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Every other country with social healthcare programs has some kind of ID checks in place before anyone is admited, I don’t know why we don’t and it has taken so long for the government to realise that it is a problem.
I didn’t read that in The Guardian. I don’t support violence against anyone, but I’m nt a pacifist. If someone is ready to attack someone for being Jewish, black, gay, Moslem etc, then the victim has a right to hit back.
They were not talking about self defense, but suppression of political views they disagree with though violence.
Did anyone notice during the inauguration how Bill was slathering as he looked at Trump’s wife? I didn’t see the inauguration, but was told. Is he a sex pest like me lol?
He just kind of looked like a zombie to be honest, I think he is pretty ill. He certainly didn’t look or sound anything like he did before:
Does anyone take the Bank of England’s predictions seriously?
They are more reliable than any ecconomist, although that isn’t saying much.
In fact, the fall in sterling is hurting already, and will hurt a lot more.
I mostly get paid in USD or Euro, so its pretty good for me honestly. I got a 20% pay rise after the referendum.
I haven’t noticed any significant difference in the cost of living yet, which should have come though now as the drop happened awhile ago now, and the ecconomy has has time to adjust pricing structures.
A civil war lol. You ready to take up arms, drac?? You know what a civil war is really like? Very few want that,and certainly not over this issue. There would have been a constitutional crisis. But for the cowardice of the labour leaders, a closer result would have been more reflective of the close vote. may now has the legitimacy to represent a nation rather than just a faction. Let’s see what she makes of it.
Failure to activate article 50 after the referendum would mean that the people have lost all sovereignty, if that isn’t a reason for a civil war then I don’t know what would be.
There would be a vote of no confidence in government and a general election first, I think there would be a Conservative/UKIP coalition if that happened and article 50 would get though on a second vote. If for some reason Labour or Lib Dems won the election then I think the government being forcibly overthrown is a very real posibility.
I thinkk we may well be clamouring to get back in, and there will be mechanisms.
A group of lawyers in Dublin are trying to push a case which will go tot eh ECJ, declaring Article 50 to be reversible. At the moment. the legal status of article 50 is unclear. If it’s reversible, and we look as though we’re in real problems by 2019, then we can revers the decision. It could only be done if there was a serious change of heart among people, though.
If Germany’s defensive union is enacted after we leave then there is no possibility of us rejoining. If that doesn’t happen then joining EFTA could happen, but I don’t think I would support that currently. That is assuming the EU even lasts that long if Le Penn takes France out as well.
However, if real problems emerge after we left, the EU negotiators are making it clear that a fast-track back into the EU exists. They don’t want to be hurt any more than we do. And, as you have said in the past, they are as much to blame to leave the UK (and other countries) in a state where they feel neglected and hurt by an élite, open to the rise of the authoritarian Right (populist is a poor and ultimately pretty meaningless concept to describe them).
The only country I can see the possibl of an actual authoritarian-right party winning is Greece, but I don’t think Greece is in a position to pose very much of a threat to anyone.
Drac, do you condone bullying?
No, but I think a measured response should be given.
Context and intent are important, I think that 99% of the threats made were not intended to be taken seriously. The correct response to trolls is to block them and to move on, making a drama out of it will just encourage them and attract more.
Hope you reply to this and not ignore it, like you did with my last post to you about Khomeini on a different thread.
I have a long memory.
I never deliberately ignored anything you posted, if you tell me which thread it was on then I will reply to it.
The only problem with the SNL post, drac, is that Trump himself is funnier..you don’t need a stand-in.
I didn’t really like that they implied Trump would be assassinated. It’s not as obvious as CNN’s report on which order and times people had to die to get a Demmocrat into office during the
inauguration, or the Guardian saying it is okay to be violent against ‘nazis’. But it’s still pretty bad.You may be man enough shrug off online threats – we’ve sen plenty of empty threats in jc – but to a woman 9and to some men) online threats are like stalking. They can haunt you.
Running to the police because someone said mean things on the internet isn’t brave, quite the oposite really. And I kind of take offense to you saying that women are too weak to face criticism.
She didn’t delay the vote, In fact, Theresa may has a thumping parliamentary majority (much, much more decisive than the narrow referendum result, based on 36% of the electorate), so that should suit you.
There would have been a literal civil war if there was any other result, its not really supprising.
I see the EU as a defence, not as a solution. In the same way, a trade union is a (faulty) defence mechanism against the employer; it’s no solution to society’s problems.
Staying in the EU at this point would be suicide, since Trump was elected Germany has been heavily pushing for a defensive union (something the Remain campaign said was a ‘dangerous fantasy’ if I remember correctly) so that the EU can ‘project power’ against Russia.
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