Video of the day #2

[Untinted Glasses]

https://youtu.be/yZcBo4UqoNE?list=PL...fiB8DBHRifIQOE

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Flogging a dead horse mate.

The eejits like these two will all be buying their bunting and waving their pathetic little plastic Union Jacks in May.

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[Untinted Glasses]

Flogging a dead horse mate.

The eejits like these two will all be buying their bunting and waving their pathetic little plastic Union Jacks in May.

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Possibly & probably BT, however I do have to keep flogging.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Possibly & probably BT, however I do have to keep flogging.

Flog on my mate, flog on.

[Swissclaret]

Excellent video, UG. I am a fan of George Orwell and shudder at how prescient he was. I see the UK Government enacting laws that, once upon a time, you would expect from a Communist State.

The use of all forms of media has been co-opted to spread the message and to get people in line. Sadly too many people have sleep walked their way into accepting the propaganda. Government now controls nearly every aspect of daily life and will continue to try to gain control of areas that it does not. They now want to control football!

[Untinted Glasses]

Excellent video, UG. I am a fan of George Orwell and shudder at how prescient he was. I see the UK Government enacting laws that, once upon a time, you would expect from a Communist State.

The use of all forms of media has been co-opted to spread the message and to get people in line. Sadly too many people have sleep walked their way into accepting the propaganda. Government now controls nearly every aspect of daily life and will continue to try to gain control of areas that it does not. They now want to control football!

Yea, even when people see the truth, they still don't want to believe it as it goes against everything they have been brought up believing. I am amazed how many on this board are "awake". It's not normal on a forum with no bias to see so many.

Going back to the "people refuse to believe it", did you see the brilliant Yuri besenovs warning. This is absolutely spot on.

https://youtu.be/IQPsKvG6WMI

[Norder]

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Flogging a dead horse mate.

The eejits like these two will all be buying their bunting and waving their pathetic little plastic Union Jacks in May.

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being the land of the docile and the dutiful....there'll be many more along with them.





The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Etienne de la Boétie

the Year - 1577

The essay argues that any tyrant remains in power while his subjects grant him that, therefore delegitimizing every form of power. The original freedom of men would be indeed abandoned by society which, once corrupted by the habit, would have preferred the servitude of the courtier to the freedom of the free man....


What strange phenomenon is this? What name shall we give to it? What is the nature of this misfortune? What vice is it, or, rather, what degradation? To see an endless multitude of people not merely obeying, but driven to servility? Not ruled, but tyrannized over? These wretches do not even have life itself that they can call their own. They suffer plundering, wantonness, cruelty, not from an army, not from a barbarian horde, on account of whom they must shed their blood and sacrifice their lives, but from a single man; not from a Hercules nor from a Samson, but from a single little man.

https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/ku...tary-servitude


400 + Years later.


Government by decree: Covid-19 and the Constitution
Lord Sumption
Cambridge Freshfields Annual Law Lecture
27 October 2020, 6pm


The British public has not even begun to understand the seriousness of what is
happening to our country. Many, perhaps most of them don’t care, and won’t care until it is too
late. They instinctively feel that the end justifies the means, the motto of every totalitarian
government which has ever been. Yet what holds us together as a society is precisely the means
by which we do things. It is a common respect for a way of making collective decisions, even f we disagree with the decisions themselves. It is difficult to respect the way in which this
government’s decisions have been made. It marks a move to a more authoritarian model of
politics which will outlast the present crisis. There is little doubt that for some ministers and
their advisers this is a desirable outcome. The next few years is likely to see a radical and
lasting transformation of the relationship between the state and the citizen. With it will come
an equally fundamental change in our relations with each other, a change characterized by
distrust, resentment and mutual hostility. In the nature of things, authoritarian governments
fracture the societies which they govern. The use of political power as an instrument of mass
coercion is corrosive. It divides and it embitters. In this case, it is aggravated by the sustained
assault on social interaction which will sooner or later loosen the glue that helped us to deal
with earlier crises. The unequal impact of the government’s measures is eroding any sense of
national solidarity. The poor, the inadequately housed, the precariously employed and the
socially isolated have suffered most from the government’s measures. Above all, the young,
who are little affected by the disease itself, have been made to bear almost all the burden, in
the form of blighted educational opportunities and employment prospects whose effects will
last for years. Their resentment of democratic forms, which was already noticeable before the
epidemic, is mounting, as recent polls have confirmed.
The government has discovered the power of public fear to let it get its way. It will not
forget. Aristotle argued in his Politics that democracy was an inherently defective and unstable
form of government. It was, he thought, too easily subverted by demagogues seeking to obtain
or keep power by appeals to public emotion and fear. What has saved us from this fate in the
two centuries that democracy has subsisted in this country is a tradition of responsible
government, based not just on law but on convention, deliberation and restraint, and on the
effective exercise of Parliamentary as opposed to executive sovereignty. But like all principles
which depend on a shared political culture, this is a fragile tradition. It may now founder after
two centuries in which it has served this country well. What will replace it is a nominal
democracy, with a less deliberative and consensual style and an authoritarian reality which we
will like a great deal less.


https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/priv..._by_Decree.pdf

[sinkov]

Possibly & probably BT, however I do have to keep flogging.

You are flogging a dead horse with BT, I've pointed out to him on numerous occasions that, as Neil Oliver says, our Parliament is a now an irrelevance, a side-show, Labour/Tory, Left/Right, two cheeks of the same arse. But he doesn't get it, he can't see what's coming, and sadly doesn't want to.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

You are flogging a dead horse with BT, I've pointed out to him on numerous occasions that, as Neil Oliver says, our Parliament is a now an irrelevance, a side-show, Labour/Tory, Left/Right, two cheeks of the same arse. But he doesn't get it, he can't see what's coming, and sadly doesn't want to.

It's why we needed a Corbyn style "For the many, not the few" style of government sinkov. Sadly your lot driven by the likes of Murdoch and the Jews were having none of it.

Netanyahu and his ilk will kill democracy off within the next decade and we have no means to stop it unless the proletariat rise up.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

You are flogging a dead horse with BT, I've pointed out to him on numerous occasions that, as Neil Oliver says, our Parliament is a now an irrelevance, a side-show, Labour/Tory, Left/Right, two cheeks of the same arse. But he doesn't get it, he can't see what's coming, and sadly doesn't want to.

Our current crisis is not about left or right-wing politics it’s all about what’s legally and morally right and wrong. We have a government which is abusing its power, ministerial corruption is endemic, lack of political morality widespread and take, take, take is the new norm.

Is it even possible to imagine under Jeremy Corbyn’s watch a government where a senior member of cabinet forgets a £4 million tax liability, a failed minister who bunks off his day job to collect £300k for spending a fortnight in a TV jungle or the lurid example of Tory peer Michelle Mone who was allowed to rinse the UK taxpayer for thirty million quid?

This Tory government are so far detached from reality we have a billionaire Prime Minister who refuses to even negotiate with the poor people. Thankfully a Socialist government would not be part of a joint enterprise with a mendacious power base, sadly we do not have a cat in hell’s chance of having one.