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To Suggest That The UK Needs A Revolution.........

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A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 10:03

...before it's too late?

A rudderless govt, bereft of talent, drifts from one mess to another, with a leader now incapable of delivering her key objective and the will of the people: Brexit.

Her Majesty's Opposition a hopeless rabble controlled by incompetent far-left revanchists.

The high reaches of the culture commanded by an equally obscure clique of metropolitan liberals, in thrall to the excesses of deranged American identity politics and engaged in a war with the Labour party and the wider country.

Brexit being eaten away and attacked by unelected continental foes such as Guy Verhofstadt, and internal fifth columnists such as Tony Blair, against whom the British public have no champions.

Freedom of speech not protected by constitution and being eroded as evidenced by Count Dankula case, etc.

Border control rejecting thot conservatives in favour of Jihadi Beatles.

Rape gangs roaming up and down the country with apparent impunity with no one doing anything to protect our children.

Defence budget now insufficient to control national interests. No coherent independent foreign policy or even an understanding of what that might be commensurate of global standing.

Foreign agents conducting clandestine operations with impunity on shore aided by domiciled piratical oligarchs ensconsed in plusher parts of the capital city.

Land not owned by Duke of Westminster owned by middle east petro-crooks (see also football clubs).

House of Lords now a placeholder for party appartchiks and leftist lunatics acting against the will of the people.

The House of Windsor now a middle class-celebrity circus, incapable of acting for the interests of its subjects.

The great medieval university colleges now social justice laboritories, being eaten away from the inside by identity politics.

Who is with me? Bring your own pitchfork

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aconcernedrelative · 03/05/2018 11:00

Nigel? Is that you?

Idrinkandiknowstuff · 03/05/2018 11:03

I came on here to say you’re an idiot, but I have to admit, you have a few fair points.

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A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 11:07
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theycallmebabydriver · 03/05/2018 11:10

Yay!!!

Whiterabbitears · 03/05/2018 11:11

What are Jihadi Beatles?

Elementtree · 03/05/2018 11:12

Can we have a kind of half-arsed, well-mannered revolution with an air of passive aggressive "well, thank you very much, not" resistance as opposed to actual violence?

Mightymucks · 03/05/2018 11:17

Have you seen what revolutions are like? They’re generally nasty, violent disrupt essential supplies like energy, drugs and food. They have a nasty habit of spilling into violence, looting and rape which targets innocent people, and replacing what happened before with a nasty despot or years of terrorism and in fighting.

Besides, we don’t live in a dictatorship. We don’t have a Tsar or an absolute monarch.

So what you are actually saying is you don’t like democracy because a lot of other people disagree with you so you would like to overthrow democracy and impose your own viewpoint without bothering with silly little things like elections or parliament or representation of the people.

Good luck with that.

Mightymucks · 03/05/2018 11:21

And by Thot Conservatives are we talking Brooks Newmark?

NotAnotherUserName5 · 03/05/2018 11:21

Yanbu, but I suspect you'll get told otherwise, given it's trendy to at the moment

Notthemessiah · 03/05/2018 11:22

You forgot:

People with nothing better to do posting on forums, making things sound far worse than they actually are and just making everyone else more miserable and afraid.

Actually that sounds like the Daily Mail.............

Pandora1box · 03/05/2018 11:22

I'm too tired to be revolting or perhaps revolting because I am tired

Metoodear · 03/05/2018 11:24

I would agree however

The alternative Corbyn is not much better

Like leaving a shit job for worse money and a longer commute no thanks may as well satu in the shot job

drwitch · 03/05/2018 11:25

have you named changed claig

MaryMcCarthy · 03/05/2018 11:26

We need a revolution because the economic fundamentals of the country are flawed. It’s an economy and a country that successive governments, elected by us the people, have created. A country where it’s essential that immigrants keep arriving, where house prices keep rising, way out of reach of the average worker, where job security keeps declining. It’s a country where we blame others for our woes – foreigners, the EU, the left, because we can’t bring ourselves to admit that we’ve built a country that doesn’t serve our needs.

We’ve been propped up for a decade by monumental levels of quantitative easing, asset purchasing and other stimuli which have only served to artificially prop things up. Things are only going to get worse because we have such undeveloped, unproductive, chronically under-invested strategic industries that won’t serve the economic or mental needs of the next generation. I’d like someone to explain how that’s the fault of the EU, the left, immigrants, or a lack of freedom of speech.

If we have a revolution it’ll be kicked off by the young and disenfranchised, angry and desperate about the future they’ve been endowed with.

DairyisClosed · 03/05/2018 11:28

Jihadi beatles Grin

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A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 11:38

People with nothing better to do posting on forums, making things sound far worse than they actually are and just making everyone else more miserable and afraid

People who read forums are generally looking for answers....

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Notthemessiah · 03/05/2018 11:39

Shame you've provided none then.

Laiste · 03/05/2018 11:40

Will there be cake? If so yeah, lets revolt! Grin

Mightymucks · 03/05/2018 11:43

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Kursk · 03/05/2018 11:45

OP, interesting question that will probably “trigger” a load of people on here. I managed to escape the UK. As a outsider looking in I can see that tension is building. If things carry on as they are I expect that there will be riots, and a period of civil unrest. Let’s call it the “2020 poor wars”

A all out revolution is unlikely as there isn’t really a clear opposition to the government.

However the civil unrest may be enough as violence does solve problems and the British appetite for violence is pretty low.

pigsDOfly · 03/05/2018 11:53

You've made a long list there OP, most of it making one or two incidences sound worse than they actually are: 'one swallow doesn't make a summer'. Are you a representative of the Daily Mail?

What exactly are you proposing to replace the status quo with?

And how exactly are you envisaging this revolution panning out?

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A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 11:58

making one or two incidences sound worse than they actually are

Such as?

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A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 12:00

Shame you've provided none then

I wasn't asked for any.....do you have a question?

Let's talk about immigration, shall we? It should be stopped, immediately, until the UK's house is order and the current crop of people have integrated fully. How do you like those apples?

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A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 12:01

As for being accused of being the Daily Mail, our newspapers, every single one of them are part of the problem.

We need truth, we don't get any. Only agendas.

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