Deliberately misinforming humour

I came across a joke on Facebook the other day that went something like this:

An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irish man went into a bar but the Engliahman wanted to leave so they all had to.

Some thoughts struck me re this Brexit related joke:

a) what about the Wesh man? Is he excluded because Wales voted for Brexit?
b) The Irish man was in fact Northern Irish, don't facts matter any more?
c) The UK is not made up of  four equally sized countries:

England comprises approximately 83.9% of the total UK population
Scotland comprises approximately 8.4% of the total UK population
Wales comprises approximately 4.8% of the total UK population
Nothern Ireland comprises approximately 2.9% of the total UK population

So one could argue that the population of 88.7% of the UK voted for Brexit and 11.3% voted to Remain. One could argue that but then one would be as wrong as the originator of the joke.

So let's look at the Popular Vote instead:

So we have:
Leave - 17,410,742
Remain - 16,141,241

Not very funny but at least accurate!

'Project Fear' Destroyed: OEDC And IMF U-Turn On Brexit Warnings

A fascinating article at Breitbart http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/09/22/project-fear-destroyed-oedc-imf-u-turn-brexit-warnings/    Here's an extract:

'... the OECD claimed that the UK was likely to experience 1.8 per cent growth in 2016, up from their dismal 0.1 per cent prediction made before the referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union (EU).'

Project Fear's lies and exaggerations are being exposed day by day: the economy, the EU Army, etc.

If the Government try to wriggle out of implementing Brexit, remind them of their own leaflet

There seem to be many people speculating as to how the government or the House of Commons or the House of Lords could overrule the Brexit vote.

To all the people speculating and especially those like David 'Mastermind' Lammy who are actually calling for such anti-democratic action I refer them to the government's own EU Referendum leaflet which has this on page 14:

'This is your decision. The government will implement what you decide.'

No ifs, no buts, no maybes...

EU Referendum Rules triggering a 2nd EU Referendum - There's a lot of upset REMAINIACS out there

This petition has attracted over 880,000 signatures to date:

'We the undersigned call upon HM Government to implement a rule that if the remain or leave vote is less than 60% based a turnout less than 75% there should be another referendum.'

I can see the merit in this but wonder two things:

1. If the vote had been even 50.01% Remain to 49.99%  Leave how many of these signatories would have been in the slightest bothere?

2. Do the people signing this realise that this would apply from now, to change the current position, to get back into the EU. Or do they want a rerun?

The EU Referendum - an interesting point

All day I have been hearing the BBC call the referendum split as whilst England and Wales voted for Leave, Scotland and Northern Ireland voted for Remain. The BBC have also been explaining how London also voted Remain and Nicola Sturgeon said that she would ally with Sadiq Khan in negotiations.

I looked at the BBC's own results front page which splits the vote by UK constituent country and saw this...

Do you note that whilst the BBC's analysis is correct there is something else of note here. The two nations that voted Leave had a higher turnout than the two nations that voted Remain. That's the sort of inconvenient fact that the BBC won't be highlighting. What they are highlighting is that:

'A petition calling for Sadiq Khan to declare London an independent state after the UK voted to quit the EU has been signed by thousands of people.

The petition's organiser James O'Malley, said the capital was "a world city" which should "remain at the heart of Europe".

Nearly 60% of people in the capital backed the Remain campaign, in stark contrast to most of the country.'

If Remain had won, imagine the BBC reaction to some areas calling for independence for themselves. Laughter, derision, pointing out what democracy means and so on. But as it's a view that the BBC agree with...

Brexit - Why?

I went to sleep last night thinking that Project Fear had worked, hell earlier in the day even I had started to have doubts about which way to vote.

At 10pm last night I heard the poll forecasts of 52:48 for Remain and that the pound was hitting $1.50. This just seemed odd, the mood of the country didn't seem to be towards Remain, but maybe Project Fear had worked, after all even I had nearly cracked. However it felt wrong, so I tweeted...

I slept and awoke at 4ish thinking that being a gracious loser was important and that at least Sterling was up so holidays would be a little cheaper. Then I heard the news... Leave had won!

Of course the BBC are all doom and gloom and 'told you so' re the financial markets. Sterling down 9% they are saying, will yes against a figure that was illusory, a figure whose value was decided on wrong information. I was buying dollars not that long ago at just under 1.40, so the drop is about 5%, painful but not unprecedented.

But why did the Brexit campaign win? The blame can be laid in four main places:
1. The EU itself - By taking away democratic control from the people, the people felt powerless. This referendum gave the people some power and they exercised it. Also when David Cameron asked for a few scraps from the table to allow him to present his EU renegotiation as a success, they couldn't even allow that. So David Cameron had to pretend that he'd got a good deal but it was obvious that he hadn't.

2. Tony Blair and the Labour Party - Tony Blair was an EU supporter and an ally of the EU fanatic Peter Mandelson. But Tony Blair's culpability in this regard actually lies elsewhere. By opening the UK up to unprecedented immigration from both within and outside of the EU, Tony Blair and the Labour Party hoped to 'rub the right's noses in diversity'. Immigration into the UK increased to unprecedented levels and the people that were affected the most were those working class people, historically Labour voters, who saw their wages drop, their jobs disappear, their schools get more crowded, their roads fill up, their hospitals at breaking point and their ability to buy or rent a house recede as demand for housing and other public services outstripped supply.

3. The British media - The BBC dominate the British mediasphere and they have been very pro EU, pro unlimited immigration and frankly insulting of anyone who dared to hold a contrary view. A large proportion of the British people were tired of being called 'racist' when they pointed out that their hospitals, schools, roads etc were being adversely affected  by immigration. If the BBC had allowed their voices to be heard, if the government had listened to their legitimate concerns, then maybe the people wouldn't have become so angry. But the media and the establishment always know better, know what's good for the people and left the people voiceless, until...

4. David Cameron - I really believe that David Cameron didn't believe that he win the 2015 general election with a majority Conservative government. So a promise of an EU referendum was safe, he could say that the price of having another Conservative lead coalition with the Lib Dems was that there could be no EU referendum and he would probably have got away with that. Unfortunately for David Cameron the mood in the country was such that Labour voters fled the Labour Party for UKIP in sufficient numbers for the Conservatives to win a majority government. Now what was David Cameron to do? He went to the EU (actually see 1. for what happened)

5. Angela Merkel - Her decision to open the floodgates to Middle East and North African immigration and the resulting images of, mainly, young ,men walking into Europe helped to decide the views of many who don't benefit from cheap cleaners, gardeners and builders but who can no longer get work in thise jobs because they've been undercut by immigrants.


What do you think? Am I right? Have I missed something?

The EU says the Single Market adds 2% to GDP, so how could leaving it cost 6%?

'To summarise: the European Commission says being in the Single Market adds 2% to GDP. If we were outside, we could do additional trade deals with the rest of the world, beyond the three significant countries with which the EU currently has deals: Mexico, South Africa and Korea. 

The European Commission's own analysis suggests that just seven of those deals would be worth 2% of GDP, and the three the UK would be most likely to get that the EU would not would be worth 1% of GDP. And all of that is before one even touches upon other gains from being outside the EU, such as allowing the EU to work better and grow faster, improving UK regulation and repatriating the UK's net contribution.

Since the Single Market adds 2% to GDP and leaving it would allow us to pursue trade deals worth more than 1% of GDP and perhaps much more, how can the Treasury seriously expect anyone to believe leaving the Single Market will cost 6% of GDP?'

More here http://www.andrewlilico.com/2016/06/06/the-eu-says-the-single-market-adds-2-to-gdp-so-how-could-leaving-it-cost-6/ but not on the institutionally pro EU BBC.

Daniel Hannan MEP on the EU

Daniel Hannan speaks so much sense, why can't he be the Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister?

How should I vote in the EU Referendum?

Watch Brexit: The Movie and then decide...

Now which way will you vote?

EU to Open New Turkey Membership Talks on June 30 per Guido Fawkes Euro Guido

Guido Fawkes reports

'Diplomatic sources tell AFP:"The EU will open new membership talks with Turkey as planned in a few days, EU diplomatic sources said Wednesday, just as Ankara's accession becomes a hot-button issue in Britain's vote on its future in the bloc. One source, who asked not to be named, told AFP that EU member states will meet June 30 to agree to open a new negotiating chapter with Turkey."This morning John Major admitted it could happen in the next ten years. Yet Dave wants you to believe Turkey won't join 'til the year 3000…'

Why do you think they want/need you to vote REMAIN?

'... this referendum campaign has, without question, been an exercise in those with power, wealth and influence telling the rest of us to know our place.

The EU suits the elites

'This referendum campaign has, without question, been an exercise in those with power, wealth and influence telling the rest of us to know our place'

The partners at Goldman Sachs who made billions from the catastrophe of getting Greece into the euro, the Masters of the Universe at Morgan Stanley who lobby Brussels to get their own way, the company chief execs who enjoy million-pound pay-outs while their workers see their wages stagnate because of cheap immigrant labour — they all do very nicely out of the EU.

Which is why they've pumped so much money into the campaign to frighten the British people out of their wits and get them to Remain'

More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3653588/SARAH-VINE-d-voted-Remain-d-burn-ballot-paper-bullies-scaremongers.html but obviously not on the institutionally pro EU BBC.

The future of the EU

'The Spanish newspaper El Pais (17th June) carried a front page article saying that the EU is deliberately holding back a raft of new legislation until after the Referendum on 23rd June because knowledge of it in Britain would boost the Brexit vote.

The article claims that David Cameron has asked the European Commission to postpone discussions on anything sensitive until after this Thursday.  The measures that El Pais says are being held back include:

A European Tax to co-ordinate an EU defense system
 

A plan to impose quotas for member states sharing refugees
 

Visa free access for Turkish citizens

Discussions are set to resume on 28th-29th June.

If the British vote to Remain in the EU then they must realise that they are not voting for the status quo.   They are voting for what the EU intends to do in the future and what it intends to become – a United States of Europe.'

More here http://gerardbattenmep.co.uk/2016/06/20/spanish-newspaper-reveals-flood-of-new-eu-legislation-if-we-vote-to-remain/

But not on the institutionally pro EU BBC.

A good question for many Remain campaigners

'One more question – tougher one for you to answer honestly, this, I suspect: do you genuinely, sincerely believe that Thomas Mair, the suspected gunman who killed Jo Cox is representative of the 50 percent or more of British people who believe that our country would be a better, freer, more prosperous, secure and democratically accountable place outside the EU?'

More here http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/17/project-mourn-remains-dirty-politicking-has-hit-an-all-time-low/

If this is true then I think LEAVE have just been dealt 2 aces

nocash nodash (@thecentreline86) tweeted at 1:26 PM on Thu, Jun 16, 2016:
EU Pension Row: German Minister Wolfgang Schauble 'we have no commitment to pay EX UK MEPs pension if UK votes Leave https://t.co/zXkiGmlUM3
(https://twitter.com/thecentreline86/status/743419578441699328?s=03)

If this is true and if he could extend this promise to ex British EU Commissioners, so as to include Neil Kinnock and Peter Mandelson etc., then the Referendum result would be a dead cert. Four aces and a joker!

Toby Young with some Brexit facts

Watch the video, read the transcript and vote BREXIT

Here's an extract:

'The Remainers will tell you that Britain would struggle to survive outside the EU — that we'd become an irrelevance. They call the people who want to leave the EU 'little Englanders', as if there's something petty and small-minded about wanting Britain to become a sovereign state again. In their eyes, wanting to restore the right of self-determination to the British people is a bit… well, a bit common.

And this gets to the heart of the difference between their vision of Britain and ours. They see Britain as a small island off the coast of continental Europe that no longer has any place in the world as an independent nation state. We should abandon our delusions of grandeur and accept our diminished status.

We see Britain a little differently. Not just a small island, but the world's fifth largest economy and fourth largest military power.  One of only five countries with a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Not the plaything of unelected officials in Brussels, but the birthplace of Parliamentary democracy.

If you believe that Britain is strong enough to stand on its own two feet again, free from the shackles of EU laws and regulations, then I urge you to vote Leave on 23 June.

The British people were fooled once in 1975. Don't let the Establishment fool you again. It's time to take back our democratic rights. 'Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.' – DH Lawrence'

More here http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/brexit-facts-not-fear/

Labour's Tom Watson: EU free movement rules must change per BBC News

The BBC report with a straight face that Tom Watson has been saying that the EU will have to change its rules on free movement of labour. Then in their analysis neither Laura Kuenssberg

or Iain Watson manage to make the point that free movement of people is one of the fundamental principles of the EU and thus what the chances are of Tom Watson getting what he wants. 

The BBC is ever eager to pour ridicule on any LEAVE policy that it can find a flaw in but when it's a REMAIN policy from the deputy leader of their Labour Party then it's suddenly less critical.

Brexit Response: Lord Lawson brilliantly shoots down Pro-EU Carolyn Fairbairn

Lord Lawson still has it...

What Jeremy Corbyn Used To Say About the EU

This is what Jeremy Corbyn used to say about the EU

Has anyone pressed him as to when and why he changed his mind?

Why have the BBC not asked him this question?  Apart from because they try to minimise critical coverage of any Labour politician, the out of office Tony Blair excepted

Leaked UK plan to open doors for 1m Turks per The Sunday Times

'... granting visa-free travel to the UK for more than 1m Turks, according to leaked diplomatic cables seen by The Sunday Times.

The cache of five documents also suggests that EU officials are attempting to keep any visa deal with Turkey under wraps until after the referendum on June 23.

According to the telegrams, senior diplomats have advised ministers that the proposed EU deal with Turkey on visa-free travel within the Schengen area could lead the UK to consider extending the same privilege to up to 1.5m "special passport holders" from Turkey.'

More at the Sunday Times the Sunday Times but not a word on the institutionally pro unlimited immigration BBC. 

Unless we vote BREXIT the UK will effectively have a border with Syria, does that make you feel safe?

Post Brexit

This comment at Biased BBC caught my eye:

'Thoughtful on June 10, 2016 at 8:06 pm

For those who don't study the Lisbon Treaty constitution of the EU, and lets face it why would you, this might prove useful:

Article 8.

1. The Union shall develop a special relationship with neighbouring countries, aiming to establish an area of prosperity and good neighbourliness, founded on the values of the Union and characterised by close and peaceful relations based on cooperation.

2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, the Union may conclude specific agreements with the countries concerned. These agreements may contain reciprocal rights and obligations as well as the possibility of undertaking activities jointly. Their implementation shall be the subject of periodic consultation.

Unless the Remain camp are suggesting that the EU will defy its own constitution it's going to be difficult to get around this