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johnny9fingers) wrote2019-08-09 02:18 pm
johnny9fingers) wrote2019-08-09 02:18 pm
And now it appears...
That the Labour party bigwigs have finally understood the situation they are in:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49285670
www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/08/corbyn-johnson-plotting-abuse-of-power-to-force-no-deal-brexit
No shit, Sherlock.
Now this is the official opposition finally waking up to the situation they (and we) are in.
When both the Government and the Opposition are not fit for purpose the only conclusion available to me is that our politics are no longer fit for purpose. It seems Corbyn, Milne, et al are at least two or three tempi behind the Dominic Cummings of the world. I'd have thought better of Milne, he shouldn't be too dim; after all he is an Old Wykehamist. I must assume therefore that the Labour Leadership actually want Boris to push us over the cliff so that they can pose as heroic rescuers.
Nah. We will see them for the gaslighting enablers they are.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49285670
www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/08/corbyn-johnson-plotting-abuse-of-power-to-force-no-deal-brexit
No shit, Sherlock.
Now this is the official opposition finally waking up to the situation they (and we) are in.
When both the Government and the Opposition are not fit for purpose the only conclusion available to me is that our politics are no longer fit for purpose. It seems Corbyn, Milne, et al are at least two or three tempi behind the Dominic Cummings of the world. I'd have thought better of Milne, he shouldn't be too dim; after all he is an Old Wykehamist. I must assume therefore that the Labour Leadership actually want Boris to push us over the cliff so that they can pose as heroic rescuers.
Nah. We will see them for the gaslighting enablers they are.
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If public sentiment really was so closely split on whether they should stay in the EU, then there's clearly some kind of reconciliation required. But apparently, since there has been A VOTE to exit the EU, that means there must be a complete exit from the EU, no matter what the organizational and economic and even cultural wreckage it creates?? Why don't the people in charge just say "wait, that vote was fucked up, let's stay in the EU but renegotiate a bunch of our membership conditions to satisfy the objections raised earlier...?
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There is a movie coming out which gives the background:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/23/the-great-hack-review-cambridge-analytica-facebook-carole-cadwalladr-arron-banks
The Great Hack. Worth a look. Things have moved on of course.
Here is a link to what is actually going on:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/11/brexit-was-becoming-farce-now-turning-into-coup-johnson
I'm with Neal Ascherson and Ferdinand Mount in this collective opinion article in the London Review of Books:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n16/the-state-were-in/how-bad-can-it-get