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Re:Scotland to seek second independence referendum by rwmj on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:56AM (#13858302)
Part of the hippocratic oath is "first do no harm". We could usefully extend that to politicians. The UK government has, in 7 or 2 years depending on how you count, set the UK on a path to destruction -- and it was all very predictable.
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Re:Scotland to seek second independence referendum by pbhjpbhj on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:04AM (#13858368)
>The UK government //

That's short-hand of course for the "UK people's democratically expressed will".

FWIW I don't vote conservative, nor support Brexit; but we can't solely blame the elite cabals - as this sort of phrasing tends to do - the demos are complicit.

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Re:Scotland to seek second independence referendum by rwmj on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:33AM (#13858683)
People were led on by millionaire politicians and billionaire newspaper owners who flat out lied during the referendum. Politicians have been blaming immigrants and "benefit scroungers" for problems which are really caused by austerity. It would be nice to have an informed demos who could look past all that, but we don't right now.
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Re:Scotland to seek second independence referendum by blibble on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:54AM (#13858886)
come on, essentially the entire Western political structure was on the side of remain

they even shipped Obama over

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Re:Scotland to seek second independence referendum by ghaff on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:39AM (#13858738)
That's because people are comforted that when a majority of people disagree with them and vote for outcomes they don't like it's obviously either because they were misled or manipulated (or they're racists).
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Re:Scotland to seek second independence referendum by RoboPlumber on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:15AM (#13858472)
Ah, brilliant idea! Politicians and voters just shouldn't be allowed to make bad choices. Why had no one thought of this yet?
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