I do follow him. Thanks.
They may slowly be beginning to realise that.
Indeed. I fear a fair more slapping’s going to have to take place for the vaunted geniuses our system has unduly elevated to be suddenly surprised by their own change of mind.
This is cold, hard logic, not laced with with bigoted promises or easy, misdirecting solutions. Has my country got what it takes to unshackle itself from the chains of benighted prejudice and embrace a future with hope?
@markemuk.bsky.social with an interesting piece on the geopolitics of Brexit.
The dogs in the street knew it was a geopolitical mistake even before Putin, Donbas, Trump, Iran, Venezuela and so forth.
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www.europeanmovement.co.uk/trump_war_mu...
It’s where he expects to get most of his income from.
So, presumably, the US journalists in the briefing that just took place would have asked the “Secretary of War” if the US had planned for this to be one of a range of responses to the closure of the Straits of Hormuz and Pete Hegseth would have said “Absolutely. Yes.”?
The structure of our political system encourages dishonesty.
“Enforcement” just doesn’t sound very, er, British.
Ah, yes, everyone is always trying to create a magic money making machine and they thought they might have found one, or at least one that would work long enough for them to be long gone with their bonuses before anyone found out.
There’s no option for notable recent historical events, such as, I dunno, Post Office IT scandals, water company sewage dumping, fly-tipping, mouldy council housing, food banks? Surely what’s printed on the money should reflect who we really are as a nation?
Let me see if I got this right. Private companies invest to make profit above the risk-free rate (which is commonly the cost of government borrowing). In which case, why would any country privatise an essential service and natural monopoly other than for ideological irrationality?
Perhaps a new world order could take inspiration from the Ancient Athenian sage, Solon, who discouraged future civil strife in Athens by insisting that in any future conflict everyone should be forced to take sides on pain of death. Counterintuitive, perhaps, but a sort of non-nuclear MAD.
Oh boy! What a headline...
Ask yourself:
"What am I being asked to believe?"
"Who am I being told to blame?"
Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.
Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵
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They believed their own simplistic bigotry (anywhere outside the developed world is a poorly run shithole that deserves to be thus) and acted accordingly. They can’t admit that most migrants flee those countries because they’re often run by people as misguided as themselves.
Like all British dramas, Brexit is a subtler, less dramatic, less explosive version of an American film, but it has been as much a miscalculation, as much mis-sold and based on lack of information, as Trump’s blundering into Iran.
Not so much unhinged as un-self-aware.
People who care more about the fragile ego of the leader of another country than the risk of illegality of their own country’s actions or to its reputation are the polar opposite of patriotic.
Yes. If you watched Question Time on Thursday you’d have heard incredulity that the UK didn’t have a battleship in the Mediterranean or that the Royal Navy could not repel small boats full of refugees in the Channel. Same post-imperial vibes.
@fotoole.bsky.social - who is on here and well worth a follow...by quite a distance, one of the best brexit commentators - articulates what you describe very well.
Oh, I do, thanks. So, so, so true and so absolutely articulately expressed.
You won’t be able to afford to.
I suspect that this widely shared post-imperial delusion contributed (and continues to contribute) to the self-harm of Brexit. 2/2
#QuestionTime last night. I was heartened by the wide applause given by the audience to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social but finally realise how deluded we are as a nation about the UK’s relative power in the world with the multiple incredulities about the lack of UK naval power. 1/
@sophyridge.bsky.social it would have been good to see you challenge the migration minister repeating the anti-migrant line that refugees must seek asylum in the first safe country they enter, which isn’t what international treaties say.
Oh, so it’s a Uniformity, Inequity and Exclusion policy now?
Ditto most of the UK press?
🤷🏽 ask people to explain what their policies are and what they would mean for people? Challenge them. Poll policies, not personalities. Inform people in a way that ordinary people with no specialist knowledge can understand. Hold politicians to account. Maybe?
Yes, it will, if not already. PR is an easy and obvious solution but it maintains some of the failings of the current system (candidates preselected from and by unrepresentative groups of party members). Here’s a skimmable 24-page critique and utopian alternative: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/edvlv...
