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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has now tabled a vote of no confidence in the government, which could trigger a general election.
Mrs May said she would make time for a debate on the motion on Wednesday.
Mr Corbyn said the confidence vote would allow the Commons to "give its verdict on the sheer incompetence of this government".
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I honestly have little to no idea what Brexit is, nor do I really want to know either.
But in the most laymen terms possible why should I care about this? And why is Mrs May going up to another chopping block vote for her job again?
She isn't the person pushing for this separation, correct? She's just doing as the people have asked her to do. Correct?
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
I honestly have little to no idea what Brexit is, nor do I really want to know either.
It's like Texas voting to leave the US, with the US already having given permission for it to go.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
But in the most laymen terms possible why should I care about this?
Because it is the most significant world political event of our times. You should care because it affects absolutely everything in the global economy and is a reflection of US political policies playing out in Europe.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
She isn't the person pushing for this separation, correct? She's just doing as the people have asked her to do. Correct?
Yes, to the point of insanity. If you read what she writes and how she is talking, she sounds like a lunatic. She's crazy.
And absolutely not! They voted for a very specific set of circumstances, what she's trying to force through is nothing like what was voted for. You are hearing a near-dictator making crazy claims as she tries to trick one of the world's biggest economies into undermining democracy and destroying their economy.
Under normal times such a crushing defeat on a key piece of government legislation would be expected to be followed by a prime ministerial resignation.
But Mrs May signalled her intention to carry on in a statement immediately after the vote.
She is making the UK more like Venezuela than like Germany.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
And why is Mrs May going up to another chopping block vote for her job again?
Because she...
- Failed to deliver on what the UK voted that it wanted.
- Won't stop trying to destroy the country.
- Is attempting to undermine the democratic processes through media attention instead of admitting that what was voted for in the UK isn't plausible and that she can't possibly give people what they were told they would get in the vote.
- Isn't acting rationally or in the interest of her country.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
She's just doing as the people have asked her to do.
A "one way" "ratchet vote" is never part of anything the people "ask for", it's a mathematical trick to convince people that they wanted something that they didn't.
If they were doing "what the people wanted", they would be willing to vote again to see what the current people want under the current circumstances, instead of what a different set of citizens wanted under false pretenses.
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Although now the issue is that the UK isn't so welcome in the EU anymore. A lot of people in the EU are starting to wish that the UK would just go away. They've been behaving so badly, and their democracy is so poor, and they are acting so much more like the early stages of a dictatorship that they are seen as possibly being no longer desirable to have in such a close relationship as EU membership.
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@scottalanmiller TL:DR Mrs May is the Donald Trump of the UK.
Is all I needed.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
But in the most laymen terms possible why should I care about this?
Because it is the most significant world political event of our times. You should care because it affects absolutely everything in the global economy and is a reflection of US political policies playing out in Europe.
This is the part that I don't see how it specifically affects me. I'm such a tiny member in the world as a whole, and I've never been, likely will never go to the UK, and as such don't think this would affect me.
Regardless of how it affects others.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
But in the most laymen terms possible why should I care about this?
Because it is the most significant world political event of our times. You should care because it affects absolutely everything in the global economy and is a reflection of US political policies playing out in Europe.
This is the part that I don't see how it specifically affects me. I'm such a tiny member in the world as a whole, and I've never been, likely will never go to the UK, and as such don't think this would affect me.
Regardless of how it affects others.
Welcome to life in a global economy.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller TL:DR Mrs May is the Donald Trump of the UK.
Is all I needed.
That's kinda how it is, yeah.
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@notverypunny said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
But in the most laymen terms possible why should I care about this?
Because it is the most significant world political event of our times. You should care because it affects absolutely everything in the global economy and is a reflection of US political policies playing out in Europe.
This is the part that I don't see how it specifically affects me. I'm such a tiny member in the world as a whole, and I've never been, likely will never go to the UK, and as such don't think this would affect me.
Regardless of how it affects others.
Welcome to life in a global economy.
How? I guess as a user of Amazon and things manufactured from China, owned by businesses that may be based in this country.
But that's such an aside that other people can deal with it.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
But in the most laymen terms possible why should I care about this?
Because it is the most significant world political event of our times. You should care because it affects absolutely everything in the global economy and is a reflection of US political policies playing out in Europe.
This is the part that I don't see how it specifically affects me. I'm such a tiny member in the world as a whole, and I've never been, likely will never go to the UK, and as such don't think this would affect me.
Regardless of how it affects others.
None of that really matters. What happens in the UK hits us here almost the same as them there. UK economy tanking will be terrible not just for the UK, and Italy, and Romania, but for Russian, the US, China, and Zimbabwe.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@notverypunny said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
But in the most laymen terms possible why should I care about this?
Because it is the most significant world political event of our times. You should care because it affects absolutely everything in the global economy and is a reflection of US political policies playing out in Europe.
This is the part that I don't see how it specifically affects me. I'm such a tiny member in the world as a whole, and I've never been, likely will never go to the UK, and as such don't think this would affect me.
Regardless of how it affects others.
Welcome to life in a global economy.
How? I guess as a user of Amazon and things manufactured from China, owned by businesses that may be based in this country.
But that's such an aside that other people can deal with it.
The world is just one economy. The US economy will likely shift within the hour based on this one vote, alone.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
But that's such an aside that other people can deal with it.
They are, that's what we are reporting on. Parliament is attempting to deal with it for you.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller TL:DR Mrs May is the Donald Trump of the UK.
Is all I needed.
That's kinda how it is, yeah.
Okay so she's just as bat-shit crazy as the Don, and wants Mexico (Italy) to pay for it?
(that's a pun)
But what did the people think they would get when they voted to leave the EU? If Mrs May is fired, doesn't the Brexit vote still proceed, but with someone else who is going to be stuck in this shit-sandwich situation?
