Originally Posted By: drakino

So much more, too, and very concerning what will happen to minority groups in England once the exit is final. Many of the protections people have there, especially in the LGBT community come from EU laws, not UK specific ones.


Is that really true ? Same sex marriages for example are an EU thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_of_same-sex_unions_in_Europe

I was under the impression that much of the protection for LGBT and other minority groups followed on from the European Commision on Human Rights, which isn't tied the the EU (though I believe signing up is a prerequisite of membership).

The fact that we hadn't had any MPs killed by nutters since the 1990s was only down to luck:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Pennington

I'm not convinced that Brexit had much to do with Jo Cox's death, he was just another nutter who happened to have picked a popular cause.
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