?

British yes, English yes, Lancastrian yes, Hampshire born yes, Sotonian yes, Old Edwardian yes, Leaver never. 😉

So why are both sides so hung up over it ?

So are we.

So we move on to Jan 6th and the joint session to count and officially register the Electoral College votes, where, no doubt, some Republicans will try to object to certain states' collegiate votes - pointless as the Democrats are in the majority in the lower House and both Houses must separately agree to overturn or reject a certification. ( Unless something really weird happens during Monday's EC voting. That is, something SO weird that it would make Scally's postings seem entirely logical and accurate ).

So when Cameron said "Out means out", that the referendum result would be respected, and that there would not be a 'second chance' vote, what did he actually mean ?

You have answered your own question. 🙂

'Out means out" - David Cameron 2015. "Out means out" - Jean-Claude Juncker 2016.

Why didn't we go as soon as the Cameron Government said they would honour the referendum result ? Or at least after May was elected to replace him ?

I am saying that people who voted Remain didn't vote for 'no deal' in the referendum, as no doubt some Leavers did. Also I suspect that even those Remainers that voted Tory in the GE expected a deal to be made.

We voted to leave, so why didn't we just go ? If you give up membership of a club, you can't hang around asking for selected benefits to still be available to you.

Well at least they didn't vote for the current shit show.

Why are the mirror universe uniforms in Disco so much sexier than those in the Prime ?