Do you know what they call it when a whole lot of regular people have the illusion that they are joint owners of a huge enterprise, but it’s actually controlled by a few corrupt bureaucrats?
Socialism.
Do you know what they call it when a whole lot of regular people have the illusion that they are joint owners of a huge enterprise, but it’s actually controlled by a few corrupt bureaucrats?
Socialism.
That’s like giving her credit for stoically enduring the pain after shooting herself in the foot. A stiff upper lip is all well and good, but what’s needed is a brain.
She’s not in a league with Churchill or even Thatcher. She might be equal to Chamberlain.
Hoo boy.
Nothing fails like failure.
Charging towards hard Brexit with fringe group driving policy . I remember pre referendum it was spun very differently, that the UK was going to stay in the customs union or single market .
The ERG believes May’s “facilitated customs arrangement”, which would see the UK collect EU tariffs on some imports, and plans for a “common rulebook” for goods and agriculture, would allow for too close a future relationship with the EU27.
Apparently, Rowland is now telling us the entire capitalism vs. socialism line in the Cold War was a gigantic fraud because the West was socialist all along. White is the new black.
Do you know what the duck test is?
The other one.
No political bias there Leave campaign fined heavily today.
One reply of note:
REMAIN CAMPAIGN USED EXACTLY THE SAME SPENDING TACTICS AS VOTE LEAVE, ONLY FAR WORSE
Guido Fawkes
4 months ago
Categories: Euro Guido, Guido Fawkes, Media Guido Tags: Britain Stronger In Europe, Cash People: People: Carole Cadwalladr, Jolyon Maugham
There is a long list of reasons why Carole Cadwalladr’s claims that Vote Leave “cheated” on their spending during the referendum are wrong. First and foremost, the Remain campaign did exactly the same thing that Cadwalladr is accusing Vote Leave of, only far, far worse. Vote Leave gifted BeLeave £625,000. Yet in the month before the vote the Remainers set up FIVE new campaigns and funnelled a MILLION pounds into them so they could stay under the spending limit:
DDB UK Ltd registered as an independent campaign on 25 May 2016, less than a month before the referendum. DDB UK Ltd received £191,000 in donations.
Best For Our Future registered as a permitted participant on 27 May 2016, less than a month before the referendum. It received £424,000 in donations
The In Crowd registered on 10 June 2016, less than two weeks before the referendum. It received £76,000 in donations.
Virgin Management Ltd registered as a permitted participant on 3 June 2016, less than three weeks before the referendum. It received £210,000 in donations.
Wake Up And Vote registered as a permitted participant on 24 May 2016, less than a month before the referendum. It received £100,000 in donations.
The Remain campaign did exactly the same thing as Vote Leave, only with more money and with five new campaigns. This renders Cadwalladr’s central charge against Vote Leave completely obsolete.
Reason number two why the claims about Vote Leave and BeLeave coordinating are bonkers. The lawyer championing the Cadwalladr claims, Jolyon Maugham, has called the validity of the referendum into question over alleged collusion among the Leave campaigns. Yet the various Remain campaigns coordinated on a much greater scale, holding conference calls every morning to coordinate their messaging, sharing data, suppliers and campaign materials, and coordinating spending. Cadwalladr and Maugham have completely ignored the fact that the Remain campaigns colluded on a much larger scale.
Reason number three, and the most obvious of the lot: how can Vote Leave reasonably be accused of cheating on spending when the Remain campaign spent far, far more and had the entire machinery of Whitehall behind them? Electoral Commission figures show the Remain campaign spent £19 million. The Leave campaign spent £13 million. The government spent £9 million of taxpayers’ money on Remain campaign literature. £3 million of this was spent on online ads and “digital promotion”. How can Vote Leave possibly be accused of cheating when the overall spending was so blatantly biased in favour of the Remain campaign?
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The other one
Well if it looks like a duck test, and it quacks like a duck test…
I wonder if May is deliberately sabotaging the Brexit. If so, she’ll pay a political price. But it’s not always easy to tell the difference between hidden malice and sincere incompetence. They tend to have identical consequences.
She is the Antithatcher. A turd whom no one can polish. Strong and stable? No, just bitchy and stubborn.
If she were more corrupt, she would be the British Hillary Clinton.
Firm part-owned by hard Brexit Tory moves to meet international investors’ request
Somerset Capital, the UK boutique manager part-owned by Jacob Rees-Mogg, has launched a second Irish-based fund as the politician, famed for favouring a hard Brexit, continues to reduce his stake in the emerging markets specialist.
Somerset Capital, the UK boutique manager part-owned by Jacob Rees-Mogg, has launched a second Irish-based fund as the politician, famed for favouring a hard Brexit, continues to reduce his stake in the emerging markets specialist.
Oh the hypocrisy !! Hahaha
https://www.buzz.ie/news/lot-people-seriously-unhappy-leo-varadkar-first-donald-trump-277197
…and that’s related to Brexit somehow ?
I’m pointing out the hypocrisy of the hard brexiteers putting their money overseas while they push for it in the UK.
That post puts Eu politicians under a bad light for meeting with Trump. It’s obviously out of topic here in the Brexit thread. The only things that are in topic are articles that explain why the EU is good and the Uk is bad.
Eu politicians
That’s what they are calling them now is it?
Shouldn’t you be talking about gas lines from Russia right about now lol.
you’re off topic, m9
…and that’s related to Brexit somehow ?
Only if you keep up BJ. Yes , It was relevant to your point about the implied hypocrisy.
One of the other central issues , for me at least, was the huge waste of money, amongst many other failings. Now I am concerned at all this time wasted negotiating with an EU that will cease to exist .
FORMER Vote Leave director Christopher Montgomery tore into Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar for making threats that were “worthy of Donald Trump” over British access to Irish airspace after Brexit.
British taxpayers are on the hook for an extra £1.8 billion in Brussels contributions after European Union embassies ran up bills of £15.6 billion (€20.5bn) for development aid projects, according to
You might want to put the express story through a fact checker.