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Aside from the potential consequences and other unsavoury aspects of the referendum, I'm finding the actual politics of it intriguing.

- Cameron outmanouvering Boris?

- Who wants to be the next PM?

- Will we [i]actually[/i] leave?

- What's Osbourne going to do?

- Labour thinking we've got to get our house in order between now and 2020 to take advantage of the (potentially) disastrous next few years?

- Merkel's conciliatory tone.

- Junker's not so conciliatory tone.

- EU leaders having to balance a desire (maybe?) to keep the UK, or keep us involved somehow, vs discouraging others from doing the same as we have?

- A possible way for the LibDems to regain some lost ground?

- Sturgeon's role and the fine line she has to tread.

The pure politics - in isolation - is fascinating. Pity there's so much at stake otherwise I think I would enjoy watching it all unfold.


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 6:46 pm
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Molgrips is evidently thinking the same, just a bit quicker than me 🙂

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/when-was-the-last-time-politics-was-this-interesting


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 6:47 pm
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I'm surprised there hasn't been any threads until you and mollie posted about politics and the EU.


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 6:48 pm
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Agree. It is fun, apart from the reality of the exit (if it happens). And even in the current uncertainty, people will soon be losing jobs, and immigrants/visitors/non-white are already getting abused. So, on balance, I'd have preferred boredom.


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 6:49 pm
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I considered that Drac, but those threads are all a bit angsty aren't they. Understandably of course. This is more about the strategy/maneuvering and so on.


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 6:53 pm
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I'm surprised there hasn't been any threads until you and mollie posted about politics and the EU.

😀


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 6:54 pm
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[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/clean-up-time ]Required reading. [/url]


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 6:55 pm
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It's making my job easy as the big hitters are all in one place, it's like a big play park for them.


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 6:56 pm
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A fabulously intriguing soap opera with some real life high stakes that we're all bound into. We live in Interesting Times...


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 6:57 pm
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Boris outmanoeuvred himself?


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 6:58 pm
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Valid, Drac. Valid.


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 6:58 pm
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This was meant to be for intrigued spectators nattering in the stands, whereas the other threads are for the bare chested gladiators in the arena. Completely different clientele 🙂


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 7:04 pm
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Give them time. 😆


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 7:19 pm
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That's where you come in!


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 7:21 pm
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@CFH just read your thread, other places I have frequented just join the threads together and also have a Politics forum which has specific rules and is moderated differentiy (maybe not at all ?)


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 7:27 pm
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My thread was partly a spectator thread but also a genuine question. I think I'm going over there now.


 
Posted : 26/06/2016 7:33 pm

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