tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post1757897863480515308..comments2024-02-28T17:50:10.303+00:00Comments on LUCID FRENZY JUNIOR: BREXIT: CAN’T HAPPEN HERE – UNTIL IT DID!Gavin Burrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-87198596157905135422016-08-31T18:16:49.406+01:002016-08-31T18:16:49.406+01:00I don't think the thing was the catchiness. &q...I don't think the thing was the catchiness. "We're British!" isn't terribly catchy. I think the thing was people's circumstances primed them to respond to some lies against others.<br /><br />The funny thing for me is, it always feels like anti-EU sentiment is something my lot should be expressing! As I say in the piece, it's a neoliberal, austerity-imposing body which screwed over Greece against the express wishes of its people. And in the 1975 referendum, that was much more the case. What angers me more isn't so much that they lie - <i>of course</i> they lie - but they've slanted things so we don't get to speak at all.<br /><br />Whenever I brought that up people would say "well of course the EU needs to be reformed". But I can't see those reforms being at all a realistic prospect. You might as well ask a shark to reform it's mouth into a hospital for small fish. In the end, while I didn't want Leave to win because that was letting UKIP and the Tory right win, I couldn't bring myself to vote for it, so I abstained.<br /><br />But then again, if I was minded to argue against myself, the recent EU ruling against Apple dodging tax in Ireland isn't just welcome, it's the sort of thing that only a transnational body could achieve. Otherwise they could just carry on playing nation off against nation, like they normally do.Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-23904861317199212892016-08-31T01:00:05.749+01:002016-08-31T01:00:05.749+01:00I hate it all. Hate it hate it hate it.
What is e...I hate it all. Hate it hate it hate it.<br /><br />What is even the <i>point</i> of rational discussion when we know that chanting catchy lies over and over again always wins?<br /><br />And as for the people who voted for Gove, Farage and Johnson? It's hard for me to have any sympathy with them as they face the inevitable consequences of their pandering to the Express's and Mail's xenophobia. A pox on everyone's house.Mike Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039663158335543317noreply@blogger.com