A New Article for Consented on the EU Referendum Result
Hi folks,
Here is my new article for Consented which is about... "THE EU REFERENDUM: WHEN 2 + 2 = 5".
http://www.consented.co.uk/read/the-e...
Let me know your thoughts!
Thanks,
R.D
Here is my new article for Consented which is about... "THE EU REFERENDUM: WHEN 2 + 2 = 5".
http://www.consented.co.uk/read/the-e...
Let me know your thoughts!
Thanks,
R.D
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Jun 27, 2016 02:44AM
Articulates rationally and succinctly what many of us are thinking and feeling post Brexit, Rupert.
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I've been wondering about writing something on this myself, but there's now no need, as you've said pretty much exactly what I've been thinking.
There are about 300 factors to do with the absurdity of the aftermath of Brexit that I could comment on, but I'll stick to just one:How does it make any sense that Cameron is standing down due to his 'remain' stance, and yet Theresa May is gonna run for the PM job when she was also in the remain camp?
And don't get me started on the Jeremy Corbyn witch hunt that's going on...
The mainstream media has already unanimously decided that the next PM is going to be Boris Johnson. I'd eat my own plop with chopsticks if this doesn't turn out to be the case.My journalist mate Steve Topple wrote a good article on the Corbyn situation:
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/06/26/co...
I think it's time to admit that Labour is a dead duck and start to have a conversation about alternatives (hence the theme of my article). It's something I'm presently mulling over writing about in more detail but I'm not really qualified and I don't have the time to properly research it (i.e. using actual books as opposed to internet sources).
My very basic thoughts on it at the moment is that the present system squeezes all the left-wingery out of left-wing parties. It's just the nature of the beast. One glaring example is looking at what the Labour Party began as and where they've ended up. The two couldn't be any different. So when you've got Blairites saying that Corbyn is too left-wing to be leader of the Labour Party there's no real hope. It's a similar situation with the Democrats in America. The system drags all parties further and further rightward so they become unrecognisable. It won't surprise me if in twenty, thirty years time all the European left-wing populist parties were to follow suit.
Like I say: this is just a strand of my thought at the moment and I haven't done any of the legwork to make it plausible.
But if I am right, what's the answer? Unite and organise outside the existing framework of power. I want to write an essay on exactly this point. But like I say: I'm pretty far from qualified so it'll probably never happen.
Rupert wrote: "The mainstream media has already unanimously decided that the next PM is going to be Boris Johnson. I'd eat my own plop with chopsticks if this doesn't turn out to be the case.My journalist mate ..."
Yeah sure, I agree with all you say there mate. And Boris has been groomed for the job for a long time, so is surely bound to win. Everyone loves the quintessential English buffoon (er, who isn't English) ever since he was on Have I Got News For You, right?
"Ha, ha, good ol' Boris..."
I was more just thinking about the absurd hypocrisy of what's happening within the Tory and Labour parties at the moment.
If Corbyn wasn't Labour, I'd vote for him though.
The worrying thing is that the Labour crisis and the Brexit vote is paving the way for UKIP to become the bigger party, but I absolutely agree that the answer has to be found outside of the current system.
I'll have a read of that Topple article later. Ta.
When are we gonna have a referendum on legalising weed? I mean, let's get our priorities right.
Harry wrote: "When are we gonna have a referendum on legalising weed? I mean, let's get our priorities right."I know, right?
I must've missed this when I first read it: "The worrying thing is that the Labour crisis and the Brexit vote is paving the way for UKIP to become the bigger party, but I absolutely agree that the answer has to be found outside of the current system."
Farage is already playing the victim in order to increase his popularity. "I wanted to deport all the immigrants, too, but the elites won't do it. Vote for meeeeeeee!" I therefore think you're right. You can almost see the narrative of the next five years beginning to write itself exactly as the powerful want it written.
Frightening stuff.
Let's not forget (as most people seem to have) that we wouldn't have had a referendum in the first place if it wasn't for Farage banging on about it three years ago. And the media are just as much to blame for UKIP's rise - give 'em a platform and...
I remember seeing Farage on the news in the '90s blaming everything on the EU. The silly sausage.But yeah; he's had more oxygen then any other politician in the last ten years (how many times on QT now?!). The BBC has basically been long one UKIP commercial for at least the last five years.
Rupert wrote: "I remember seeing Farage on the news in the '90s blaming everything on the EU. The silly sausage.But yeah; he's had more oxygen then any other politician in the last ten years (how many times on ..."
Yep. Just think what it would be like if the BBC had done the same for the Green Party...or the BNP for that matter.
Gotta love this:The brilliant punk poet Attila The Stockbroker - Farageland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgtgG...
Harry wrote: "Gotta love this:The brilliant punk poet Attila The Stockbroker - Farageland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgtgG..."
Yes! :-)
