Have you noticed how the Hard Brexit Elite have introduced a new term into the thwir narrative? The EU is now a 'foreign power'. They mean people just like me. It's the latest tactic in the use of emotive language to sway opinion - the us and them narrative. Collusion is another word in their cold war lexicon. I'm mostly resistant to psychological manipulation, but many aren't, else the advertising world wouldn't be awash with money.
Johnson wants to make Brexit a General Election issue, but it isn't. A GE is not the way to get Brexit through, as it would be used to get all manner of other policies through on the back of a single issue. It would cause political chaos as people would not be voting on a raft of polities, but a single issue. Knowing how the country is split on Brexit, he would be almost guaranteed being returned to power on this single policy - and he knows it. Policies on education, policing, environment, tax, etc., would play no part in the voter's decision making process, which is fundamentally wrong. It would be a Trojan Horse election. Brexit has to be a separate issue and resolved before any GE.
I also hear Brexiteers constantly referring to the EU as protectionist, yet I heard Farage on the radio this week saying he believes in nation states that put their own people first (a bit like America First). If that statement is not advocating protectionism, then I don't know what is. The fact is that the EU is the largest free trade area in the world, bar none, with absolutely zero tariffs. That situation is enabled by levelling the competitive playing field through regulatory alignment. Simple - if you can't get your head around that then you must be a bit thick and believe the Chinese have wages similar to ours and that Pakistani sweat-shops are the epitome of a well regulated environment.
I saw a piece of propaganda from Brexit Central yesterday claiming that the UK dropping all tariffs would result in a 20% decrease in shop prices. True, but it would also lead to massive job losses as our shop shelves are flooded with cheap imports - they left that little bit of information out. For the Brexit Elite Greed is Good.
Boris is apparently (as of yesterday and until his appeal is heard), guilty of having lied to the Queen. There again, is there a woman he hasn't lied to? The danger with the British form of democracy is that if a politician, and especially a PM, is allowed to get away with something deeply disturbing, it turns (without lack of a formal constitution) into a precedent, thereby giving licence to any future PM to do exactly the same deeply disturbing thing legally.
As for getting behind Boris, my conscience simply wouldn't allow me to get behind a politician for whom lying is first, second, third and fourth nature.
Or is it a double bluff and Johnson is doing a full Lord North by showing such gross incompetence that he's purposely trying to head off any form of Brexit at all?
Johnson wants to make Brexit a General Election issue, but it isn't. A GE is not the way to get Brexit through, as it would be used to get all manner of other policies through on the back of a single issue. It would cause political chaos as people would not be voting on a raft of polities, but a single issue. Knowing how the country is split on Brexit, he would be almost guaranteed being returned to power on this single policy - and he knows it. Policies on education, policing, environment, tax, etc., would play no part in the voter's decision making process, which is fundamentally wrong. It would be a Trojan Horse election. Brexit has to be a separate issue and resolved before any GE.
I also hear Brexiteers constantly referring to the EU as protectionist, yet I heard Farage on the radio this week saying he believes in nation states that put their own people first (a bit like America First). If that statement is not advocating protectionism, then I don't know what is. The fact is that the EU is the largest free trade area in the world, bar none, with absolutely zero tariffs. That situation is enabled by levelling the competitive playing field through regulatory alignment. Simple - if you can't get your head around that then you must be a bit thick and believe the Chinese have wages similar to ours and that Pakistani sweat-shops are the epitome of a well regulated environment.
I saw a piece of propaganda from Brexit Central yesterday claiming that the UK dropping all tariffs would result in a 20% decrease in shop prices. True, but it would also lead to massive job losses as our shop shelves are flooded with cheap imports - they left that little bit of information out. For the Brexit Elite Greed is Good.
Boris is apparently (as of yesterday and until his appeal is heard), guilty of having lied to the Queen. There again, is there a woman he hasn't lied to? The danger with the British form of democracy is that if a politician, and especially a PM, is allowed to get away with something deeply disturbing, it turns (without lack of a formal constitution) into a precedent, thereby giving licence to any future PM to do exactly the same deeply disturbing thing legally.
As for getting behind Boris, my conscience simply wouldn't allow me to get behind a politician for whom lying is first, second, third and fourth nature.
Or is it a double bluff and Johnson is doing a full Lord North by showing such gross incompetence that he's purposely trying to head off any form of Brexit at all?
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