It wouldn't necessarily lead to a general election. The Tory party would have a chance to form an alternative government. Either way, I don't think th...
That might be true, but a different government would have different priorities. There could be a change of government as a consequence of a successful...
So there must be a first cause. Yet what is being called a first cause in the argument isn't actually a first cause, because it was caused by an effec...
No, we should seek a better one. There should be a no confidence vote on the government when the time is right. But if that fails, and it's either May...
Andrea Leadsom and Amber Rudd suggest rival Brexit 'Plan Bs' Looks like I'm in agreement with Tory cabinet minister, Amber Rudd. As well as Labour sha...
I was just raising a counter point. It would only change the arguments that you presented if you were to accept that it's reason enough to reach a dif...
This is going around in circles with you emphasising one aspect of my position and me emphasising the other, but we're both just describing my positio...
No, not consistency for consistency's sake, but I get what you're saying. It's a dilemma, at least for me - Michael doesn't seem as troubled - and one...
I have never agreed with the Tory sound bite that no deal is better than a bad deal. No deal would be the worst case scenario, so I would support any ...
Yes, and I am, but I'm not an absolutist, so there can be exceptions where I would sacrifice that principle and consider it the lesser of two evils. A...
The criticism is that your support for a second referendum was, and is, premature. Even at this stage, I still don't think that the time is quite righ...
It would be a self-inflicted harm to a democracy, so yes, I would be supporting something which meets the sense of "anti-democratic" that I mentioned ...
That can be explained. What I said about the timeframe between a referendum and a rerun was a generalisation, and I stand by it. But in this case, as ...
Is it really that difficult for you to grasp that my position has been conditional from the start? That I have considered alternatives if things go ti...
Because it hasn't come to that yet. The pragmatic option remains hypothetical. I'm not going to jump the gun. And I don't know why you would expect me...
We know no such thing. It would be the will of the people to shoot the mum. The only thing that's ridiculous is the unrealistic - outlandish even - na...
Concede? Come round? I think I've been consistent. I don't think that I've ever supported a no deal scenario, and I've said that that would be a worst...
I don't know where you're getting that from. The point is that two years isn't long enough, and I would be surprised if anyone genuinely disagreed wit...
It means that I've decided to shoot the mum rather than the kid, for whatever reason. If we had a referendum on who to shoot, mum or kid, and a majori...
You're hilarious! It's not a fallacy, it is basic logic. If I decide to go to the cinema to watch a film, have I decided to go to the cinema? Of cours...
What cases? The Vote Leave case was about overspending, not lying, so that doesn't count. No, I'm bothered. But being bothered about it isn't sufficie...
Your idea of what makes a vote free and fair renders it a practical impossibility. There has never been such a vote, and there never will be. So that'...
The greater the number of recipients, the greater the duty of keeping the promise. The promise was made to the whole of the UK, which has a population...
Yes, it's allowed, as I expect Hanover knows, but the current government isn't allowing it, which is probably closer to his meaning, in which case you...
Yes. There could be a motion of no confidence, and Labour have the power to start that process, but for the time being they're holding back, and right...
He knows that it's impractical. The point is that lacking a suitable timeframe between a referendum and a rerun causes problems, and the suggestion is...
That's a good point. Maybe if we had've had a referendum sooner, then Remain would've won and we wouldn't be in this mess. But maybe it was already to...
I agree with all of that, but I don't think that now would be the best time. I think that we should give it a bit more time to see whether the pressur...
It boils down to ethics on a fairly basic level. Should promises be kept? Well, given that over thirty million people turned out to vote, and given th...
Look, no matter how hard you try to spin it, at the end of the day, they chose to vote to leave. I never said anything about leaving for the sake of l...
The problem is, that same criticism can be levelled against our representatives in parliament. Boris Johnson, speaking as Foreign Secretary, said that...
Tell me about it! I wouldn't go as far as scrapping the former, but I would certainly makes changes to how that money is put to use in military matter...
But it can be, in accordance with my use of the phrase, logic, and established facts. The will of the people is expressed by the majority of voters, a...
It's not misplaced or inane to bring up the will of the people, it's of great importance, considering we're a democracy. And your comments about how y...
I would suggest looking up leftwing arguments against the European Union. There are two camps who agree on many of the points, but differ in their con...
It's crazy to reach the conclusion that philosophy bears little resemblance to reality on the basis of a single topic. How closely philosophy resemble...
There's potentially another option. A no-confidence vote in the House of Commons could change things. Then it might not be May's deal, but someone els...
I think that it's more the latter. I think that many people who voted remain, myself included, were critical of certain aspects of how things were und...
Obamacare vs. Republican plan compared I don't get how Trump, or Republicans, or anyone else, can think that the Republican plan is an improvement on,...
David Cameron tried and failed to do just that. He negotiated some reforms from the EU, although he didn't get everything that he wanted. And then a m...
Once again, I'm aware of what they have said. You don't need to point that out to me. We'll just have to wait and see whether that bears true. Besides...
Yes, but slavery is on another level. You might think otherwise, but you haven't convinced me otherwise, and I doubt you will be able to. Yes. But for...
A majority oppose the withdrawal agreement as it was to be presented before the delay. Yet, for example, in today's news, it has been reported that th...
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