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Indeed we beed to move beyond blind loyalty / tribal (non-) thinking.

Put country before tribe !

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Simple lesson on hypocrisy we were taught in primary school.

See Telegraph article from Jan 2016 : "The British public couldn't care less about Brexit and the EU referendum". Have we (as a country) been played, then ?

See Telegraph - Jan 2016 - 'Most Britons couldn't care less about Brexit and the EU'.

Oh , how times have changed, eh ? And, oh - Johnson and Farage are several million pounds better off for it , aren't they ? Don't be played. Unless you are a troll, a game player, that is.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/eureferendum/12108375/The-British-public-couldnt-care-less-about-Brexit-and-the-EU-referendum.html

"We gave the EU 45 years to get it right". Re-frame required - use 'membership of the EU'.

We were leading members of the EU, with only 77 EU resolutions out of over 35, 000 being with UK disagreement. And most of those were over how much our membership fee should be. And, our membership fee was peanuts - less than 0.5% of our taxes. No one really was that bothered about the costs of EU membership before the divisve, troll-fed, debate of 2016, if you are honest. Yes, there were plenty of lies about 'Straight bananas' etc. that Johnson etc used to line his own pockets, further his own narcissistic career . But only a minority believed in that kind of thing. It's almost like the whole thing was an elaborate 'Divide and Conquer' operation, really.

Don't take these checks on power lightly. They are going, going .... everywhere. (Yes including Scotland ).

Liberal democracy means checks on power. Independent judiciary, free (well regulated though) media, free elections ( proportionate representation , no surpression of votes ).

Name calling is a tactic we're supposed to have outgrown in primary school.
Give us rational thinking, evidence, geopolitcal and economic analysis , then we can discuss as adults.

Lokiloo - they are tpossibly trolls remember. You will find this worth studying. It's by a professor of law, who predicted, a week before the 2016 reerendum, that there would be an increase in illegal migration to the UK. The UK has created a self-imposed 'problem with migrants on boats'. It's all deception, lies. No surprise for you, nor any trolls. Keep this reference for future trolling. https://northeastbylines.co.uk/increase-in-small-boat-crossings-caused-by-no-returns-agreement-after-brexit/

Mach - note how the Tories regard anyone who believes the health service can be motivated by - wow - caring for people - and professional pride - is someone who treats the NHS as a religion.
What they don't see is the religious dogma that they have themselves - the religious belief that the only thing that can really work is a health service motivated by - profit. No ideology there then.

Taskmaster - CO2 levels have increased by 20%, in 50 years (from 350ppm to 420ppm). There is no natural explanation for this ( no change in solar activity in the last 50 years ), so look at the bleedin obvious - burning fossil fuels, chopping down rainforests.
Life is finely balanced around global temperature - biochemical reactions are finely tuned - think of how you feel when your temperature rises by 2 degrees, when you have a fever.
Increasing CO2 levels by 20% can produce an increase in average global temperature of 1.5 degrees (which is an increase of approx 0.3% in absolute temperature, measured in Kelvin).
If you want to understand the moderating effect of the 'heat blanket' , that is the atmosphere - research the surface temperature of the moon.

50:50 is not DECISIVE . It is DIVISIVE. So, we need to stop the culture wars, and discuss why we're being told B****t is 'The country voted for it'. The country is in a culture war, divided down the middle. Why the media keep up the nonsense about 'The country' is a mystery.

Paris just overtaken London to become the largest stock exchange in Europe. In 2016, London was 1.5 trillion larger. than Paris . Name calling 'Remoaner' won't change that fact, but Vlad will love it if you do his work for him.

Democracy since the Russian backed referedum, with a DIVISIVE 50:50 majority requirement, means telling the majority of voters 'Shut up. Get over it. Remoaners'. (Yes, the majority is now in favour of remain/ rejoin' - see how opinion polls have changed this year. No wonder Putin backed it, according to our Intelligence and Security Committee. But, don't trust them. They're 'experts', and we're tired of 'experts'. Trust your mates down the pub.

Having fun, with a bit of Culture Wars, Will ? Why not ask to work directly for Putin on a troll farm ? He backs divisive Culture Wars, using gender ideology as a recent example.
Oh, don't tell me you didn't read the Russia Report, about how Brexit was backed by him, to divide the 'U'K into a cesspit ?
Johnson tried to stop it being produced. But the Intelligence and Security Committee have managed to get a redacted version out.

Yes funny how the DUP want democracy, on their terms only, isn't it ? They didn't stop attending the NI Assembly, over the Protocol, until the recent elections. Those elections saw a majority of parties backing the Protocol, but no unionist majority. So, time to threaten peace and stability with the EU again, all at a time of Putin's war. Great timing.

Is 50:50 decisive, or divisive ? The FT video, like all media, has mistakenly used the wording'The nation' voted to leave the EU. To be precise, 37% of the electorate voted for it at the time, and opinion polling now shows a shift towards a majority for remaining. Starmer was voted leader of opposition by the largely remain membership, in order to hold the govt to account over this Brexit cult, but he too has been co-opted.

They've got all the best lines 'A high skill, high wage, world beating science superpower'.
Didn't know estate agents, hairdressers and barristas are leading our science revolution.

It was both New Labour and the Tories that were influenced / infiltrated.
We need to move beyond binary mindset.

Lets have the list of postiives. Then weigh against the negatives - like recruiting 50,000 extra red tape checkers.
Then we may understand why Cummings said 'Anyone who believes Brexit is a good idea is crackers' / 'No one knows whether Brexit has worked, or not'. At least we'll have some informed debate. Name-calling is a thinly disguised suppression of informed discussion. BTW Financial services - the UKs largest sector ? - not 'Done' .