Scarfolk has always been eerily like Brexit Britain anyway, good to see the government finally acknowledging it.
In fact worryingly it looks like it might be where the government are getting all their ideas
created 18 months before the Windrush scandal broke
Yup, we're sliding inexorably into a parody 1970s Britain, I'm wholeheartedly looking forward to the three day week and proper British food like Spam fritters and faggotsThe last two in particular are
Because the UK signed an agreement with the EU stating that what ever happened there would be no boarders between NI and ROI. Are you saying that the UK can't be trusted to honour agreements they sign? If yes then why should anybody make a trade agreement with us.
Not to mention those wars saw massive losses of life, destruction to major UK cities and towns in blitzes, and involved extreme rationing and major sacrifices from people in the home-front in their day-to-day lives, all while living with the perpetual fear they could be bombed or that we'd lose the war. If that's the sort of thing we're having to prevail over here then...yeah, can see why some people might not be quite so keen on Brexit.
But think how lucky they are now to have you to explain that to them, with your superior understanding of history. If only that generation hadn't wasted so much time racing ferrets and standing at football matches they too might bettered themselves just like us.
Fair enough. So long as you're not claiming any relevance to the UK today then consider me off it.
Except it’s a bit more complicated than that surely? Brexit was not the only issue and clearly large amounts of remainers voted for those parties. That is not a disonant position.
I don't know what disonant means, but when I read this thread I get the impression that Brexit is far and away the biggest national issue, by a country mile. If any of the large number of remainers that voted for those parties are saying they regret it then fair play to them. God knows we all make mistakes. Not many seem capable of that though, for whatever reason, it's all somebody else's fault, their vote didn't count.
Brexit was indeed a massive issue, but, for instance, many remainers will have voted Labour in an effort to oust a right wing Tory party, a position the realtively weak Liberals would never have been able to do. Removing the Tories (partly because thier internal politics caused Brexit in the first place) was as important to many as Brexit...and had Labour won (a primarily Remain parliamentary party) who knows what would have happened regarding Brexit...certainly it would, at the least, not have been hard.
Scarfolk has always been eerily like Brexit Britain anyway, good to see the government finally acknowledging it.
In fact worryingly it looks like it might be where the government are getting all their ideas
created 18 months before the Windrush scandal broke
Depends on your MP, I guess. I voted Labour (in a Labour safe seat) because my MP has been clear in continuing to fight for the UK to remain in the EU. In the GM Mayoral election, I couldn’t vote for Burnham after his EU voting record post-Brexit referendum. The quality I most admire in a elected representative is to fight to do the right thing, even if that may be not the most popular thing and you may have a struggle to win your electorate over. I’ve lost respect for so many elected officials who are seemingly willing to engage in such a monumental act of national self harm due to a narrow, purely advisory, referendum defeat. Some of the indifference and hand washing has been extraordinary.
The fact is that it's both. Satire only really works if it's based in reality.
When I heard May refer to Northern Ireland and then mention the "Northern and Southern areas", I wondered if she was talking about the southern parts of Northern Ireland, or whether she realises theres actually two countries. Shes a fecking mole.
That common rule book that May put forward will never work. It would work at the beginning but as soon as a few new changes in customs regs or tax regs or manufacturing / product standards came through and Westminster voted them down there would be deviation from the original rule book and the 27 will not accept that. So dont even worry about it. Thats never going to be accepted.
That's the normal level at the moment in Europe.
