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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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Justanothernameonthepage · 03/05/2018 15:19

So can we get assurances that it's a properly thought out revolution? Are beards too hipster? Is there a colour scheme for revolutionaries? Old school puritan maybe? A manifesto? Proportional representation in terms of minority voters? Or are we just planning on turning up, chanting and hoping people don't mistake us for an art piece?

A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 15:23

Anyone with a hipster beard and skinny jeans will be lined up against the wall and shaved. Sorry, no exceptions.

Anyone with a beard, skinny jeans and any type of hat will be sent to a re-education camp in Wales.

Anyone with a beard, skinny jeans, any type of hat and a scarf...well....

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ilovesooty · 03/05/2018 15:24

I don't think contaminating you has any real purpose

You make a sufficiently unpleasant impression all by yourself.

A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 15:26

For what reasons, ILS?

I don't believe I've said anything horrible?

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JaneJeffer · 03/05/2018 15:40

Well that's the UK off my list of holiday destinations for the foreseeable.

Notthemessiah · 03/05/2018 15:47

@mightymucks

So I see. I'd thought the figures I'd seen were for all of these cases in the midlands and north but you are both correct, it is closer to 10,000 than to 1,000. Awful and obviously under-reported.

I don't agree with most of what A47 has said - very tired of the whole rabid 'support my kind of brexit or you're a traitor' viewpoint in particular - but I will apologise for saying she greatly exaggerated those figures.

Notthemessiah · 03/05/2018 15:49

Judging by her post on hipsters too, maybe I was right to assume that she was just looking to spark an argument and doesn't actually believe half the things she wrote (god, I hope so).

A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 15:51

doesn't actually believe half the things she wrote (god, I hope so)

What did I write that so offended you? Or are you just virtue signalling?

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A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 15:52

very tired of the whole rabid 'support my kind of brexit or you're a traitor' viewpoint in particular

FFS, I didn't even vote Brexit and no where have I mentioned people being traitors or what not. I don't understand why you conflate what I've said?

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A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 15:54

Awful and obviously under-reported

Are people allowed to be angry without being called racist?

I'd appreciate a reply.

Personally speaking, it's way, way way more than just "awful"

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ilovesooty · 03/05/2018 15:58

So you didn't vote for brexit? Why not, since you seem to be so keen on it?

TeenTimesTwo · 03/05/2018 15:58

Not a revolution.

But critical thinking taught to everyone.
Social media banned until you are 30.

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Notthemessiah · 03/05/2018 16:06

the will of the people: Brexit.

Brexit being eaten away and attacked by unelected continental foes ...against whom the British public have no champions.

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

Ok so the last doesn't actually mention Brexit but what have the lords just voted to amend? Oh yeah, the Brexit bill.

I think you can see why we might think you're a bit pro-brexit, or are you just massively pro democracy (this being absolute democracy and not the parliamentary democracy we actually have) and the 'will of the people' (being the 52% of the 75% or so that actually voted brexit)

A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 16:07

Why not, since you seem to be so keen on it

And where have I said that? I'm against people like Blair and the HoL going against the democratic will of the people.

Despite all the hyperbole, Brexit was a democratic decision.

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Notthemessiah · 03/05/2018 16:07

Jesus - yes you can be angry without being called racist.

In other news - Pope is Catholic.

Happy?

A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 16:09

Jesus - yes you can be angry without being called racist

Well you intimated that I was racist......on more than one occasion.

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A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 16:15

You also said I was spreading hate and fear............

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ilovesooty · 03/05/2018 16:26

I still don't actually accept Brexit as the democratic will of the people anyway.

A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 16:28

I still don't actually accept Brexit as the democratic will of the people anyway

Well, that's kind of tough really as it happens to be a fact. But it's your choice I guess.

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Notthemessiah · 03/05/2018 16:28

That's because I think you are spreading hate and fear. We live in a period of peace and prosperity unprecedented in human history but some people just aren't able to do anything other than talk stuff down. We have too much time on our hands and you know the old saying about idle hands.

I said that someone could be considered racist if they said that the only immigrants who should be allowed to come to this country are the ones that integrated in a way that they dictated (cut the crusts of their cucumber sandwiches, queue in an orderly fashion, talk about the weather - that kind of thing). Presumably that's not you though.

ilovesooty · 03/05/2018 16:29

You might think it's a fact. I don't.

Notthemessiah · 03/05/2018 16:29

Well, that's kind of tough really as it happens to be a fact

Depending on what kind of democracy we're talking about. We have a parliamentary democracy, just FYI.

A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 16:33

You might think it's a fact. I don't

Like I said, your choice. Good luck with that.

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A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 16:34

That's because I think you are spreading hate and fear

By talking about 10,000 of our children being raped?

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A4710Rider · 03/05/2018 16:36

Can't you see that it's the group that's committing those atrocities that are the ones actually spreading hate and fear?

Not me for pointing it out?

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