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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2018 08:05:51 UTC Hallå Kitteh

   • Chris Bowdon 🇬🇧🇪🇺
   • Mr. Lostman
   @cbowdon @cmdramarao The question posed was pretty clear in its way, and there was a clearly defined yes response[0]. But when people are trying to reason what The Voter meant or intended by saying yes, there just isn't any definite answer. Nobody has analyzed this and received a definite answer, and nobody has the incentive to, as it's much more convenient for everyone to project their own wishes onto The Voter.
   
   Personally I think The Voter meant anything from "Save the GBP from the ERM" to "get those brownies and Poles out of here" to "stop regulating our cucumbers" to "free trade for bananas!" to "I hate Krauts" to "British law for British people" to "Rule Britannia" to "fund the NHS" to "clearly an EEA agreement is where it's at" to "free trade for everyone!" to "fuck London" to "fuck banks" to "stop socialism now" to "stop neoliberalism now" to "if you say so, dear" to "intregovernmental not supranational" to "down with federalism" and there isn't a clear mandate to do much of anything.
   
   [0] even though people can of course always bicker about whether it was representative yada yada
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2018 02:51:55 UTC Hallå Kitteh
     May may or may not have to go in May, depending on local election results. MPs dismayed.
     
     > The fresh cabinet rift followed Boris Johnson’s open disagreement over NHS funding earlier this week and came at a fragile moment for the prime minister’s leadership as a string of Conservative MPs told the Guardian some of their colleagues were considering another attempt at ousting her if the local elections in May go badly.
     
     https://social.heldscal.la/url/1255173
     
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2018 03:14:02 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     in reply to
     > He warned May and her cabinet colleagues against allowing Brexit to become “only a damage limitation exercise”. He argued: “The British people did not vote for that. They did not vote for the management of decline. They voted for hope and opportunity and politicians must now deliver it.”
     
     Reminder that nobody knows for sure what the British people voted for.
   • Chris Bowdon 🇬🇧🇪🇺 (cbowdon@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2018 09:35:15 UTC Chris Bowdon 🇬🇧🇪🇺

     in reply to

     • Mr. Lostman

     @clacke @cmdr_amarao Yes, that’s what I was getting at (somewhat facetiously). At best we can conclude that 52% of people are unhappy with the status quo. Phrases like “the will of the British people” are nothing more than a warning flag that what comes next is unsubstantiated.

     It’s sad all round, except for those few people who are genuinely happy about the blue passports and other consolation prizes.

     Hallå Kitteh repeated this.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2018 09:56:34 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     in reply to

     • Chris Bowdon 🇬🇧🇪🇺
     • Mr. Lostman
     @cbowdon @cmdramarao EU doesn't mandate wine red, it's just a convention. :-)