General News Chat

[57vintage]

“Broken Britain. How Scottish nationalism and Brexit pulled a nation to pieces” from i’day’s Sunday Herald. A pretty good analysis, and even in my dotage, it may be that I’ve been less aware about the influence of empire than I should have been. Perhaps we’re not as clever and classless* and free as we may have believed. A good read, interesting insights, and don’t point those blaady spears at me if you don’t agree. I didn’t write the fûcking thing, although I wish I’d had the insight so to do.

*some of the bottom-feeders on here may fall into that category, of course, having no class whatsoever

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/broken-bri...irAMiIDAWdNKq4

[TheDeeDon]

It's a good article Vintage and covers many of the problems facing the UK as a whole and the origins of the problems.

What I took from it was never trust politicians and happy to say I don't.

[57vintage]

It's a good article Vintage and covers many of the problems facing the UK as a whole and the origins of the problems.

What I took from it was never trust politicians and happy to say I don't.

I distrust many of them, but a “they’re all the same” attitude is exactly the apathy that the dark forces of the right feed on. For example, in my decades of direct political activity, we had to be sure to get the logistics right in getting voters to polling stations on election days. The belief that voters of the right will always turn out to vote was correct. The left (maybe even the pretendy left, or ‘progressives’ - clears throat, satisfying ‘ting’ of the spittoon) has always dreaded bad weather on polling day, as the vote is far less dedicated than that of the forces of conservatism.