The Thread of BREXIT

[cronus]

On the bright side neo-liberalism which anyone with a heart really does hate will be able to be declared a criminal ideology like communism, fascism etc following the coming avoidable famine across the industrialised world.

[JimC]

As full of sweetness and light as always, crumps...

[Scot Dutchy]

For many in Britain the Wail and the Bum are their main source of "facts". It suits their mentality as they dont have to think just parrot what the Wail and the Bum say.

Circulation figures Daily Mail 1,708,006, it is widely believed the weekday Daily Mail will overtake The Sun in circulation during 2016.


Population of UK approx 80 million give or take ten....million.

The Mail website gets more UK and international visits per day that any other UK newspaper - in fact it has the most unique visitors for any news outlet globally.

What an horrendous thought.

[Scot Dutchy]

The Netherlands no more wants a neo-nazi fascist state just across the sea as I want to live in it. Brexit is the equivalent of electing Trump in the US

Netherlands is far closer to a neo-fascist state with Geert Wilders than the UK. Farage isn't gonna improve his popularity by taking over the shop. And he's hardly popular now.

Once again the great lack of knowledge of Dutch politics is apparent. We vote using PR without any threshold and to gain power you must form a coalition. Only a 5% vote will give any party one seat in parliament which is why we do now and again have a rash of one man parties which tend to disappear at the next general election. Also because generally people elect the party not the mp's we dont have by-elections. If someone dies or resigns he/she is replaced by the next person on the electoral list at the last general election.
The trouble with Wilders is nobody wants to form an coalition with him. Rutte did in his first cabinet rely on agreed support from Wilders but that only lasted 7 weeks. He is out in the cold. Nobody cooperates with him in parliament and also he has no senators in the first chamber. As the Dutch say "hij is een knikker in een lege trommel" (he is a marble in an empty tin) which means he makes a lot of noise and that is all.

[cronus]

Changed my mind. I'm voting 'in' instead. I subjected the debate to a immense amount of re-analysis and decided it'd maybe effect my life too much if we left the EU. Now I've just gotta persuade the unthinking majority, who never question their choices to re-assess.

[Scot Dutchy]

Changed my mind. I'm voting 'in' instead. I subjected the debate to a immense amount of re-analysis and decided it'd maybe effect my life too much if we left the EU. Now I've just gotta persuade the unthinking majority, who never question their choices to re-assess.

Well done

[Brian Peacock]

From this we can assume that Crumpy feels that voting in will hasten The End Times.

[Scot Dutchy]

From this we can assume that Crumpy feels that voting in will hasten The End Times.

A hidden agenda maybe?

[cronus]

When Ebola returns I don't want this country isolated from the mainland.

[Scot Dutchy]

The murder of Jo Cox has suddenly brought home the seriousness of Brexit. It is not a game.

Consequences of Brexit sink in for US politicians after killing of MP

The death of UK member of parliament sent a shock through Washington as the EU referendum vote could affect foreign policy and international relations

The shock felt in Washington at what Hillary Clinton called the “assassination” of British MP Jo Cox has coincided with a belated American realisation of just how febrile UK politics has become ahead of next Thursday’s vote on leaving the European Union.

While the US has been mourning victims of the Orlando shooting and digesting new extremes of anti-immigrant rhetoric from Donald Trump in response, the extent to which the European migration debate has driven the UK to brink of “Brexit” had gone less noticed.

“The recent [pro-Brexit] opinion polling is only just beginning to sink in here,” says one senior European diplomat trying, behind the scenes, to reassure Washington’s increasingly nervous foreign policy community about the future of the Atlantic alliance.
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[cronus]

It isn't that bad in the UK at the moment. Most of the time political gatherings are victims of apathy rather than bad feelings. I guess the press like to amplify events? it would afterall be a bit deflating if a isolated incident turns out to be, well, a isolated incident.

[Brian Peacock]

Interesting editorial in the New York Times as well.

[Scot Dutchy]

This death will stop a lot of people in their tracks and hopefully make them think. It is a really sad thing that it would take a death of an up and coming politician to make people realise wtf are the three stooges talking about. I think people have become numb listening to the constant Brexit dribble of myths and lies.

Everybody who is a member of Britain First must have a mental problem and this lowly bit of scum that crawled across the earth is no different.

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-e ... m-36567469

Brexit would make Britain like Guernsey, says French minister

Leaving the European Union would make the UK as significant as Guernsey, France's economy minister has said.
Emmanuel Macron told Le Monde newspaper that Britain would become "a little country on the world scale [that] would isolate itself... at Europe's border".
He said the EU should send "a very firm message" about the consequences of a British vote to leave the bloc.
Pro-Brexit campaigners say Britain would prosper outside the EU and develop new trading relationships.

(continued, every other resident a millionaire or crook or both?)

[Svartalf]

don't mind the macron, or maybe do, he's a real expert in tax havens, and Guernsey is one...