Brexit Watch

Natasha Whittam wrote:

okocha wrote:
 You are Boris Johnson facing tricky questions. Do you:
a. refuse to do the interview
b. ban the journalists
c. shut down parliament
d. jet off on holiday
e. hide in a fridge
f. all of the above

A & B.

Do I win a prize?

okocha wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:

okocha wrote:Woah!! This is a serious and sinister move, threatening democracy and reminiscent of similar moves by countries which are grotesquely state-controlled:

 "Today's "i" newspaper leads on the banning yesterday of its political editor and journalists from a number of other news organisations from a Downing Street briefing.
[size=13]The paper says shutting out certain publications damages the bedrock of a free media, which exists to help hold the government to account.
The Mirror - another excluded newspaper - describes the move as tin-pot tyranny.Downing Street must never be allowed to dictate what you read, hear and see, it says, or democracy is undermined."[/size]

Ha ha, your anti-government posts are becoming more desperate by the day.

And by the way, will you please learn to cut and paste.

I wouldn't be anti-government if they would act in ways which are beneficial to our country and to you yourself, Nat, but to ban the i and the Independent, for example, is seriously worrying.
 I presume that your unpleasant rants suggest you believe in freedom of speech? 

What I wrote is cut and pasted exactly as it is written in the BBC online summary of today's news headlines, but I'll learn to adapt the way it translates onto the Nuts pages if you will learn to be a bit more discerning and sensiblly grown-up about threats to our way of life, rather than play to the crowd so inanely.

Norpig wrote:Utterly ridiculous!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55887043

Norpig wrote:Utterly ridiculous!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55887043

luckyPeterpiper wrote:Brexit was sold on a series of half-truths, outright lies and delusional fantasies about how we'd be much better off outside the EU. Unfortunately the majority of the public swallowed it all and even now as the reality begins to bite some don't want to let go of their belief that we've somehow regained our 'sovereignty' as if we'd ever lost it in the first place.

We are the first country in history to deliberately make it harder for ourselves to trade with foreign countries and to deliberately throw away access to all sorts of information we need to ensure our own national security. We've thrown away our position as a 'bridge' between the EU and US and we've also tossed away a huge chunk of our businesses particularly in the financial markets.

What I personally fear is that once the co-vid pandemic is over we'll see the true consequences of Brexit in all their ugly glory. While I respect the result of the referendum I am absolutely certain that five years from now those who voted for it will realise they have deep cause to regret that. Personally I am afraid that our children and grandchildren will pay for our short sightedness.

gloswhite wrote:I see that you are again calling brexiteers idiots XM.

wanderlust wrote:
It was me but you are extrapolating. What I said was the lie was told to get idiots to vote for Brexit which many did. That doesn’t mean that everyone who voted to leave did so for this particular reason - in reality people voted for loads of different reasons - ergo I’m not suggesting all Brexiteers are idiots.

xmiles wrote:

Reminds of that time Will Self said "all racists voted for leave" and that idiot brexiteer Mark Francois was stupid enough to think that meant Self was saying every leave voter was racist.

gloswhite wrote:And we Brexiteers are not all as green as we are cabbage looking.