Remainers: When are you taking to the streets?

[ska invita]

Looking at that lot, I felt frigging sick,what a bunch of privileged, self satisfied, self indulgent wankers.

post up a picture of yourself and lets us have a go at this judgement lark

 

[coley]

Some photos from Parliament Square. Lots of young people are well pissed off.

In photos: Anti Brexit campaigners gather in Parliament Square, London

Take it you couldn't find the Port Talbot EU support group, or care workers for Europe?
In honesty, I'm surprised, that given the Support for the EU in thon lunnern, it was a fairly small turnout.

 

[coley]

Compared to the poll tax protests, I'd say that registers about 0.5 on the pissed off scale

And on the Iraq war protests, or the countryside alliance? This 'protest' was nowt mair than an exercise in self indulgence.

 

[coley]

Bear in mind there are people in the country right now like my cousin who is scared to speak in public now as he doesn't want people to know he's not English... from what little i heard about today i heard people were saying 'we know today makes no difference but we wanted people to feel welcome in england'...for people like my cousin that might actually be just a little reassuring.

I havent read the thread but im sure theres lots of pisstaking etc - fine - but bearing in mind the outpouring of hatred theres been this week im glad this happened.

Locally, we don't need to have marches to make those who have moved here feel welcome, we just treat them like everyone else, always have done.

 

[Casually Red]

We, the more priviliged and highly educated, demand that the referendum be declared null and void due to its undemocratic nature, namely, too many chavs, who have no adequate understanding of the issues, voted in it. The Low paid shouldn't have the vote.

and no ' stake in the country " either, the grubby no mark oiks .its like Downton Abbey shit this stuff.

Pilgers take on it

Why the British said no to Europe

The most effective propagandists of the "European ideal" have not been the far right, but an insufferably patrician class for whom metropolitan London is the United Kingdom. Its leading members see themselves as liberal, enlightened, cultivated tribunes of the 21st century zeitgeist, even "cool". What they really are is a bourgeoisie with insatiable consumerist tastes and ancient instincts of their own superiority. In their house paper, the Guardian, they have gloated, day after day, at those who would even consider the EU profoundly undemocratic, a source of social injustice and a virulent extremism known as "neoliberalism".


The aim of this extremism is to install a permanent, capitalist theocracy that ensures a two-thirds society, with the majority divided and indebted, managed by a corporate class, and a permanent working poor. In Britain today, 63 per cent of poor children grow up in families where one member is working. For them, the trap has closed. More than 600,000 residents of Britain's second city, Greater Manchester, are, reports a study, "experiencing the effects of extreme poverty" and 1.6 million are slipping into penury.


Little of this social catastrophe is acknowledged in the bourgeois controlled media, notably the Oxbridge dominated BBC. During the referendum campaign, almost no insightful analysis was allowed to intrude upon the clichéd hysteria about "leaving Europe", as if Britain was about to be towed in hostile currents somewhere north of Iceland.


On the morning after the vote, a BBC radio reporter welcomed politicians to his studio as old chums. "Well," he said to "Lord" Peter Mandelson, the disgraced architect of Blairism, "why do these people want it so badly?" The "these people" are the majority of Britons.

 

[coley]

and no ' stake in the country " either, the grubby no mark oiks .its like Downton Abbey shit this stuff.

Pilgers take on it

Why the British said no to Europe

The most effective propagandists of the "European ideal" have not been the far right, but an insufferably patrician class for whom metropolitan London is the United Kingdom. Its leading members see themselves as liberal, enlightened, cultivated tribunes of the 21st century zeitgeist, even "cool". What they really are is a bourgeoisie with insatiable consumerist tastes and ancient instincts of their own superiority. In their house paper, the Guardian, they have gloated, day after day, at those who would even consider the EU profoundly undemocratic, a source of social injustice and a virulent extremism known as "neoliberalism".


The aim of this extremism is to install a permanent, capitalist theocracy that ensures a two-thirds society, with the majority divided and indebted, managed by a corporate class, and a permanent working poor. In Britain today, 63 per cent of poor children grow up in families where one member is working. For them, the trap has closed. More than 600,000 residents of Britain's second city, Greater Manchester, are, reports a study, "experiencing the effects of extreme poverty" and 1.6 million are slipping into penury.


Little of this social catastrophe is acknowledged in the bourgeois controlled media, notably the Oxbridge dominated BBC. During the referendum campaign, almost no insightful analysis was allowed to intrude upon the clichéd hysteria about "leaving Europe", as if Britain was about to be towed in hostile currents somewhere north of Iceland.


On the morning after the vote, a BBC radio reporter welcomed politicians to his studio as old chums. "Well," he said to "Lord" Peter Mandelson, the disgraced architect of Blairism, "why do these people want it so badly?" The "these people" are the majority of Britons.

Says it all, but the "one third'" can make life very difficult for the other two thirds.

 

[coley]

post up a picture of yourself and lets us have a go at this judgement lark

You first

 

[editor]

Looking at that lot, I felt frigging sick,what a bunch of privileged, self satisfied, self indulgent wankers.

Wow. You're really quite prejudiced aren't you?

 

[editor]

post up a picture of yourself and lets us have a go at this judgement lark

Indeed. But then it's always easy to snipe away as an InternetZ Warr10r. I'm glad people are getting off their arses,

 

[smokedout]

Some photos from Parliament Square. Lots of young people are well pissed off.

In photos: Anti Brexit campaigners gather in Parliament Square, London

What do we want?
Cheap au pairs.
When do we want 'em?
Just make sure they're white.


(I already used this on twitter but think it can stand another outing)

 

[editor]

What do we want?
Cheap au pairs.
When do we want 'em?
Just make sure they're white.


(I already used this on twitter but think it can stand another outing)

Did it get any kind of positive response the first time around?

 

[smokedout]

pretty good, more retweets then you ever get

 

[smokedout]

not that I've ever looked

 

[editor]

pretty good, more retweets then you ever get

Ooh, a challenge. Show us the tweet then and let's see what kind of people were retweeting it.

 

[coley]

Wow. You're really quite prejudiced aren't you?

How, exactly?
ETA, I believe I missed a comma.

 

[redsquirrel]

Indeed. But then it's always easy to snipe away as an InternetZ Warr10r. I'm glad people are getting off their arses,

To support the EU?* To argue that there should be another referendum? To bid up the LibDems?

*rather than just arguing for a Remain vote

 

[Patteran]

Anyone know who organised that march today in London?

Secret Cinema/Fabien Riggall (unless i'm missing the point & it was a loaded, rhetorical question)

 

[editor]

How exactly?

By describing a bunch of people you've never met - or know the slightest thing about - as a " bunch of privileged, self satisfied, self indulgent wankers."

 

[editor]

To support the EU?* To argue that there should be another referendum? To bid up the LibDems?

*rather than just arguing for a Remain vote

A wide range of opinions and 'solutions' were being argued at the protest.

 

[smokedout]

Ooh, a challenge. Show us the tweet then and let's see what kind of people were retweeting it.

do you really want to do this?

 

[editor]

do you really want to do this?

You're the one doing the weird bragging'n'boasting, so you may as well back up this MASSIVE retweet tally for everyone to be suitably impressed by.

 

[redsquirrel]

A wide range of opinions and 'solutions' were being argued at the protest.

Sure, I'm asking you which ones you where thinking were worth "people getting off their arses for"?

 

[JimW]

"Monti, Monti, Monti... In! In! In!"

 

[smokedout]

You're the one doing the weird bragging'n'boasting, so you may as well back up this MASSIVE retweet tally for everyone to be suitably impressed by.

wasn't that big, just bigger than you ever get

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

By describing a bunch of people you've never met - or know the slightest thing about - as a " bunch of privileged, self satisfied, self indulgent wankers."

Tbh, a march right in the centre of London isn't going to change too many minds, not on this issue anyway.

 

[editor]

Sure, I'm asking you which ones you where thinking were worth "people getting off their arses for"?

Sometimes I can just be impressed by the energy and commitment of people getting off their arses and protesting even if I don't agree with all the opinions being expressed. Is that OK with you?

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Tbh, a march right in the centre of London isn't going to change too many minds, not on this issue anyway.

I mean, an expedition to the provinces that voted leave would probably be a bit of a hassle. No night buses, yeah?

 

[editor]

Tbh, a march right in the centre of London isn't going to change too many minds, not on this issue anyway.

Of course, not, but then that's not always the point. Marches can mean disparate groups of people can connect with each other, have a healthy vent and it keeps the issue in the news. That's often a good starting point, no?

 

[editor]

wasn't that big, just bigger than you ever get

#backtrack #bluffcalled #weirdboasting #lolcakes

 

[smokedout]

#yourtwitter #justlookingnow #noretweets