The Politics Thread

Too bloody close!

 

Actually there's no press there. Even the ones filming it and audibly taking photos.

 

In other Larry-related news, reports suggest the mog savaged the proven liar's obvious distraction tactic/photo-op dog

 

Larry claimed both of them joined forces and savaged Boris

 

Laura Kuntssberg's response was to post the guy's name on her Twitter account, and by complete coincidence he's been getting a dog's abuse from the gammonati ever since someone revealed his name to their 1.1m followers...

 

Another public service ruined by the Tories.

 

So for those keeping score
* Carrie Symonds' neighbours were described by the press as "Labour activists" for calling the police when they believed that Boris Johnson was assaulting her
* Owen Jones was called a "Labour activist" by the BBC when attacked on the street a few weeks ago, not a journalist
* The bloke whose daughter was in the hospital Boris Johnson visited for a photo op (and lied about to his face) was not only described as a "Labour activist" but had Laura Kuntssberg doxx him on Twitter

 

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Now Junkers says to Sophie Ridge that they are open to getting rid of the back-stop and has named the process 'the alternative arrangement'. It beggars belief and sounds more pythonesque every day. How long before David Davies denys that Michel Barnier nailed his head to a coffee table? Or JRM starts biting the heads off whippets? Can't wait for the 'alternative alternative arrangement'.

 

Canadian PM in trouble for a picture of him with a black face. Blimey....and I used to watch the Black and White Minstrels!

 

Doesn't Trump wear blackface on a daily basis?

 

In this case a bit of the opposite is true. I suspect a proportion voted for Brexit to give Cameron a bloody nose. Daft, but (I suspect) true.

 

And you think the people are competent to make this choice. That the general population understood the effect on trade, medicines, food. If ever a decision was not right for a referendum (Yes/No doesn't get near the range of views on this) it was this one. Should have had at least a 60% threshold for doing something so drastic.

 

BROWN face [ (c) Lamestream media (TM) ] , not "black" face.

The ARSes have an "oppression Olympics" "colour chart" that will now
be used to defend why Trudeau is not to be "cancelled" (I mean, they
cannot do so via the "timeline" method) .

 

Some are, some are not. That goes for both choices that were on offer.

Whether their 'competence' depends on being provided with pros/cons info
(data sources cited being put in the public domain) for everything, explained in
laymen terms, is up for debate.


"That the general population understood the effect on trade, medicines, food.
If ever a decision was not right for a referendum
(Yes/No doesn't get near the range of views on this) it was this one."

No different to the "range of views" that the electorate faced in 1975.


"Should have had at least a 60% threshold for doing something so drastic."

The number who voted to leave was effectively the same as those who voted remain in 1975.
The overall turnout was higher though in 2016.

This was one political event where mandatory voting IMHO was a must.

 

Got to disagree there I'm afraid. If people can't be bothered to vote then they have no right to complain about the outcome. Yes, put a "none of the above" on the form if you must, but never force anyone to vote. We'll cross the bridge of "none of the above" winning when we come to it!

But that is not the only argument is it? People have many reasons for voting for the way they did. People even have the right, should they choose, to vote illogically (as you would see it). That's kind of the point of politics, and why I have always stood by the principle of (paraphrasing) 'I will defend to the death your right to have a different opinion to me'.

 

Up to 28% of the electorate cannot be bothered to even attend to put
NOTA on the ballot, whether the option was officially available or not.