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All of the people on this march and signing this petition that originally voted Leave I have no sympathy for. Can't be arsed with people cry arsing about how they didn't know all the facts and now they do they've changed their mind. Perhaps do your research next time you're going to vote on something as big as this? I maintain that the campaigners on both sides were completely irresponsible in allowing their point scoring crusades to get in the way of presenting actual facts in favour of their side of the referendum, but voting either way without reading the information (and the information was out there if you looked past the front pages and news channels on television who invariably have their own agenda regardless of what anyone says) is completely stupid and makes me despise our electorate even more. I'd love to think that people who now realise that they should have read up on stuff before deciding which way to vote will at least have learned a life lesson about their responsibilities as members of a democratic society but you know they'll do the same thing in the next election or important vote.

I agree that some kind of a recession is inevitable but going into a No-Deal scenario and going into a recession bordering on a depression benefits absolutely nobody except the small cabal of Brexiteers. The leftist priority should be to protect public services and to facilitate job creation. Even with a Corbyn government, No Deal would be the worst scenario by those criteria. No Labour policy is at all impeded by EU membership. The EU is a neoliberal institution by origin but nonetheless it is useful. Even as a Marxist, to me the point should always be to pick the progressive option, and right now the EU is the progressive option. Brexit can only by definition be a regressive step. Look around the world - where are the well-functioning social economies? Almost all in the EU, or extremely closely associated with it. If we were at a Denmark or Finland level, then I'd say it's time to start thinking about the constraints of the EU, but whilst we still have so much space to improve within the current framework, our priority should be reforming our internal problems and then looking outward. I agree that the EU has done absolutely reprehensible things but even then, it doesn't always need to be the EU of Wolfgang Schauble. The EU merely gives expression to the consensus of the major nations - all it takes is a wave of serious social movements to emerge in Germany, Britain and France, and the nature of the EU would change substantially.

You had to pay extra to make up for his "back injury" caused by his "great sadness"

It's impossible for anything to be binding really because essentially anything can be done by a Parliamentary majority. You could write in the Act establishing a certain referendum "this referendum shall be binding" and then the next day, if a few votes swung in the Commons, Parliament could delete that sentence. In fact it probably wouldn't even need to do that because if Parliament chose to ignore the result, there's no way of taking it to court to force it to do something. It's the same where a few years back it was written into law that the Scottish Parliament is permanent, which is meaningless because if a majority in the Westminster Parliament ever decided to abolish the Scottish Parliament, that line would have zero legal effect. Despite the massive network of conventions and competing legal systems in Britain, the only real constitutional rule is that Parliament can theoretically do literally anything. It can make any decision, break any other existing law, and nobody can override it, nor can it bind itself to any course of action.

Tell you what, @The Artful Dodger has done well to interview everyone on that march and come to the conclusion they are all as he labels. Kudos.

Mo followers, Mo problems Mohamed Salah has become one of the biggest names in football since joining Liverpool and is a favourite at Anfield for his goal-scoring exploits. With the Reds not playing during the international break, the Egyptian sent a message to supporters on Twitter.