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[Hiberno-Britannic Politics] Winning The Argument Looks A Lot Like Losing
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That he's going to put a customs checkpoint on?
Christ maybe at the end of the next 5 years Britain will be surrounded by unfinished bridges. Johnson will pull the lever, his master plan complete, as the bridges fold into legs and the UK phsycially walks further away from the EU like the spider from Wild Wild West.
Wow.
This actually cut through the thick haze of my steadfast refusal to care and brought up some genuine despair. That was the interview equivalent of watching a headless chicken run around vomiting blood and bile from its neck stump. It's perfectly possible for Labour to be in a very different place six months from now I suppose but it's extremely difficult to see it in the here and now.
A real, physical bridge?
Do not engage the Watermelons.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see this in a Marina Hyde post
I just googled it and it is in fact feasible. Perhaps even a good idea to re-invigorate the Northern economy by providing building jobs.
But it'd be a pointless project because it'd go to the middle of nowhere in Scotland, leaving motorists with a very long drive to anywhere, so they'd probably still take the ferry.
its pure sop to base to show intention and nothing more
In my defence, it seemed like a good idea at the time! (I know you were thinking more about the party rules than the individual voters, just realising I need to add another to my voting[failures] list)
I remember we here speaking about this when Johnson brought it up before, maybe during the leadership campaign? It’s feasible, but ruinously expensive. One end has nothing especially interesting nearby. And IIRC it goes over an underwater trench filled with unexploded WW2 ordnance.
So I assume we’ll start building it next week.
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Bridge to NI: Low
Scotland leaving: High
It could be beneficial for freight rail. Things that make for awkward sizes or timeframes for a ship that isn't solely going to Ireland in the first place. And/or free up dockspace for things that are definitely more seaworthy. Not nearly worth the cost, but still. More than just people move back and forth.
I don’t know... I’m reminded of Egypt, where liberal students protested and overthrew a horrible authoritarian government and instituted democracy... Only to then realize they didn’t actually have any sort of electoral constituency. Leading to the country just bouncing between competing authoritarian governments until the old assholes that got overthrown in the first place just got voted back in.
And this is hardly a uniquely an Egyptian outcome. It seems like populist revolutions have 3 outcomes with about equal probabilities:
1. A quasi- democratic interim government forms that eventually transitions into stable democracy.
2. A quasi- democratic interim government forms that is hijacked by the most radical or militant members of the revolution and an authoritarian government forms that is just as bad as the old one.
3. A quasi-democratic interim government forms, chaos ensues for a period, with government bouncing back between factions or individual personality cults, and eventually everyone just decides government is hard and puts the old guys back in charge.
I submit that these three outcomes are not equally probable. We'd all like to think so, but IMO (1) is a lot less likely than the other two.
Good times, good times.
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Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
What a wheeze, eh?
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Hey remember when the Lib Dems said "We will totally install a temporary PM from Labour so long as it's not Corbyn because he's completely toxic and can't command the support of enough MPs"? And then all the polling in the election and the results of the election demonstrated that Corbyn was completely toxic and couldn't command the support of the majority of people, even when the alternative was Boris Johnson?
Good times, good times.
Why do the Lib Dems get a say in who leads Labour, when the Labour membership has made it very clear who they want? If they wanted to just stop Brexit they could have installed Corbyn and pulled the rug out afterwards.
The Johnson bridge on the Mull of Kintyre?
*waits for the inevitable “oo-er”*
Yes, just like when they said anyone but Gordon Brown....
Nobody argued that they should. The Government of National Unity or whatever snappy name they were going to give it wasn't Labour.
Why do Labour get a say in who runs the alliance but the Lib Dems don't?
Especially when they were, you know, entirely correct about Corbyn.
Jo Swinson fancied herself as PM
Her whole strategy was just a complete disaster, really. What an awful miscalculation
Actually she didn't. She put forward several names that are not Swinson.
Corbyn was the one who fancied himself PM. He said "It's me or nobody". And the public agreed it wasn't him.
It’s true. Nobody consistently came ahead of Corbyn in the polls.
Forget led by donkeys, it’s donkeys all the way down.
She didn't for the government of NU, no.
She absolutely had a long term strategy of playing kingmaker and keeping Corbyn from no. 10 and making herself the foremost alternative challenger to Johnson in the GE that would follow.
Staying out of Iraq wasn't that hard to do, Canada managed to avoid that war, and we're just a little bit entangled with the USA. Second largest trading relationship in the world, longest international border in the world, etc.
A good example of this was the 4 day work week.
If you tell me that you're going to let me work one day fewer a week, and it'll probably make me more productive at the same time, I'll tell you, yeah, that's great. And so it's a popular policy. But if you ask me whether I think that'll happen, it'll be a sound "probably not very easily."
It never surprises me that the policies of losing parties are popular after the fact, because when you combine them all for the full manifesto, you so obviously get fairy tales. And this isn't even to say the Tory manifesto didn't contain its share; it had plenty of porkies to go around too. But they used better concealed lies; "we'll build 40 hospitals in the next 5 years." People don't really have a sense of how many hospitals there are in the UK now, they can't tell if 40 is a reasonable or unreasonable number, and most of the electorate aren't going to go digging out which of those hospitals are already in construction and other such technicalities. But everyone can tell you that trying to get a day off work is like pulling teeth, and your boss isn't going to make it bloody easy.
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