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Dr Strangelove (how I learned to stop worrying and love Boris)

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  1. Sunderpitt

    Sunderpitt Well-Known Member

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    Proverbs 18:2 NCV

    Fools do not want to understand anything.
    They just want to tell others what they think.
     
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  2. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Ah yes, one of your holjy trinity that excuses everything ...

    ... 'We'd have got away with wrecking the economy if it wasn't for that pesky Covid.' <laugh>

    The Bank of England says Brexit has harmed us.

    That's a fact, something you can't handle, hence the endless deflections.
     
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  3. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    I've just posted a direct quote about Brexit.

    Totally ignored because it doesn't fit the agenda.

    Today's the day we find out how much we have to pay for Truss's disastrous budget ...

    ... we're all going to suffer according to Hunt, he won't.
     
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  4. The Exile II

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    So five million people became economically inactive because of Brexit, six and three years ago respectively, but it's only now, a year after COVID, that it's affecting us?

    Fools do not want to understand anything indeed. They just want to shout 'tories bad' at everything and get a pat on the back for it.
     
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  5. Smug in Boots

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    If you actually read the quite there's clearly two separate issues.

    Brexit harmed us.

    Covid affected us.

    Are you saying the BoE is wrong and Brexit hasn't harmed us?

    "Britain is suffering worse economic performance than its rivals because of Brexit and a stark drop in the size of the workforce since the Covid pandemic, the governor of the Bank of England has said."
     
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  6. The Exile II

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    Nope. It's a combination of factors. There was always going to be an effect from Brexit as everything was reorganized (and not necessarily by very capable people). It's the additional pressure from COVID and Ukraine that's tipped the balance. Two things any government would have had zero control over.

    If you want to view it through a purely Tory-hating lens, fair enough. You'll never learn anything though. I prefer to understand why things happen. Otherwise you end up tribal, reactionary and stupid. My side good, everyone else bad.

    Oh no, I've written an explanation rather than yes/no. That'll be deflection again.

    Yes.
    Yes.
    Yes.
    No.
     
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  7. Smug in Boots

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    Yes, that's what he said, a combination of factors including Brexit.

    Brexit has harmed us, fact.

    Acknowledging that doesn't ignore other issues or mean you hate Tories.

    You can't absolve the Tories of all blame based on the idea that people hate them.
     
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  8. The Exile II

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    And COVID? You know, shutting the economy down?
     
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    It's a combination of factors <doh>
     
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    It all depends on wether he thinks losing his job next year is suffering, because he’s going to.
     
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    Cabinet members, MPs and PMs don't suffer from losing their job.

    They do a Steve Bruce, cop a big payoff and walk straight back into another post.

    Truss is made for life having wrecked the economy.
     
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    It'll be interesting to see who'll employ Truss, cannot see 55 Grafton St touching her...
     
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    She'll become a handy 'one size fits all' excuse for everything that's gone wrong in the last twelve years.
     
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  14. rooch 3

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    She deserves it as well<laugh>
     
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    BBC trying to broadcast live from Westminster with hecklers... why. The bbc are pathetic really
     
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    Sounds like they are broadcasting live from a building site now... crazy
     
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  18. rooch 3

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    You haven’t caught DH4’s disease have you <laugh>
     
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    Not COVID though, no? That's one of the holy trinity that excuses everything apparently.
     
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  20. Smug in Boots

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    Of course it includes Covid, during which multi-millions was simply burned or thrown away.

    That's undeniable and the Tories were to blame.
     
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