** The Brexit Thread ** - 'Brexit Means Brexit'
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Todays diktat from the May furore bunker: The UK electorate will not have another referendum vote on Brexit.
The fascist Tory government are totally uninterested in the resuscitation of UK democracy. They desperately need Brexit for it's own agenda, control, and autonomy-power, to inflict extreme Tory party policy on the UK; privatising the NHS for example - they haven't been deliberately running it down since 2010 for nothing.
It's also not in the interest of Tory party fascism to have a fair Brexit referendum (unlike the disgracefully unfair one we had on 23/06/2016)
The fascist Tory government are totally uninterested in the resuscitation of UK democracy. They desperately need Brexit for it's own agenda, control, and autonomy-power, to inflict extreme Tory party policy on the UK; privatising the NHS for example - they haven't been deliberately running it down since 2010 for nothing.
It's also not in the interest of Tory party fascism to have a fair Brexit referendum (unlike the disgracefully unfair one we had on 23/06/2016)
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Wouldn't a party with pretentions to fascism need a powerful leader as a starter for 10?
Just sayin'
Just sayin'
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Obviously not.
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OK - misses my definition of fascist, and I'm no supporter.
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It is actually possible to have weak fascist governments, in that whether they are fascist or not is about what they want to/try to do, not how effective they are in doing it.
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Bonefishblues wrote:OK - misses my definition of fascist, and I'm no supporter.
Italy was a fascist state for almost twenty years. Mussolini was hardly a strong leader.
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pete75 wrote:Bonefishblues wrote:OK - misses my definition of fascist, and I'm no supporter.
Italy was a fascist state for almost twenty years. Mussolini was hardly a strong leader.
Are we talking about the same guy I wonder?
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Bonefishblues wrote:Wouldn't a party with pretentions to fascism need a powerful leader as a starter for 10?
Just sayin'
But who is the real leader? Is a puppet doing the public appearances really calling the shots? Maybe the reason May can never answer asked questions is that her "powers" have not yet told her what she will be doing on those issues.
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I'm more down the road of dysfunctional shambles riven with infighting that can't believe it's luck tbh. The idea of controlling hands working a puppet would be to dignify it with some sense of direction. After all the only reason we ended up with a referendum in the first place was because of Tory division over Europe, wasn't it?
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Bonefishblues wrote:The idea of controlling hands working a puppet would be to dignify it with some sense of direction.
It's one of the reasons I find conspiracy theories so funny. The idea that governments have the wherewithal to pull off some of the fantastically complex stuff necessary for half of the conspiracy theories out there makes me laugh.
I genuinely wish they were actually that competent!
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Time for another chuckle?
Old but still rather good.
If anybody missed it many many moons ago on this thread.
"We had to stop Cameron jumping off the roof!"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EbFhlfnJe ... 95aYEDIrvS
Old but still rather good.
If anybody missed it many many moons ago on this thread.
"We had to stop Cameron jumping off the roof!"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EbFhlfnJe ... 95aYEDIrvS
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pete75 wrote:Bonefishblues wrote:OK - misses my definition of fascist, and I'm no supporter.
Italy was a fascist state for almost twenty years. Mussolini was hardly a strong leader.
Fascism is a rather flexible concept, but weren't the states that are considered to have been fascist usually accompanied by a personality cult?
A can't imagine what a personality cult built around May would look like.
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bovlomov wrote:pete75 wrote:Bonefishblues wrote:OK - misses my definition of fascist, and I'm no supporter.
Italy was a fascist state for almost twenty years. Mussolini was hardly a strong leader.
Fascism is a rather flexible concept, but weren't the states that are considered to have been fascist usually accompanied by a personality cult?
A can't imagine what a personality cult built around May would look like.
More of a personality search, perhaps?
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After all the only reason we ended up with a referendum in the first place was because of Tory division over Europe, wasn't it?
Obviously we should not have been given a choice on our future in the hands of this money grabbing obese gravy train establishment . All the negotiations have shown that they will seriously struggle without our bottomless pit of money thrown at them.
Obviously we should not have been given a choice on our future in the hands of this money grabbing obese gravy train establishment . All the negotiations have shown that they will seriously struggle without our bottomless pit of money thrown at them.
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Bowedw wrote:......Obviously we should not have been given a choice on our future in the hands of this money grabbing obese gravy train establishment.....
Which one? There are so many .........
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