If you voted Brexit for financial gain by selling Britain short and hoping to make a killing, and can
admit that, then I salute you for your honesty, but please do not call yourself a patriot or a man
(or woman) of the people, as you very obviously hold them in utter contempt due to your gain
being at their expense. Brexiteers are all fond of saying; "Remainers are just worried about money," but money keeps you fed and a roof over your head. Without a job your prospects are bleak.
It is little wonder that the LibDems are calling to revoke A.50; they're unlikely to ever form a majority government and so aren't targeted by the vultures and disaster capitalists. Labour are more likely to form a government and so there is some targeting, but disaster capitalism isn't in the grassroots DNA. The Conservatives, however, are funded by the vultures and are paid to do their bidding, whether it be having close relationships with hedge funds (or owning them, like JRM) or financial interests in American healthcare firms hoping to profit from a hard Brexit. Naturally, the millionaire newspaper barons are all for it, as they can escape forthcoming EU scrutiny of their tax havens. No wonder the Sun, Daily Mail and Telegraph put out disinformation by the shovel load.
I've seen numerous cases on Facebook from Brexit supporters referencing Oliver Cromwell's speech to Parliament when he dissolved it and using it to castigate Remainers. It's worth quoting it:
"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice. Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government. Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance. Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do. I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place. Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors."
The problem is they don't know their history. Cromwell was not targeting the average MP, but those using their position for profit and patronage while purporting to represent their constituents. The key phrase is; Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money." Sounds awfully a lot like the JRMs of Parliament.
If you voted Brexit because you believe Parliament had lost sovereignty to the EU, then the Supreme Court judgement should have corrected that misconception - if you have any semblance of reason, that is. What is the double-think involved in believing, on the one hand, Brussels has too much power over British judges and, on the other, British judges having too much power? Ask yourself why, if all our laws come from Europe, does Scotland have different laws to England?
To go from championing Brexit as a means of taking back control into a sovereign Parliament and freeing our judiciary from EU interference to championing the silencing of that sovereign Parliament (and prorogation is NOT the same as recess) whilst accusing the judiciary of bias, is plumbing the depths of hypocrisy and demonstrates the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of Brexit.
Supreme Court judges operate on the basis of truth and evidence, therefore, if they are biased towards anything it it likely to be Remain, given the number of lies on which Brexit is founded. It would surprise me if a single Brexit supporting judge could be found, let alone eleven. That said, their ruling was on the basis of precedent and the submissions of the opposing sides. That the accused refused to provide any reason for prorogation did not help his cause. The 'no comment' tactic to avoid incriminating oneself. The accused went on record maintaining the prorogation was nothing to do with Brexit, but as soon as the judgement went against him he came out bleating that the judgement was tainted by Remain bias. Damned by his own actions.
If you still believe Brexit will produce a UK that is better off than being in the EU, against overwhelming expert opinion, arithmetic, reason, common sense and after the utter decimation of all the Leave arguments, from fishing to immigration, then you deserve either sympathy for your genuine lack of understanding, or utter contempt if you are an ideologue who treats evidence as an inconvenience and get angry with people who have the temerity to tell you the truth when you can't articulate a single reason that holds water, other than you won by a slender majority over 3 years ago. Governments can change in less time, which shows people can and do change their minds as the facts become apparent.
Ultra Brexiteers are blithely unconcerned by all the boring and complicated details of what would be required for us to extricate ourselves from the EU in a sensible fashion and fall back on vacuous, wishful thinking. Vitriolic about anyone concerned about the stark reality roaring down upon us, they ignore complex technical implications of acquiring “third country” status when trying to sell 40%+ of our exports across the Channel - they've clearly never sold anything abroad in a competitive market. The wavers of magic wands have taken over the asylum when they can't explain the benefits of Brexit without resorting to repeating debunked lies.
To maintain the Irish Backstop is unnecessary as there is a solution, but to refuse to say anything about what that solution is, borders on cognitive dissonance.
Historically, when politicians trash the rule of law or, in cahoots with the gutter media, open up the Overton Window by normalising whipping up the electorate against a sovereign Parliament and the judiciary, it always heralds something rather nasty in the not too distant future, as we've learned from birth of every totalitarian regime there has ever been - they aim to be unaccountable and brook no dissent.
I find it particularly ironic that those shouting 'fascist' at Remain MPs are so lamentably ignorant of politics that they're not even aware of the direction of a fascist's political leanings or his/her disdain for an independent judiciary and a sovereign Parliament.
How anyone can cheer on a man who, as well as being a proven serial liar, on the very day of being elected leader of his party hires as his key adviser a man guilty of contempt of Parliament is a total mystery. It's as if some people have completely switched off their moral compass.
“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”
― Adolf Hitler ( Mein Kampf )
"Blue passports and fish..."
"Project Fear."
It is little wonder that the LibDems are calling to revoke A.50; they're unlikely to ever form a majority government and so aren't targeted by the vultures and disaster capitalists. Labour are more likely to form a government and so there is some targeting, but disaster capitalism isn't in the grassroots DNA. The Conservatives, however, are funded by the vultures and are paid to do their bidding, whether it be having close relationships with hedge funds (or owning them, like JRM) or financial interests in American healthcare firms hoping to profit from a hard Brexit. Naturally, the millionaire newspaper barons are all for it, as they can escape forthcoming EU scrutiny of their tax havens. No wonder the Sun, Daily Mail and Telegraph put out disinformation by the shovel load.
I've seen numerous cases on Facebook from Brexit supporters referencing Oliver Cromwell's speech to Parliament when he dissolved it and using it to castigate Remainers. It's worth quoting it:
"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice. Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government. Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance. Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do. I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place. Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors."
The problem is they don't know their history. Cromwell was not targeting the average MP, but those using their position for profit and patronage while purporting to represent their constituents. The key phrase is; Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money." Sounds awfully a lot like the JRMs of Parliament.
If you voted Brexit because you believe Parliament had lost sovereignty to the EU, then the Supreme Court judgement should have corrected that misconception - if you have any semblance of reason, that is. What is the double-think involved in believing, on the one hand, Brussels has too much power over British judges and, on the other, British judges having too much power? Ask yourself why, if all our laws come from Europe, does Scotland have different laws to England?
To go from championing Brexit as a means of taking back control into a sovereign Parliament and freeing our judiciary from EU interference to championing the silencing of that sovereign Parliament (and prorogation is NOT the same as recess) whilst accusing the judiciary of bias, is plumbing the depths of hypocrisy and demonstrates the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of Brexit.
Supreme Court judges operate on the basis of truth and evidence, therefore, if they are biased towards anything it it likely to be Remain, given the number of lies on which Brexit is founded. It would surprise me if a single Brexit supporting judge could be found, let alone eleven. That said, their ruling was on the basis of precedent and the submissions of the opposing sides. That the accused refused to provide any reason for prorogation did not help his cause. The 'no comment' tactic to avoid incriminating oneself. The accused went on record maintaining the prorogation was nothing to do with Brexit, but as soon as the judgement went against him he came out bleating that the judgement was tainted by Remain bias. Damned by his own actions.
If you still believe Brexit will produce a UK that is better off than being in the EU, against overwhelming expert opinion, arithmetic, reason, common sense and after the utter decimation of all the Leave arguments, from fishing to immigration, then you deserve either sympathy for your genuine lack of understanding, or utter contempt if you are an ideologue who treats evidence as an inconvenience and get angry with people who have the temerity to tell you the truth when you can't articulate a single reason that holds water, other than you won by a slender majority over 3 years ago. Governments can change in less time, which shows people can and do change their minds as the facts become apparent.
Ultra Brexiteers are blithely unconcerned by all the boring and complicated details of what would be required for us to extricate ourselves from the EU in a sensible fashion and fall back on vacuous, wishful thinking. Vitriolic about anyone concerned about the stark reality roaring down upon us, they ignore complex technical implications of acquiring “third country” status when trying to sell 40%+ of our exports across the Channel - they've clearly never sold anything abroad in a competitive market. The wavers of magic wands have taken over the asylum when they can't explain the benefits of Brexit without resorting to repeating debunked lies.
To maintain the Irish Backstop is unnecessary as there is a solution, but to refuse to say anything about what that solution is, borders on cognitive dissonance.
Historically, when politicians trash the rule of law or, in cahoots with the gutter media, open up the Overton Window by normalising whipping up the electorate against a sovereign Parliament and the judiciary, it always heralds something rather nasty in the not too distant future, as we've learned from birth of every totalitarian regime there has ever been - they aim to be unaccountable and brook no dissent.
I find it particularly ironic that those shouting 'fascist' at Remain MPs are so lamentably ignorant of politics that they're not even aware of the direction of a fascist's political leanings or his/her disdain for an independent judiciary and a sovereign Parliament.
How anyone can cheer on a man who, as well as being a proven serial liar, on the very day of being elected leader of his party hires as his key adviser a man guilty of contempt of Parliament is a total mystery. It's as if some people have completely switched off their moral compass.
“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”
― Adolf Hitler ( Mein Kampf )
"Blue passports and fish..."
"Project Fear."
1 comment:
Total agreement from Southport. Also, don’t understand how any women can support our utterly misogynistic PM. The site of the odious Andrea Leadsom sat behind BJ, smirking, is positively sick making.
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