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  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 62,772
    kinabalu said:

    Scott_P said:
    Clever slogan. "Get Ready". Makes it sound exciting. A blockbuster movie you can't wait to see. The start of the Ashes. The ETA of the A list celeb to the party. And subliminally a feelgood motown song. Nice one by Gove.
    Get Ready. For the flu season from hell.

  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,468
    HYUFD said:

    Committing to implement a Leave vote 17 million voted for is anything but Fascist
    👏
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 62,772
    kle4 said:

    I find myself in agreement with that tweet.
    I don't, not in the slightest. I'm outraged at Boris's actions, but people jump so quickly to the fascism accusation.
    Yep. Everytime this happens, day after day, the true nature of 20th fascism gets diluted.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,414
    kinabalu said:

    Scott_P said:
    Clever slogan. "Get Ready". Makes it sound exciting. A blockbuster movie you can't wait to see. The start of the Ashes. The ETA of the A list celeb to the party. And subliminally a feelgood motown song. Nice one by Gove.
    Get Ready for that root canal you've been putting off.
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,468
    Get ready for that colonoscopy.
  • I find myself in agreement with that tweet.
    I seem to be in a minority. People are overreacting.
    I agree. I think Boris was stupid and wrong to do this but to equate it with fascism is equally stupid and wrong. I wonder if those making these claims think Atlee and Major were also fascists?

    For the record they were equally stupid and wrong but agsin they weren't fascists.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163

    ab195 said:

    Corbyn supported disruptive protests? Angry mobs shouting at the Leader of the House’s kids? Remainers still talking about process? Cummings must think it’s Christmas.

    This. About x100 likes.

    Allotment Man has walked straight into the trap. Unbelievable.
    Depends if we are one of those tipping point moments. If there truly is a level of outrage at recent events that is crossing beyond just the usual suspects, then people crossing the line a bit in reaction to those events will get more of a pass, particularly if enough people truly believe that the path Boris has set us on is genuinely damaging and must be stopped.

  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,131
    edited August 2019

    Btw, enjoy the hols, Mike. You deserve to.

    I'm sure it will be nice and quiet here while TSE is in charge.

    I’m not sure what I’ll write about during this quiet period.
    Something on the voting system....AV perhaps?
    That thread is already written.
    Indeed. You also have other articles on the subject, ranked by preference. If only there was some way of choosing which one to publish... :)
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 63,133
    edited August 2019
    Looks like Corbyn is about to overplay his hand

    He suffers delusion if he thinks by encouraging violence and disruption it will win him anything. Indeed it is very likely to lose him support from those he is appealing to

    I do not like the word but boy is he thick
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,468

    Looks like Corbyn is about to overplay his hand

    He suffers delusion if he thinks by encouraging violence and disruption it will win him anything. Indeed it is very likely to lose him support from those he is appealing to

    I do not like the word but boy is he thick

    Lib Dems: the only adults in the room.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,156

    I find myself in agreement with that tweet.
    I seem to be in a minority. People are overreacting.
    I agree. I think Boris was stupid and wrong to do this but to equate it with fascism is equally stupid and wrong. I wonder if those making these claims think Atlee and Major were also fascists?

    For the record they were equally stupid and wrong but agsin they weren't fascists.
    Can you take a tweet from a man who did this seriously?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6i-gYRAwM0

    Of course not
  • Looks like Corbyn is about to overplay his hand

    He suffers delusion if he thinks by encouraging violence and disruption it will win him anything. Indeed it is very likely to lose him support from those he is appealing to

    I do not like the word but boy is he thick

    Lib Dems: the only adults in the room.
    Seems so
  • Beibheirli_CBeibheirli_C Posts: 8,163

    I find myself in agreement with that tweet.
    I seem to be in a minority. People are overreacting.
    I agree. I think Boris was stupid and wrong to do this but to equate it with fascism is equally stupid and wrong. I wonder if those making these claims think Atlee and Major were also fascists?

    For the record they were equally stupid and wrong but agsin they weren't fascists.
    Neither believed in "Creative Destruction" and that wrecking the UK was a laudable goal.
  • kle4 said:
    It is, so the SNP will just be looking for progress.

    However, suggestions are that it is looking close, and Alex Cole Hamilton has been getting his excuses in early on Twitter.

    I'd expect LD hold with a greatly reduced majority. An SNP win here would be hilarious.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 62,772

    Looks like Corbyn is about to overplay his hand

    He suffers delusion if he thinks by encouraging violence and disruption it will win him anything. Indeed it is very likely to lose him support from those he is appealing to

    I do not like the word but boy is he thick

    Lib Dems: the only adults in the room.
    Seems so
    Jezza has fallen into the trap.
  • I see the Queen is taking sides, there's going to be a terrible backlash against the Queen and the monarchy.

    https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1167194546469507072
  • TOPPING said:

    Scott_P said:

    In order to build a New World from the rubble, first there has to be rubble...

    https://twitter.com/TelePolitics/status/1167172662554218497

    Creative Destruction?!! Now there's a slogan to go into a General Election with - but for the Conservative Party?!

    Eat your heart out, Anarchists. Take a hike, Commie Bastards. You want creative destruction, join the Conservatives!!!
    I mean this is the sort of stuff we joked about as a parody of the leavers. Extraordinary. How will it go down on the doorstep? God only knows surely we Brits are more sensible than that.
    They said the same in Thatcher's day too.

    Creative destruction is a very Conservative belief, not like command and control statists in other parties.
    What fantasy planet are you on? I remember Mrs Thatcher and, whilst I disliked her, she was at least reliable and honest. She believed in reform and enabling ownership. Destruction to rebuild would be nearer to Michael Foot and Militant Tendancy.
    What are you talking about?

    Creative destruction is the central plank of a free market economy. That companies, even industries, even major names can go bust and out of the ashes will arise newer and better roles. The end of jobs for life replaced with evolution and a dynamic survival of the fittest.

    Thatcher's day saw three million unemployed, a deep manufactoring recession, taking on the vested interests of the mining industry, privatisations, the death or divestment of the "picked winners" and instead allowing private competitors to flourish.

    What is that if not creative destruction?
  • The end of jobs for life replaced with evolution and a dynamic survival of the fittest.

    Philip Thompson, may I introduce you to the British Monarchy?

    Monarchy = Socialism!
  • The end of jobs for life replaced with evolution and a dynamic survival of the fittest.

    Philip Thompson, may I introduce you to the British Monarchy?

    Monarchy = Socialism!
    I'm a republican. Next. ;)
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,156

    I see the Queen is taking sides, there's going to be a terrible backlash against the Queen and the monarchy.

    https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1167194546469507072

    Rubbish, as long as Boris is PM and there is no successful VONC the Queen has no need to see anyone else, Corbyn or Swinson.

    Despite the stirring a non Tory, anti Brexit, unconservative republican like you may do
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,733

    FPT:

    spudgfsh said:

    spudgfsh said:

    Mortimer said:

    Scott_P said:

    Mortimer said:

    Expect to be around a bit more after Brexit when the same old arguments have disappeared.

    After Brexit? We might all be dead by then...
    I remain confident that Brexit will be concluded this year. There won’t be a Tory party left otherwise...
    You're missing the point though. There are two scenarios here
    1) in the unlikely event we remain, the tories will be an avowedly exit party. there will be more of the same over and over and over again.
    2) we exit, in some form, and there will then be another 3 years negotiating the 'future relationship' after which the tories will say it's still not good enough and we end up back here. on top of that you'll have the remain labour people and the lib dems fighting a guerilla war against exit in the same manner that the likes of IDS did in the 90's and 00's
    You're missing the point. When the sky comprehensively fails to fall in after October 31, the jig will be up for remainerism, and the more sensible ones know it, which is why they're trying so desperately to stop it now.
    After an exit, especially if it causes a crisis in confidence in the economy and thus a recession, there will still be a significant number of people who will want back in. there will be a similar guerrilla warfare to get us back in. that is what I said.

    there will be no such thing as 'remainer' once we've actually left but there will be a rejoin movement. This is the folly of the Leavers in charge, they think that an exit will make the other side go away. it won't.

    I also suspect that following a no-deal exit the EU will be consistent with the red lines that they've already set out and as such the leavers won't like or vote for any continuing relationship treaty because it's not a 'real exit'.
    If I cannot be a "Remainer" then I shall certainly become a "Rejoiner" and push for Schengen and the Euro.

    IMO, Boris and his coterie of Nationalists and wreckers are fast pushing the UK towards "Failed state" status. He is already taking the first steps towards dictatorship by avoiding public scrutiny as much as possible (no interviews!!) and closing down Parliament for as long as he can.

    I winder when he will get around to abolishing it?
    Bozo failing to do interviews, and not putting up ministers to defend his suspension of democracy shows the contempt that he has for the voting public.

    Democracy and mass peaceful protests haven't worked.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,217
    Hmm I remember when the Queen was being lauded by the FBPE lot

    https://twitter.com/BarbaraTasch/status/877476950541033472

    If Johnson ennobles a hundred peers to filibuster stuff in the Lords will that venerable institution also suffer the same fate as Her Majesty ?
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,217
    On topic:


  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,131

    TOPPING said:

    Scott_P said:

    In order to build a New World from the rubble, first there has to be rubble...

    https://twitter.com/TelePolitics/status/1167172662554218497

    Creative Destruction?!! Now there's a slogan to go into a General Election with - but for the Conservative Party?!

    Eat your heart out, Anarchists. Take a hike, Commie Bastards. You want creative destruction, join the Conservatives!!!
    I mean this is the sort of stuff we joked about as a parody of the leavers. Extraordinary. How will it go down on the doorstep? God only knows surely we Brits are more sensible than that.
    They said the same in Thatcher's day too.

    Creative destruction is a very Conservative belief, not like command and control statists in other parties.
    What fantasy planet are you on? I remember Mrs Thatcher and, whilst I disliked her, she was at least reliable and honest. She believed in reform and enabling ownership. Destruction to rebuild would be nearer to Michael Foot and Militant Tendancy.
    What are you talking about?

    Creative destruction is the central plank of a free market economy. That companies, even industries, even major names can go bust and out of the ashes will arise newer and better roles. The end of jobs for life replaced with evolution and a dynamic survival of the fittest.

    Thatcher's day saw three million unemployed, a deep manufactoring recession, taking on the vested interests of the mining industry, privatisations, the death or divestment of the "picked winners" and instead allowing private competitors to flourish.

    What is that if not creative destruction?
    "...Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them. But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,..."

    The Holy Bible, NIV, Book of Malachi 4.1-4.3
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,517
    Pulpstar said:

    On topic:


    Quality book. I remember my mind being blown by the whole concept as a kid. Think House of Hell was probably the most memorable of the series.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,517
    HYUFD said:

    I see the Queen is taking sides, there's going to be a terrible backlash against the Queen and the monarchy.

    https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1167194546469507072

    Rubbish, as long as Boris is PM and there is no successful VONC the Queen has no need to see anyone else, Corbyn or Swinson.

    Despite the stirring a non Tory, anti Brexit, unconservative republican like you may do
    There was once a PBer called Republican Tory - a decent poster as I recall. No doubt sycophantic cap-doffers like you consider him beyond the pale.
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,318
    Mauve said:

    Point 1: The pathetic inaction of Hancock, Javid and Rudd speaks volumes about their integrity - they deserve humiliation for their arse licking. Along with many other Tory MPs for backing a known liar. As a wise man once wrote "Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten."

    Point 2: I voted remain and was prepared to accept a sensible Brexit, but there have been zero attempts made to compromise with remain voters by the leave side. There have been no sensible arguments presented for Brexit beyond magical trade deals (that will be massively disadvantageous to us due to desperation), sovereignty (that we still had many vetoes over), and "the will of the people" (which polls at the time regularly showed both a lack of understanding of the consequences of Brexit, and a lack of favour for the nuclear option).

    Point 3: I've never been particularly politically excitable until recently, people with grand visions scare me. It is noticeable that Brexit has morphed from something that will make us richer by escaping EU protectionism into something "that must be done" simply because Farage and the English nationalists in the Tory party wish it to be so. I refuse to "believe in Britain" as if we're somehow special simply because some fat, lying sack of shit ex-journo who threatened to get someone beaten up tells us to. We aren't special, and haven't been for at least 75 years.

    I almost want the Brexit cult to get their wish for a dystopian no deal so that we can see them become a laughing stock and be put on trial (in as high a profile way as possible) for being lying scumbags more interested in their hedge funds than the wellbeing of the nation. The only things that stop me are that I don't want Scotland and NI to leave the UK and the likely significant economic damage, both short and long-term.

    + 1
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,163
    Foxy said:

    FPT:

    spudgfsh said:

    spudgfsh said:

    Mortimer said:

    Scott_P said:

    Mortimer said:

    Expect to be around a bit more after Brexit when the same old arguments have disappeared.

    After Brexit? We might all be dead by then...
    I remain confident that Brexit will be concluded this year. There won’t be a Tory party left otherwise...
    You're missing the point though. There are two scenarios here
    1) in the unlikely event we remain, the tories will be an avowedly exit party. there will be more of the same over and over and over again.
    2) we exit, in some form, and there will then be another 3 years negotiating the 'future relationship' after which the tories will say it's still not good enough and we end up back here. on top of that you'll have the remain labour people and the lib dems fighting a guerilla war against exit in the same manner that the likes of IDS did in the 90's and 00's
    You're missing the point. When the sky comprehensively fails to fall in after October 31, the jig will be up for remainerism, and the more sensible ones know it, which is why they're trying so desperately to stop it now.
    Afterit'.
    If I cannot be a "Remainer" then I shall certainly become a "Rejoiner" and push for Schengen and the Euro.

    IMO, Boris and his coterie of Nationalists and wreckers are fast pushing the UK towards "Failed state" status. He is already taking the first steps towards dictatorship by avoiding public scrutiny as much as possible (no interviews!!) and closing down Parliament for as long as he can.

    I winder when he will get around to abolishing it?
    Bozo failing to do interviews, and not putting up ministers to defend his suspension of democracy shows the contempt that he has for the voting public.

    Democracy and mass peaceful protests haven't worked.
    Parliament can still stop him. Your tilting toward violent protest is beginnging to look downright eager and is quite worrying.
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