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Starry Wisdom
there's been no agreement about services yet, we've that to look forwards to
here's a few things coming up
A thank you to Brexiteers.
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here's a few things coming up
Yossarian
⏭️
And they tried to tell us Brexit wouldn't create jobs.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
An ever dwindling group, depleted each year by entropy, meeting up, all spick and span to reaffirm their undying hatred for every single leave voter and the horse they rode in on.
They play the EU anthem, then go home, each taking a different path.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Farmers get (got) all sorts of subsidies. I have a friend who's a farmer. Well, I say he's a farmer, he isn't, he just has land that his father left him, and he claims every grant possible for it (can't blame him if its there for the taking). His latest one was bat boxes. He got a grant for putting up bat boxes around the land. Another time he got a grant for putting up new fences, because his were fucked, and grants for tidying the land, adding lime to the soil, etc.
Madness isn't it, but what's going to replace those grants? The UK government aren't going to hand out money like toffee to farmers, and supermarkets have farmers fucked financially, so their only choice will be to raise prices or jack it in. I can see loads doing the latter, and only the big farmers surviving. Not sure how I feel about that, but it's probably not a good thing.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Except Boris.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
... and me.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Yes that was the slogan, if you understood it to mean 'taking back control from forrins' then you're a moron.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Who else is there to take control back from?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Who else is there to take control back from?
What, not who:
An unaccountable, lumbering bureaucracy.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
The EU?Who else is there to take control back from?
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Starry Wisdom
bimble
floofy
It was absolute genius I think, the take back control slogan.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
As was Get Brexit Done.
Remain had: 'Britain stronger in Europe' - which as well as missing a comma, just sounds soggy and wet.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
It's because I don't think in Daily Express headlines, and I also don't subscribe to the somewhat ultra-neoliberal idea that restrictions in commercial contracts are private and inviolable, whereas state intervention is tyranny. In this case, there is zero practical difference.
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It is how it quacks.
bimble
floofy
Take Back Control operated on so many levels, get brexit done less inspired, imo.
I keep thinking about how come there was such a massive majority to join in the 1st place, in the 70s, am amazed by it tbh, is anyone old enough to know how joining the EU was sold so well to the public back then?
(yes too lazy to google, it’s my bday and I’m painting the bathroom walls).
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Three words, four syllables, imperative form of the verb. They're both perfectly crafted slogans.
Depressing really that a skilled tabloid headline writer may have made all the difference.
Depressing really that a skilled tabloid headline writer may have made all the difference.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Raheem
Well-Known Member
It was a good slogan, but there's also no slogan you could ever come up with that would have made remain not boring.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
It'd be helpful if you read something other than The Guardian though.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
no one sold joining the eu in the 70s as the eu was only formed in the 90s
in the 1970s it was the common market or european economic community.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
even the guardian surely
Raheem
Well-Known Member
2/10 for bothering.
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Starry Wisdom
1/10 for replying
Raheem
Well-Known Member
10/10 just because.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
And not just UKIP. Let's not forget that Johnson was explicit with his anti-Eastern European racism during the last election.
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Starry Wisdom
that shows a nice spirit
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
The genius was, of course, not only it's malleability and all things to all men quality, but it's allusion to agency for those who'd had their faces stamped on for nearly half a century.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Not that I was born, but iirc, the selling points were that joining the EC was like walking into a really big supermarket, and the 'Europe together' idea was fairly well grasped by a huge swathe of the population, most of whom had very vivid memories of major European land wars.
If someone offered me the EC of the 70's I'd take it like a tramp on hot chips...
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