neilmullens.bsky.social
20 yrs abroad, 17 yrs in Japan. Anti-Brexit. Pro-constitutional & electoral reform. Love vinyl, books, films, cooking, motorcycles, travel, dogs. #FBPPR #Bristol
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Me, too. And Virgil, too. He’s the best captain we’ve had in a very long time!
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It has improved my Sunday considerably, Jakki!
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I think he was always underrated. He made a couple of great a couple of great albums with Scottish singer-songwriter, Isobe Campbell.
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Good venue for these guys. Great sound.
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I got bored with his nonsense eventually!
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*Reform’s *a few
I really shouldn’t try to multitask!
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Explain exactly how political commentators have the power to disenfranchise leave voters? I think you are too sensitive!
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You’re even getting confused about your own articles. The Guardian article posits that the Lib Dems would rejoin without a referendum. The BBC article is about having a second referendum, and I’m still waiting for your answer to my question on that article. If you don’t have one, just admit it.
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You want me to apologise for your weak argument based on a 5 year old article speculating on things that a fairly irrelevant political party might or might not do if they won an election?
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The comment where I posed the question which you ignored was in reference to the BBC article.
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You avoided the question.
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If it had happened, yes, but if your argument is based on things that didn’t happen and were mere speculation in a newspaper, your argument is weak.
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No, because it never happened. You do realise the article is from 5 years ago, right? And that it was speculation based on an election that the Lib Dems never came close to winning.
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People had an opinion in 2016. What if they don’t have the same opinion now? That doesn’t make the 1st one irrelevant.
We elect a new government every five years at most. What’s the difference?
In any case, it’s a moot point. There won’t be another referendum and we won’t rejoin in my lifetime.
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The Lib Dems will never find themselves in a position to do anything of the sort.
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Again, you misunderstand the meaning of disenfranchisement. And why would you be so afraid of a second referendum? It will never happen, but if it did, how would this be less democratic than the first one?
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How exactly is pointing out the obvious ‘disenfranchising voters’? You can’t complain about dissent on the one hand but be perfectly comfortable with the Leave campaign’s lies. In any case, dissent isn’t disenfranchisement.
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I have accepted Brexit in terms of there being no going back. What you seem to have a problem with is free speech.
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Still waiting for the home truths. Didn’t vote for Lib Dems, and and don’t really do heroes and heroines. I also have a house outside of the UK, so luckily for me, I don’t have to ‘enjoy Brexit’ because, for me, it isn’t for life.
I assume you think you ARE relevant.
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I think Reforms voters are made of both camps. I know who few who will likely vote for them if the Tories have no chance of winning the next election, and they definitely fall into the latter category.
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I’m glad you took my advice. Here’s another piece. Take a look in the mirror.
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Ah, is that what you are doing? Democracy without dissent. Better tell people they are not allowed to voice opinions against any democratically voted government in the future, then.
You should stick to comedy.
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Have you considered doing stand-up?
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The result is undebatable and we will probably never be a member of the EU again. You’re very naive if you think the Leavers would have gone away and quietly accepted the result!
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*other way
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How appallingly we behaved? That’s funny considering the lies spewed by the leave campaign, and admitted by Farage after the vote. Dissent is part and parcel of democracy, and so it should be. If the Brexit vote had gone the other, do think Brexiteers would have quietly accepted the result?
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I think you have a weak understanding of disenfranchisement.
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I think you’ll find they people challenged the legitimacy of the lies posted by the Brexit mob, not to mention the illegal funding. Not quite the same as storming the Capitol, is it?
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That’s the concern right here, right now, but it’s how we got here that is the issue. If we don’t confront the inequality and the sense of disenfranchisement, we are simply handing the country to the far-right.
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Absolutely. We haven’t reached the point by perverse chance.
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Democracy isn’t about simply accepting things you don’t believe in and didn’t vote for. If you think it is, then you have a very skewed view of democracy.
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I don’t know. I feel very impacted by it, too!
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💯
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Here in Bristol, too, Gill!
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Yes. Brexit springs to mind.
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Exactly.
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He’s a she! Thinks she’s a boy, though! The most energetic bulldog I’ve ever seen. Almost impossible to wear her out!
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Beautiful dog and love that expression!