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It’s pretty ironic that just like in the US the scare mongering starts with immigrants first. It’s like Brexit never actually happened in 2016 and the immigrants have kept on coming and now it’s time to have round two. Excuse me, but who’s been in charge for the last 14 years?
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Going back to Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood, when he said pay them to go back to where they came from, Shirley Bassey was all for it, as it would buy her a nice home in Tiger Bay in Wales.
That’ll put a rocket up her, as she waits, like the Titanic, for an iceberg.
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Only under a extremely generous interpretation of what “served” means.
Immigrants are a great target when you’re a desperate pollie. When you need a scapegoat but can’t afford to alienate a single voter, there the are. A nice big population of nonvoters who you can blame all your problems on.
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Well she never voted for romaine.
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Not a chance.
Universally condemned for nearly breaking Britain’s economy single-handedly in her 49 days as PM. She still is, nearly every day by all economists and parties who never stop condemning her and her tin-eared political style. And how interest rates shot up to stupid levels in response to her unfunded nassive tax cuts, overnight throwing UK and other financial markets into freefall, threatening pension funds and causing mortgage rates and inflation to rocket… ruining many people’s plans like first time buyers. She argues that her record short term in office was sabotaged by “agents” of the “left” active in public and private institutions. Righto Liz … as you like.
Nope, Liz Truss was a disaster and reckon she’ll remain so. Still pedalling her wares and “ideas” over in the deep south of populist U.S conferences. And it’s another large reason (and there are many e.g. Boris and partygate, BRexit, failed immigration policies, overall public services ineptitude) why the Tories have being punished in the polls ever since.
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C’mon guys, at least she was sorrel for her mistakes
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that, and global warming means that an awful lot of people will be looking to move further north/south over the coming decades, so demonising them now will make it more palatable to [redacted]
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The EU pre-Brexit was a target for similar reasons.
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Oh, no; simmo goes racist!
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Yes, but was used as a smokescreen for the real reason for exiting, which was reported at the time that the Tories did not want to be subject to the EU anti-corruption rules.
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No, that’s conspiracy BS. The Tories didn’t want to leave the EU, they knew it would be a disaster.
And the fact he is a millionare/billionare or whatever helps.
Britain is exceptional among all the former colonial powers in regard to its fixation on its status as continuing as an Imperial power. It went into the EU thinking it would become the dominant power, rather than seeing EU membership as its future in becoming part of Europe. Instead of power sharing it played the spoiler role throughout its membership.
Nostalgia for the lost Empire, compared to Spain, its lost Empire is history, but with its footprint of Latin America and US Latino population.
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As they should.
They should never have entered the EU as they never really wanted to be a bit part player in it. They only ever wanted to be top dogs and that was never going to happen.
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The failed defence of Singapore, the realistic commitment to decolonisation in the Atlantic Charter, then East of Suez, but still dreaming of a return , when it was losing its influence in the nineteenth century.
No but English people should never take orders from scum the likes of Germany and France
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Instead of the old Etonians and the caste system of inherited wealth from feudal landholdings running England and Scotland. The fight for public land for the population to access the land didn’t go much beyond the village green. The Duchy of Cornwall profits supporting the Monarchy is derived from tenant farmers.
Irish independence didn’t achieve ownership of land from the English landowners.