Current Affairs Don't mention the War !
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summerisle
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Off we go again
Fedlingen
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I like this reply:
"So we've gone from giving the NHS £350m a week to "it won't be as bad as a world war." "
He actually put #Alphamale lollollollollollol
summerisle
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Now that would have been a sight to behold.
anybody wanting to be in a war needs there head testingNow that would have been a sight to behold.
Brexit: how the end of Britain’s empire led to rising inequality that helped Leave to victory
The link between empire, inequality – and Brexit.
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Ouch. Zinger
abelard
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Brexit: how the end of Britain’s empire led to rising inequality that helped Leave to victory
The link between empire, inequality – and Brexit.
Ouch. Zinger
Since you've more than had enough of me already....
This is a very poor article, speculating (and therefore misdiagnosing) about a number of flimsy correlations between the end of empire and the rise of inequality, without properly considering other more relevant causes, and generally premised on dubious logic.
For instance, here: "Many accounts persist in suggesting that what swung the vote was disaffected working-class electors in the north of England, despite the majority of Leave votes coming from the south of England, from the middle classes and from people who normally vote Conservative or UKIP" - the latter clause does not negate the former; 'swung' does not refer to the majority who had opposed joining the EU since the 1970s and were always going to vote Leave given another chance, it means the people described by the former clause, who were previously ill-informed or indifferent about Europe, but won over by a campaign by that better addressed their material and emotional grievances.
The article is also entirely based on common myths and misunderstandings about the role of the empire in British economic history.
This is much better, and actually research-based: https://members.tortoisemedia.com/2...g=uf1AIFQvLmWd86cC3WSIyw4ea24PGozQsEz_3NKIBYU
That website seems to be yet another attempt to reclaim 'hard-hitting fact-driven rational pragmatic centrist non-partisan analysis' or whatever, but the links I've seen so far have consisted of academics spouting off on topics they haven't properly researched, and actually know little about.
(of course, let he who is without sin, obviously.... ; )
Since you've more than had enough of me already....
This is a very poor article, speculating (and therefore misdiagnosing) about a number of flimsy correlations between the end of empire and the rise of inequality, without properly considering other more relevant causes, and generally premised on dubious logic.
For instance, here: "Many accounts persist in suggesting that what swung the vote was disaffected working-class electors in the north of England, despite the majority of Leave votes coming from the south of England, from the middle classes and from people who normally vote Conservative or UKIP" - the latter clause does not negate the former; 'swung' does not refer to the majority who had opposed joining the EU since the 1970s and were always going to vote Leave given another chance, it means the people described by the former clause, who were previously ill-informed or indifferent about Europe, but won over by a campaign by that better addressed their material and emotional grievances.
The article is also entirely based on common myths and misunderstandings about the role of the empire in British economic history.
This is much better, and actually research-based: https://members.tortoisemedia.com/2...g=uf1AIFQvLmWd86cC3WSIyw4ea24PGozQsEz_3NKIBYU
That website seems to be yet another attempt to reclaim 'hard-hitting fact-driven rational pragmatic centrist non-partisan analysis' or whatever, but the links I've seen so far have consisted of academics spouting off on topics they haven't properly researched, and actually know little about.
(of course, let he who is without sin, obviously.... ; )
Oh for sure, it was a flimsy correlation at best, I just thought that line was a good 'un.
Blues Harp
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This odious piece of pond life masquerading as a human being would burn all protestants at the stake if she could......scummy tory turns into even scummier right wing bigot.
summerisle
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goodisonopheliac
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Well, derr. Because it was a war. People do tend to die in wars.
As if Farage would have fought in WW2. He would have been a black market profiteer.
summerisle
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"We" lol
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