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(Al Jazeera)   Brexit Britain is broken, and the people are revolting. The latter is not just subby's opinion   (aljazeera.com) divider line
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SpectroBoy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-06 12:23:31 PM  
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Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2022-11-06 12:59:24 PM  
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TheCableGuy
2022-11-06 1:53:40 PM  
they stink on ice.
 
Yakk
2022-11-06 1:55:09 PM  
If only there was a way to lower the cost of goods through some sort of mutual agreement with their neighbors and trading partners.
 
Armchair_Invective
2022-11-06 1:56:59 PM  
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born_yesterday [TotalFark]
2022-11-06 1:58:24 PM  
Vote Tory harder or chase more non-binding resolutions into the f*cking cesspool, no one can help you now.
 
KodosZardoz
2022-11-06 1:58:28 PM  
All because you don't like brown people.
Idiots.
 
EyeballKid
2022-11-06 1:58:33 PM  
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Y'all wanted a "purer," nudge nudge wink wink, populace. Enjoy the whiteness of your collapse.
 
Goetz [TotalFark]
2022-11-06 1:58:48 PM  

SpectroBoy: [Fark user image 500x500]


I know it's inevitable, but why invoke him?
 
harleyquinnical
2022-11-06 1:59:14 PM  
Oh there is no way the Tories will give up power by calling for an election now, even if it would be the right thing to do.  Sunak has inherited a shiat sandwich from Truss of his own party's making because they wanted a libertarian paradise instead of playing nice with the rest of Europe.  The bloke is in way over his head and a former hedge fund manager at Goldman Sachs is one of the most unwanted choices for PM during a cost of living crisis, housing shortage, and utility issues, because he damn sure is going to do whatever it takes to line his own pockets.  King Charles dissolving Parliament is looking more and more practical.  If this matter isn't sorted by Remembrance Day, I actually think he will because the Tories will have forced his hand.  The same (should) go for Sunak being ousted.
 
groverpm
2022-11-06 2:00:18 PM  
I see Sunak has posted government policies in front of Downing Street
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born_yesterday [TotalFark]
2022-11-06 2:00:23 PM  
Who would think something rooted in racism, imperialism, and xenophobia could turn out to be an ugly thing
 
Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste
2022-11-06 2:01:20 PM  
The only concern of the Tories is hanging onto power until the next scheduled general election. That's it. Question is what a disgusting dog's mess this will become as one dope after another has a chance of filling the chalice with another rinse of digestive failure.
 
New Rising Sun
2022-11-06 2:01:43 PM  

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Do you know the way to Mordor
2022-11-06 2:01:46 PM  
Not this guy's first rodeo. At least he is saving the environment by recycling!

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Exile On Beale Street [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-06 2:02:58 PM  

Jake Havechek: [Fark user image image 425x254]


Darling fascist bully boy, give me more money you bastard.
 
Goetz [TotalFark]
2022-11-06 2:04:12 PM  

KodosZardoz: All because you don't like brown people.
Idiots.


The immigrant fear mongering was for the plebs. The actual reason was to protect the river of dirty money that flows through London to be washed.
 
jake_lex
2022-11-06 2:05:54 PM  

born_yesterday: Vote Tory harder or chase more non-binding resolutions into the f*cking cesspool, no one can help you now.


That's the thing that's always been bizarre as hell to me.  The vote for Brexit was not binding in any way, and could have been completely ignored.  And even at that, how many of the people voting to Leave wanted the "hard" Brexit of leaving without having agreements in place to do so?  At the very least, this process could have been slow-walked to try to minimize its damage to the British economy, but it was immediately hijacked by the loonies who wanted it done right away.

A problem in democracies in general these days is that not only do we not lack leaders willing to stand up and tell the electorate that they're being stupid, we have other leaders who actively encourage and abet that stupidity.
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-06 2:06:21 PM  

KodosZardoz: All because you don't like brown people.
Idiots.


And the City of London wanted to hold onto all that dirty Saudi and Russian oligarch loot.  The EU is making people report that stuff!  Ties had to be severed.
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-06 2:07:12 PM  

jake_lex: born_yesterday: Vote Tory harder or chase more non-binding resolutions into the f*cking cesspool, no one can help you now.

That's the thing that's always been bizarre as hell to me.  The vote for Brexit was not binding in any way, and could have been completely ignored.  And even at that, how many of the people voting to Leave wanted the "hard" Brexit of leaving without having agreements in place to do so?  At the very least, this process could have been slow-walked to try to minimize its damage to the British economy, but it was immediately hijacked by the loonies who wanted it done right away.

A problem in democracies in general these days is that not only do we not lack leaders willing to stand up and tell the electorate that they're being stupid, we have other leaders who actively encourage and abet that stupidity.


Cameron was sitting on a giant pile of Russian money, from what I hear.  Awkward.
 
snowjack [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-06 2:11:35 PM  
It's almost like putting racist morons in charge of everything might be a bad idea.

Maybe the US can learn something from... haaaa ha ha ha, I keel me, sorry
 
SpectroBoy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-06 2:12:55 PM  

Goetz: SpectroBoy: [Fark user image 500x500]

I know it's inevitable, but why invoke him?


The ever diminishing hope that he will realize he was duped mostly.

/ plus mockery
// of course
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]
2022-11-06 2:12:59 PM  

EyeballKid: [ih1.redbubble.net image 750x1000]
Y'all wanted a "purer," nudge nudge wink wink, populace. Enjoy the whiteness of your collapse.


I wonder if the voters are more upset now, and with the prior PM, than they were with Boris because of those kinds of issues...

I mean the lot in government would sniff any ass at #10. But maybe not so much the average bloke.
 
groverpm
2022-11-06 2:13:57 PM  

Goetz: KodosZardoz: All because you don't like brown people.
Idiots.

The immigrant fear mongering was for the plebs. The actual reason was to protect the river of dirty money that flows through London to be washed.


How dare you!!! That money is the money saved by leaving Europe and is being used in the NHS instead. It said so on a big red bus so you know it must be true.
 
Dictatorial_Flair
2022-11-06 2:15:05 PM  
Maybe letting a bunch of easily misled simpletons vote directly on globally impactful international economic policy simply because they exist isn't such a great idea.
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2022-11-06 2:16:41 PM  
"Thousands of people joined a demon-"

Things must be bad if even demons are upset
 
harleyquinnical
2022-11-06 2:16:45 PM  

KodosZardoz: All because you don't like brown people.
Idiots.


Well, Tory leadership didn't want to sign a deal that would have prevented the massive influx of migrant workers from the rest of the EU; the deal every other nation in the EU signed.  This opt-out laid the groundwork for Farrage and UKIP to enact a racist agenda in the name of domestic prosperity.  Between Farrage and PM Cameron's promise to renegotiate the UK's terms with the EU, Brexit became an inevitability, especially since conservatives were counting on the racists to get the simple majority (51.9%) rather than a super majority and call for Brexit as "the will of the people and a mandate from the people".
 
SomeAmerican
2022-11-06 2:19:15 PM  
Doesn't really matter what the British think about Brexit.  The more relevant thing is whether or not the UK will stay together or fragment, and it's the opinions of the Scots and the Northern Irish that matters more there.

And on this side of the Atlantic, we need to start rethinking our overall strategy & how our allies fit into that.

Our big three focuses should definitely remain the EU, Japan & SK, and Canada & Mexico.  That's core to our trade & influence, as well as giving us beachheads on the other side of the Atlantic and Pacific.

But after that... what should our focus be, and does the UK even play into it?

Personally I think our largest priority should be to expand our market, and believe that linking Central and South America to ourselves is the best way to do that.  That's a substantial population base, reachable by train, who need advanced goods & services.

As for the UK... they are friends, but we don't really need anything from them, so they aren't very important friends.   They are also are likely to get weaker & more fragmented, so will be even less relevant in the future.  Best to just let them be, probably.
 
DORMAMU
2022-11-06 2:22:03 PM  

Goetz: KodosZardoz: All because you don't like brown people.
Idiots.

The immigrant fear mongering was for the plebs. The actual reason was to protect the river of dirty money that flows through London to be washed.


Dr who this . Gif

Look at Russian sanction dollar amount by country.  England is second o ly to the US by total, but as % of GDP?  Holy S[-]!t
 
harleyquinnical
2022-11-06 2:23:49 PM  

jake_lex: born_yesterday: Vote Tory harder or chase more non-binding resolutions into the f*cking cesspool, no one can help you now.

That's the thing that's always been bizarre as hell to me.  The vote for Brexit was not binding in any way, and could have been completely ignored.  And even at that, how many of the people voting to Leave wanted the "hard" Brexit of leaving without having agreements in place to do so?  At the very least, this process could have been slow-walked to try to minimize its damage to the British economy, but it was immediately hijacked by the loonies who wanted it done right away.

A problem in democracies in general these days is that not only do we not lack leaders willing to stand up and tell the electorate that they're being stupid, we have other leaders who actively encourage and abet that stupidity.


What else can you expect from the Tories?  They didn't want to make the call themselves because they feared things would go 6s and 7s at the next election if it proved to be the wrong decision.  So the vote only ended in a simple majority, and they said "good enough" despite such a decision all but necessitating a super majority to be called "the will of the people".  Next thing you know, Farrage, Cameron, and May were going all ahead full to try and get it done.  Clearly wanted a softer Brexit, but most of the Tories wanted it done and over with.  So here we are 6 years and 4 PMs later dealing with a massive farkup that could have easily been avoided.
 
Halfabee64
2022-11-06 2:36:34 PM  

Marcus Aurelius: KodosZardoz: All because you don't like brown people.
Idiots.

And the City of London wanted to hold onto all that dirty Saudi and Russian oligarch loot.  The EU is making people report that stuff!  Ties had to be severed.


That's filthy lucre to you.
 
Xaxor
2022-11-06 2:39:43 PM  
The political "class" needs to be dismantled. True of the US and UK.
 
RasIanI
2022-11-06 2:42:51 PM  

SpectroBoy: [Fark user image image 500x500]


Dammit!
 
Huck And Molly Ziegler
2022-11-06 2:46:08 PM  
Brexitism & Trumpism show that culturally and intellectually, the United Kingdom and the United States really are cut from the same cloth. Two hundred years of diverging history hasn't made that much difference, apparently, according to our nations' current troubles.
 
yet_another_wumpus
2022-11-06 2:47:13 PM  

EyeballKid: [ih1.redbubble.net image 750x1000]
Y'all wanted a "purer," nudge nudge wink wink, populace. Enjoy the whiteness of your collapse.


Just how "non-white" do you think Poles are?  Or are they non-white the way Irish were non-white (in the states) until about the 1950s.
 
tryptik [OhFark]
2022-11-06 2:48:55 PM  

jake_lex: A problem in democracies in general these days is that not only do we not lack leaders willing to stand up and tell the electorate that they're being stupid, we have other leaders who actively encourage and abet that stupidity.


Don't underestimate the impact of monied interests amplifying those voices. Democracies are ill prepared to deal with extreme wealth disparity.
 
barc0001
2022-11-06 3:04:12 PM  

yet_another_wumpus: Just how "non-white" do you think Poles are?  Or are they non-white the way Irish were non-white (in the states) until about the 1950s.


Yes.  To a good chunk of the Brexiters, anyone not born in western Europe is obviously some sort of savage there to leech on the public teat while simultaneously taking all their jerbs.

Y'know, good old doublethink.
 
anotherluser
2022-11-06 3:15:43 PM  

Goetz: SpectroBoy: [Fark user image 500x500]

I know it's inevitable, but why invoke him?


It's fine. Much like the Linux nutter, just click "funny" on all the posts, and don't bother reading them.
 
EyeballKid
2022-11-06 3:17:37 PM  

yet_another_wumpus: EyeballKid: [ih1.redbubble.net image 750x1000]
Y'all wanted a "purer," nudge nudge wink wink, populace. Enjoy the whiteness of your collapse.

Just how "non-white" do you think Poles are?  Or are they non-white the way Irish were non-white (in the states) until about the 1950s.


I'm not one of those limeys who electorally punched myself in the dick in the hopes of sticking it to the immigrants. Go ask them.
 
SecondaryControl [TotalFark]
2022-11-06 3:18:09 PM  

tryptik: jake_lex: A problem in democracies in general these days is that not only do we not lack leaders willing to stand up and tell the electorate that they're being stupid, we have other leaders who actively encourage and abet that stupidity.

Don't underestimate the impact of monied interests amplifying those voices. Democracies are ill prepared to deal with extreme wealth disparity.


It's my contention (well, one of them) that Democracy is a reaction to extreme wealth disparity.  Then they bought their way in.
 
toraque [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-06 3:25:50 PM  

tryptik: jake_lex: A problem in democracies in general these days is that not only do we not lack leaders willing to stand up and tell the electorate that they're being stupid, we have other leaders who actively encourage and abet that stupidity.

Don't underestimate the impact of monied interests amplifying those voices. Democracies are ill prepared to deal with extreme wealth disparity.


It's not simply monied interests. It's hostile governments trying to either bring down democracies, or at least weaken them so they won't interfere when Russia, China, Iran, or Saudi Arabia start their wars.

If Putin goes down and Russia is forced to retreat from the world stage, a huge destabilizing force will be neutralized, but they're not the only bad actors causing chaos for their own ends.
 
Copper Spork
2022-11-06 3:28:17 PM  
It's funny because it's being heavily pushed by the trade unions, who are the reason Labour didn't oppose Brexit.
 
ukexpat
2022-11-06 3:39:40 PM  
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asmodeus224
2022-11-06 3:45:03 PM  
just 40 more years. trust the plan!
 
mofa [TotalFark]
2022-11-06 4:11:14 PM  
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E_Henry_Thripshaws_Disease
2022-11-06 4:29:14 PM  
Brits sure ARE revolting
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iron de havilland [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-06 4:44:13 PM  

Exile On Beale Street: Jake Havechek: [Fark user image image 425x254]

Darling fascist bully boy, give me more money you bastard.


May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman.
 
thanksagainandagain
2022-11-06 4:44:49 PM  

Goetz: SpectroBoy: [Fark user image 500x500]

I know it's inevitable, but why invoke him?


Gish has been getting lazy and fat and needs a few thousand laps around the logical fallacy track.
 
Paddy [OhFark]
2022-11-06 5:00:44 PM  

KodosZardoz: All because you don't like brown people.
Idiots.


No, because they didn't like Polish people.
 
mithras_angel
2022-11-06 5:08:48 PM  

Paddy: KodosZardoz: All because you don't like brown people.
Idiots.

No, because they didn't like Polish people.


Tories are capable of multi-tasking, in this regard.
 
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