Learned a new word today that seems appropriate here - ochlocracy
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I don't know why people are so upset by the prospect of some right wing nuts losing the plot and turning violent. The UK Govt is perfectly capable of shooting unarmed people in the street, and locking people up without trial, and conspiring with criminals to murder their political opponents. You'll be fine. As long as they remember to murder and imprison the right people.
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I mean, the idea of 'calling the whole thing off' angers even me
In 3 years anyone who still remembered it would be too embarrassed to admit it. And the idea that we shouldn't act in the best interests of the country in case some racist gets narky - well I thought we didn't pander to terrorists?
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If the UK wants to honour the referendum, move on from Brexit and not be idiotic about it then it should join the EFTA and remain in the EEA. Anything else isn’t going to end the conversation - rejoining the EU will be the biggest political topic in the country until we rejoin the EU. Which will be tied to the hardness of Brexit, the harder the Brexit the sooner we’ll rejoin. Leavers will become harder to find and not just because a sizeable portion will be dead. Demographics make that pretty likely to happen.
I find it truly remarkable the game both parties are playing. The Tories will bleed votes due to this disaster and Corbyn is alienating his own membership and specifically his biggest backers. If the Labour right had the political nous God gave a squirrel, they would make much more hay with this. Instead they seem mainly trapped in a self-congratulatory bleating if I told you so. But a soft left candidate who doesn’t deviate too far from domestic Corbynism but is explicitly pro-EU could make real inroads.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostAt this point to midnight I can't believe Labour are still anti SM on triangulating grounds, that The Irish Question is so carelessly dealt with. It's really worrying.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostI don't know why people are so upset by the prospect of some right wing nuts losing the plot and turning violent. The UK Govt is perfectly capable of shooting unarmed people in the street, and locking people up without trial, and conspiring with criminals to murder their political opponents. You'll be fine. As long as they remember to murder and imprison the right people.
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- Oct 2011
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- Cambridgeshire
- Norwich City (in theory); Ipswich Town (in practice) {it's complicated}
Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View PostSo the evidence this customs arrangement might happen is a German think tank have proposed it? It might, but why should the EU concede that?
Anyway, we're still left with "strong single market relationship".
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- Oct 2011
- 24895
- Cambridgeshire
- Norwich City (in theory); Ipswich Town (in practice) {it's complicated}
Ah right. If I'm reading the proposal correctly, this one suggests that the UK would not pursue its own FTAs, so I guess that's the trade-off: Turkey gets no vote but can have its own FTAs. UK can have a vote if it doesn't have its own FTAs?
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