Mmm. Winning. Maybe people should stop thinking politics in terms of winning. A big ask, I know.
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Oh I dont know. Seen the correlation between Leave votership and low educational attainment? These arent the nation's high -achievers and high earners.
They won...
...in a turkeys winning the vote for Christmas kind of way.
They won...
...in a turkeys winning the vote for Christmas kind of way.
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....the remain voters clearly don’t accept winning or losing acting like spoilt little children who don’t get their own way
You are correct, our votes should be about winning or losingaphronesis said:
....the remain voters clearly don’t accept winning or losing acting like spoilt little children who don’t get their own way
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Please show us the facts then...and not some stupid guardian newspaper pollmacbindle said:
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I’m not clear on what you’re saying. But yes, the vote happened. What else do you have?
rick james said:You are correct, our votes should be about winning or losingaphronesis said:
I’m not clear on what you’re saying. But yes, the vote happened. What else do you have?
I thought if I’m going to post I’d hang out in this thread where I sometimes learn things. See if you can oblige me.
This is what people really care about..
https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/13/price-fish-chips-rocket-brexit-7541763/
https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/13/price-fish-chips-rocket-brexit-7541763/
A careerist whose hypocrisy knows few bounds, it can be easy to forget today’s Brexiteer hero once said that the only benefit of leaving the European Union would be that it would make us “recognise that most of our problems are not caused by Brussels, but by chronic British short-termism, inadequate management, sloth, low skills, a culture of easy gratification, and under-investment in both human and physical capital and infrastructure.”
Boris Johnson epitomizes everything the Tory party stands for. A racist who called black people “picaninnies” with “watermelon smiles” and said Barack Obama had an “ancestral dislike” of Britain because of his Kenyan heritage, he also argued that the problem with colonized countries was “not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more.”
This act continued for many years — describing the people of Papua New Guinea as “cannibals,” saying women only went to college “to find men to marry,” and describing gay men as “tank-topped bum boys.” A fitting record for a man who promised at his campaign launch to “bring the country together.”
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/07/boris-johnson-prime-minister-working-class
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4391-the-meaning-of-boris-johnson
Boris Johnson epitomizes everything the Tory party stands for. A racist who called black people “picaninnies” with “watermelon smiles” and said Barack Obama had an “ancestral dislike” of Britain because of his Kenyan heritage, he also argued that the problem with colonized countries was “not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more.”
This act continued for many years — describing the people of Papua New Guinea as “cannibals,” saying women only went to college “to find men to marry,” and describing gay men as “tank-topped bum boys.” A fitting record for a man who promised at his campaign launch to “bring the country together.”
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/07/boris-johnson-prime-minister-working-class
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4391-the-meaning-of-boris-johnson
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One of the obvious reason Brexit was successful is because the milkshake group continue to think those low educational, low achievers and low earners do not count.
So the solution is not to allow the low educational attainment population a vote? Why does the milkshake tossers continue to look down upon the common population?macbindle said:
One of the obvious reason Brexit was successful is because the milkshake group continue to think those low educational, low achievers and low earners do not count.
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Its dog-whistle politics (and journalism) for the educated and entitled, the kind of people whose parents grew up in the Raj, if you know what I mean.
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Its dog-whistle politics (and journalism) for the educated and entitled, the kind of people whose parents grew up in the Raj, if you know what I mean.
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Boris is never really going to be like Trump or really like trump. Boris is more of a partisan politician and Trump is a developer.aphronesis said:
What stuns me about boris is that people actually can't see through his lies and bluster and outrageous careerism. Everything he's said recently you can find him saying the opposite maybe four or five years ago. And then, his supporters have the gall to claim he is 'straight talking'
Perhaps even more worrying than the fact the Careerist Lying Watermelon Smiling Letterbox ex mayor of london is that Johnson is perhaps the best of his cabinet! All the great offices of state are filled with a mixture between authoritarian conservatives and ultra Thatcherite (most embodying both). Raab and The Saj, along with Liz 'drones are afraid of dogs' Truss, are the leaders of the group of low tax, low regs group which makes Reagan look like a Blairite, while Patel is most famous for breaking ministerial code (twice) and supporting the death penalty - as a deterrent, as Ian Hislop learnt upon questioning, for being innocent if needs be. An awful mix at the top for the post-brexit world if you aren't earning enough to profit from becoming the most populous tax haven in the world, a 'classical liberal' (as they like to call themselves) utopia with inequality and poverty that would make South Africans blush. The rest of the cabinet is more of an ideological mix, although dominated by two broad groups in my eyes: old Johnson allies (Shapps, Barclay, Wallace) and impressive hypocrites (Hancock, Rudd, Williamson). The latter was a surprise promotion for me, considering he leaked national secrets last time out, although there is a precedent for this in the past decade: see Fox, Patel.
But of course! I am just lacking some optimism and confidence in the glorious Conservative Party, the government, Great Britain and myself! Without it, we won't unlock our potential! In just a few months perhaps, the euro will be worth more than the pound - think of all the exports we could be selling to them then!
But of course! I am just lacking some optimism and confidence in the glorious Conservative Party, the government, Great Britain and myself! Without it, we won't unlock our potential! In just a few months perhaps, the euro will be worth more than the pound - think of all the exports we could be selling to them then!
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Just happens to be on the other side of the political spectrum than most on this thread. That does not make it anything different than if it was a liberal.
Boris is exactly like all politicians when it comes to lies , bluster , and outrageous careerism.Brullnux said:
Just happens to be on the other side of the political spectrum than most on this thread. That does not make it anything different than if it was a liberal.
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Anyway, this isn't the US, liberal in this thread doesn't mean that. Johnson is a liberal by the british (and I'd argue academically correct) definition, not Corbyn or much of the labour party.
Nope, it's not even close. No other conservative changes his mind even nearly as much as him - at the end of the day he is an ideological remainer fighting tooth and nail for a no deal brexit - are you not disgusted by that shameless duplicity? He is quite simply in a league of his own.nevele neves said:
Anyway, this isn't the US, liberal in this thread doesn't mean that. Johnson is a liberal by the british (and I'd argue academically correct) definition, not Corbyn or much of the labour party.
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I stated liberal not in the sense you take it, I mean Left Wing. I'm not disgusted with Boris at all.Brullnux said:
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