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[grahamite2] 27/7/2020 22:48

From another thread:

Here is a novel idea Boris, how about you stop impersonating the communists in the Labour party and their pravda broadcasting chums at the Karl Marx Broadcasting Corporation and simply row back all this nasty, pervasive and oppressive nanny state social engineering, repeal all of the legislation implemented over the last 23 years, dismantle all quangos and either return the function to the civil service or bin them, stop all state funding of charities and NGOs, sack at least a million bureaucrats as a starting point [no need for analysis, random selection will do as the more you get rid of the, more the nation's wellbeing will improve] and then sit back and watch the country spring back into life of its own accord - remember that the size of the state is inversely proportional to the good it does - the larger it gets, the worse it makes everything it touches - try it and when you see how well it works, plus when the citizens realise how much damage Whitehall has done to this nation and then see the astronomical sums of tax they will save by shrinking it as much as possible to lighten the load and lighten the misery it has generated, you will never lose an election again

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 22:48

Probably go down just as successful as the Arab Springs!

LOL!

[grahamite2] 27/7/2020 22:45

It is indeed time for a revolution, back to the views of the man on the Clapham omnibus and away from the wokists and leftists who have been mismanaging things for so long.

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 22:35

People like Cummings see chaos and pain as a necessary step to implement their revolution, nor matter how difficult it will be for the average citizen. For him, it is a purge, where the stronger will thrive and the weaker will fall, where the true spirit of the nation will emerge. This line of thinking is typical of the communists, facists and other extremists. Similar to the like of Bannon. Not that I put him in any of these categories. Johnson is too narcissist and lazy to do anything about it.

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 22:33

Predictable for the British government. They can’t win on access to the EU Single Market so reserve the right to turn Britain into a subsidized sweatshop.
Keep well away EU.

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 22:31

Cummings: "...but Master, how could I possibly achieve total political power in the UK? No one would elect me, I'm so unpopular the Jehovah's Witnesses won't call at my home".
Putin: "Oh, no one ever voted for me, Grasshopper. And I've found a useful ldiot to act as your front."

LOL!

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 22:30

‘Intense talks between two key Brexiteers Leadsom and Cummings’ which can be summarised in ‘We should be free to do what we want, we’re out’

Lets be honest...those two couldn’t tie pair of shoelaces together let alone form an opinion on state aid, yet Cummings’ whims are forming Britain’s future.

It would be funny if hadn’t been so tragic.

FT comment

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 22:30

‘Intense talks between two key Brexiteers Leadsom and Cummings’ which can be summarised in ‘We should be free to do what we want, we’re out’

Lets be honest...those two couldn’t tie pair of shoelaces together let alone form an opinion on state aid, yet Cummings’ whims are forming Britain’s future.

It would be funny if hadn’t been so tragic.

FT comment

[k38] 27/7/2020 22:29

Merkel: "Erdogan, Lorry without breaks" Germany is ready to intervene if necessary.  

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 22:27

Can somebody please remind me: what exactly are we gaining by leaving the most successful trading bloc in the world?

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 22:25

1) Fabricate division within society
2) Assault independent judiciary
3) Centralise power
4) Unlock the state treasury for cronies and friends

Brexit and Trump - both came from the same template. It just appears that Cummings has actually done better than Trump.

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 22:09

When the main government advisor leaving the door open for corruption is more important than a trade deal with your number one trade partner you may have a problem with your internal governance. Or to put it another way, this is the behaviour of failed states.

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 22:05

Demonic sCummings,
his brother in law is Jack Wakefield,
who managed part of the wealth of Dmytro Firtash,
who is a Putin confidant and Putin made-billionaire.

In sovereign democracies someone so few connections away from the perpetual leader of Russia would not be let anywhere near the center of government. Even if Cumming was a true 'patriot' instead of a certified nutcase run like a toddler by caressing his ego.

In this 21st century, the US and Russian oligarchies have merged, the UK their banker/accountants do as they are told, China the rival, and the EU the hated enemy for sticking with freedom and democracy.

Britons - lights on, nobody home.

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 21:59

Retain power at all costs - old Conservative Party proverb - the English have now found their voice - think massed ranks of angry football fans with a Pied Piper leader - frightening isn't it!

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 21:58

Did you vote for Cummings?

No, thought not!

Did any body vote for Cummings?

I didn’t vote for Cummings or my mum and dad.

Neither did my neighbours or the people in the next street, or even the people in this village.

In fact nobody voted for Cummings and he is not an elected representative.

And this government was not voted in by the majority of the people, technically.

Call that democracy?

No, thought not!!

- FT comment

[k38] 27/7/2020 21:57

It's time to break up Turkey. Dictator Erdogan getting more and more aggressive by the hour.

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 21:55

I voted for people who selected Barnier to act on their behalf. Like UK voters voted for Tories who select a PM who then selected David Frost to negotiate on the UK's behalf.

The difference is Barnier is accountable to the Prime Ministers of the EU, who watch him carefully and continue to direct him, whereas Frost isn't directed by Boris but by sCummings whose position is entirely outside democratic structures and accountability.

[minerve 2] 27/7/2020 21:50

Plainly sCummings is the ultimate director of British policy, free to interpret a loosely framed Tory manifesto any way that suits him

And the UK is supposed to be a democracy...?

[diku] 27/7/2020 21:46

Doesn't Rishi Sunak look a bit like younger version of Gordon Brown?...

[xxxxxy] 27/7/2020 20:59

Freeborn JohnPosted July 27, 2020 at 3:06 pm | PermalinkBarnier is telling EU governments that a deal with the U.K. is probably, making it likely they will remain intransigent in their demands. Reportedly the Dutch government is saying a deal will "come swimming across the English Channel" indicating their expectation is the U.K. will agree to EU demands with them having to do nothing. Once again, at a time when the U.K. should be making itself unambiguously clear that the EU mandate must be changed immediately we see that Brussels interprets silence from London as a sign of weakness and impending concessions.The next general election will be decided by the deal with the EU. Trading on WTO terms would mean the U.K. achieved its negotiating goal of no EU law, no ECJ jurisdiction and control of our borders and fisheries. There is no reason to concede to the EU demand for a single overarching agreement that would be used by Brussels indefinitely as a means to pressure the U.K. into doing things against our interests. Far better that the WTO court of arbitration oversees U.K.-EU trade than the EU's own institutions. If the latest reports of concessions from David Frost on the structure on the agreement are true then your party will bleed support as it did under Theresa May.