(03-02-2017 09:32 )The Silent Majority Wrote: [ -> ]Says the man who posts endlessly in this thread, yet didn't have the balls to actually vote in the referendum.
(Cue a long post full of bullshit and links nobody bothers to click on)
A democracy is a right to vote, but it is also a right not to vote.
Some of us like to look at things from every angle and not just knee jerk vote.
Some of us read up on what could be a possitive outcome of leaving the EU, some off us didn't just assume it would be all doom and gloom and the sky falling in.
Some of us didn't suddenly start living in denial about vast imigration into a small island being a problem, some of us didn't forget the press being full of attacks on imigrants and the government stating it was a problem, some of us didn't suddenly think imigration was the best thing in the world and the only way the UK could survive, more the merrier and open our boarders please.
However, someone us saw that we were the fifth richest country, some of us also read where at best UK would be 2% better of leaving the EU by GDP, 2% worst off if leaving also.
Some of us asked the question, was leaving the EU worth that increase in GDP IF it happened, control of our own law making, and control of imigration.
Some of us came to the conclusion that if all the above did fall into place then it would indeed be a fantasitic thing for the UK to leave.
BUT, and it's a big BUT.
It all depends on the unkonwn and whether the rest of the EU will play ball, and the unknown and the rest of the EU playing ball is a pretty big IF.
Some of us stated clearly in post 157, I was debating whether to vote leave or not vote (voting stay was never part of the agender), the intention was quite clear from the start. Some of us at the time decided after a lot of reading everywhere there was not enough evidence, even if the good case scenario occured, that the UK would be massively better off for leaving, some of us therefore decided not to vote. Some of us knew there was no where near enough information to really make a proper informed decision, but propaganda and rhetoric on both sides, what evidence was there was vastly complex for lay poeple.
Now I'm sorry if your brain can't comprihend that, even though some of us have told you, how many times is it now? But you don't HAVE to vote if you don't think there's any point in doing so.
If you was a little bit brighter, you'd probably realise that at the time of voting some of us was probably more pro EU then brexit otherwise some of us would have voted out.
) and it's perfectly possible that there wasn't any paracetamol in the Houses of Parliament.