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This is a link post Escape artist level 10+

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:37, , Reply)
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RUN, RAPIST PAEDO MURDERER PARKING TICKET MAN! RUNN!!!!!
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 22:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post Fuck
your incomprehensible vertical use of an optical imaging unit to record something of a horizontal orientation.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 22:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post Gonna rip his tadger off!

(, Sat 25 Jun 2016, 10:02, , Reply)
This is a link post Seems appropriate today.
Laibach video from a few years back.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:56, , Reply)
This is a link post John Travolta meets John Travolta (1 Minute Movie Mashup) I made this!
It’s freaky, but it happened… Pulp Fiction John Travolta meets Carrie John Travolta.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post nicely done sir
I don't just say that cuz you're a mate of mine.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post No fair at 1:58 getting a native speaker in the contest.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post If anything that proves that the mating call is stronger than the alarm call

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post Arf!

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:45, , Reply)
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Britain has come home from work after having a row with his boss, and kicked the dog.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post Bit harsh on Merkel....

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:12, , Reply)
This is a link post A niche business no longer. NSFW

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post Dunning Kruger Dunning Kruger Dunning Kruger
YES the UK has a lot of Dunning Kruger going on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post Made oi larf...
From that wiki article:

"Studies on the Dunning–Kruger effect tend to focus on American test subjects"
(, Sat 25 Jun 2016, 10:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post not niche at all
a recent survey suggested that 52% of the population would be quite suitable for a job like that.
(, Sat 25 Jun 2016, 9:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Really reminds me of a educational welfare officer I had to see.
Even down to the expression. She was also oddly flirty which to say I was 14/15 at the time seemed pretty inappropriate, she couldn't grasp the concept of mental illness at all, had to stop myself from grinning when she "sadly announced" she was moving to a different district. AND STOP TOUCHING MY LEG!!!!
(, Sat 25 Jun 2016, 16:48, , Reply)
This is a link post Idiots, idiots everywhere!
Video of a vote leave lady, the morning after the night before.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post Mushrooms! Mushrooms everywhere!
Makes me wonder how many have been voting off their trolleys.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post For the life of me I can't remember which way I voted yesterday
Not sure how to feel today
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:49, , Reply)
This is a normal post It should have been a referendum based on Quantum Mechanics
We could be in and out of the EU at the same time and until observed. So waking up today you would see reality according to the way you voted.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post called it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqG1jMI7YDQ
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post Who was the twat on here moaning at me for insisting that democracy should never be given directly to the people?
Well, there's a reason for that.

Has anyone told Prufrock to fuck off yet? I think he has me on mute.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post You called?

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah, called you a prick, you prick.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post Somebody is a little teste this morning.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post I wish you all the best.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post Wuv you
xxx
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post *hugs*

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post Who should have democracy then, the elite, educated, banker type person?

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post The etymology of the word suggests simply that democracy is people power.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post You elect politicians to make decisions
We have an elected political elite who know how the world works, yes. You don't directly ask people, the majority of whom are fucking idiots
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Maybe you're thinking of a a representative republic.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post I live in a northern ex-mining town
Plenty peeps I spoke to were voting Leave to keep the Syrians out even tho there are zero foreigns up here.
I'm guessing most people down south voted leave in the hope of making Britain great again like when we conquered all those crap countries.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post As an ex mining town I assume that this was a labour heartland?
Maybe if labour had addressed their concerns,pointed out where they were mistaken they would have voted differently.

Rather than leave it to the tories to make the case for remaining.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post I have to agree with you there.
I had high hopes for Corbyn but the way he had explained his position on the EU was pitiful.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post Looks like there's going to be a vote of no confidence in him now.
Wonder how all that new blood in the labour party that voted him in are going to respond?
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:32, , Reply)
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He's probably taken you off ignore, replied and then put you on ignore again.

That's what he does.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post Who? Corbyn?

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 20:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post Why even bother letting the people chose their mp?
They might choose wrong.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post During the Scottish independence referendum thingy
I heard a woman say she was going to vote Yes because "they don't sell Irn Bru in England" and "the Westminster government gives people in London luncheon vouchers".

Fuck me. I haven't even heard the phrase "luncheon voucher" since 1976, and they DO sell sodding Irn Bru in England. Still tastes like fucking Tizer.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's still made from girders though right?

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 18:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post That would be me
Point proved once again I believe. If you ask the masses a question they aren't in anyway qualified or educated enough to contemplate, you end up with them voting for the loudest, flashiest, most entertaining option, in lieu of a sensible outcome.

They've been trained by years of low brow phone-ins, opinion polls and voting for x-factor clones.

We've got what we deserve yet again.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 19:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post This is why voting is fucked
and why I stopped bothering years ago. How can you compete with the numbers of total fuckwits out there? lol
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Voting is gay anyway
Or so I overheard whilst sucking hard, corporate cock.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post Our area voted remain
we are not remaining. We also voted to not have conservatives, we do have conservatives. I fail to see how my vote matters in any way at this point.
Just makes me angry, so I don't bother with that shit any more, life is way better.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post what i don't understand is this "everyone should vote" bollocks
sure, if they are prepared to be informed, analyse the argument and vote with reason and research then yes, everyone should have the right to do that...

but if you are so disinterested in politics you want a bullet point summary of every issue, then no... you shouldn't fucking vote...

Just like I don't know anything about football, so I don't fucking talk about it, or try to do it... sure I have a right to... but we don't need to exercise every single one of our rights as a matter of course.

being politically literate takes time and it's really boring, if you ain't willing to put the hours in, fine... but then don't get involved and leave it to those who do want to take it seriously.

Christ it's like someone who doesn't cook standing behind a chef and telling them what ingredients should be going in... you have a right to that opinion but you've done fuck all to earn having that opinion heard...
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post There's a lot of comments like this on b3ta.
Genuine question here.
What method do you use in order to determine who is eligible to vote?

Age?
Education?
Gender?
Public service?
Parentage?

Very interested in how people here think the vote should be restricted.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think a two stage vote would have been more sensible.
In a vote like this some are always going to use it to kick the government and the polls seem to always get it wrong, so, a dry run maybe to set a benchmark? Regardless the line should have been higher, maybe 60% before any change. I also thought they should have had a "don't Know" on the ballot. For a GE I think it should be compulsory to vote which I think they do in OZ?
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post This is probably fairer than my idea.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ask to see their facebook feed before allowing them into the voting station.
If it's full of 'Criminal Case' spam, shares of Britain First memes and fucking terrible vocabulary, then turn them the fuck away.
Might seem a bit snobby, but generally these sort of fuckwits are the least well informed and easiest to mislead.
Oh, and don't allow people over the age of 60 to vote. They don't have long enough left to reap the benefits or suffer the consequences.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post So thats age + education filters with a layer of stats surveillance.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post Seems fair enough, if somewhat brutal.
Older citizens are less important because they have less time left, and generally end up being a strain on the economy.
The less well formally educated are also *generally* a bit thick anyway.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post Tell you what let's fuck democracy and just have one person in charge is not too old or thick to make all the decisions
Allowing people over 60 not to vote seems harsh. Many these days will have to work to some degree into their 70s/80s to make up for trashed pensions and to pay off their 40 year mortgage or rent
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hypothetically in 'bastart land' a vote for income generators or classified workers could work.
I think jobless and long term sick is around 5 million? Retired many more? That is a sizable chunk of the population.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post o-O

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 20:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post Thats rather chilling.... I do hope you never get in a position of power.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post no you misunderstand,
i'm not talking about a policy or a license to vote, i'm talking a cultural thing... we need to stop telling people "they must vote at all costs" and instead say "you don't have to vote if you don't want to take an interest, that's fine"

EDIT: to clarify i don't think the vote should be restricted, but instead we need to stop telling people they have to vote, it should be a right you choose to excersise because you have a passion or an interest, not because you have been culturally and socially bullied into it,

mainstream politics does this to "soak up" those votes and continually distort democracy, every election I hear "people died for your right to vote" and it drives me mad, people died for our right to be able to vote you know as a choice ... but there's an expectation of intellectual responsibility that goes with that....
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ah I see, fair enough but that shouldn't be official policy in my book.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post god no, that would be a highway to fascism,
a cultural thing... totally something that ultimately WE need to realise.

I have a right to an opinion, but only an informed opinion has the right to be heard.

If we are honest with ourselves we know that turning on the tv is not recieving an informed opinion... that's lazy... and we know that in so many aspects of our lives that we actually give a shit about...

if you don't give a shit about politics, you don't have to vote...

I mean soon we'll be letting the Vegans choose the food for a BBQ... where does it end!
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post Actually, how about restricting referendums to MP's themselves?
The MP is given the vote for their entire constituency. On the run up to the referendum the constituency are able to make their cases to their MP, who in turn makes the final decision as their elected representative.
Your local MP might be a fucking idiot, but tough shit. The majority of your constituency voted them in.
Local MP's (hopefully) will have a much better grasp of the matter in hand than your average Daily Mail reading, Jeremy Kyle consuming fuckwit and so the chances of the 'right' decision being put through are higher than letting the entire population of the local council estate loose on the ballot stations when their primary source of current affairs is the Britain First facebook page because "The news is well boring, innit?"
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post That would be lovely
but doesn't work well with party politics. Suppose the government put forward a bill to ban, say, red paint, and my area had the largest red paint factory in the country employing hundreds. My MP though, is a member of that government, and boy, do they want a Cabinet post. Represent the people and commit career suicide or toe the party line?
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sorry but that's a terrible idea.
Many people have no idea of what candidates' views are, much less caring enough to find out instead of just voting for whichever candidate their party of choice is fielding.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 19:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post how about: don't restrict the voters, restrict the campaigners
by holding them accountable for any lies they spin or promises they can't back up, with serious penalties
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well that would be the end of politics

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post make political ads
subject to the same regulations as normal ads would be a nice start... an ASA for political ads through an independent fact checking body like fullfact.org
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post That is a very good idea!

(, Sat 25 Jun 2016, 10:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post thing is, your average person loves TV
loves getting wound up about shit they know nothing about. There were no reasonable and fact based stuff out there, just people picking a side and sticking with it. All based on shitty tabloid bull.

This is just how life is, and always will be.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post saying this is how it will always be
is exactly why this is how it will always be
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm not holding out
for them to educate the masses :)
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 18:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post I clicked "I like this"
In my democracy I would have been able to click three times, at lest.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 23:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post Why be negative, why not adopt more positive encouragement?
Why don't we reward politicians based on outcome?

If they keep to referendum promises and deliver them - bonus
If they keep the economy balanced - bonus
If they reduce poverty and increase permanent employment - bonus

You get the picture. Motivate to do positive change, to keep thing improving, not just ticking over or getting worse.

We also need to disassociate government from lobbying, treat it as corruption.
(, Sat 25 Jun 2016, 11:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's all very ironic that there seems to be this attitude all over the Internet at the moment
by those who have deemed themselves far more competent and superior to the knuckle dragging racists who voted out.

Fact is the In campaign was a shambles of threats and scare stories. Nothing positive about Europe or a positive future in it. Having Cameron and Osborne as the two prominent faces of the In campaign was a disaster as well as so many just wanted to give them a bloody nose. There should have been a neutral but respected face to lead the remain campaign and I don't mean David Beckham.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post ahem
It's all very ironic that there seems to be this attitude all over the Internet at the moment
by those who have deemed themselves far more competent and superior to the knuckle dragging racists who voted out.

I don't think it's that, I think it's that it's annoyance that people turned on the tv, and made such a complex decision as if they where watching big brother...

I have yet to find someone on the leave side who has truly done their research, and yet to find one that doesn't at some point spout a soundbite which has been proved to be inaccurate.

this was a battle fought with hearts when it should have been fought with minds.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post If the electorate weren't fully informed
of the benefits of staying, then whose fault is that?
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post thats the lazyness i'm talking about
we know that misinformation is what will tried to be sown, so OUR responsibility is to pursue unbiased information, fucking hell, in the referendum all you had to do was google "completely independent EU advice" and you got fullfact.org... that's the bare fucking minimum effort, and most people just couldn't be bothered with it...
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post Exactly

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 20:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oh, wake up.
How do you think the politicians decide how to vote?
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post I don't understand
your point?
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Our elected representatives
know fuck all about the things they vote about. They get it presented in a bulletpoint list, prepared by whatever lobby/pressuregroup that have access to them.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post but I wasn't talking about elected representatives,
i was talking about the general public in a referendum situation.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post oddly
I thought the phrase "leave it to those who do want to take it seriously" was refering to politicians. I realise now I was wrong.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post no harm no foul, my sentence structure isn't great on lack of sleep and too much coffee!
see resolution... and we did it all without either of us calling the other a cunt.

it's almost like a rational discussion can be had an a mutual agreement made!
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post ^This
And they get as good whipping if they do not toe the line. Many enjoy this though
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 20:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post it's like that saying about
more cooks than needed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JibxHpXqAfc
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post It wasn't the fuckwits fault, it was those people who think they are smarter.
They just didn't bother to vote. Although 75% of people under 30 voted remain, too many just couldn't be arsed to vote, even with the extra two days to register.

So if you want to blame someone, don't bother pointing the finger at leavers, have a word with your mates who wanted to remain but didn't bother voting. They lost it, leave didn't win it.

Now of course they are demanding a new referendum. Doesn't work that way, sunshine, you had a chance and you blew it.

With thanks from those of us who did bother.
(, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 11:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post left 'er brain at home

(, Sat 25 Jun 2016, 9:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post Talcum powder?
Mg3Si4O10(OH)2 doesn't look very flammable to me.

Flour or custard powder on the other hand can be.

Edit: I was right, Johnson's Baby Powder contains corn starch as its first ingredient:
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post I love it when you talk all scientificy like

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post Pretty much any thin dry powder is flammable
Try blowing cocoa powder at a flame. TRY IT
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post True
dust explosion

As kids we used to collect sachets of coffee whitener from cafes and pour them over a naked flame. I suppose today's kids are watching interracial cream pies instead.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post What?! Why I oughta...

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post I meant do not TRY IT at home
Luckily you had your sunbed goggles on
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post He seems quite satisfied with results

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Wait, I though black mens' sperm was white too. Learn something new everyday!

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post That's where the cocoa powder comes in, you see

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post men's
Sorry, couldn't resist the calling of the apostrophe.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post corn starch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLFUlDv8n8M
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:20, , Reply)
This is a link post Sour Grapes Petition...
A petition for one who enjoys sour grapes and lost causes.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post Maybe should have made that when the referendum was first announced.
Bit late now.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yep the ultimate adventure in pointlessness...like an afterthought protest.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post Wot 'e said
I suppose it could be an effort to keep the Scots in, maybe.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post Petitions lol

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post down for maintenance?

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post Appropriate

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:03, , Reply)
This is a link post The Nightmare Man
Christ. Everyone is full of gloom this morning.
Have a vintage BBC thriller/Sci-fi production. Proper scared me as a child.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post I have no recollection whatsoever
However did that make you turn into one of those many raging naked drunk barbarians rampaging through the one street of your village staring endlessly at the mosquito-repellent toaster out the window of robert dyas whilst fondling an imaginary erection through their trousers pocket?? Just wondering.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:06, , Reply)
This is a link post It begins.........
Rural area overwhelmingly voted 'out' now concerned that it's gonna be fucked without annual EU subsidy. That they just overwhelmingly voted to decline.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post The hangover begins.
Basically the country has woken up with a massive "Grate Birtain" tattoo on its face
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post Summed up perfectly

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post Haha, absolutely this

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post Spot on.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 19:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post well i'm currently in Cornwall and we're having a celebratory cream tea and wicker man.
On a serious note I would expect the council to ask the government what their plans are. Hopefully not having to pay our membership dues will more than cover current funding plus the rebuilding of our fishing fleet will help get the Cornish off handouts.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm sure they'll reopen a couple of tin mines too while they're at it
Sounds like just the sort of thing the tories would do
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post Tungsten too apparently.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post "not having to pay our membership dues will more than cover current funding plus the rebuilding of our fishing fleet will help get the Cornish off handouts"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA............I'm assuming that didn't even manage to type that without pissing yourself laughing.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well glad you had a chuckle!

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post I despair.
[also, I fail at posting.


(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:57, , Reply)
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(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post So areas benifitting worst from the current situation and needing eu hand outs vote to change the status quo?

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post
56.5% isn't exactly "overwhelmingly". I'd wager this is the other 43.5% shitting their pants like the rest of us.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post I know.
-1 for me being a drama queen.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post Then take a look at these two fuckwits...
Voted leave but didn't think "leave" would win, now regret voting leave.

twitter.com/MetroUK/status/746272529875034114

www.itv.com/news/update/2016-06-24/leave-voter-disappointed-and-wishes-to-vote-remain/
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post Cut them loose
Yokel cunts
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post Christ almighty, people are idiots.
Where do they think the subsidies came from?
The money you no longer have to contribute to the EU can now be spend directly, without the rest of the EU creaming it off.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post If the government so chooses

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post A government
elected by it's people.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yes.. but
The leave side dismissed the rebuttals about their 350million a week figure regarding EU investment by saying, basically, "yeah but we don't get to choose what we spend that money on so nerrrrrr"
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 18:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post This seemed to be something both sides twisted to their own ends.
Here's a simplified metyfour thing.

You give me £18 to be part of the club.

I say "nah mate, knock a fiver off that because you keep moaning about the cost"

Then I spend £4.50 on a prezzie I think you'll like.

The remaining £8.50 I spend on club maintance and some of the poorer members.

Some will say the club costs £8.50 and some will say £13 because they would rather had vouchers and bought their own prezzie.

Now times those numbers by a billion.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 20:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post
club maintance providing lavish jobs for clapped out politicians and maintaining a ridiculously oversized club administration organisation and moving said organisation twice a year between expensive offices that lay empty the rest of the time
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 21:49, , Reply)
This is a link post Much hello I am the bald eagle
Random thought for the day.

#didntvote
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post Thanks for that.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post
you are welcome!
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post This has made me smile
Which for today is fucking amazing. 50 points to you sir/madam.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post Is that the Queen to his right? Aww, bless.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post "I think we're doing very well in the United States also
and it is essentially the same thing that is happening in the United States."

insightful, in a Miss South Carolina 2007 kind of way
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post She's a keeper!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPXEdJ_Gtx0

Still makes more sense than Trump though.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ironically...
www.wnd.com/2007/09/43623/
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post You simply could not make that up.
Remarkable.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:11, , Reply)
This is a link post this sprang to mind this morning
i'm avoiding everyone and everything today./
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 9:31, , Reply)
This is a link post Fluke - Absurd
Anybody with a heart votes love.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 9:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post Excellent...I raise your "Absurd" with "Unbelievable"
Really...Unbelievable
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 9:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post Haven't heard that for ages.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 9:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post
Fluke - Aldi price Underworld.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:15, , Reply)
This is a link post Nigel Farage on TV this morning saying how their campaign was all lies
quelle surprise
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 7:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post Famous politician in 'didn't tell the truth' shocker.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 8:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post Normally it takes them a bit more than a couple of hours to go back on their promises.
(At least in public)
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 8:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post He's new to this whole "victory" thing

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 8:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post Very happy not to be British today.
A majority of you have shown yourselves to be absolute idiots, it's sad.

Still, at least everyone will now have jobs, houses and can be racist again (so they think).
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 8:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post At least we get to vote for the new PM, now we've got power back from the EU. Right?
oh fuck
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 8:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post
*cries*
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 9:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well atleast the economy isn't tanking
fucksocks!
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 9:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well, look on the bright side.
That £350 million pounds a week* which we currently send to the EU will go to the NHS instead.
* A figure consistently debunked by the head of the UK Statistics Authority
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 9:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Is that the figure that Farage said was bollocks 1 hour after winning?

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post Funnily enough what was £350m five hours ago is devalued to about £170m
so they were right about it in the first place.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think I now know
how it felt to be an American that didn't vote for Bush.

Some sort of combination of embarrassment/shame/doom.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 9:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post Does it not occur to you
that this kind of sneering, arrogant message is what lost the remain vote?

I actually shut down Twitter and Facebook for this reason, the bien-pensant "don't these ghastly people understand how wrong they are" attitude was so misguided and truly offensive.

I despair of this country when so many people look down their noses at others for not having the same opinion, casting them as racists, bigots and ignorant.

How about trying to bring people on side with a positive message and inclusive reasons? How about listening to them without lecturing and haranguing them?

This should have been a easy win for Remain and they fucked it up royally.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post I've kept my opinions to myself, on here and in public.
Do you think some people posting on B3ta may have lost Remain the vote by voicing opinions on here?
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post I not sure B3ta had much of an influence
it's an echo chamber of liberal opinions.

The problem is that those liberal voices become very illiberal if someone disagrees. I see in the replies to my post we have comments about bigots, racists and Daily Mail readers who are too stupid to vote.

So much for democracy, votes are only for people whose opinions we approve of. If that's not bigotry, then what is?

Time to look into the mirror and realise that it was arrogant, narrow minded attitudes towards the voter that lost it.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post The left loves diversity, as long as it's not diversity of opinion.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post Do you normally take people off ignore, reply in their threads and then put them back on ignore again?
What's the point in having people on ignore if you're going to do that?
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post
He does it all the time - utter cunt.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post
"Time to look into the mirror and realise that it was arrogant, narrow minded attitudes towards the voter that lost it."

And the Leave campaign really approached their targeted voters with the utmost respect for their intelligence and knowledge, not playing up to, fostering and exploiting narrow minded attitudes at all.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post doesn't matter what leave did
it was up to the remain team to put forward a constructive, positive message to win. Not "if you don't vote remain, we'll punish you with a bastard budget"

A case study in how to turn a forgone victory into defeat. Waste all your time attacking the alternate viewpoints rather than taking to voter with you.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post
It does matter what Leave did, they played up to inherent fear and prejudices and told people what they wanted to hear. A constructive, positive message by Remain would only appeal to the people who were already set on remaining, it wasn't about constructive argument or anything else, it was about who could shout the loudest and shout what people wanted to hear.

Remain should have taken a different approach but rationality isn't what people wanted to hear, they couldn't be arsed with economics or anything else, they wanted everything to be simplified and translated as 'all these problems were because of Europe and Johnny Foreigner coming over here etc.'
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post and in a nutshell you show why remain lost
"rationality isn't what people wanted to hear, they couldn't be arsed with economics or anything else, they wanted everything to be simplified and translated as 'all these problems were because of Europe and Johnny Foreigner coming over here etc.'"

Nice broad brush stroke there, how many voters did you interview before you formed this denigrating opinion?

The majority of voters really, really craved information and advice on which way to vote. Instead they were fed horseshit from both sides and had to guess what to do.

It's a complete failure of politics to inform and advise. It's symptomatic of the disconnect between politicans and who they represent. Blaming the voters by categorising them as simpletons and bigots is why they stuck two fingers up at the elites, both in the UK and Brussels.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 17:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post
I didn't interview any voters, i didn't have to.

I spend most of my time in the north and to say there isn't a huge blame game with 'foreigners' being responsible for people being unemployed etc. Is to not see the wood for the trees, especially in outer parts of Greater Manchester.

To pretend that people don't have the attitude that it's other's to blame for their own situations is being a bit naive, they were fed horse shit as that's what it was deemed they wanted to be fed, and it worked.

Leave got it right.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 18:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post what sort of a positive message would you offer against nazi propaganda and dead MPs in the streets?
'Brown people are great, yeah, and we dont gun down your representatives'

Fucking hell
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post errr
Why it's good to be in the EU, what great things will happen in the future. What are the benefits to each individual - you know, all the good stuff that we get from being a member.

Go negative and the reaction is always bad.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post Stuff like keeping the pound and the FTSE at a decent level? Protecting everyones jobs?
Was that message not coming through?

What do you say to people who are willing to vote down a recession upon themselves?
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post we have no idea if that will happen
lower pound, exports more attractive. But the truth is no-one knows what will happen next. Even George Soros who creates choas to make money got it wrong, although he probably had a pretty good hedge running.

I was convinced that we would remain, or if it was a narrow leave vote that we would be persuaded to stay. I still think that is possible, but it won't help if we carry on insulting our neighbours for not voting the same way we did.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post pound and FTSE have already plunged
Exports not more attractive if you cant get them as easily into the market place.

All going exactly as the Remain camp claimed it would so far
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post Nothing has changed
Its people making money on the markets, they ran exit polls and bet big on this. Everyone expected a drop on a leave vote, you have to wait a while to see where things end up once the spivs have lined their pockets.

Any trade barriers put up will hurt the EU far worse than the UK. Also, we export mostly outside the EU, so noting has changed there. A lot goes through EU ports and looks like EU exports, but it ends up elsewhere.

I would wait and see before claiming the world is collapsing
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post You mean there's a chance my job wont disappear and and I will be able to pay my mortgage and feed my family?
Phew!!! I will certainly be waiting and seeing with the greatest of interest. Bated breath here.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post Me too
I work in France for a large French organisation and live in the UK, so I have a very strong interest in what happens next. I also did a lot of checking before the vote and spoke with lawyers.

By the way, the French are even more eurosceptic than the UK. If there wasn't a Brexit, I would have anticipated one of the other EU countries voting to leave. There is a lot of discontent throughout the EU with how Brussels has handled recent crises.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post I did a lot of checking too
I didnt speak to any lawyers but I did have the massed ranks of the world's politicans, economists, historians, constitutional experts, and business people lining up on telly every night for a month telling me it was a bad idea. Nobel prize winners, the lot
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post
For years any problem with the UK has been blamed by politicians and the media on the EU, from NHS waiting lists to wage stagnation. The positives of EU membership is schrodingers cat...without doing over 40 years without the EU any positive can be seen by opponents as irrelevant.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post You're right
but the truth is, a lot of people (on both sides) are stupid, short-sighted, and ignorant. That's just the reality of things and there's not much point trying to deny it

What proportion of the British population do you think are actually smart, well-informed, and rational-minded enough that you'd genuinely value their opinion on a subject as important as this?

I reckon less than 10%.

(I count myself as part of the other 90%, by the way)
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post Also
there are a lot of racists. Have a look at the DM comments section and the stuff that gets upvoted

https://twitter.com/DMReporter/status/745964921440116736

"wiping these smelly, trouble-making immigrants off the face of the earth" and you've got people piling in to approve.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post The progressive parties' task now is to increase the proportion of smart, well-informed, and rational-minded
Massive investment in education system is only way. Scrap tuition fees, school building program, properly funded, none of that PFI bullshit. Will take generations. Does seem unlikely to happen soon
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yep.
The things that would make us a better society are things that will only be done by people our current society isn't going to vote for.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post ^ This with fucking bells on

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post My favourite one I overheard in the kitchen today
"People are too stupid to be allowed to vote. If they can't vote the right way then they shouldn't be allowed to vote at all."
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post Let's rephrase that
"If people are too stupid to vote, they shouldn't be allowed to vote."

I'm thinking of the hordes of mindless cockweasels that read the gutter press and vote accordingly. And old people who are clearly away with the fairies. "Grandma knows best." No she doesn't, she's always letting dodgy roofers in.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post so who decides?
You? Does democracy now depend on who you approve of?

British people are on the whole very decent. We don't have race riots, we all get along pretty well in the main. We get to spout opinions on B3ta and do stupid pictures making fun of our political leaders. Our legal system is 100% better than that in the EU, innocent until proven guilty and all that. There are a lot, lot worse places to live.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post This was an issue far too complicated to be put to a referendum
That's the problem. Whether you live in Tunbridge Wells or Merthyr Tydfil it's highly unlikely you have a grasp of the true implications of remaining or leaving. Hence the vote was decided on the front pages of the tabloids; hence it's bullshit.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post I agree, there should not have been a referendum
It was far too complex to predict what would happen next, for every downside there is an upside. Pound goes down, our exports are more competitive, but French wine and BMWs cost more. We don't pay into the EU, but instead have to pay for more bureaucrats in Whitehall to replace the ones in Brussels.

Either way it was a voyage into the unknown, so asking the question was pointless and painful. It's set half the population against the other just to avoid losing votes to UKIP.

We have representative democracy so that our MPs decide on things like this. Cameron was a fool for calling it and now he has paid the price.

Of course MPs can ignore the referendum, and that is a potential outcome. No-one on the leave side seems keen to pull the trigger yet, so it may be that more concessions come our way, then we stay in. We shall see, it's not over yet.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post let's wait and see the terms of the new trade deals before we assume our exports are going to be more competitive
Exporters certainly dont seem to think they will

Imports certainly will cost more so the cost of living will rise which will fuck the poor who voted for all this hardest. Well done everyone
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post the Germans have already said they'll keep things as they are, there are a lot of EU jobs depending on no trade barriers.
Also, the terms can't be worse than WTO rules, which were not far off EU tariffs.

My guess is not much will change.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post Totally sick of people banging on about democracy...
with a Tory party only 25% of the population voted for. There are shades of democracy and us...with a Queen...a House of Lords don't have what many people think we have, we don't have a referendum on every law. There is an expectation that we elect people to make certain decisions for us...you know because they are meant to know what to do and read up on all the dull facts.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post so would you say the same if remain had won?
Democracy in the UK is shit, so the result is invalid?

Or would you say "in your face Farage, loser! Democracy prevails!"
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yes, all of them things apart from the invalid bit.
I just mean it is all democracy, democracy, democracy but once you drill down it is all about boarder controls, foreigners, harking back to a past that never really existed and some mong wanting to get their blue passport back.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post nobody who voted remain even wanted this vote in the first place
and would have been quite happy if it never happened even if they won it

In fact I think most of the remainers would have been shitting themselves even if they had won, seeing how close they came to the idiots taking over.

"congratulations you won with 52% of the vote. Now enjoy your life in a country where nearly half the population hates your guts."
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post A two thirds majority I would grudgingly accept
But just squeaking in over the line like this… too many people are too thick to understand the consequences of their actions.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post Anyone voting one way or another on such an important decision because they feel...
...sneered at...is an idiot.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post the irony is strong in this one

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hahaha

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 13:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post Prufrock wins
Urgh
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 8:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hopefully this will be a red flag to any Americans complacent about Trump...
...people really do believe what these people say...like a greasy used car salesman.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 9:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post yep
welcome to US style trump politics… get the thickos out who normally don’t vote, and get them riled up with an argument based in nationalism and emotion… the death of information… all of our elections will now be fought on “who can shout the loudest” and the “honey pot” for politicians is going to be “the thick, the disenfranchised and intellectually lazy”
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 9:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post it'll be the opposite, they'll think the brits voted a silly haired man, we should too

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post haha ace
and scarey
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post That's Owen Wilson
isn't it?
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post Owen Wilson has let himself go

(, Sun 26 Jun 2016, 10:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post Although...
Now that the UK is about to leave the EU, there is no longer any reason to have an UK independence party, is there?
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post Their single m.p said that they're going after labour voters now.
Time will tell if Labour can reconnect with their traditional voters.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post I bet they replace Corbyn with some fucking Blairite cunt

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post Can't see the party members voting in a blairite especially as the Chilcot reports about to be released.
Echo!
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post Can't see the party members voting in a blairite especially as the Chilcot reports about to be released.
Echo!
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post They could use another euphemism.
Sorry, 'phemism.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 10:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post they will just rename it to
"massive nazi wankers party" and continue their real agenda.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post Surely as he's not any sort of government minister, just a loudmouth figurehead
He never should have been asked that question anyway, as it's not his place to give a committed answer?
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 12:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post He's pretty much nobody now.

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 14:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post
It's not his place to make promises either.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post what if he promises
NOT to make any promises?
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 15:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ok by me.
You ok, titsy? :D
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN!

(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 20:43, , Reply)
This is a link post brave coppers crack down on sick twisted animal exploitation
Another tale of cops and rubbers.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 5:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post
youtu.be/lc7dmu4G8oc
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 5:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post bloody EU technocrats
I bet those ducks weren't regulation size
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 9:11, , Reply)
This is a link post Behind the scenes of the Battle of The Bastards.
10 hours on one fight scene would tick me off as well.
(, Fri 24 Jun 2016, 4:52, , Reply)

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