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Brexit: European Parliament speaker scolds Brexit MEPs as they wave Union Jack flags
- Thread starter Saya
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Hopefully we will try and rejoin in 15-20 years after our economy has crashed and gone through a recession and everyone realises what a stupid obvious fucking mistake this whole thing was.
He won't go away no matter what happens, that's the only thing I can guarantee about Brexit
Ehh, that is highly debateable. Depends on what you consider populism tho, it is mostly used to describe right wing parties these days it seems. I'd imagine most of the big strides in workers' rights in history sprung from a populist platform.
I'd say someone like Sanders is easily the most populist presidential candidate out of the big democrats and I'd consider him a positive force. Obviously he represents a very different approach to what Trump's populism is.
edit: and to be more on topic, Corbyn definitely didn't run a campaing devoid of populism.
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He and his toadies are a fucking disgrace. I despise the lot of them and wish so many horrible things upon them. I feel so mortified that they're somehow our representatives on the world stage; so much so that I'm almost glad we're leaving. Better that we just fuck off and wallow in our own shit, fading into complete irrelevance on our own pathetic little rock instead of continuing to be the obnoxious entitled cunts striding around ruining everything. We don't deserve a seat at the table.
hahaha shut up
hahaha shut up
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What an odd way to put it, choosing "you may not like him" to obliquely say you're supporting a racist cunt.
Why do you support a far-right charlatan who literally sang Hitler-youth songs as a schoolboy?
yeah sure whatever big fan, we might get a united ireland out of him rousing a mostly pliant population who wish to re-enact the Empire all over again and be even more racist, huge fan honestly.
I'd like to think the penny will drop that peoples lives will not get ANY better after Brexit a bit quicker than 20 years.
Vladislav Surkov too.
It won't be Brexit that gets the blame. Remainers, immigrants, lefties but never Brexit.
Yeah, I forgot that the British like the whole "someone perpetually in the crosshairs" thing.
I wouldn't say it's a nationality-specific mode of thinking. Putting all your irrational fears and inadequacies onto The Other is, however, the founding stone of Far Right ideology. 😩
The rest of the MEPs singing Auld Lang Syne in response to the Brexit Party's actions really emphasises just how pathetic and lacking in class these Brexiteers are:
Can't see it. Remain was a shitshow and there is no credible rejoin faction in british politics (well maybe the SNP).
Rejoin ain't happening in the next 10-15 years
MEPs taking the high road and not lowering down to their pathetic arrogant level. Nicely done.
... also likely not as United Kingdom and more as Little Britain
A big chunk of the Brexit-supporting UK public have now internalised the idea that they didn't vote for Brexit for financial gain, they voted for it for some nebulous concept of sovereignty and "control". Even if their original expectations were that their financial situation would improve, their expectations have now been managed to the point where they aren't going to be looking for anything to get better.
If anything I think that this will go the other way. Brexit won't result in a single cliff-edge moment for the UK economy. There'll be some individual bad days (which will be written off by Brexit-supporting commentators as definitely not having anything to do with Brexit), but in almost all sectors the effect of Brexit will be a long-term dampening effect. Most things just get a bit worse, but not spectacularly so - it'll be difficult to notice and easy to acclimatise in the medium-term. That lack of impact will be touted by Brexit supporters as being evidence that Brexit was fine. Once some years have passed, there probably will be a growing feeling among the public that Brexit wasn't good, but by then it will have the inertia of being the status quo, making it difficult to convince people to rejoin.
I feel like Brexiters think they're the So Long and Thanks For All the Fish dolphins, when the exact opposite is true.
I would angrily shake my fist at the TV 20 years from now if the Union is invited to rejoin 20 years from now with the same exemptions. Of course, whoever supported those exemptions would lose my vote.
If the UK manages to keep the Common Travel Area up and running and then rejoins later, the EU might re-offer the UK its Schengen exemption (since forcing the UK into Schengen would mess with the CTA and potentially require Ireland to join Schengen, overriding Ireland's Schengen exemption).
The other exemptions will indeed be out of the picture if the UK ever rejoins.
As i have scot inlaws i would love for them to be independent but i won't get my hopes up.
... not even a little bit?
People are retroactively rewriting history. Like my Sister saying she knew exactly what she was voting and glad its all over now. There is no reasoning with these people no matter how bad it gets. I think it will be bad much worse than people think, especially with our incompetent government, there's no scenario where its not to bad. Boris and the government are pushing themselves into their own corner, they are saying they want no deal. Even if they don't go for no deal they somehow turn back from it at the last minute, their will be an extreme amount of damage to this country from a lesser deal.
People will notice it, but they will accept it and even perhaps be happy for it as they've given their incompetent shit cunt government full reign to completely destroy their lives, and their futures.
Good luck to the UK being at the mercy of Donald fuckin Trump and the likes in the hopes of clinging onto some relevancy.