draculina

No, I haven’t. I’m sure some bizarre things. I welcome the #metoo movement in its defence of women against sexual harassment, but it does and says things which are indefensible and dangerous to justice.

The Democrats have been strongly marked by identity politics for a long time now…but so have the Republicans – big business and rural…[Read more]

Trump is interested in American first, and that means when he’s looking at Britain, he’s interested in how American companies can make money through the franchising system in the NHS. The Brits have been pushing parts of the NHS, education, prisons etc off to private companies interested only in profit for some time now. If there’s money to be…[Read more]

I understand your frustration, Jamie.

JC can be a pretty upsetting site for all of us, with a lot of personal abuse and nasty games played.

But I’ve always regarded you highly, and others do too.

Actually, I haven’t always regarded you highly lol. When I first came online, when you were moon, I thought you were impossible. But gradually I…[Read more]

Yes, of course prices are change by tariffs. They are all over the world. Very few countries are foolhardy enough to engage in pure free trade.

But that doesn’t make any tariff regime a cartel.

Price subsidies, and taxes also manipulate and change prices. That doesn’t make taxation or subsidies the policies of a a cartel.

A cartel is…[Read more]

Yes, the people who govern the EU have definitely bullied Greece with horrible results. They’ve faced severe oppostion fomr the Left throughout Europe, and we should have been supporitng that oppositon instead of supporting the type of austere economi strategy which lay behind that.

Better to reform the EU by trade union and socialist alliances…[Read more]

Thanks for the friendly advice, Ms M.

Others are certainly finding chatsites whihc are less nasty than jc, though I’ve yet to hear my name mentioned as a cause.

If people don’t want me to post, they should say so. Apart from gerry and your good self, nobody else has said this, but you can always ask martin to give me a polite tap on the shouler.…[Read more]

We’re getting out of there, Somer.

I’m not advocating a second referendum as yet, though I’ve learned never to rule anything out.

But it’s no the walk in the park that was promised.

The argument here isn’t about getting out or not.

The argument is about what we get out to. A Customs union, as Labour wants, or break all ties, as the…[Read more]

Sounds like a self-description to me, Gerry.

Well, there’s plenty of insanity to go around in US politics. Drac.

I’ve learned not to predict anything with certainty, just look at trends and make provisional points.

It looks as though the Democrats could win the House, but a lot less likely the Senate.

A lot of Americans don’t like Trump.

Many are holding their judgement. They’re…[Read more]

I explained it in the caption. And when you pointed out that it was written by Matt Groening in 1991 – something I made no attempt to disguise, I said it was still relevant and explained its relevance. Nothing wrong with using cartoons from world war i and applying it to today, or anti-America First cartoons of 1940 and applying them to today _…[Read more]

But there is no TTIP, Gerry.

I think you’ve lost contact with reality.

Doesn’t matter what it is, the usual personal attacks and then make it up.

TTIP isn’t there, Gerry. It was never negotiated.

talk about creating a red herring and then accusing the other person of creating a red herring.

I’ve not been explaining for the reason given. We voted to leave. I said I’m not happy, I want to remain, but we are leaving. If the time comes to argue, I will. I’ve been pointing to the fact that it’s not the walk in the park the brexiteers…[Read more]

That’s a weird attack from Fantasy island.

I post a cartoon, explain what it’s about, and am told I’m misleading people????

How have I deliberately misled people? How on earth is it comparable to that pair of scalawags?

You’re making it up as you go along.

The EU has not negotiated any deal with Trump. They were negotiating TTIP with Obama, and trump pulled the rug under it. There is no TTIP, I’m glad to say. It would have been a major threat to the NHS, and we should have fought it. But no need now, as we’re leaving.

You reckon a post-Brexit trade deal with…[Read more]

I don’t think we should stay in any neo-liberal cartel

as I don’t know of any neo-liberal cartel which exists.

I don’t bother arguing as to why we should stay in the EU and fight for reform for one simple reason. We’re leaving and I can’t be bothered to elaborate a make-believe fantasy world about how the world would be rosy if we stayed.

It…[Read more]

Yup, it appeared on the US under trump, but its relevance is Trump is tangential. It would apply to the US under Trump opr any successor.

It’s adapted – that’s my right. If i see anything which I think is funny or mildly reellvant, I’ll use it.

What’s the problem?? I’m not trying to hide the date or who wrote it.

I’m making a point about what I…[Read more]

Sorry, Gerry, don’t let fantasy carry you away. Clegg isn’t my buddy. He wants a referendum for onme thing, whereas I don’t.

Oh wait, you said I do. I’m still trying to figure that one out.

We haven’t discussed it in depth at all. I ask questions, you ignore them,.

look up the meaning of cartel in any economics textbook. It doesn’t fit the EU…[Read more]

No, I have no idea what a neo-liberal cartel is either, but God does it ound clever.

What’s a cartel on trade? It’s not a cartel in any sense of the term.

It fixes tariffs, not prices. Its a union of 28, soon 27, quarrelsome countries whihc compete against one another while protecting themselves by tariff walls. The countries compete…[Read more]

Linda,

I stand with many millions of  Americans in having to disagree.

Donald Trump has made the Middle  East a more dangerous place by recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and withdrawing all economic aid from the impoverished people under siege in Gaza, flinging his contempt in the face of the Palestinian people in doing so.

Donald T…[Read more]