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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. San Tejón

    San Tejón Well-Known Member

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    Ed Miliband has been destroying Johnson in the Commons today.



     
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    He's still the wrong Miliband unfortunately, but fair play to him, he had Boris pinned and was still punching him. More of this please from any opposition MPs who get given the chance - and let's face it, ****-ups are a daily occurance now with Boris so there's masses of ammunition
     
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    The last time this happened a few months ago, it turned out that the shooter was an extreme right wing Boogaloo Boy, wanting to start a race war. You sure you want to jump straight to "it's all the Democrats' fault" here? It didn't work out terribly well last time!


    Here's the previous one, where an Air Force Sgt and Boogaloo Boy tried to use the protests as cover to kill a police officer, in the hopes that it would be blamed on the protesters and kick off a race war:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/17/boogaloo-steven-carrillo/
     
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    Second reading passed by 77.....

    We are effed aren't we?
     
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    At least we didn't vote for that fella. Remember when he ate that bacon sandwich unusually? What a bullet we dodged. :(
     
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    Music is life
     
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    I really thought that the government having to break the law woukd make some people start questioning if brexit is a good idea.

    But I honestly don't think any predicted outcome could change people's opinions at this point.
     
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    Brexit is a cult. It’s followers aren’t susceptible either to rational argument or to mounting evidence of the damage it’s already causing.
     
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    Brexit is based on bigotry, racism and hatred. A bit like the KKK.

    Poor old Churchill would have been disappointed to find that had the Nazis landed in Britain then the right wing half the bloody population would have gone over to their side. People are often unkind about the behaviour of the French during the Nazi occupation but I am now convinced it would have been much worse here.
     
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    I'm not as pessimistic as that. I think that if the referendum was rerun today with all that is going on then the result would be 60% + remain. Don't forget we were promised the easiest deal in history. It's not looking like that is it?
     
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    You are right and it is worth noting that this is now so far off of what Brexiteers were promised, the referendum was fraudulent enough as it was, but the end result of this will have absolutely nothing to do with what Brexit was meant to be.

    I do feel that we will be at least trying to rejoin the EU within 20 years, I think the main concern is that the UK will have disintegrated by then.

    This is really just an example of a population being stabbed in the back by its politicians.
     
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    It seems like the ardent brexiteers are trying to spin it as though we HAVE to break some laws because the EU are terrible and unfair to us. And they're only little laws, apparently.
    I think there is a large percentage of this country who will be supporting this whatever happens because the alternative means admitting that the whole project is deeply flawed
     
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    Don't forget that Hitler got into power on little more than a third of the vote, almost five million fewer than the SDP, Communists and Centre Party. Brexiteers are almost certainly currently around the 37% that enabled the little corporal to grab power.
     
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    Truthfully, I am scared at where the country is now heading politically.

    Lies - normalised
    Hatred -normalised
    Proroguing parliament - normalised
    Breaking the law - normalised

    Add in the Covid crisis and potential disruption of Brexit (if the forecasts are correct), causing unemployment and misery. Mix that with the large majority of extreme right-wingers in parliament, and it isn't too much of a stretch to think we could start seeing out and out fascism in the UK. The playbook is eerily similar to 1930s Germany.

    I'm an optimist by nature, and don't think we will slip down that route, but I keep getting more and more surprised by what this government thinks is acceptable.
     
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    We already have an unelected dictator - I don’t remember Dominic Cummings ever standing for election.

    Fortunately, we do have a fairly effective opposition, in so far as that’s possible against a government with an 80 seat majority
     
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    The worrying part for me is not that the government thinks it is acceptable, because we expected low standards from this bunch.
    What worries me more is that there are so many members of the public who are willing to stoop to the same low standards.
     
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