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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2019 14:35:40 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2019 15:08:22 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 21, 2019 9:05:52 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 25, 2019 13:47:44 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2019 11:03:42 GMT
"So have I got this right? People voted for Tories because Labour caused the global financial crisis (how they crashed the banks in the USA, I'll never know). The Tories working with the Lib Dems gave money to the banks and cut money to public services for five years and people didn't like it, so they punished the government by voting for them again and voting for Brexit, because it was all and immigrants the EU's fault (again how?). May's Tory government have been hopeless at negotiating with the EU and have been unable to deliver Brexit for three years and people are angry and are going to reward them for their incompetence and vote Tory (or maybe Lib Dems) because it is all the Labour party's fault? Is that right?"
Quote from fb.
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Post by Admin on Sept 28, 2019 17:04:49 GMT
This dear people is the current situation
Imagine that 52% of the country voted that the Government should build a submarine out of cheese.
Now Theresa May was against building a submarine out of cheese, because that would be an insane thing to try and do. But in order to become Prime Minister, she had to pretend that she thought building a submarine out of cheese was a great idea and could be made to work.
“Cheese means cheese” see enthused to the crazy 52%. Then she actually built one.
It was shit. Of course it was, has everyone gone completely bananas? For goodness sake It’s a submarine built out of cheese!
So having built a shit cheese submarine both the ERG and Labour tell her they could build a less shitty cheese submarine. They are all lying, and they know it. It’s a submarine. And it’s cheese! How the heck could it get better?
But she couldn’t call them out on it because she had spent two years lying and pretending that she could build a decent submarine out of cheese.
So, she quit and in comes Boris. Of course, he is lying too. But what’s left of the 52% (those who are totally committed to the religion of cheese built submersible nautical navigation) cheer as he promises to launch the cheese submarine by October 31, even if they have no cheese and no submarine.
Hugo Rifkind on Twitter
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Post by Admin on Sept 30, 2019 7:29:15 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 30, 2019 16:37:29 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 2, 2019 11:52:47 GMT
"After the factionalism descended into violence the poor man finally sunk into a catatonic state." - Ed West Brexit is going to drive us all mad Political division is putting ever greater pressure on people's mental health — and not for the first time BY ED WEST unherd.com/2019/10/brexit-is-going-to-drive-us-all-mad/
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Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2019 9:38:13 GMT
"A doctor has warned of the effect the political upheaval of leaving the EU is having on the nation’s mental health. He revealed that one of his patients suffered Brexit-triggered psychosis hallucinations and delusions soon after the 2016 EU referendum result in 2016. The patient, an unnamed man in his 40s, became increasingly worried about racism and, after being admitted to a psychiatric ward, said he felt ashamed to be British... Dr Mohammad Zia Ul Haq Katshu said: ‘His wife reported that since the EU referendum results were declared on 24 June 2016, he started spending more time putting his thoughts across on social media. ‘He found it difficult to reconcile with the political events happening around him. He became increasingly worried about racial incidents. His sleep deteriorated.’ The patient said: ‘I was looking at the electoral map of voting for the EU. I am in a constituency that reflects an opinion that is not for me.’... ‘He presented as agitated, confused and thought disordered. He had auditory hallucinations, and paranoid, referential, misidentification and bizarre delusions.’ The patient also reported experiencing family pressures and it is possible these and work-related stress also contributed to his illness. The patient was diagnosed with acute schizophrenia-like psychotic disorder, a category of acute and transient psychotic disorder (ATPD) – the first case believed to have been triggered by Brexit..." metro.co.uk/2019/10/01/britains-first-ever-case-of-brexit-induced-psychosis-10838406/
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Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2019 9:41:07 GMT
"Making the UK referendum debate into a simple binary decision was an unprecedented disaster. It raises complicated multi-threaded philosophical and practical questions that will never ever be answered by saying yes or no. The future relationship between the UK and the EU is deeply nuanced. The nature of the Union likewise.
What to do? The political shenanigans surrounding the referendum serve few people well, but the few it does serve are doing very nicely from the divisions the vote has caused.
The way I see it, the referendum was so flawed that it should be seen as not having happened, in exactly the way the Supreme Court Justices stated Parliament had not been prorogued.
And for those that state this would be a betrayal of democracy, I answer, democracy has already been betrayed and the result is a divided destroyed country that is now in the hands of people whose behaviour is fascist. There is no doubt about this. To continue down this road will only lead take more not less problems.
Simply, this was never a vote about the EU, as has been evidenced through ample reliable research. It was about inequality, poverty, tax avoidance, delusions of power, hatred of the other, distrust, a desire to have an effect on someone, anyone; it was about kicking the establishment; it was about the pleasure of bitterness. But, it was hardly ever about trade and making law. That's the lie that's given credence to the single biggest threat to democracy since Hitler.
Scrap this disastrous project, now."
Aaron Davies
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Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2019 11:45:39 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2019 11:50:04 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 6, 2019 13:14:09 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2019 15:01:32 GMT
Quote for the day. Thoughts?:
‘Brexit is a necessary crisis, and has provided a long overdue audit of British realities. It exposes the nature of the economy, the new relations of capitalism to politics and the weakness of the state. It brings to light, in stunning clarity, Brexiters’ deluded political understanding of the UK’s place in the world. From a new understanding, a new politics of national improvement might come; without it we will remain stuck in the delusional, revivalist politics of a banana monarchy’.
David Edgerton - Hans Rausing professor of the history of science and technology and professor of modern British history at King’s College London
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