According to the Express, truck drivers are threatening to bring the country to a complete standstill by blockading roads and motorways as a protest if we don't leave the EU on March 29th.

TRUCK drivers are planning to stage UK-wide blockades on highways if the country does not leave the EU on March 29, which they would see as a “Brexit betrayal”.

 

An anti-EU group which calls itself Brexit Direct Action claims it has been inundated with requests from campaigners to stage mass blockades of Britain’s major transport links. The group, which aims to “organise and coordinate action against those whose intension is to delay/stop Brexit”, has urged its followers on social media to mobilise after MPs voted for Brexit to be postponed. Brexit Direct Action wrote on Twitter: “Several social media groups have been in contact to ask if we’ll help gather support for a national truck drivers protest if Brexit is delayed.”

 

It has vowed to take “direct action and protest” if an extension to Article 50 is granted by all 27 EU member states.

 

The plan to “bring this country to its knees” and urged Brexiteers across the country to get involved.

 

A statement posted by the group on Twitter read: “Brexiteers all over the country are planning to bring this country to its knees by blocking the main arterial routes - M1, M6 M25, M62, A1, A55, M5, M4, M42, M55, M61, A66 etc.

 

Haha this is complete bullshit. Like 4 men and their dog are going to be organise any sort of illegal protest - the irony being that if we do have No Deal Brexit we won't need highway blockades - the roads and ports will do it themselves!

 

Bring it on I say. Good on the truckers! The decision of the people must be implemented on 29th.

 

The desperation to bring something in to force that nobody voted for during the referendum, despite what people would have me believe :lol:

If it’s as popular as the March for Brexit they’d fail to even bring a dead end single track alley in rural surrey to a standstill.

Haha this is complete bullshit. Like 4 men and their dog are going to be organise any sort of illegal protest - the irony being that if we do have No Deal Brexit we won't need highway blockades - the roads and ports will do it themselves!

The desperation to bring something in to force that nobody voted for during the referendum, despite what people would have me believe :lol:

 

 

Apparently lawyers have told them that it's not illegal to "break down" on a road or motorway and inadvertently block it! ;)

The M6, M62, M61, M1 and M25 come to a stand still daily. It's called rush hour.

 

Rush hour will be a more successful "protest" than this

Apparently lawyers have told them that it's not illegal to "break down" on a road or motorway and inadvertently block it! ;)

 

The whole thing thing reeks of desperation from the hardcore Brexiteers trying to whip up a media frenzy. I can guarantee you none of this will happen.

Bring it on I say. Good on the truckers! The decision of the people must be implemented on 29th.

 

There is no way it can be Chris - even if the Withdrawal Agreement is voted through by Parliament this week there is simply not enough time to pass the necessary legislation in time, and so as voted through last Thursday a technical extension would be sought and likely be granted by the EU to 30th June 2019.

Straw Poll

 

Which do you fear more :

 

1. No Deal Brexit

2. Corbyn-led government

 

For me, definitely #2.

Edited March 18, 20196 yr by vidcapper

Straw Poll

 

Which do you fear more :

 

1. No Deal Brexit

2. Corbyn-led government

 

For me, definitely #2.

 

 

Yes, No.2 for me as well.

We are painfully well aware that both of you have been primed to believe that Corbyn is a socialist monster and that no deal Brexit is the only way the British break free of your enemy the European Union.

 

Surely you have no problems explaining why no deal is good or what Corbyn will do that is so bad? Such an incredible position needs to be backed up.

It should be remembered that the Daily Express bugging up this threat from lorry drivers is the same as the Daily Express that said 100,000 people would join Farage’s March. That figure proved to be too high by about 100,000.

the straw poll needs additional options cos it's fixed on a binary choice.

 

We could have:

 

Labour gov without Corbyn

Multi-party gov

Brexit but not hard Brexit

 

and so on....

 

but by all means let's just keep 2 extremes as the only option.

 

BTW most lorry drivers rely on the EU for their jobs. Should be fun seeing this Express Fake News Project Fear piss into the wind as they continue to live in pink elephant land.

 

Richard Desmond, owner of the rag, also publishes OK, Daily Star, is worth at least 2.5 billion pounds, the 25th richest person in the UK (Forbes). In the 90's there was a little kerfuffle with telephone sex lines in his magazines run by the mafia that got him death threats when it came to trial. He did some mock impressions of Hitler when owners of the Telegraph (of which he was part-owner) considered selling to German owners, referencing Nazis. He paid an out-of-court settlement on claims that he assaulted one of his journalists. Desmond is amusingly referred to as Dirty Des in Private Eye due to his many "adult" magazines and channels that make up the bulk of his fortune. He has donated 1.3 million to UKIP.

 

On the plus side, he runs quite a few charities, and doesn't appear to live abroad.

We are painfully well aware that both of you have been primed to believe that Corbyn is a socialist monster and that no deal Brexit is the only way the British break free of your enemy the European Union.

 

Surely you have no problems explaining why no deal is good or what Corbyn will do that is so bad? Such an incredible position needs to be backed up.

 

Of course - I left it out of my original post, just so someone would ask (though I should point out that Corbyn himself is no fan of the EU).

 

You talk in terms of good & bad, but I'm thinking more in terms of the lesser of two evils. Anything bad that happens post a No Deal will not be by design, but by accident, out of our hands - whereas Corbyn's plans for renationalisation, etc. would be by deliberate (and dangerous) choice.

 

There were some things I liked in their 2017 manifesto, but I just don't trust the face behind them...

 

It should be remembered that the Daily Express bugging up this threat from lorry drivers is the same as the Daily Express that said 100,000 people would join Farage’s March. That figure proved to be too high by about 100,000.

 

So not even Farage turned up? :w00t:

Edited March 18, 20196 yr by vidcapper

Of course - I left it out of my original post, just so someone would ask (though I should point out that Corbyn himself is no fan of the EU).

 

You talk in terms of good & bad, but I'm thinking more in terms of the lesser of two evils. Anything bad that happens post a No Deal will not be by design, but by accident, out of our hands - whereas Corbyn's plans for renationalisation, etc. would be by deliberate (and dangerous) choice.

 

There were some things I liked in their 2017 manifesto, but I just don't trust the face behind them...

So not even Farage turned up? :w00t:

Note the use of the word “about”.. Farage did turn up although, predictably, he didn’t hang around for long. People to see, pints to drink.

Note the use of the word “about”.. Farage did turn up although, predictably, he didn’t hang around for long. People to see, pints to drink.

 

...money to launder.

...money to launder.

 

Whose money?

Whose money?

 

the last time I heard he was being done for using EU expenses for Brexit-related stuff, got fined and had to pay it back.

 

His Brexit org has been found guilty of using money from unknown sources that overspent substantially and illegally.

 

His basic bread n butter job investment company went bankrupt. He seems very keen not to have laws that enforces offshore banking business to reveal who, what's and where's.

 

I can't be bothered to check all that out, though, so I'll leave it up to you to do the research, and prove me wrong.

the straw poll needs additional options cos it's fixed on a binary choice.

 

We could have:

 

Labour gov without Corbyn

Multi-party gov

Brexit but not hard Brexit

 

and so on....

 

but by all means let's just keep 2 extremes as the only option.

 

BTW most lorry drivers rely on the EU for their jobs. Should be fun seeing this Express Fake News Project Fear piss into the wind as they continue to live in pink elephant land.

 

Richard Desmond, owner of the rag, also publishes OK, Daily Star, is worth at least 2.5 billion pounds, the 25th richest person in the UK (Forbes). In the 90's there was a little kerfuffle with telephone sex lines in his magazines run by the mafia that got him death threats when it came to trial. He did some mock impressions of Hitler when owners of the Telegraph (of which he was part-owner) considered selling to German owners, referencing Nazis. He paid an out-of-court settlement on claims that he assaulted one of his journalists. Desmond is amusingly referred to as Dirty Des in Private Eye due to his many "adult" magazines and channels that make up the bulk of his fortune. He has donated 1.3 million to UKIP.

 

On the plus side, he runs quite a few charities, and doesn't appear to live abroad.

Trinity Mirror purchased all the publishing assets from Desmond in early 2018.

Trinity Mirror purchased all the publishing assets from Desmond in early 2018.

 

Thanks for the correction Phil, I forgot entirely about that! So it's The Mirror Group that is responsible for the headlines.......hmmm.

 

Hopefully they didn't buy the adult content too....

Commons Speaker John Bercow has ruled out the government holding another vote on its previously rejected Brexit agreement if the motion remains "substantially the same".

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47614074

 

 

Welp there goes theresa's plan

Decisions of the house matter. They have weight. YES BERCOW TELL HER

 

Clear we can't be getting a deal no one wants at the least. Which is why I'm happy with that but as ever that's closed off one possibility without making another seem more likely.