UK parliament finally rubber stamps Brexit in no-fuss vote

CNN ^ | 1/09/20 | Angela Dewan

[Steely Tom]

People in high positions, positions of influence, seem to think that they can actually change reality by means of words.

In North Korea, the government tells the people that they are the only free people in the world! That every other country is enslaved, that what the citizens of North Korea experience every day is freedom!

Before they shoot someone in a firing squad for having in their possession a memory stick or a DVD containing TV programs from South Korea or Japan, the boss of the operation tells the crowd that the person who is about to be executed was trying to take away their freedom.

These leaders believe they can actually force people to believe the opposite of reality.

It's obvious that CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, etc., have bought into this concept. They seem bent on igniting a civil war, a war of two completely different views of reality.

Of course, it's a war that won't last very long.

[School of Rational Thought]

Boris gets it done

[tbw2]

Victory.

[Tennessee Nana]

My Mom’s birthday...

[justa-hairyape]

But you know the truth by negating their phrases. So ‘rubber stamped’ actually translates to ‘stop stamping their feet like children’. Lol.

[mewzilla]

In politics, you take what you can get.

There have been multiple occasions in this country's history when people of principle refused to settle.

[Cronos]

well, the deal was already agreed last November by the previous parliament who then asked for a delay.

The delay was until 31 Jan

So this agreement by THIS parliament was, in effect, a rubberstamping of what the previous parliament said.

[Cronos]

Not only -- see above which are all amounts in millions of Euros

[Cronos]

It's different than the Brexit that Leave campaigned for in 2016 - the leave campaign wanted the Noway option (free movement plus paying into the eu budget). This removes the 4 freedoms and the paying into the eu budget

It also neatly solves how to manage the Good Friday agreement by keeping the island of Ireland with no internal border

it's a good way of the UK leaving and still keeping its Good Friday obligations in place.

[Cronos]

Rubber stamped - probably as it just agrees with what the previous parliament already signed off on.

And yes the British votes spoke clearly - the Tories may have won 44% of the popular vote (not 50%), but that does not matter in the FPTP British system - that was well known. They won a majority on their own fair and square.