Comments on: Countdown to Brexit

By: London Trader

London Trader — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:12:47 +0000

Cornflour: While I understand the cynicism behind your comment from nine months ago I think that it was probably colored by your closer relationship with US politics where I think such a view might be appropriate. I was confident that parliament wouldn’t initially overturn the referendum result. British politics just don’t work that way.

However I’m not sure what will happen once a deal has been negotiated. The good news is that the next election is scheduled for after the end of the two years.

By: Cornflour

Cornflour — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:28:53 +0000

I haven’t been keeping score on the small issues, but I sure was wrong on two big ones: Trump’s election and Brexit. It makes me think I have no idea what people want anymore.

Anyway, just to keep myself honest, here’s the dumb comment I wrote about nine months ago:

“I’m only minimally informed about British parliamentary politics, but from this distance, I can’t believe that Parliament will ever vote to leave the EU. I hope I’m wrong about all this.

Too many members of Parliament benefit too much from Britain’s EU membership. They’ll probably keep calling for repeated referendums on an EU exit. Eventually, they’ll get the “no” vote that they want. This could go on for years.

As the years pass, more and more immigrants will acquire voting rights, and they’ll support Parliament’s desire to surrender sovereignty to the EU.

I think we’ll end up seeing the Brexit vote as the last gasp of the English, many of whom will end up migrating to Canada, Australia, or the United States. I don’t have the citation at hand, but I’ve read that this has already started.”

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:03:18 +0000

Pre-existing conditions were covered by corporate insurance, the only people with pre-existing conditions who had a problem purchasing coverage were those self-appointed individuals who were buy coverage individually, that is when insurance companies can pick and choose whom they accept and how much they charge them. All the government needed to do to help everyone who wants insurance to buy insurance without being charged an outrageous rate for whatever reasons is just to setup ways for individuals to join together to purchase coverage with group rates, that’s it.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:32:35 +0000

Frog:

Or they will be strengthened in order to get the GOP’s conservative wing on board.

By: Frog

Frog — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:23:31 +0000

Real neat, the GOP AND Dems seizure of the American health care sector under the false flag of health insurance.
As George Wallace once said, there’s not a dime’s difference between them.
I know, I know, the GOP proposals are “better”, but they will be watered down by the Ryans to make them acceptable to the Schumers.
Disgusting.