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« Reply #10200 on: Friday, July 24, 2020, 06:12:06 »

So, yeah, I do think that and fuck off with your "disingenuous".

And presumably you also think that that attitude didn't contribute to us losing the vote.

I think it did.
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« Reply #10201 on: Friday, July 24, 2020, 07:43:08 »

Then there's those who see the EU as a neoliberal bully of smaller economies, Greece being the most obvious example, and cowardly ignoring issues like Catalonia.

I wouldn't call them morons but......................(sorry Pax)

They should perhaps have pondered the impending, craven dependency on the world's most notable neoliberal bully (even if it is less neo-liberal than it professes to be in matters of foreign trade) and a surprisingly high acceptance of racist police executions.
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« Reply #10202 on: Friday, July 24, 2020, 09:13:58 »

And presumably you also think that that attitude didn't contribute to us losing the vote.

I think it did.
What "attitude"? That I think lots of people who voted to Leave did so for coherent reasons, but may now reflect that they were sold a pup? Or that I called you out for making broad-brush assumptions about what you presume you know about the way I think? Think perhaps the condescending tone of suggesting people are being "disingenuous" because they haven't said what you think they should have said might be rather more of a problem.

And what "us", come to that. There's no template Leave or Remain voter. The two stereotypes of Leave voters as ignorant racists and Remain voters as bitter metropolitan liberal snobs are both equally fatuous and simplistic. There's a broad spectrum of opinions, of motivations and interests that led people to vote the way they did. You can't shoehorn people into fitting your predefined templates, then call them liars if they don't fit.

How were the Leave campaign were able to sell a false, unachievable proposition whilst Remain couldn't sell a true achievable proposition?    I'm suggesting that a major reason was that we didn't sell it effectively and instead simply told people that they were idiots if they didn't vote to Remain.

Whereas here I would agree with you. The Remain campaign was lazy, entitled and badly out of touch. As a campaign it deserved to lose. And there are still plenty of Remainers perpetuating that stereotype of themselves on Twitter, just as there are many loud Brexiteers on Twitter who fall neatly into the stereotypes about them. Both tend to be easily recognisable by the proliferation of flags on their profiles. But Twitter isn't real life, and the failures of the campaign doesn't necessarily reflect on those who voted either way.
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« Reply #10203 on: Friday, July 24, 2020, 09:18:34 »

I wouldn't call them morons but......................(sorry Pax)

They should perhaps have pondered the impending, craven dependency on the world's most notable neoliberal bully (even if it is less neo-liberal than it professes to be in matters of foreign trade) and a surprisingly high acceptance of racist police executions.

I doubt whether anyone with those convictions would place so much emphasis on trade, so I suspect they'd argue we needn't be dependent on the US. A lot of them surely became Reluctant Remainers rather than side with the likes of Farage anyway.
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« Reply #10204 on: Friday, July 24, 2020, 11:26:11 »

....The Remain campaign was lazy, entitled and badly out of touch. As a campaign it deserved to lose........

I've always argued that the 'Remain' campaign actually 'won', as the campaign leadership made absolutely sure it was ineffective.

This prescient and accurate personal observation from four years ago highlights how both Leave and Remain key players had similar backgrounds and aims, are of the same ilk, and belong to the same 'set'...

"....this set began obsessing about Brussels. Ruling Britain was their prerogative..."

https://www.ft.com/content/f4dedd92-43c7-11e6-b22f-79eb4891c97d



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« Reply #10205 on: Saturday, July 25, 2020, 13:47:14 »

That Hopkins "thing" trying her best to stay relevant at some kind of Jonathan Pie style attempt at humour. She's just an absolute dick.

But ignoring the bullshit she's spewing out, look at her fucking pupils. Opiods much.

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« Reply #10206 on: Friday, July 31, 2020, 01:55:01 »

The most accurate representation of our PM you will ever see.


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« Reply #10207 on: Friday, July 31, 2020, 17:20:00 »

Today the Prime Minister of Great Britain nominated for peerages
1) the son of a former KGB general who hosted "bunga bunga" parties that said PM attended (having first carefully dismissed his official security detail) when Foreign Secretary. The son is steeped in Russian oligarchs/security contacts
2) A former leading light in the Revolutionary Communist Party who defended the IRA bombing of Warrington and child pornography on the internet.
3) His own brother

UK 2020: corrupt as fuck.
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« Reply #10208 on: Saturday, August 1, 2020, 07:41:25 »

Goverrnment are being taken to court, apparently. A hefty near million contract awarded to mates of Gove/Cummings, no tendering.

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« Reply #10209 on: Saturday, August 1, 2020, 08:12:35 »

Today the Prime Minister of Great Britain nominated for peerages
1) the son of a former KGB general who hosted "bunga bunga" parties that said PM attended (having first carefully dismissed his official security detail) when Foreign Secretary. The son is steeped in Russian oligarchs/security contacts
2) A former leading light in the Revolutionary Communist Party who defended the IRA bombing of Warrington and child pornography on the internet.
3) His own brother

UK 2020: corrupt as fuck.


He won't lose too much sleep over this, I'm sure, but Jo Johnson has gone down in my estimations.  He did seem to have principles...but he's also, clearly, a fully signed up member of the 'club'.
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« Reply #10210 on: Saturday, August 1, 2020, 10:43:25 »

Obviously Jo Johnson looks bad as he's a relative, but as an ex-minister who recently retired from parliament he's a fairly normal peerage. Lebedev and Clare Fox are far more dubious nominations.
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« Reply #10211 on: Saturday, August 1, 2020, 11:58:34 »

Obviously Jo Johnson looks bad as he's a relative, but as an ex-minister who recently retired from parliament he's a fairly normal peerage. Lebedev and Clare Fox are far more dubious nominations.
Indeed. I think we all remember the likes of Legends Lounge, Gosport Rob and Outlet Red spitting their dummies about Corbyn being a "terrorist sympathiser" but not a word from any of them about Johnson putting someone who is on the record as justifying IRA atrocities (and kiddie porn) in the House of Lords. Nothing.
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« Reply #10212 on: Saturday, August 1, 2020, 12:24:37 »

Obviously Jo Johnson looks bad as he's a relative, but as an ex-minister who recently retired from parliament he's a fairly normal peerage. Lebedev and Clare Fox are far more dubious nominations.

He was only MP for 9 years and is 49, it would be normal after a long parliamentary career. it's unbelievable nepotism. I suppose we should be surprised that he hasn't included his father and sister. It's the sort of rank corruption UK news high mindedly points out when it occurs in other countries. Theresa May's husband too? Unbelievable
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« Reply #10213 on: Saturday, August 1, 2020, 14:15:10 »

He was only MP for 9 years and is 49, it would be normal after a long parliamentary career. it's unbelievable nepotism. I suppose we should be surprised that he hasn't included his father and sister. It's the sort of rank corruption UK news high mindedly points out when it occurs in other countries. Theresa May's husband too? Unbelievable

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« Reply #10214 on: Saturday, August 1, 2020, 14:45:15 »

You’ll fit in well here 😉

Has the newbie put his foot in it here? I'm a bit confused?

I would have thought whatever political persuasion you have, appointments to the House of Lords are dodgy as you like. I was a fan of Ian Botham as a cricketer but I do not know what qualifies him for a position in the Lords.
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