I understand the British fantasy that the UK will rise again as a world power after BREXIT, but a rational view shows that it is just a fantasy.
The UK is just several small islands. It has to import its necessities like food and medicine. Part of its strength now is because it's part of the EU trading bloc. Once the UK is on its own, it will just be small islands reliant on imports.
There's nothing that the US imports from the UK that we cannot produce locally or import from elsewhere. The UK, conversely, is dependent on imports. The UK will have little bargaining leverage with the US when negotiating a trade agreement by itself. Once the US UK trade agreement is finalized, the US will own the UK in all but name.
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Neither the Tories nor Labour are representing their constituents with regards to Brexit; they are representing their financial backers who want Brexit for their own financial gains, it is the ultimate "Selling England by the Pound".
Who knew Genesis' album title would be so relevant to today's UK Parliament?
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It has been an open secret that PM Johnson does not believe in monogamy.Most voters don't base their decisions on the candidates personal life even if they don't share his views on hedonism. The difference in this latest charge is not the issue of adultery. It is one thing to have a mistress. It is another thing to funnel public money to your mistress. If your going to have a wife and a mistress pay for them yourself, not with taxpayers money.
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There is vast opposition to this Tory Government which has no mandate to rule the UK, and has no legal authority to push through a no deal Brexit, which the government's own paper on this scenario Operation Yellow Hammer stated, would lead to massive shortages of food, fuel and very substantial increases in the price of the essentials of life. Medicine would also become scarce and people who are vulnerable will die. This is not a game.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against Johnson's unlawful prorogation of Parliament last week and called it unlawful.
Johnson and his lackeys are now going on TV and asserting come what may the UK will leave the UK on the 31st of October. The only problem with this is that there is now a law preventing him exiting the EU without a deal and for him therefore to seek an extension to Article 50. Johnson and his government are heading for a further show down with the Supreme Court again. Justice will prevail again.
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It is amazing how far political insiders who benefit from the status quo will go to obstruct a politician from fulfilling his campaign promise. The sooner Britain is out of the EU, the better. After they are out, everyone will have incentives to negotiate. Today, the EU is trying to hold Britain hostage. Down with tyranny.
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@Michael Green
These are just some of the talking points the leave campaign and now the hard-core brexit Tories are pushing. The truth is almost exactly the opposite of what you are saying.
My family and I have lived here in the UK almost 20 years, and it is really sad to see how the Tories are absolutely destroying this country in pursuance of their own objectives both political and personal.
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Please explain how “the EU is trying to hold the U.K. hostage”. There is a clear process in place for leaving the European Union. The previous Tory government, led by Teresa May, negotiated a with drawl agreement with the EU. The MPs in parliament, including Boris Johnson, failed to ratify this agreement.
The current government, headed by Boris Johnson, has yet to submit new proposals to the EU for discussion and negotiation.
I think your statement is misleading at best.
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@Michael Green
Your comment that " the EU is trying to hold Britain hostage" has no actual meaning. There is no hostage. The EU is doing nothing to prevent the UK from leaving.
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Boris is banking on a small percentage of the population of politicians in Britain as Trump has here. The problem for Boris is the opposition has been highly effective in cutting the rug out from under him. It is pretty evident he is going to be tossed by his colleagues shortly, a man who in his mind had to have the PM job at any cost, but was unworthy of it and ineffective from day 1.
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Donald Johnson and Boris Trump (very fitting...) share, as we all know, the same dreadful characteristics : zero respect for people, facts, truth and ethics, out of control ego, and a base composed of the least intelligent part of the population, please note I did not write "the least socially favored part of the population".
That the literacy of one makes him vastly to the barely intelligible other also makes him morally guiltier.
The more educated one is, the fewer the excuses for ghastly behavior.
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@nestor potkine RE: Trump and Johnson, forgiveness is also shared: "The vast majority of Tory Party members, Professor Bale said, “will be behind Boris Johnson and his Brexit policy, and will forgive him for a lot of his language and behavior.”
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You have to keep in mind that Tory party membership is a tiny part of the population.
And while the Tories are ahead in the polls, that is largely because most of the public does not want to see Corbyn as PM. If he were to step aside, you could see a very different set of poll numbers.
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This is very true but then I’m a bit perplexed by the intelligence of the labor party members who elected twice an unpopular, antisemitic, opportunistic communist at a time where leadership is so important...
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This must be the definition of amorality by example.
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This is a longtime Conservative Party stalwart:
"He described his old party as “unrecognizable” and called it a refuge of “ideological puritanism that brooks no dissent and is more and more strident in its tone.”
It is hard to miss the similarity to Trump and the GOP.
The only difference is the absence in England of the evangelical religious fanaticism so apparent here in the US among the GOP.
These are trying times.
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How is Boris going to overcome that a majority of Parliament has voted against Brexit several times. Is that changing now?
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@Par Kettis
He will ignore the law, not send the EU an request for extension, and merrily campaign on his violation of the law.
This is a serious prediction.
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