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I don't think I will ever stop being astounded that it was revealed that the Brexit campaign was a big fraud and the British government just said, "oh well, too bad."
You should look at the voice that started Brexit, where it came from, and where it is right now.
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The government knew exactly what they were doing.
At the very least, Labour should have run on a ticket saying that people were led on and Brexit would not happen without another vote, but they basically said that the people had spoken as well.
That would be the move for any party that wasn't just controlled opposition.
A second vote sets a dangerous precedent if you ever want to do something unpopular.
When it's revealed there was fraud behind the original vote?
If there was fraud show the trial and proof it affected the outcome, then start talking about another vote. There's essentially some low levels of fraud in every vote.
The precedent would be you have to explicitly say what you're going to do in the first vote.
Every single person in the campaign was "oh we'd never leave the single market" and when that became an option afterwards it needed a new referendum.
The news to me is that Tony Soprano got a new gig as a truck driver.
I mean this is what ya voted for, people who wanted Brexit. To keep the foreigners that bring food and stuff to your table out.
All I know he never had the makings of a varsity athlete
To be fair I would be very very very thorough with any truck Tony Soprano is driving
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Antonio Soprano, 62, who was stopped while bringing plants into the country from central Italy, said he was offered nothing to eat during his 55-hour ordeal and instead was told by border officials that he should walk to a McDonald’s more than a mile away to get a meal.
After eventually being released from the Sevington facility in Ashford, Kent, in the early hours of the morning, he was then clamped and had to pay a £185 fine after difficulties finding a place to park in the middle of the night.
It comes just over a month after the government brought in new post-Brexit rules on 30 April, which require some lorries transporting plant and animal goods from the continent to be checked at designated border control posts along the British coast.
Soprano, who speaks no English, said no efforts were made to explain to him what was happening, claiming he was just repeatedly told by officials to wait.
The waiting facilities for drivers consist of a small room with a few tables, with only water provided and no food.
The lorry was held because of concerns about 10 Prunus lusitanica plants in the load, which border officials thought could be carrying harmful pests.
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