tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post8480618122567775594..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Dominic Raab - No Deal Pants On FireTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-25875077916915355852019-07-30T16:57:18.561+01:002019-07-30T16:57:18.561+01:00@Gulliver, I completely agree - though I do feel t...@Gulliver, I completely agree - though I do feel that ITV do at least try to challenge them sometimes, as opposed to crawling up their rectums like the BBC. The point I was making though is that at least some of their equally evil predecessors were competent at manipulating the media and telling lies Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14569732807130090838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-18836177267609246032019-07-30T16:23:05.636+01:002019-07-30T16:23:05.636+01:00@Mark,
They don't need to be competent, Torie...@Mark,<br /><br />They don't need to be competent, Tories always get to play politics on easy mode, this has been the situation for some considerable time, see the Islamophobia scandal as another recent example. This blog is pretty much dedicated to explaining why this is the case.<br /><br />I mean, I listened this morning to the secretary of state for Wales saying this morning (R4 Today) that if the UK leaves without a deal it will be fine for all those Welsh sheep farmers because we have a trade deal with Japan, and at no point did N Robinson pick up the obvious point that the Japan trade deal we currently have with japan is via the EU and leaving without a deal means kissing goodbye to that FTA as well. Politics is easy when you’re a Tory, envisage if say a shadow minister got her numbers a bit mixed up? can you imagine a situation where an interviewer, and indeed the rest of the legacy media, just ignores it…..<br /><br />At some point soon we may see just how bad things need to get before this situation changes.......but I'm not holding my breath.<br /><br />Addendum, the Japanese aren’t all that keen on lamb anyway.<br />Gulliver Foylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06895810504041451255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-75138932692900822662019-07-30T13:53:24.772+01:002019-07-30T13:53:24.772+01:00Watched him squirm on ITN's 6:30 bulletin last...Watched him squirm on ITN's 6:30 bulletin last night; claimed that the government had been reasonable and open to compromise with the EU, when asked to name an example, he nearly shat himself with fear before blustering 'well the government's only a week old'. I think the thing that irritates me the most about this current crop of Tories is the sheer incompetence they have in performing their evil business.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14569732807130090838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-42579056477537296752019-07-30T13:04:08.904+01:002019-07-30T13:04:08.904+01:00"...the kind which would see manufacturing in...<i>"...the kind which would see manufacturing industry decimated..."</i><br /><br />That happened a generation ago, Tim.<br /><br />The latest moves will "only" eliminate rump UK manufacturing. Profits gougers will continue relocation of it to sweat shops and cheap labour in the East. It's what capitalism does.<br /><br />Britain will be left as a money laundering centre, a sort of seedy, deluded Switzerland for a new rentier class concentrated in London. We are well down that road already. Other remaining essential parts of the economy - the NHS for instance - will be looted. Poverty and crime will expand and the victims will be blamed.<br /><br />The main purpose of it all is to try to eliminate, or at the very least limit, any form of national or community organised and mutually funded economy. This is why building societies in this country were mostly turned into banking casinos, while over in the USA similar organisations like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were, er, decimated. Clinton, of course, delivered the <i>coup de grace</i> when he repealed the Glass-Steagall Act - which action led directly to the 2008 Depression.<br /><br />Johnson and his cabinet are mere tools in the overall far right scheme of US-led things. Raab is just a spiv-fart in a bottle.<br /><br />The moral and economic corruption will intensify as Britain declines further within the capitalist system. But only if we let it. The next general election will be the last chance for a generation to halt it. If the Johnson gang are returned to power decimation will be the order of the day at every level It's been forty years in the making, but here it is.<br /><br />We really are at the stage where people either want a decent and fair society or they don't. If they don't, they would do well to bear in mind the words of John Kennedy that, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable". But that was before he was murdered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-23676380623680169712019-07-30T12:50:16.653+01:002019-07-30T12:50:16.653+01:00"Dominic Raab insists he warned voters about ..."Dominic Raab insists he warned voters about the risks of a no-deal Brexit while fighting the EU referendum campaign."<br />Any mention of the risks was answered by "Project Fear".Arnoldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12536283325894194176noreply@blogger.com