Posted on 05/15/2019 3:10:17 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
... The British State, once high and mighty, lording it over other nations with typical English condescension and patronising arrogance, has well and truly come crashing down to Earth with a very heavy bump thanks to Brexit. It will never be the same again.
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I say whether or not because after having almost three years to prepare for the UK exit from the EU as voted on by over 17 million British people in the largest and longest democratic exercise in the history of modern British democracy, the ‘fixed’ departure date of March 29th 2019 came and went, despite the British Prime Minister Theresa May stating over 108 times that the UK would definitely be leaving the EU on March 29th 2019. Who will ever be able to take seriously the word of a future British Prime Minister or a future British Government after this utter farce, but deadly serious debacle, on a major national and international scale.
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One matter is very clear throughout this Brexit ordeal. This is a combined collective failure of the United Kingdom as a whole. The British Government and State have failed. British MPs have failed their constituents. British civil servants have failed. The British media have failed. There is no unity, no meaning, no purpose, no discipline and no sense of comradeship in the UK – if there ever truly was. Perhaps it is a society incapable of it and perhaps that is why it deserves to falter and fail with the United Kingdom disintegrating and disappearing for good. Ergo, perhaps it is high time, once and for all for the British State to quit its bad habit of interfering in other nations affairs, far greater nations, while it attempts to put its Brexit house in order.
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He doesn't even mention the demographic problems, the Scottish independence movement, or the role of British intelligence in the aborted coup against Trump. It looks like Airstrip One is in serious trouble.
Good read. Of course, they do have Harry and Meghan and Archie...
The failure to Brexit is infuriating.
This guy is so anti-British it hurts. I was even more dismayed to look at this guy and discover that not only is he himself British, but he is a parliamentary researcher for the House of Commons and part of the British establishment itself clearly pushing a pro-EU remain agenda. Naturally, he despises Trump as well. Its about time that the people in the British establishment who feel no shame in openly despising their own country and desiring to alienate its allies, cosy up to its enemies and subjugate it to foreign powers were purged from their positions of influence and preferably driven into exile to snipe from the sidelines in a foreign country of their choosing. I want my country back from these twats.
Unfortunately, MeAgain and Prince Dimwit are beclowning themselves and another traditional British institution, the royal family. I hope his brother’s family continues to keep their distance.
But in my anything-but-humble opinion all that Brexit proves is that Europe has a Swamp just as does the US and that Europe's swamp creatures can be found in Brussels,Paris,Berlin,Strasbourg *and* London.As Pat Condell,a Brit whose youtube videos on European culture and politics are amazingly courageous and instructive,has said "the European Union is very popular with politicians because it's been very *good* to politicians".
Of course Nigel Farage has been saying pretty much the same thing for years...
No.
No...
and also, NO.
What we have here is a TOTAL DISCONNECT between the people and the (spit) ‘Leadership’ of the nation(s) as a whole.
Scottish welfare-seekers of England on the one hand and The Islamic Invasion on the other as a set of bookends to the problem there.
This is not unlike the rest of the once-JudeoChristian world and has echos in most of the rest of EUrope.
SOMEBODY, SOMEHOW has managed to seize the reins of political power from the Citizens and stampeded everybody over a cliff.
In about one generation. NICE.
LOTS and LOTS of $$$$$$$$$$ involved, though.
Amen! Perhaps you lot could send them to the same place we send ours to because we have a lot of these very same worthless cvnts in our country too.
IMHO the British pro-EU establishment are their heirs to the old British imperialists, despite the remoaners taunts of ‘little Britain and brexiters harping after the days of Empire’ they are the ones who crave the days when they were part of an imperial collosus. For these power-crazed egomaniacs it isn’t good enough for them to run a medium-sized country like Britain, they want to be part of the European Empire of Macron’s wet dreams. As with the British Empire, they do not particularly care if this is to the benefit of its hapless subjects or not, as long as they can puff their chests out when they’re in the same room as the leaders of China and the United States.
As a former Anglophile (note: former), I agree with this author and see his writing as the anger (similar to mine) of a former Anglophile frustrated with how far the country we read about (Edwardian England) has fallen.
The UK and England have fallen and they are in the terminal stages of an ex-Empire (Rome had it, Persia had it etc) - when the mindset is of Empire but the capabilities and will fall far short.
The UK is 50:50 nearly divided between being part of the EU and not —> decide one way or the other. And it has created fake news around what the EU and its predecessor the EC was for 40 years (refer Yes Minister for example) - the EU is flawed, but the stories about it have been flawed as well, either to cover up British politicians faults or EU faults.
Next the UK under Thatcher destroyed the unions (necessary) but didn’t prepare for the future with retrainings for the people. It went all-in for banking and financials (can’t complain personally as I made a lot of money working there in finservices but that can’t work for everyone.
And before Thatcher, the British governments and the unions and the people rested on their laurels as engineers and built shoddy products. This meant that the English lost their premier role as manufacturers and they have no one to blame but themselves.
This is paralleled in sport - football/soccer, rugby, cricket, lawn tennis, boxing - all with regulations set up by the Brits and now they are completely out of the picture as far as winners. I put this to other people learning to play the game better.
As regards Brexit, this has been a failure from 2015. Cameron should have prepared detailed plans for what to do, or Boris Johnson or Gove or Farage. None of them had any plans beyond the referendum.
And there still aren’t plans.
A No-deal Brexit? Ok, what are the plans to manage that? Silence....
Utter failure all around
I couldn’t believe yesterday I heard 10 Downing Street was talking about actually canceling Article 50 if the next Meaningful Vote fails in June.
I agree that the British establishment has the mindset of an imperial class. But if that is what they want to be, I suggest they move to the continent and get a continental passport and become EU citizens, and forget they were ever our countrymen. We are a medium sized country that simply wants to govern itself with a government accountable to nobody except people of the country that voted for them. The British goverment of Cameron failed to prepare for Brexit because in his arrogance, he assumed we would vote remain. It was irresponsible of the Tories not to prepare for it, but that doesn’t mean their hand should not have been forced regardless.
If they do that Nigel Farage will be our next Prime Minister and Tommy Robinson will probably stand for election and win a seat in the North West of England. I know of many remain voters who are appalled at the sabotage of democracy being done by those who can’t accept the result.
It’s Theresa May’s brinkmanship. Canceling Article 50 is too far gone now.
The Tories played and blamed the EU for their own failures as well as the EU’s failures.cardinal mistakes all around.
The British Tories have the imperial mindset as do non-corbyn Labourites. Corbynites have the communist mindset.
Though even if a no-deal Brexit comes up, the british government will be accountable in part to the countries it makes a trade deal with - the USA, China etc.
Nigel Farage would be a worse PM than even Corbyn (who would probably be a PM for a few days before he declares himself commissar) - he’s never run anything except away from responsibilities. his attendance during the EU parliament sessions especially on matters related to the UK’s interests were terrible, to say the least
Meanwhile, the majority of Americans worship the UK and are recklessly seeking to be like them in every way
American progressives have no original thought beyond copying the UK
Bullshit about bendy bananas is trivial stuff compared to the democratic deficit and the insane aspirations of Macron, Verhofstadt etc to build a sovereign Empire to rival the US and trying to import millions of new subjects in an attempt to five their nascent Empire demographic weight and destroy that pesky national identity of the peoples of the member states. You might change your mind about the EU when you suddenly find Poland caving in to Brussels and flooding Warsaw and Krakow with violent muslim “refugees” atabbing, bombing and raping their way through your previously peaceful and socially cohesive nation.
Think you will find the progressive cancer has its intellectual origins in California with silicon valley and Hollywood and churning out scores of cultural Marxist educators from Berkley. Britain used to be a sane country until the cultural forces emanating from that despicable state corrupted it and the West in general.
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