I'm loving
the way that the message being sent out these days to bolster morale and British national identity is almost exactly the same message that you would want to send if you were campaigning to rejoin the EU. Unity with the world, we are all one team, stronger together etc.
Rejoining is inevitable, the only thing in doubt is how long it will take and how much damage will be done to our economy on the way.
Part of me hopes not much damage, because obviously that would be good. Another part of me realizes that each extra bit of damage weakens any argument that anti-Europeans would use to wreck the process.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 23 Jun 2021, 11:49,
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getting people to pivot from a frenzy of nationalism to pan-continental brotherhood and peace sounds tricky
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It would be easier if we has easily demonized common enemy we could unite again.
China? Anyone? No?
Ok let's go blame the EU for uncalibrated cow farts or someth.
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For the past 900 years its mostly been the French.
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Tusk knows where you live, Wed 23 Jun 2021, 14:57,
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And for the French the English.
But we are not anymore.
Most of your manufacturing hasn't been relocated to the Loire Valley - but to Guangdong (hint, that's not in Europe).
Would photoshoped berets on chinamen help?
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If you can lead a crowd one way, you can lead it another.
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 23 Jun 2021, 21:54,
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YES! This'll be amazing.
With Femi and Lord Adonis? Oh Christ, I hope it's with Femi and Lord Adonis. Get Stephen Fry to do another patronising cartoon for the proles to understand. And get that annoying drunk guy in Parliament Square back, the one who shouted through a megaphone all the time. And calling people thick and racist - can you honestly, hand on heart, say you did that enough? You're a bunch of old loonies but it's very sweet.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Thu 24 Jun 2021, 5:48,
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The trick seems to be finding something from the 70s that people are nostalgic for and promising to bring it back
How do you feel about 4 digit phone numbers?
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Fucking hell though
The victory could not have been more complete. It was embarrassing. Then Covid wiped 15 months of negative press. No-one would go near the EU now. Everyone's talking about stricter borders. But you're still cutting about like bewildered Japanese soldiers stranded in the Malay archipelago.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Thu 24 Jun 2021, 8:09,
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Stuart Hall
Rolf Harris, Jimmy Saville, Dave Lee Travis, Bill Cosby, Gary Glitter, all the stars from the 70s
Could have them in a big spectacular directed by Roman Polanski
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 24 Jun 2021, 11:25,
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Better yet, get them to front your brilliant new second referendum campaign. Might as well for all the fucking difference it would make.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Thu 24 Jun 2021, 12:33,
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Well, actually old chap
we did win. In 2016 and, after some pitiful nonsense, by thumping majority in 2019. That, I'm afraid, brb san - honourable servant to the Nippon cause though you may have been - is the reality of the thing. I mean one does have to work rather hard in the field of mental gymnastics to find a victory for remain.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Thu 24 Jun 2021, 19:26,
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