Brexit Arms special - the fingers on the trigger!

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Well here we are, almost 9 months on from the referendum & A50 is finally set to be triggered this month.
We've had petitions, marches, tantrums & tears, from the hardcore remainers desperately trying to stop the will of the people, but they can't.

So let's get the champagne out of the cellar ready & waiting - this is the last Brexit Arms thread so let's celebrate!
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Yes

Sunn, I think.

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Was it this post, Sunn?:

...Farage always makes me think of a British Martin Luther King...

If so, it was a tongue in cheek response to the post immediately before it:

only a matter of time before a Brexiter declares Farage the British Martin Luther King.

I like that one Cardinal!!

Semi - it wasn't funny and I've always thought you were sensible and to now mock me. Wow.

Thanks semi

I understand what the biscuit is for but i have never understood why

Giving someone a biscuit is a nice thing

(Unless its stale or got weevils in)

sunn

semi isnt mocking you

Sunn, I'm definitely not mocking you - and I've no idea what's given you that impression.

I apologise in that case

I have been reading this thread with interest for a long time however I am so fucking pissed off that someone would dare equate Nigel farage to Martin Luther king.

It was GhostofFrankGrimes, so qive her a good telling off, think she lives in the Remoaners wine bar.

Fri 17-Mar-17 12:58:48 only a matter of time before a Brexiter declares Farage the British Martin Luther King

Not that it matters but to set the record straight on the whole MLK thing, it was a leaver - Anon - who first mentioned him and compared Brexit to the civil rights movement:

"Did someone tell Martin Luther King, Jr. that, Successful nations are not built on wishful thinking"

...which then provoked the Nigel Farage comment in response.

No worries Sunn

Actually Kaija, I did not compare Brexit to the civil rights movement.

I pointed out the absurdity of a previous comment that, successful nations are not built on wishful thinking, by using a historical reference showing the opposite. At no point did I liken Brexit to the civil rights movement, that was GhostofFrankGrimes

Oh really? It read tremendously much like a comparison.

Still does.

If it reads like a comparison then I am clarifying that it was not.

It was as I have said, a historical reference, to refute the comment about the power of wishful thinking/dreams.

Kaija can sing Madonna's Ray of light

I see. However, it only refutes it if it was a comparison.

However, it only refutes it if it was a comparison
Ok I can sort of see your point but disagree because the 'comparison' was not with Brexit it was with a statement about wishful thinking.

It was a leaver who brought up MLK. The same MLK synonymous with civil rights. On a Brexit thread.

CountMagnus always up for a bit of Back in Black.

--- and for wee Nippy It's a Long Way to the Top complete with bagpipe rifs.

Absolutely peeing down here and looking to stay that way all weekend - sometimes very hard being a Proud Scot

Omg a brexiter selling us the power of positive thinking!

Anon you should read JK Galbraith's The Great Crash 1929 on the power (or not) of positive thinking.

As Galbraith pointed out, writing back in the 1950s, 'incantation' ('brexit is brexit', 'we WILL make a success of it', 'red white and blue brexit', 'make america great again' etc etc) is a rather less than effective tool of modern government policy.

All the more so, you would think, now that it is so much easier for even the most lowly informed subject to subject their leaders to ridicule.

I love the way these Brexiters are starting to sound like hippy new age 'life coaches'! !It's all about positive thinking!" "You just have to visualise what you want and it will all come to you!"

Your right Figment I should be more pessimistic.
Apologies, I am off to the nearest cliff to practice jumping ...