Brexit bill passed into law, House of Lords to go.

[GB9]

The Majority voted to leave. I was in the loosing camp and was bitterly disappointed by the outcome but that's democracy and now the process MUST begin. Having said that I've got no doubt that when the reality of things finally hits the govt(and the deluded 'We can have our cake and eat it' brigade)we will finally find out just how weak our hand really is. Geroge Osborne's speech during this debate was quite telling....

Good to see you have accepted the result regardless.

We have GEs every few years. On most occasions the majority don't get what they want but they accept it and get on with it.

By all means people should keep campaigning for what they believe in. What has been pathetic is the refusal of some to accept the result and to use their wealth to stop the result being enacted. That's the sort of thing that happens in dodgy first world dictatorships. .

[OwlHoot]

Chortle - It's Milan! He never told us he was in the military.

[OwlHoot]

The HoL need to do the decent thing now and show the world how democracy works, put this bill in the shredder.

That's possibly the daftest thing I've read on CUK for months, against pretty stiff competition (mostly from your other EU related posts!)

[Eirikur]

Nobody was bullied into anything. The people voted and that's that.

If the Lords, that group of appointed cronies and title inheritors, decides to block this then they should be removed forthwith. We will get rid of the socialist self-important for good.

The above proves the lords are being bullied into voting in favour of the bill. There are also countless MP's who wanted to vote against but were not allowed by bullies and whips saying they had to perform their "patriotic duty" and vote for brexit

[scooterscot]

That's possibly the daftest thing I've read on CUK for months, against pretty stiff competition (mostly from your other EU related posts!)

Mob rules coming our way...

The O2 arena could become the new colosseum.

[d000hg]

It's outrageous how MPs and the lords are bullied into accepting the brexit bill
48% voted against Brexit and many people did not vote or were not allowed to vote because they were under 18 These have to be taken into consideration. So let's hope the Lords are not as scared for the bullies as the MPs and give it a real hard time

I think possibly the "vote as your constituency voted" forced 'free' vote might've been slightly more diplomatic but my default position is that I'm not a big supporter of the Whip in any case, really.

[NigelJK]

The Tories have done more damage to the economy than Labour ever

Drugs are bad M'Kay.

[scooterscot]

Good to see you have accepted the result regardless.

We have GEs every few years. On most occasions the majority don't get what they want but they accept it and get on with it.

By all means people should keep campaigning for what they believe in. What has been pathetic is the refusal of some to accept the result and to use their wealth to stop the result being enacted. That's the sort of thing that happens in dodgy first world dictatorships. .

It was not a result you....

It was a campaign built on lies and false information. You can hardly call that democracy when the majority of Brexit voters believed they'd see more money for their health service, less immigration, and so forth.

You were lied to. And instead of taking umbrage you're lapping it up.

[NotAllThere]

WTF would we need a 60% vote to leave? Democracy is one person one vote. Everyone equal, not skewed 60/40 in favour of one side.

It is not uncommon for referendums to have such a skewing, especially when the choice is between changing or not. For example, votes on independence in various places have required 2/3 majority. A 60/40 win either way would have put the nail in the losers' arguments, pretty much. EU referendum: 'Anything less than 60/40 for remain puts Brexit back on the agenda'

It's to ensure that there's no arguments like "if you conducted the referendum now, you'd get a different result".

However, Cameron probably didn't want to do a 60% because it would have looked as if he was worried he'd lose. Once again demonstrating how he put his own political position before the good of the country.

Democracy has many forms and "all votes being equal" is only one of them. You seem very politically naive. You really should do some studying

[GB9]

Mob rules coming our way...

The O2 arena could become the new colosseum.

Yes, mob rules. The mobiles being the majority in a one person one vote referendum.

Thankfully it's not the self-important, arrogant minority that will rule.