So you have said a few times. I seem to remember it was pointed out that you have that option - don't vote.
A little-in, a little-out may be theoretically possible - I doubt it but say for sake of argument it is doable - but it is not on offer. The EU won't agree to it. They have always maintained there is no cherry-picking of rules. The Withdrawal Agreement is what nations defeated in war sign when they sue for peace. It hands the reins of political, fiscal and judicial power to the victor. The only Brexit the EU will sign up to is the Brexit that leads to the ruination of the UK and their speedy return to the fold. If the UK had MPs devoted to the UK, instead of the fifth-columnists that infest Westminster right now, we'd be out now and trading on WTO terms whilst negotiating better trade deals. Instead, we have EU politicians masquerading as UK MPs, squatting in the HoC/HoL and doing the bidding of their EU masters. TL;DR - the idea that there is a compromise between Remain and Leave is charmingly, hilariously naive.
What a hotch potch of emotive claptrap invoking the war... If you are really going down this route, its best to include "Vassel State/ Vassalage" and "Enlavement of the people" to get maximum GROANS.
One point for the Iraq war comment - that is true. https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic-inequality-uk
So what Boris Johnson, David Davis, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the hard Brexiteers want is “the smack of firm government”—a term first used in the 1950s but since associated mostly with Margaret Thatcher—or policies that dismiss the reservations of the ‘wets’ and feeble naysayers and instead advances bold solutions to allegedly complex issues. To them this can produce order and clarity out of catharsis and chaos. As Boris Johnson famously claimed, if Donald Trump was in charge of Brexit there would be ‘all sorts of chaos’ that would eventually force the Eurocrats into making major concessions.
Probably. The question is superfluous though. ITV or whoever should rightly choose who they want to host on their programmes. Swinson should make herself an attractive personality that would enhance the programme. Most of the time her "heckling from the sidelines" is a distraction reminiscent of a mosquito or a jack russell.
Countries that do not control us are seen as interferring, a trading block that does control us inteferring is seen as friends giving advice
I believe that the rack in question is too large for the debate stage and the producers were afraid of it all turning into a two-ring circus. Three-ring circus, my apologies.
from craig murrys blog. For a decade Nigel Farage has been flung into our living rooms continually by the BBC. Even when UKIP barely registered a blip in the opinion polls, he was a regular on Question Time and the other news, current affairs and politics programme. Farage’s celebrity was a BBC creation. He served an important purpose. At a time when the wealth gap was growing exponentially, and working conditions and real incomes of ordinary people were deteriorating sharply, Farage helped amplify the Establishment message that the cause of these problems was not the burgeoning class of billionaires sucking up the world’s resources, but rather the poor immigrants also scratching to make a living. . Having undermined the prospects of a left wing reaction to massively increasing inequality, Farage has now served his purpose. The exigencies of fighting an election under first past the post are such that Farage has become a potentially serious problem for the wealthy elite. The Brexit Party is a fundamental threat to Boris Johnson’s strategy of moving the Tory Party decisively to the hard right and attempting to win seats on the back of working class anti-immigrant votes in the Midlands and North of England. More liberal Scottish, London and South Western Tory voters have been deliberately abandoned, and consituencies sacrificed, in order to chase hard racist votes. Those indoctrinated to hate their fellow man if he has a Polish accent, are now required by the elite to vote Tory, not to vote for the Brexit Party. . The remarkable result of this is that, at precisely the point where Farage’s influence will be most crucial in determining the future of politics in the UK, he has been dropped by the media. I am extremely confident in my perception that he has appeared less in the last month than at any period in the preceding decade. Having been boosted into prominence by the BBC when they were insignificant, the BBC will do everything it possibly can to dampen down Farage and his Brexit Party now they legitimately deserve coverage as a critical factor. I am happy to state with confidence that this election will backfire on the Tories. The strong evidence from both the 2017 election and the Scottish referendum campaign, is that once broadcasting rules on equal time come into play, the impact on voters is profound of hearing direct from normally derided people and their normally ridiculed arguments. . The Johnson/Cummings electoral strategy is catastrophically bad. First past the post rewards regional voter concentration. Cummings plan is to sacrifice votes in traditional Tory areas in order to pile them up in traditionally hostile areas. The result will be to even out their vote, lose regional concentration and lose the election. They can pile on two million racist votes in traditional Labour constituencies without gaining more than a dozen seats. That will merely cancel out losses in Scotland. That people en masse are going to forget the devastation of their communities by Thatcher or the generations of fight for a decent living is far from probable. The antipathy to the Tories in parts of the UK is not “tribal”, it is the result of generations of hard experience. . The Brexit Party may have more appeal than the Tories in traditional Labour consituencies, but neither they nor the Tories will win any significant number of them. It is in the marginals of the Midlands and Lancashire where the Brexit Party may damage the Tories’ chances, not in Sunderland and Hartlepool which will stay Labour. The SNP is going to sweep Scotland,(I aint so sure, better together are working as one. again) the Liberal Democrats make substantive gains in London and the South West and the Labour Party will do much better in London and the North than anybody now expects. The Midlands, both East and West, are hard to predict and the key battleground, but the number of possible Tory gains is not enough to compensate for their losses elsewhere. The Tories could end up with the largest share of the vote, perhaps 36%, but less seats than the Labour Party. That is what I expect to happen. . Incidentally, there is not a single constituency in Scotland where there is a plausible argument that to vote SNP risks letting a Tory in. I am hopeful that we will sweep the Tories out of Scotland completely this time. I am also quite keen about the SNP helping Corbyn pass the basis of a radical left wing reform agenda through Westminster, whilst briefly on a swift route to Independence. Now that would be a good Christmas present.
