Not everyone who voted leave is xenophobic but did most xenophobes vote for leave? Probably! Is that borne out in the marked rise of racist attacks since the referendum from people who feel it’s open season on those dirty foreigners? Definitely.
By the way, the toxicity shown in the following clip (of many you may choose from) is where our country is at right now. Friends, families, co-workers… everyone is now a remainer or a leaver and i don’t think the divide will ever be mended and we can (quite rightly) castigate May for utterly failing in her job but cameron is the architect of this fucking mess.
biggest single reason for wanting to leave […] was “the principle that decisions about the UK should be taken in the UK”
Yeah, it’s working out /s
While entertaining, I hope the UK crashes out sooner than later. When out they can ruin their own country as they see fit. By staying they will hamper the rest of the EU worse than they did before.
The currency would be the EUs least concern. An independent Scotland would be a precedent for other regions that want to split from their mainland (e.g. Catalonia). So far the different branches of the EU are against a balkanization of its members. And even if after this weekend the EU parliament will have more right wing seperatists, I don’t think that this position will change any time soon.
I mentioned the currency more because uncertainty over what Scotland would use post-separation from the UK was one of the the concerns in the last referendum. Going on the Euro would solve that, especially with a GBP going down the toilet post-Brexit.
I agree that no-one in the EU wants to see more Balkanisation within it, but post-Brexit Scotland would be a different case for obvious reasons. As long as Spain stays in the EU, an independent Scotland wouldn’t provide precedent for the EU to recognise an independent Catalonia.
One problem with that is that there are two clear Remain zones on mainland Britain. Scotland is easy, but there is also a band of Remain between London and Bristol that splits counties in two. Some people get upset about changes to counties. There are still people in Cumbria who insist that they are from Cumberland/Westmorland/Lancashire/Yorkshire, and they changed that 45 years ago.
The other problem is Northern Ireland. I don’t think house swaps are going to work there, no matter how you do them.
I don’t know who Mark Francois is, but I’m guessing from the brazen intellectual dishonesty and misrepresentation of Self’s position he’s a hardcore Brexiteer.
I thought it was interesting as a piece of history, a view of non-marxist libertarian-communism from the late 19th century (Morris wasn’t an anarchist, but when the first international split he chose to join with them). Some parts of it have dated badly though, eco-socialism and feminism has moved on a lot since then.
I didn’t feel like I had wasted a chunk of my life that I would never get back though, unlike with Ayn Rand.
I can’t even guarantee that much. I can easily imagine some fascist killing a German because they have a funny accent, and they think maybe it’s Romanian or Polish.
Fuck, if I drank I would need a liver transplant now. This is too depressing.
That would make the prospect of victimisation and suffering less “entertaining.” Fortunately, a proper German won’t set foot in the UK post-Brexit, so it won’t happen and we can continue laughing at all those in the UK who will suffer (including the 48% who voted to avoid Brexit).
seeing this chatter in the news today that everyone thinks Boris Johnson is inevitable as the prime minister pick. I said on another thread here that it almost feels like we humans have a death wish - like always wanna chose the worst option. Like how is this possible. Im not following UK politics that closely, but like how is it possible that they look around the room and say, “hey maybe we should pick that insane bigot”?
Jesus… Self and Francois staring at each at the end of that clip was awful. If anything represents Brexit as having utterly transcended a mere concern with the EU to become a full-on cultural divide of huge proportions, it’s that.
To be fair, both of them seem to represent the most extreme personas in the debate, but … Jesus.
Use any language you like, but please do make the effort to check your grammar.
Wrong.
For instance, my family tree has had a British branch for over 40 years now. And this really isn’t that uncommon. Especially in the areas of Germany that hosted British troops.
It never was a problem until the referendum. Right now, nobody really knows what to do. I have relatives that have applied for British citizenship because they want to stay in the country they chose to move to decades ago, lived there, worked, started families, paid their taxes, what have you. But until they finally get their smeggin’ blue passports they won’t go abroad for fear of maybe not being allowed back in.
