Current Affairs EU In or Out
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I don't know what you're suggesting here...
Easy. People are going around in circles on this thread. Never ending argument. Time to close it
peteblue
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That’s the ticket, we need a bit more humour in here .....
Brexit is a joke?
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Brexit: A ridiculous swagger
The quest for size has led to making Britain smaller. Is this the beginning of a development that will end with an English nation-state?
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A very good read on the identity divide in the country due to Brexit, and I particularly like the poeticness of the final two paragraphs:
"And, in the final irony, there is now no scapegoat. Ever since Britain joined in 1973, its governments have been adept at redirecting popular unhappiness away from themselves and towards Brussels. The great game of signing up to policies at European Council meetings and then posing as defenders of British interests against the "unelected Brussels bureaucrats" who implement those policies was always popular with the rabid tabloid press.
The one thing you should never do with a scapegoat is to kill it and eat it. The EU scapegoat has now been ritually sacrificed to the gods of national identity in the hope that they will in turn bestow the greatness that holds Britain together. When the gods do not respond to the sacrifice, the people often turn their wrath on the high priests."
this thread needs closing as we have left the EU .....
Don’t see why. Fools talked about leaving for years, no reason why others can’t spend the future years talking about doing the right thing and rejoining.
Brexit: A ridiculous swagger
The quest for size has led to making Britain smaller. Is this the beginning of a development that will end with an English nation-state?
A very good read on the identity divide in the country due to Brexit, and I particularly like the poeticness of the final two paragraphs:
"And, in the final irony, there is now no scapegoat. Ever since Britain joined in 1973, its governments have been adept at redirecting popular unhappiness away from themselves and towards Brussels. The great game of signing up to policies at European Council meetings and then posing as defenders of British interests against the "unelected Brussels bureaucrats" who implement those policies was always popular with the rabid tabloid press.
The one thing you should never do with a scapegoat is to kill it and eat it. The EU scapegoat has now been ritually sacrificed to the gods of national identity in the hope that they will in turn bestow the greatness that holds Britain together. When the gods do not respond to the sacrifice, the people often turn their wrath on the high priests."
Sadly they will just blame China. Or snowflakes.
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