Thats how parliamentary democracy works, otherwise the population voted to take a running jump at the cliff so what can you really say?we are being led off a cliff by a fringe bunch of loonies
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no, it's not how parliamentary democracy works. parliamentary democracy has 'worked' thus for the last 3 years, by rejecting everything that theresa may brought to it.
the reason a right-wing cabinet are now sitting is because of the internal machinations of the conservative party.
brexit never had an overwhelming majority, not in the electorate/referendum, nor in parliamentary representation. are you fucking stupid? 'the people' did not vote to 'take a running leap off the cliff'. the original brexit vision and campaign was FAR more moderate and FAR more optimistic than the current no-deal reality we face. people voted for a pleasant exit and are now being presented with self-mutilation. the original referendum was characterised by lies and dishonesty, promises that would never be kept. stop acting like 'the people' gave the government a mandate to pursue no-deal brexit.
a minority and fragile government tried to pursue its own brexit vision without any cross-party consultation or collaboration, acting as if they had an overwhelming majority. it failed, time and time again. a prime minister has not had to face such repeated, routine humiliation in our entire modern history.
you keep talking blithely. 'sorry you lost'. 'the majority want it, shut up'. 'that's just how it works'. have you even been watching the last three years of UK politics? i'm very sorry that you emotionally identify with brexit, and support all of its crypto-racist fringes, with your little mere-pathetique vision of blair's britain 'ruining everything' (by that i take you mean allowing immigration and multiculturalism). but you can stop saying that there's a mandate. it is meretricious and it failed spectacularly for may.
it will fail for boris soon too. he knows it -- he wanted to prorogue parliament ffs.
the reason a right-wing cabinet are now sitting is because of the internal machinations of the conservative party.
brexit never had an overwhelming majority, not in the electorate/referendum, nor in parliamentary representation. are you fucking stupid? 'the people' did not vote to 'take a running leap off the cliff'. the original brexit vision and campaign was FAR more moderate and FAR more optimistic than the current no-deal reality we face. people voted for a pleasant exit and are now being presented with self-mutilation. the original referendum was characterised by lies and dishonesty, promises that would never be kept. stop acting like 'the people' gave the government a mandate to pursue no-deal brexit.
a minority and fragile government tried to pursue its own brexit vision without any cross-party consultation or collaboration, acting as if they had an overwhelming majority. it failed, time and time again. a prime minister has not had to face such repeated, routine humiliation in our entire modern history.
you keep talking blithely. 'sorry you lost'. 'the majority want it, shut up'. 'that's just how it works'. have you even been watching the last three years of UK politics? i'm very sorry that you emotionally identify with brexit, and support all of its crypto-racist fringes, with your little mere-pathetique vision of blair's britain 'ruining everything' (by that i take you mean allowing immigration and multiculturalism). but you can stop saying that there's a mandate. it is meretricious and it failed spectacularly for may.
it will fail for boris soon too. he knows it -- he wanted to prorogue parliament ffs.
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Blair and Straw set out to reduce the common denominator in Britain, in the hope of having enough misguided socialist morons to keep their plutocracy in power forever - they've essentially admitted it.
Britain did have a majority for Brexit, and for the Brexit party in the Euro elections years later. If the average moron is dumb enough to repeatedly vote for this without understanding what they're voting for what does that mean?
If they didn't care or didn't know what it meant you'd think they either wouldn't vote or would vote against.
The conservative party, a reasonably long-standing organisation, voted for Johnson. Again the country deserves what it gets.
Apart from that I guess its doubtful Johnson will be able to hold parliament together, let alone get anything through it, so there'll likely be an election to deliver what? Corbyn? Israel isn't going to let that happen.
I suppose a wildcard is the Scots, who might see Brexit as another opportunity for their moronic Freedom! campaign and help push it through on that basis.
Anyway, good luck, in the meantime I'll be working on my tan and taunting New Zealanders.
Britain did have a majority for Brexit, and for the Brexit party in the Euro elections years later. If the average moron is dumb enough to repeatedly vote for this without understanding what they're voting for what does that mean?
If they didn't care or didn't know what it meant you'd think they either wouldn't vote or would vote against.
The conservative party, a reasonably long-standing organisation, voted for Johnson. Again the country deserves what it gets.
Apart from that I guess its doubtful Johnson will be able to hold parliament together, let alone get anything through it, so there'll likely be an election to deliver what? Corbyn? Israel isn't going to let that happen.
I suppose a wildcard is the Scots, who might see Brexit as another opportunity for their moronic Freedom! campaign and help push it through on that basis.
Anyway, good luck, in the meantime I'll be working on my tan and taunting New Zealanders.
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new labour, known for being pro-immigration, 'reduced the lowest common denominator in britain'.
corbyn won't get in because 'israel won't let that happen'.
the conservative party, which is overwhelmingly white, male, and over 65, is 'reasonably long-standing' and so a legitimate stand-in for 66 million britons.
you're just quite an unpleasant person, aren't you? fitting that you left your country, being so full of spite. it's worked out so well for you.
corbyn won't get in because 'israel won't let that happen'.
the conservative party, which is overwhelmingly white, male, and over 65, is 'reasonably long-standing' and so a legitimate stand-in for 66 million britons.
you're just quite an unpleasant person, aren't you? fitting that you left your country, being so full of spite. it's worked out so well for you.
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Insults again, the moment you've got nothing to actually say.
Enjoy living in Boris's Britain, you can thank your fellow citizens for the situation.
Enjoy living in Boris's Britain, you can thank your fellow citizens for the situation.
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i've already said it all. it's a bit tiresome countering your highly idiosyncratic and self-pleasing vision of brexit as some sort of just-deserts for a country that abandoned your white anti-semite agenda in the 1980s.
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Its tiresome that you can't accept that Britain voted for Brexit and the average Brit still wants it to happen.
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i don't think anyone has been refuting brexit. you really struggle with nuance and qualification, don't you? i am refuting hard-brexit and boris johnson, absolutely. i am refuting that there was ever a majority large enough for brexit so that the conservatives could proceed with a carte blanche.
Maybe parliament should have gone with whatever it was May was proposing, they didn't and now they have the Beast of Henley to deal with. Should be fun to watch.
That reminds me, I need another case of beer, and maybe an asian girl to rub butter into my back - the govt has really come down hard on immigration, these girls are desperate enough to do anything these days.
That reminds me, I need another case of beer, and maybe an asian girl to rub butter into my back - the govt has really come down hard on immigration, these girls are desperate enough to do anything these days.
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you do realise that one of the main forces that stopped may’s deal, time and time again, was the right-wing faction that now sit in johnson’s cabinet? it’s almost like you haven’t been watching UK politics ... it's almost like what i've been complaining about all along, that the current govt has no credibility to lead brexit, and that the entire process has been hijacked by ideologues quite divorced from any referendum or public, is correct.
anyway. we can continue this when you’ve done a little reading.
https://twitter.com/davidhall111/status … 81377?s=21
anyway. we can continue this when you’ve done a little reading.
https://twitter.com/davidhall111/status … 81377?s=21
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Thanks, I'm really fucking interested in this guy's take on things.
The bigger problem was that Labour has sat on its hands for years now, tied up with the anti-semitism nonsense, if they'd got involved and actually taken a position the conservative right wing faction would have been irrelevant.
The bigger problem was that Labour has sat on its hands for years now, tied up with the anti-semitism nonsense, if they'd got involved and actually taken a position the conservative right wing faction would have been irrelevant.
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yes, nobody is denying that. though i’m not sure i’d call the anti-semitism issue ‘nonsense’. it has proven that corbyn is an ineffectual leader, if nothing else.
i don’t follow that guy. you seem to have some basic issues understanding how content is shared on twitter.
i don’t follow that guy. you seem to have some basic issues understanding how content is shared on twitter.
So the Americans think Boris is a moron, was anyone on earth in any doubt?
Britain has a moron as a PM and a clutch of corrupt cretins for the cabinet.
Well done Britain, maybe I'll visit in a few years and see how it worked out.
Britain has a moron as a PM and a clutch of corrupt cretins for the cabinet.
Well done Britain, maybe I'll visit in a few years and see how it worked out.
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"Israel won't let that happen" Jesus fucking christ, and you're moaning about people being morons voting for brexit...
Well, Israel has the current cabinet stitched up, they've been going after Corbyn's refusal to convert to Zionism for a while now, America and Britain are almost on the point of attacking Iran, if they don't get that they'll be disappointed.
There could be an election in a month or two, then you'll see the anti-semitism complaints go up another few notches.
The morons voted for Brexit not knowing what it meant, hard Brexit, soft Brexit, common market but not political union etc.
Uzique complains "there's no mandate for no-deal Brexit" we don't know what there's a mandate for, but there's definitely a mandate for Brexit.
There could be an election in a month or two, then you'll see the anti-semitism complaints go up another few notches.
The morons voted for Brexit not knowing what it meant, hard Brexit, soft Brexit, common market but not political union etc.
Uzique complains "there's no mandate for no-deal Brexit" we don't know what there's a mandate for, but there's definitely a mandate for Brexit.
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there definitely isn't. the presentation of a 'majority mandate' has been nothing but conservative puffery. the vote more or less split the country down the middle, the country remains split, no brexit deal has successfully been passed through parliament for this very reason. continue talking about a 'majority wish' as if you're in touch with reality. the last 3 years of impasse would suggest otherwise.
apart from that, yes, 'we don't know what there is a mandate for' is precisely what i've been saying for the last two pages.
again, i'm sorry that you take a cynical pleasure in brexit and in 'showing the idiot socialists' what they have sowed by allowing brown people and romanians into the country. but it just isn't so. you'll have to keep topping up your bile using other sources.
apart from that, yes, 'we don't know what there is a mandate for' is precisely what i've been saying for the last two pages.
again, i'm sorry that you take a cynical pleasure in brexit and in 'showing the idiot socialists' what they have sowed by allowing brown people and romanians into the country. but it just isn't so. you'll have to keep topping up your bile using other sources.
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We don't know what there isn't a mandate for either
The country voted for Brexit in some form without caring what it was, Brexit got more votes than any political party has for decades, every election 'splits the country down the middle' - this isn't unusual.
Something drove das britischer volk to vote for Brexit, you seem to be more out of touch than me. Blair has admitted flooding the country with immigrants and third world europeans was a terrible miscalculation and a disaster, maybe you should take it on board.
Three years of impasse has been pure political ineptitude and opportunism, nothing else, the will of the people has been ignored - no doubt this drove the landslide to the Brexit Party at the Euro elections, the people are pissed.
The country voted for Brexit in some form without caring what it was, Brexit got more votes than any political party has for decades, every election 'splits the country down the middle' - this isn't unusual.
Something drove das britischer volk to vote for Brexit, you seem to be more out of touch than me. Blair has admitted flooding the country with immigrants and third world europeans was a terrible miscalculation and a disaster, maybe you should take it on board.
Three years of impasse has been pure political ineptitude and opportunism, nothing else, the will of the people has been ignored - no doubt this drove the landslide to the Brexit Party at the Euro elections, the people are pissed.
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please stop comparing a normal general election, where someone wins with a majority and forms a government for a term, with a 52:48 split referendum on a decision that will affect the country for generations, not one term in office. you are being facile.
your reading of brexit as some anti-blair, anti-immigrant, anti-muslim 'volkisch' uprising only belies your own weird preoccupations. i'm sorry that you are a lonely racist anti-semite, i really am, but don't project that onto 13 million voters. the aggravations of the disenfranchised, (largely working class, northern) voters who opted for brexit were more to do with losing labour and being undercut to european workers, which wasn't anything to do with blair or 'multiculturalism' and didn't involve strange brown people with exotic religions. in fact, a large proportion of brexit voters came from a monied, middle-class, surrey golfcourse type background, the banker belt residents who are free-marketeers and hardly bothered about stanislaus the plumber or ahmed the corner shop owner in the way that evidently puts you into conniptions.
'the will of the people', it's funny how quickly this nonsense phrase has gained a talismanic power. referenda are only advisory, they are not legally binding, no advanced society in the world conducts its national politics based on the 'will of the people' (that is literally populism and history shows us it is almost always a terrible idea). the people have no collective will, whoever 'the people' are, anyway, it's certainly not a homogeneous and united group -- you just said above that there is no clear mandate. the whole rhetoric of 'the people will it' is populist proto-fascism 101, and normally the people who tout it are elites with agendas all of their own, with nary a thought for the actual average working person. you are parroting an idiot ideology.
your reading of brexit as some anti-blair, anti-immigrant, anti-muslim 'volkisch' uprising only belies your own weird preoccupations. i'm sorry that you are a lonely racist anti-semite, i really am, but don't project that onto 13 million voters. the aggravations of the disenfranchised, (largely working class, northern) voters who opted for brexit were more to do with losing labour and being undercut to european workers, which wasn't anything to do with blair or 'multiculturalism' and didn't involve strange brown people with exotic religions. in fact, a large proportion of brexit voters came from a monied, middle-class, surrey golfcourse type background, the banker belt residents who are free-marketeers and hardly bothered about stanislaus the plumber or ahmed the corner shop owner in the way that evidently puts you into conniptions.
'the will of the people', it's funny how quickly this nonsense phrase has gained a talismanic power. referenda are only advisory, they are not legally binding, no advanced society in the world conducts its national politics based on the 'will of the people' (that is literally populism and history shows us it is almost always a terrible idea). the people have no collective will, whoever 'the people' are, anyway, it's certainly not a homogeneous and united group -- you just said above that there is no clear mandate. the whole rhetoric of 'the people will it' is populist proto-fascism 101, and normally the people who tout it are elites with agendas all of their own, with nary a thought for the actual average working person. you are parroting an idiot ideology.
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You're happy to project your views onto the voting reasoning of the population, I doubt you have any actual insight into why people voted the way they did.
Switzerland conducts itself according to referenda, other countries do from time to time.
There is a clear mandate - Brexit in some form, it was voted on in a referendum, the result of which the government promised beforehand to implement.
This really isn't complicated, you don't like the outcome so you're trying to argue black is white and people voted for Brexit but didn't want it really.
Switzerland conducts itself according to referenda, other countries do from time to time.
There is a clear mandate - Brexit in some form, it was voted on in a referendum, the result of which the government promised beforehand to implement.
This really isn't complicated, you don't like the outcome so you're trying to argue black is white and people voted for Brexit but didn't want it really.
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i think my reading of brexit and people's motivations is probably a little more in touch with reality than yours, which ultimately only betray your own preoccupations and pet peeves. i have, after all, been living in the country for the entire time, with brexit being an almost daily topic of conversation in the workplace, among friends, and with strangers met in pubs or at social gatherings. people's chat very quickly leads to the topic. i know lots of people who voted brexit from across all age bands. when's the last time you spoke to anyone who, you know, cast a vote in the united kingdom?
yes, i do think people were misled and voted without full knowledge and proper information. that’s how democracy in large countries works — the media and the medium of the message are very important and highly relevant, whether it’s a referendum or an election. being truthful is helpful, i think. people should be as well-informed as possible.
the campaign made promises it had no hope of keeping. it was a con job. promise the world now and worry about the actual details and delivery later (i.e. never). that big data companies like cambridge analytica were hired to that end, effectively to trigger and manipulate people on hot button issues, such as hordes of turks crowding into the country in the imminent future (which is an outright fabrication but tickles just the right ganglion of fear in a certain voter's mind), just adds an extra shade of indecency to things. techniques honed in frankly suspect election campaigns in places like kenya were applied at home.
the leave campaign was investigated for its funding and its practices. it rode roughshod over electoral regulation.
the ‘mastermind’ of the campaign was officially held as being in contempt of parliament and undermining just process.
people certainly didn’t vote for a no deal brexit, in which the post-industrial north, the agriculture and manufacturing industries, and much else besides will be economically wiped out. nobody was mentioning the huge costs and damage to the economy involved in a leave vote during the referendum campaign. people who voted for brexit 3 years ago weren't informed that the decision would likely cause the break-up of the UK, or inflame the irish question again.
new facts and new realities have come to light, any responsible and wise person would surely say that when such facts emerge, reassessing things is sensible.
that you insist on it being a done deal with a ‘let them suffer and see what they have wrought’ approach is bitter, cynical and frankly sort of pathetic. if you were a believer in brexit i could agree to disagree with you and respect your opinion, but instead it seems you take some pleasure in watching your home country destroy itself, no doubt because it confirms some angst and psychodrama in your own personal history. very sad.
yes, i do think people were misled and voted without full knowledge and proper information. that’s how democracy in large countries works — the media and the medium of the message are very important and highly relevant, whether it’s a referendum or an election. being truthful is helpful, i think. people should be as well-informed as possible.
the campaign made promises it had no hope of keeping. it was a con job. promise the world now and worry about the actual details and delivery later (i.e. never). that big data companies like cambridge analytica were hired to that end, effectively to trigger and manipulate people on hot button issues, such as hordes of turks crowding into the country in the imminent future (which is an outright fabrication but tickles just the right ganglion of fear in a certain voter's mind), just adds an extra shade of indecency to things. techniques honed in frankly suspect election campaigns in places like kenya were applied at home.
the leave campaign was investigated for its funding and its practices. it rode roughshod over electoral regulation.
the ‘mastermind’ of the campaign was officially held as being in contempt of parliament and undermining just process.
people certainly didn’t vote for a no deal brexit, in which the post-industrial north, the agriculture and manufacturing industries, and much else besides will be economically wiped out. nobody was mentioning the huge costs and damage to the economy involved in a leave vote during the referendum campaign. people who voted for brexit 3 years ago weren't informed that the decision would likely cause the break-up of the UK, or inflame the irish question again.
new facts and new realities have come to light, any responsible and wise person would surely say that when such facts emerge, reassessing things is sensible.
that you insist on it being a done deal with a ‘let them suffer and see what they have wrought’ approach is bitter, cynical and frankly sort of pathetic. if you were a believer in brexit i could agree to disagree with you and respect your opinion, but instead it seems you take some pleasure in watching your home country destroy itself, no doubt because it confirms some angst and psychodrama in your own personal history. very sad.
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If the population didn't really know what they were voting for they should have voted 'Remain' shouldn't they?
If, after the Iraq invasion, the population didn't know they should do their own research and make up their own minds about things instead of believing politicians then frankly they deserve what they get.
Voting for Brexit and winding up with Johnson running the show is comparable with America voting for Trump.
Maybe its some kind of mass stupidity effect, I don't know, but people should not be rescued from the effects of their own stupidity - they should be allowed to die off, otherwise its bad for the species as a whole, plus if you stand in the way of someone running over a cliff you might well get knocked over too.
Also in future please address me as 'Dilbert_X Esquire'
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If, after the Iraq invasion, the population didn't know they should do their own research and make up their own minds about things instead of believing politicians then frankly they deserve what they get.
Voting for Brexit and winding up with Johnson running the show is comparable with America voting for Trump.
Maybe its some kind of mass stupidity effect, I don't know, but people should not be rescued from the effects of their own stupidity - they should be allowed to die off, otherwise its bad for the species as a whole, plus if you stand in the way of someone running over a cliff you might well get knocked over too.
Also in future please address me as 'Dilbert_X Esquire'
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you’re not an MP so it doesn’t apply. believe me, as an editor who has written a style guide for my current house, i see the funny side in that story. it’s sad and pathetic. note that his pater was a big influential paper editor.
https://twitter.com/sebdance/status/115 … 44352?s=21
‘people should be allowed to die and not rescued from the effects of their stupidity’. spoken like a true fascist (or are you still playing that insipid victorian-eugenicist tune?) the whole idea of liberal representative democracy is that people are entrusted to do work on behalf of and for the greater good of the majority. that’s the entire idea behind patrician and benign leadership. do you believe in upholding the social fabric of your society, where it is judged on how it treats its poor and disadvantaged, and those in need, or do you surrender the entire idea of public spirit, service and social contract over to some idiotic market-based ideology of ‘competition’? we’ve come a long way from hobbes, and we should all be thankful for it. it’s no longer fashionable to apply a cod-darwinism to the political sphere. it’s been embarrassing since the 1930s or so.
people have been complaining about the supposed stupidity of the mass, the cupidity of youth, how things are much worse now than before, how 'back in my day', etc. since seemingly the ancient greeks. at first glance it doesn't seem like the most robust analysis. as a symptom of developing senility, i admit it has some diagnostic use.
https://twitter.com/sebdance/status/115 … 44352?s=21
‘people should be allowed to die and not rescued from the effects of their stupidity’. spoken like a true fascist (or are you still playing that insipid victorian-eugenicist tune?) the whole idea of liberal representative democracy is that people are entrusted to do work on behalf of and for the greater good of the majority. that’s the entire idea behind patrician and benign leadership. do you believe in upholding the social fabric of your society, where it is judged on how it treats its poor and disadvantaged, and those in need, or do you surrender the entire idea of public spirit, service and social contract over to some idiotic market-based ideology of ‘competition’? we’ve come a long way from hobbes, and we should all be thankful for it. it’s no longer fashionable to apply a cod-darwinism to the political sphere. it’s been embarrassing since the 1930s or so.
people have been complaining about the supposed stupidity of the mass, the cupidity of youth, how things are much worse now than before, how 'back in my day', etc. since seemingly the ancient greeks. at first glance it doesn't seem like the most robust analysis. as a symptom of developing senility, i admit it has some diagnostic use.
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You don't live in a patrician, benign dictatorship, you live in a democracy.
Anyway, best of luck!
Anyway, best of luck!
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i never said patrician dictatorship. i said leadership - quite different things and perfectly compatible and consistent with democracy as it is commonly understood.
the same guy also said democracy is the best system we have devised thus far. and, great job! he was also an upper-class patrician very much from the ‘born to rule benevolently’ demographic. i mean, this was his family home.
and his family had literally ruled the country as military and political leaders for several centuries.
not the strongest rebuttal you’ve ever made, dilbert.
you say ‘you live inside a democracy’ but evidently don’t know what a democracy is, or how it was conceived in the abstract. a democracy in the west has never meant direct rule by populist votes. not in france, not in america, certainly never in the united kingdom. the ‘liberal’ part of the formulation always implies an enlightened elite or leadership.
the same guy also said democracy is the best system we have devised thus far. and, great job! he was also an upper-class patrician very much from the ‘born to rule benevolently’ demographic. i mean, this was his family home.
and his family had literally ruled the country as military and political leaders for several centuries.
not the strongest rebuttal you’ve ever made, dilbert.
you say ‘you live inside a democracy’ but evidently don’t know what a democracy is, or how it was conceived in the abstract. a democracy in the west has never meant direct rule by populist votes. not in france, not in america, certainly never in the united kingdom. the ‘liberal’ part of the formulation always implies an enlightened elite or leadership.
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Outside dictatorships where does patrician leadership get exercised? The people are too dumb to elect patrician leaders and if they do they don't enjoy being treated like the children they are. When was the last time Britain had benign patrician leaders ruling for the common good and not the venal self interest of the upper classes? WW2?
How do democratic representatives get elected except by convincing the electorate they're populists?
I'm sure Johnson, Rees-Mogg and the rest of the condescending Eton toffs firmly believe they're part of the 'enlightened elite', the problem is you think you are too and there can't be two enlightened elites can there? Or are there multiple forms of enlightenment?
How do democratic representatives get elected except by convincing the electorate they're populists?
I'm sure Johnson, Rees-Mogg and the rest of the condescending Eton toffs firmly believe they're part of the 'enlightened elite', the problem is you think you are too and there can't be two enlightened elites can there? Or are there multiple forms of enlightenment?
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