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Westministenders: Reality Bytes

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RedToothBrush · 01/11/2018 22:39

Tonight the Corbyn and McDonnell Labour Party supported the Tory Party in improving the tax allowance for higher rate tax payers.

Yes you read that right. Did you even blink?

You've been so conditioned into seeing non existant opposition which seems to go against everything the Labour Party stand for that you no longer are shocked.

That's what 2 and a half years of Brexit has done to you.

You no longer care that Boris Johnson got £14,000 from the Saudis a couple of days before the Khashoggi murder. You know longer care that the former Defence Secretary is employed for £75,000 a year to advise a major Saudi Investor.

You are just happy that Trump hasn't started a war with Iran or North Korea yet. And hasn't started a civil war. (Though he's trying hard and next week is his best opportunity to stir it all up). You aren't surprised to hear that predictions are that the Democrats will fail to make gains in the mid terms.

You've suffered the 4657 story about how Therea May is just about to be challenged for the leadership.

You've heard about the squad set up at the Home Office to clear up all the cases the media get their hands on as the latest burning injustice. You are hearing that EU nationals who have been promised they are 'safe' are being subjected to questions about their right to stay. And you just shrug and say, "Yeah well thats the Home Office for you. The Bastards". And you do mean it, but you are so jaded by it all. And you worry that another 12 months from now, you won't even be interested in another story like that, and the press will stop printing them as they no longer interest the reader. What happens to your friends, your family, or even you then? Who is going to care then?

And then you have today.

A day where you hear that Bannon is being investigated by the Senate Intel Committee, Farage has been upgraded to the FBI's Really Naughty List and Banks has (FINALLY) been refered to the NCA. (We were only speculating on the possibility, on the 26th March...)

And you go 'Ooooooooo maybe there is hope'.

Maybe we COULD remain in the EU and avoid Turnip Soup and wiping your arse with leaves because of the national bog roll shortage. Or at least get a decent deal which suits us as a nation. Maybe, just maybe!

And that lasts for about 2 minutes before you log into twitter and the very first thing you see this:

Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn
Excl: David Cameron tells friends he’d like a return to frontline politics, and fancies Foreign Secretary
www.thesun.co.uk/news/7639377/david-cameron-return-to-politics/

And you let out a high pitched screech as if you are were a dying cat as you remember this is 2018, and it just wants to beat the life out of you.

On the plus side, it shows you do still care enough to think 'Don't let that fucking bastard anywhere near power ever, ever again.'.

Ho hum.

Keep on, keeping on. Don't let the bastards win.
Keep caring. It matters.

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HesterThrale · 09/11/2018 19:13

The Jo Johnson news has cheered me up a bit. Maybe it is a game changer DGR.

BigChocFrenzy · 09/11/2018 19:17

I think the turning point was when Murdoch turned 180 degrees and started savaging the EU

He had obviously been thwarted by them in business

  • he has since denied this quote, but Anthony Hilton (EveningStandard) claimed Murdoch said it to him:

“When I go into Downing Street, they do what I say; when I go to Brussels, they take no notice.”

1tisILeClerc · 09/11/2018 19:18

It will take a long time to overturn the continual drip feed of anti EU lies and it is for this reason, and that the UK needs to learn that it is not 'the golden child' that it should leave. It is quite likely to be to destruction of course, because the globalisation of manufacturing and the internet providing the capability of many 'soft' services to be anywhere on or even off the globe (bit fanciful!).
Of course the EU has many problems but the core aims are generally good, but far too many in the UK are not prepared to look past these and work to make it better for everyone. Look at how many have 'crowed' over Mrs Merkel's domestic problems. At a political level the UK is not really a team player which is so different from the scientists and so many others who understand cooperation, with a bit of rivalry to spice it up a bit, but not usually to the detriment of forward development. I would put a 'bar' for remain or rejoin around 70 percent as a minimum as the prospect of continual whining by the UK is too much for the EU to be expected to carry. I was looking briefly at the rate of poverty in Greece yesterday. Many blame the EU for the woes but I am not so sure.

Motheroffourdragons · 09/11/2018 19:20

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DGRossetti · 09/11/2018 19:38

The castles in Wales were mainly built on the coast to be supplied from sea indefinitely.

woman11017 · 09/11/2018 19:51

The Jo Johnson news has cheered me up a bit
Another funny think is brexists putting polls up which end up massively for remain in the EU. Grin

The marxist EU one seemed pretty conclusive. Wink

Westministenders: Reality Bytes
Westministenders: Reality Bytes
lonelyplanetmum · 09/11/2018 20:46

Just to say I'm writing a supportive thank you note to Jojo. Only polite.

Mrsr8 · 10/11/2018 07:17

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Peregrina · 10/11/2018 07:49

Just when you think they can't go any lower, or do something any more stupid, some pops up to surprise you.

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