@hazardwarning also I think a shame that instead of renegotiating relationship to the EU which is a reasonable compromise we have this binary shit about WE HAVE TO LEAVE NOW! THIS INSTANT!!
// @neilco @ukhaiku
@matigo well they think they're untouchable through whichever proxy or vpn they're using, and t hat this way you will get flagged as a paedo
// @c @alexk
@matigo yep! at one point someone called me a 'normie' and started replying to me with loli (underage manga porn for the unaware). my crime was defending a trans woman. they were referring to her as 'it'. of course none of those people were on mastodon.social itself.
// @c @alexk
@ukhaiku I agree, too. I really didn't see how the government could have believed otherwise. To leave the EU we have to rescind the Act of Parliament, which took us in there (I think). It would be very scary if any party who happened to have the balance of power could just tear up the law. No matter what one's views on staying or leaving (and I know we probably differ), proper process must be followed.
Of course, it does put a lot of MPs in an awkward position, given most of them seem to want to stay, when their constituents voted, overwhelmingly in some cases, to leave. That could be interesting. I have a feeling that if all MPs voted in line with constituency results in the referendum, then leaving will happen - by a seemingly far larger margin than the actual referendum result. Which seems kind of perverse to hold a simple majority (of people who bothered to vote, of course) referendum which could be affected by our constituency-based parliamentary elections.
It's all rather muddled, innit. But the correct result today, in my view.
// @neilco
The Supreme Court has ruled that the government's proclamation that it trigger Article 50 (to formally begin the process of leaving the EU) without an act of parliament is unconstitutional.
I find tweets like this one [twitter.com]—and there are thousands of similar tweets—to be incredibly short-sighted. Some of the 51.9% who voted to leave the EU now feel that democracy is under threat from "elite judges appointed by the elite class". But the opposite is true. The Supreme Court has ruled that it's unconstitutional, and therefore unlawful, for the government to act unilaterally to enforce changes to UK law. This is monumentally important.
The protection of our democracy has been further extended.
It's a good day.
I've added a Diaspora column to @tomas' former ADN user list, just because you can never have too many options: http://snipergirl.com/adnusers