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Post by patman post on Apr 28, 2024 13:35:58 GMT
Meanwhile, in our budding Singapore-on-Thames, home to the phenomenon of the 'wannabe sovereign individual', I think we both know that the real power in the UK will be retained by unelected media moguls and billionaires who are unvetted and unaccountable, to ensure their dedication to their mission of undermining any democratic process.  Not sure that I totally agree.
Admittedly, the majority of the print and commercial broadcast news media act as though the current administration and the Further Right are their clients, who they slavishly want to please, with some proprietors and editors actively seeking awards and ennoblement. But we still have an electorate who can sometimes react to circumstances and facts and not just to spin.
I'm hoping the next general election will be such a case. While the current Tory administration floats one initiative after another, trying to keep its electoral chances alive, opinion poll after opinion poll shows Labour with a hefty lead despite what's depicted as modest and low-key campaigning.
The EU — like the US — is likely to prosper. The UK appears to be struggling. If both the EU and UK are supposedly ruled by unelected bureaucrats, I think I'd rather be in the bigger tent with a chance of initiating and influencing debate and decisions rather than scrambling around outside looking for crumbs...
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Post by Pacifico on Apr 28, 2024 17:20:11 GMT
The EU — like the US — is likely to prosper. On what are you basing this claim? |
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Post by wapentake on Apr 28, 2024 19:12:00 GMT
The EU — like the US — is likely to prosper. On what are you basing this claim? Brussels told him. |
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Post by ProVeritas on Apr 30, 2024 12:56:28 GMT
Would the result of our membership referendum been different? I don't think so; and in fact I hope not. While I concede that the Brexit we have been delivered has been, by and large, a disaster, that is entirely down to the arrogance, ignorance and incompetence of those involved in negotiating it. I truly believe that the UK operate as a independent political entity within a reasonable trading union could succeed, indeed could prosper. It was only the transition of the EEC from a Trading Bloc to the EU (a political bloc) that caused the UK to begin to doubt the merits of membership; then when Freedom Of Movement and the EU's disastrous policy set on immigration came into force the UK's belief in the relative merits of continue membership was completely ruined. With FoM the general population of the UK derived no real benefits from EU Membership. This is doubly true for those in the lower two quintiles, and they make up the majority of the voting public. All The Best |
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Post by johnofgwent on May 2, 2024 12:29:48 GMT
Would the result of our membership referendum been different? I think had John Major's utter deceit regarding Maastricht been seen for what it was, and the Lisbon Treaty never got off the ground, and the European Economic Community been forced to backpeddle it's leftist woke twattery back to the 1957 declaration that freedom of movement were restricted solely to the private sector and then only if the recipient state allowed it, we would still be in that trading arrangement The thing is, the wokery and federalism was allowed to spread, and that is why radical measures were needed |
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