Silence on NI on BBC is deafening, math
Andrew Adonis has won a modest victory today on a BBC website headline. Protest has changed BBC headline from 'UK shackled to EU corpse' to "EU joins global growth bandwagon" 
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43055890
< Discussion of this?
Seems so relevant to what looked like scare mongering in this
The first half has happened, the second half conjecture.
J Patrick so sorry folks who don't agree with him and byline.
www.byline.com/column/67/article/2040
^The Scenario:
Politics within an established, liberal democracy lurch suddenly to a conservative extreme and changes in the nation's direction occur at an alarming pace
Within three years the political and social landscape is polarised and the checks and balances fail inside and outside of government. A leadership figure emerges who captures the more aggressive side of public sentiment and increasingly intimidating and violent acts suppress opposition, resulting in a shell democracy under which ever more draconian laws and controls and introduced to cement the power grab and crush any resistance
A new system of wealth management and taxation is combined with restrictions on rights, liberties, and the freedom of the press, producing a regime under which compliance with the despotic state is the only option for everyday survival
An assortment of financially motivated cartels co-operate with the leadership to maintain certain benefits in kind while creating a landscape which is detrimental to the general public
Standards of living are forcibly reduced in order to maintain control of population levels and eliminate dissent opportunities, and the education system is altered to maintain easier psychological control of citizens by limiting critical thought. Patriotism becomes compulsory and eugenics are introduced to maintain a certain standard of genes within the national pool, deemed acceptable by the leadership
Propaganda replaces the news diet of the population and the country is maintained in a constant state of preparedness for war, including the introduction of rationing and hyper-manufacturing, with periodic military incursions on foreign soil taking place using conscripted troops
Alarmingly, a number of less than credible Conservative MPs have mysteriously found themselves embroiled in allegedly violent protest events (Rees-Mogg and Davies), while another has publicly shown a purported threatening letter sent to a Brexit supporting constituent (Goldsmith). The events themselves do not stand up to any scrutiny and appear staged or suspicious, notably all of them claiming violence or aggression by parties wishing to remain in the EU. Right-wing news and disinformation outlets have been having a field day
Disturbingly, genuine threats of violence and intimidation from the leader of Britain First, in support of Rees-Mogg, have been ignored, along with almost two years of extensively recorded and reported hate crime committed by racists and bigots. It has also transpired that right-wing groups have been training for civil war in secret groups
In addition, a number of potential electoral offences on the Leave side remain under investigation and we haven't really started on the Russia issue
Finally, the extreme-right of the Conservative party are promoting active engagement in tours of Universities
It is the 1st of April 2019, Britain has officially left the EU with no trade deal and no transition arrangement
The Irish border has been thrown into chaos and the military have been deployed. Lorries have turned the countryside leading to Dover into a carpark and all flights are grounded. Exporters are already collapsing under the paperwork burdens of WTO rules and cannot organise logistics
2.8 million people are being made unemployed and 8% of GDP has disappeared in a puff of smoke already. Jam production has fallen off a cliff
Over 2,000 people arrested during an anti-Trump protest have been moved to a specially created encampment due to a lack of space in prisons and courts being unable to hear the cases – among them are fifty members of parliament. UN representatives have been ejected from the country following an incident relating to 120,000 unlawful deaths arising from cuts to the welfare system
The number of homeless people has exploded following the collapse of the Universal Credit System and more camps are being opened by the military reserve forces to house a mixture of single people and young families - all of whom will work on farms in exchange for their new lodgings
Food imports ground to a halt this morning and panic buying has left supermarkets empty with no signs of resupply, fuel supplies are also dwindling
And what we predicted on these threads over a year ago.