Brexit: Stop border controls petition

[whitey]

Based on bookies odds the current likelihood of a vote to leave is 22% as opposed to 78% to stay. Meaning that it's not very likely that there will be a Brexit unless the stay side monumentally mess up in the remaining few weeks of the campaign.

Polls know fvck all....this will be close

[muppet]

I think Guardian readers are fairly convinced.

That reminds me of this classic scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

[armaghniac]

That reminds me of this classic scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

nah, you are just paying homage to my posting this link last week in the newspapers thread

Nonetheless, with such a set of influential supporters, you have to imagine that even if they somehow managed to pass this that there would be huge public support for a Swiss/Norway style strong links with the EU.

[muppet]

That reminds me of this classic scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

nah, you are just paying homage to my posting this link last week in the newspapers thread

Nonetheless, with such a set of influential supporters, you have to imagine that even if they somehow managed to pass this that there would be huge public support for a Swiss/Norway style strong links with the EU.

I have been posting quotes etc from that particular classic for a long time  :

Stole this idea from another site

To lighten the mood here are some quotes from the superb Yes Minister/Prime Minister:

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Prime Minister, in government, a clarification is not to make things clear. It's to *put* oneself in the clear.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Politicians like to panic. They need activity; it's their substitute for achievement! 

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Surveillance is an indispensable weapon in the battle against organized crime.
James Hacker: You're not describing politicians as organized crime?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: No... well, disorganized crime too of course.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: We really have to get the minister to climb up the flagpole and nail his trousers to the mast.
Bernard Woolley: Don't you mean nail the flag to the mast?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, nail his trousers to the mast, Bernard. That way he can't climb down again.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Bernard, Ministers should never know more than they need to know. Then they can't tell anyone. Like secret agents, they could be captured and tortured.
Bernard Woolley: You mean by terrorists?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: By the BBC, Bernard.

James Hacker: Elbows: the most important weapon in a politician's army.
Annie Hacker: Other than integrity!
James Hacker: Integrity?
[bursts out laughing]

James Hacker: So when this next comes up at Question Time, you want me to tell Parliament that it's their fault that the Civil Service is too big?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: But it is the truth, Minister.
James Hacker: I don't want the truth. I want something I can tell Parliament!

[armaghniac]

In the context of the present thread
https://vimeo.com/85914510

[muppet]

The Eurosausage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzeDZtx3wUw

[seafoid]

Brexit is the UK version of Trump. It attracts a similar demographic. BoJo is a Lidl version Trump.