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UK Supreme Court scheduled to make landmark ruling on Brexit
The United Kingdom Supreme Court will rule whether Parliament or ministers have the power to begin the Brexit process. The landmark judgment, to be announced early Wednesday will decide how the EU's Article 50 exit clause is triggered. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBit late it's already ruled...Parliament to decide and devolved Govt's have no say...
Jan 24th, 2017 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse -5Oh no...here we go again from the ..wee ginger dug...Guess what...?
Superb. Roll-on Indyref2. :-)
Jan 24th, 2017 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse -3Suuuuuuperb...!
Jan 24th, 2017 - 10:11 pm - Link - Report abuse -6Go for it..., ye wee bonnie Albann ging fury...!
:-)))
What did you think of CFK's speech about Trump, Think?
Jan 24th, 2017 - 10:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mr. DemonTree
Jan 24th, 2017 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse -2?
This thing:
Jan 24th, 2017 - 11:35 pm - Link - Report abuse -2http://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201611/170037-crsitina-fernandez-de-kirchner-elecciones-estados-unidos-donald-trump.html
FC pasted a link about it yesterday.
Mr.DemonTree...
Jan 25th, 2017 - 12:26 am - Link - Report abuse -4I can no other tan agree with many of the concepts on that speech...
For example...:
“Los ciudadanos de Estados Unidos buscaron con su voto a alguien que rompa con el establishment económico”
”Donald Trump personifica la crisis de la representación política producto de la aplicación de políticas neoliberales desde el Consenso de Washington”.
“Qué nadie piense que el pueblo estadounidense es una sociedad racista, porque hace ocho años eligió al primer presidente afroamericano”
”Yo creo que Estados Unidos no es un país presidencialista sino que es un país sistémico, que lo maneja un sistema de poderes y por eso no tiene mayor sentido (especular) quien es más conveniente para la Argentina”.
“Lo que sí asusta en distintos puntos es el surgimiento de los pensamientos extremos”.
“Es una inmensa burrada asignar los problemas económicos a la inmigración porque el problema no es el inmigrante sino cuando se concentra la riqueza en pocas manos”.
Why...?
Forget CFK - for Christ's sake!! No wonder her speeches last 3 hours.
Jan 25th, 2017 - 07:36 am - Link - Report abuse +3This is more fitting:
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken, 1920
@Think
Jan 25th, 2017 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It seems to me that most CFK supporters would oppose Trump, and vice versa, so I was surprised she would point out the similarities without emphasising the differences more.
Also many people here are against Trump's protectionist plans, as they opposed CFK's. Since you support her, I wondered if you actually think they will be good for America?
And the part about people voting for him despite what the media said. Do you agree with her that that is a good thing? I think the loss of trust in the media will be a big problem in the US and other countries in the future. If people can longer even agree on what the facts are, how are they supposed to make sensible decisions in elections or about anything?
Mr. DemonTree...
Jan 25th, 2017 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse -2You say...:
“It seems to me that most CFK supporters would oppose Trump, and vice versa, so I was surprised she would point out the similarities without emphasising the differences more.”
I say...:
What about reading what I wrote...?... :
A) ”Lo que sí asusta en distintos puntos es el surgimiento de los pensamientos extremos”.
B) “Es una inmensa burrada asignar los problemas económicos a la inmigración porque el problema no es el inmigrante sino cuando se concentra la riqueza en pocas manos”.
- And... I would like to add that..., during the 12 years f Kirchner administraton..., the Argentinean immigration regulations were substantially eased..., allowing some 4,000,000 ostly destitute neighbours to enter our country and seach for a better life...
Does anybody need any more “emphasis in the diferences” between Cristina and Donald...?
I already knew they had very different views on immigration. But aren't there more differences than just that?
Jan 25th, 2017 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Anyway, will you answer my two questions above about protectionism and the media?
Mr. DemonTree....
Jan 25th, 2017 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lots of “more differences than just that”
As I have told you many times before... Your mum doesn't work here... DYOR...
1) “Protectionism”...:
IMHO..., each and every existing developed country today has developed by means of more or less protectionistic economic policies (the UK is no exception)...
Once at the top of the Sociotechnoeconomic pyramid..., they develop a sudden appetite for Free Market Economic Policies on their customer countries side that guarantee their position on said pyramid...
2) “Media”
IMHO..., the free mainstreet “Media” was already agonizing at the beginning of the fifties and died around Kennedy's time...
Anything else...?
@Think
Jan 25th, 2017 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Relax, I'm not asking you to research anything for me - not sure where you got that idea - only for your opinion.
About protectionism, the great majority of countries do still practice it in a minor form. Otherwise there would be no point to all these free trade deals or the EU single market. So the question is really whether a particular policy is a good idea or not. For example, you apparently think leaving the single market will be bad for the UK's economy. I think Trump's attempts to turn back the clock on US manufacturing jobs will just end up costing the country more in the long run.
But you didn't actually answer the question. The US is at the top of the 'Sociotechnoeconomic pyramid' and they have just changed their mind about Free Market Economic Policies. How does that fit with your theory?
And if you think the media 'died' in Kennedy's time, why do you still bother reading it and linking articles? You really don't think there is a difference since the rise of the internet?
Another similarity to Argentina, the U.S. has been downgraded to a Flawed Democracy. First time ever for the U.S.. Trump has achieved that in his first week in office.
Jan 25th, 2017 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As Mr. Voice so well puts it in the first post of this thread...
Jan 25th, 2017 - 08:30 pm - Link - Report abuse -2”Parliament (Engrish) to decide and (UK) devolved Govt's have no say...“
”Flawed Democracy”... anyone...?
A slight delay and nothing more,
Jan 25th, 2017 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the remain diehards like Tim farron nick clegg tony blare and the SNP will achieve nothing but the contempt of democracy that they so brag to love,
either way, Great Britain is on its way and nothing can stop it,
Its only rumours that Mr Blair has been offered the presidency of the northern province if he can get Britain to stay in,
just fake news I hear..
By the way..., Anglo Turnipette ElaineB...
Jan 25th, 2017 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse -1The downgrading of the USA as a “Flawed Democracy” by the British Economist Inteligence Unit is NOT Mr. Trump's archievement...:
“The U.S. has been teetering on the brink of becoming a flawed democracy for several years, and even if there had been no presidential election in 2016, its score would have slipped below 8.00,” the report explained. Instead, dwindling trust in government, elected representatives and political parties is to blame.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/25/us-is-no-longer-a-full-democracy-eiu-warns.html
Educate yourself and avoid further embarrasments...
Well that's cheering news. The most powerful country in the world is now a flawed democracy, and the next most powerful are infinitely worse.
Jan 26th, 2017 - 12:10 am - Link - Report abuse +1And as for the devolved governments having no say; Britain is not a federal union. Maybe it should be, but it isn't, and that's why the court ruled the way it did. Parliament isn't English, it has MPs from all four countries, and some of them are trying to throw a spanner in the works. But I don't think it'll make much difference in the end.
Think/voice
Jan 26th, 2017 - 12:12 am - Link - Report abuse -1Doesn't mean she hasn't other things in common with Trump - racist, protectionist, lying, propagandizing, and hate-mongering.
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