Tag: Brexit

The project of sovereign individuals to burn the country to ash so, like dragons, they can feed on the ash.

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Is cancelling Brexit the Prime Minister’s new default?

Robert Peston the chief political correspondent for ITV News discusses the possibility of cancelling Brexit.

ITV News

A lot of people seem to think this was Theresa May’s game all along. I can’t see it myself. I can see her triggering Article 50, then calling a snap election trying to outflank the Labour Party, gambling on wiping out the Labour Party, leaving a clear path to get whatever exit she wanted.

Let’s not forget the Prime Minister tried to stop parliament from having any kind of say over the deal she struck. Probably because she could see from the outset what a hopeless venture it all was. Subsequent events have seen her cut off at every point, by Europe, by opposition. So vailed warnings of revoking Article 50 is just another attempt to force the critic in her own party into line.

I’d welcome her pulling the plug and revoking Article 50. It would keep us in Europe, and with luck destroy the Tories. Tory voting leavers would never forgive the betrayal. Remainers would never respect the party again. I’d call that a win.

Revoking Article 50 would certainly force a general election. At least then the parties could set out their stall, make their arguments, and let the will of the people be heard.

I’m sure it wouldn’t be the narrow split the commentators might like it to be.

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Strong Brexiteer admits the project has gone sour

You have to admire Peter Oborne for writing this, saying it out loud.

Open Democracy

People on both sides of the argument should read this. Those arguing to remain will say thank you, “I’ve been saying that since the beginning”. Those on the other side need to “swallow their pride and think again”.

The important word in that statement is think.

So much of what Leave has been able to do is bypass thinking, and take things straight to the gut. Gut reaction is one thing, thinking about it is another.

Look at the truth of the argument, and think again.

You don’t get divorced after fifty years and come out of it richer, you just don’t. You leave a bit of yourself in that relationship you’ll never get back.

Just think.

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Nigel Adams resigns over May’s decision to meet Corbyn

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What kind of upside-down back-to-front fool is Nigel Adams if he thinks Corbyn is a Marxist? Paul Mason sums him up.

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The United Kingdom has gone mad

Thomas L. Friedman for The New York Times is right, the United Kingdom has gone mad.

The New York Times

Read it and weep.

The entire Brexit choice was presented to the public in 2016 with utterly misleading simplicity.

John Hagel, who currently co-heads Deloitte’s Center for the Edge, business has “been organized around stocks of knowledge as the basis for value creation… the companies that will create the most economic value in the future… will be the ones that find ways to participate more effectively in a broader range of more diverse knowledge flows that can refresh knowledge stocks at an accelerating rate”.

Britain is about to put up a big sign: GO AWAY.

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If you go to the heartlands and talk to people, the ethnic nationalism comes up immediately

Lionel Shriver and Will Self, two writers on not-so-different sides of the Brexit debate. Self’s point is that neither side, leave or remain, have made the argument one way of the other, it’s “not listening” tribalism.

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General Election if May’s Brexit deal is voted down

Tom D. Rogers for Evolve Politics reports “if Theresa May’s Brexit deal is voted down for a third time tomorrow, the government will call a General Election in an attempt to break the current Parliamentary deadlock”.

Evolve Politics

Is the threat of a general election an attempt to scare reluctant Tories into complying? Is Theresa May making the same calculation she made before she called the last general election, and trying to out flank Labour?

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The obscene moral spectacle of Theresa May’s resignation

Politics.co.uk

Ian Dunt for Politics.co.uk offers a great analysis of psychopaths making deals. “They are shaking hands with knives held behind their back.” He’s right when he says “not one person in this rabble believes a single thing they are saying. It is a godawful mixture of religious zeal, personal ambition and tribal lunacy”.

Tory elite are toying with the lives of millions

It demonstrates what Gabi Zimmer asserts the “Tory elite has continued toying with the lives of millions across the continent in a boorish parlour game that demonstrates yet again the blatant disregard held by the UK ruling class towards working people”.

No good will come from this.

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Tory elite are toying with the lives of millions

Gabi Zimmer for Left Foot Forward is right, the Tories are “toying with the lives of millions across the continent”.

Left Foot Forward

The key point to note, and the circle that will never be squared, is the Good Friday Agreement. An internationally recognised peace agreement that is dependant on the United Kingdom being part of the European Union.

The Tory elite will be responsible for the troubles that come.

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Cambridge Analytica are the ones guilty of treason

Nico Hines reports in The Daily Beast, the “High Court in London heard on Monday that Cambridge Analytica was up to its old tricks from beyond the grave—by surreptitiously trying to halt investigations that could expose allegedly nefarious tactics before the company was shut down for good”.

The Daily Beast

There is a lot of talk from Leave claiming lies, betrayal, bias, even treason. I would argue every aspect of the thing Cambridge Analytica do, or did, is designed to serve individual interests against the will of the people.

To me Cambridge Analytica and its subsidiaries are the ones guilty of treason.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg has questions to answer

“Leading Brexiteer and Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg is estimated to have earnt £7m from one of his investments since the referendum according to an investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches.”

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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s smug denials “the amount I receive is not for public disclosure” simply isn’t good enough. I’m always being told how corrupt politicians are, “they’re all in it to line their own pockets”. From this brief insight I’m inclined to agree.

Channel 4 Dispatches