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To invite all Mumsnetters to the Brexit Rally in Parliament Square tomorrow afternoon/evening?

782 replies

SunnyInGrimsby · 28/03/2019 22:21

OK, it's doubtful Brexit is going to happen any time soon but definitely worth coming along and standing up for what we voted for.

Very little coverage in the media - unfortunately no full page spreads in the Standard for us....

It will be going on until early evening so still worth turning up if you can't get the day off work. Lots of great speakers including Julia Hartley Brewer, Claire Fox, Kate Hoey et al.

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Clavinova · 30/03/2019 21:32

dangerous display your folks put on last night

They're not my folks at all.

We had better not bother with France again then?

Today's news;
The mayor of the French city of Bordeaux called for residents to remain indoors Saturday and for shop owners to shutter their stores as the authorities braced for another weekend of “yellow vest” violence.

Bornfreebutinchains · 30/03/2019 21:38

Peregrine

We haven't influenced them one jot. .. how on earth can we infiltrate Hungary and have a chat with self created groups patroling barbed wire with snarling dogs erected to keep refuge's and economic migrants out!

Which Brit is going to persuade them to be more welcoming. How can we explain to closed former eastern bloc societies that being multicultural is good.

It's going to take 100s of year's !!

Bornfreebutinchains · 30/03/2019 21:40

There's more danger at Glastonbury!!
I do find these comments very sweet though.
I'm imagining very sweet ladies sitting in pastel cashmere in the home counties.

I've seen more Trouble on my own street!!

Peregrina · 30/03/2019 21:43

So we don't try then? We turn our backs on them? One reason Major pushed for the expansion of the EU eastwards was to bring the old Eastern bloc into the orbit of western values and help shake off the old mentality.

Bornfreebutinchains · 30/03/2019 21:48

We don't need to be part of the EU to try.

Are you goings too fly over and try to preach to Hungary! How patronising!

These countries have been in awful socialist vice. We cannot imagine what they've been through. .
Socially I don't feel their ready to be part of the EU block.

Bornfreebutinchains · 30/03/2019 21:49

By the way where does major live?

Alsohuman · 30/03/2019 21:51

I’ll just leave this here.

www.theguardian.com/uk

Peregrina · 30/03/2019 22:01

As it happens I think Major and others pushed for their inclusion too soon. I have no idea where he lives. Should I have?

time4chocolate · 30/03/2019 22:05

Woman19 the lady doth protest too much methinks.

woman19 · 30/03/2019 22:15

time4chocolate lovely to see Shakespeare quoted here on the mums net Smile but your folks looked like violent racist loons yesterday.

I am glad, in a way, that the fascist men who many of us have had to patiently abide in peaceful protests at Sodem and in town centres across the country have been seen by so many now.

I still feel really sorry for moderate thoughtful leavers who feel betrayed by this display, but there we are.

You've probably lost a good 5% in a coming ratification poll on what happened last night in Westminster.

Sorry.

time4chocolate · 30/03/2019 22:27

Yes i thought so too Smile

But the rest of your post I think you are seeing it from only one angle so there is no need to apologise.

woman19 · 30/03/2019 22:33

Yep time4chocolate

I like the British Constitution and British Rule of Law and do tend to see it from that angle.

Smile
Alsohuman · 30/03/2019 22:34

We don’t have a constitution, we leave that kind of nonsense to the US.

time4chocolate · 30/03/2019 22:50

Woman so do I, however, I do not think the effect of yesterdays proceedings is going to have the effect that you are hoping for.

time4chocolate · 30/03/2019 22:52

ooops one too many effects in there!

woman19 · 30/03/2019 23:02

I do not think the effect of yesterdays proceedings is going to have the effect that you are hoping for

Likewise. Smile

time4chocolate · 30/03/2019 23:06

Time will tell Smile - we are in for an interesting week, well I think that’s probably an understatement as it all going to go Kamikaze so hold on to your hats.

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 30/03/2019 23:06

It would be sooooooo much easier if people used the word 'some'

I honestly dont see what is so fucking hard about doing that

But as this is a pointless thing to say under the circumstances I'll leave it as that Grin

(Though i must say i imagine things like winning the lottery...not women in pastel posting fom the Home Counties...thats just weird')

time4chocolate · 30/03/2019 23:09

figuratively speaking of course!

woman19 · 30/03/2019 23:42

It would be sooooooo much easier if people used the word 'some'
All of Combat 18, EDL,the UDA, who attended yesterday's incel fest are fascists though rudolf

SalmonFishing · 31/03/2019 00:33

'Bornfreebutinchains Sat 30-Mar-19 21:01:58
I'm just feeling disappointment that there wasn't more violence.'

Fret not. I'm sure you'll have further opportunities.

Acis · 31/03/2019 08:55

I'm just feeling disappointment that there wasn't more violence.

Hardly. Yaxley-Lennon and his mates have been talking up the threat of riots and civil war for ages, mostly to a chorus of yawns.

LunafortJest · 31/03/2019 09:51

Would there still be any pro-Brexiters left? Surely most would now realise the folly of their decision? I find it hard to understand anyone would double-down on their mistake of voting for it, and would surely be embarrassed to admit they voted for it.

There needs to be a real actual true referendum held, and I'd bet the result would be the opposite. The original referendum was illigitimate.

LunafortJest · 31/03/2019 10:03

OP if leavers are fearful of being ostracised, then subconciously they know they are doing/standing for something wrong. It's their conscience speaking. If you have something to be fearful of, there is a reason for that.