An Angry Nation
The British public have spoken.
The referendum result pushes the UK towards an exit from the EU. The stock markets predictably crashed, the value of the pound plummeted and Nigel Farage goes back on all his promises.
The margin of victory is small but we must respect the outcome.
Should we though?
If the result had been reversed, do you think for one second that the Brexit lot would have done so?
The cries of conspiracy and fiddle would be thrown about. Boris Johnson the leader of the official leave campaign has been strangely quiet this morning. After all this was never about him wishing to leave the EU (given that he had spoken previously about his wish to remain). It was about power and his pursuit of it. He saw a chink in the armour of Porky Cameron and used this campaign to further his own political aspirations.
Indeed it could be argued that Nigel Farage has been a more consistent opponent of EU membership than the big voices in the Tory Party. He has also been consistently dishonest about the future post EU, consistently racist and xenophobic and consistently dishonest about his desire to help the common man. Because there is NOTHING common about Nigel Farage.
And it is the common man largely in Labour's heartlands, that have voted to leave. They are angry at being left on the scrapheap. Their communities have been decimated and investment lacking. Vast swathes of former coal mining, steel working have never recovered from the 1980's. The communities look round for someone to blame and they blame Europe. But it has been successive centrist Labour and Tory governments who have let them down.
The East of England, always one of the lowest waged area of England and nearest to Europe geographically, have also suffered under successive British governments. They also need someone to blame.
UKIP and anti european Tories have peddled the myth that it was Brussels that was to blame. They preyed on the disillusion spread by the right wing.
The rise of nationalism in Germany was fuelled by the demonisation of the Jewish population as well as communism, travellers and foreign nationals.
There always has to be someone to blame.
So the angry and the disaffected rise up. The referendum is the perfect tool to show disaffection because it asks one simple question. It appeals to those who want their politics to be simplistic.
It encourages a form of anarchy where no one trusts the government and certainly not foreign governments to work in the interest of all.
The people should be angry. They should be angry the real perpetrators of our decline and unfair society. They should remember that it was a Tory government that decided to include the nation in its own internal strife. The arrogance of a party that believes their interests and squabbles are everyone elses. It deflects from their abominable record on social justice, inward investment and support for communities destroyed by Margaret Thatcher and her cronies back in the 1980's.
So who do you really want to take back control from ?
Who do you want to stop coming to live in the UK?
What criteria will migrants have to fulfil in order that they can come to live in our country?
I was one of the 48.1% who wanted to stay within the EU. One of the 16+ million who wanted cooperation not isolation.
One of those who is glad that my country is multi cultural, diverse.
I am but one lone voice who is staggered that so many have fallen for the biggest con our people have ever fallen for.
Don't ever imagine that Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, George Galloway, Jacob Rees Mogg and all the other prominent Brexit campaigners care about the common man, the ordinary person, the rights of the British worker because they don't. They always wanted a Britain that gave them credibility and a validity they don't deserve.
Its time for the moderate, outward looking in our society to stop hand wringing and get angry. Don't let the duffers, the racists, the elitists shout the loudest.
The referendum result pushes the UK towards an exit from the EU. The stock markets predictably crashed, the value of the pound plummeted and Nigel Farage goes back on all his promises.
The margin of victory is small but we must respect the outcome.
Should we though?
If the result had been reversed, do you think for one second that the Brexit lot would have done so?
The cries of conspiracy and fiddle would be thrown about. Boris Johnson the leader of the official leave campaign has been strangely quiet this morning. After all this was never about him wishing to leave the EU (given that he had spoken previously about his wish to remain). It was about power and his pursuit of it. He saw a chink in the armour of Porky Cameron and used this campaign to further his own political aspirations.
Indeed it could be argued that Nigel Farage has been a more consistent opponent of EU membership than the big voices in the Tory Party. He has also been consistently dishonest about the future post EU, consistently racist and xenophobic and consistently dishonest about his desire to help the common man. Because there is NOTHING common about Nigel Farage.
And it is the common man largely in Labour's heartlands, that have voted to leave. They are angry at being left on the scrapheap. Their communities have been decimated and investment lacking. Vast swathes of former coal mining, steel working have never recovered from the 1980's. The communities look round for someone to blame and they blame Europe. But it has been successive centrist Labour and Tory governments who have let them down.
The East of England, always one of the lowest waged area of England and nearest to Europe geographically, have also suffered under successive British governments. They also need someone to blame.
UKIP and anti european Tories have peddled the myth that it was Brussels that was to blame. They preyed on the disillusion spread by the right wing.
The rise of nationalism in Germany was fuelled by the demonisation of the Jewish population as well as communism, travellers and foreign nationals.
There always has to be someone to blame.
So the angry and the disaffected rise up. The referendum is the perfect tool to show disaffection because it asks one simple question. It appeals to those who want their politics to be simplistic.
It encourages a form of anarchy where no one trusts the government and certainly not foreign governments to work in the interest of all.
The people should be angry. They should be angry the real perpetrators of our decline and unfair society. They should remember that it was a Tory government that decided to include the nation in its own internal strife. The arrogance of a party that believes their interests and squabbles are everyone elses. It deflects from their abominable record on social justice, inward investment and support for communities destroyed by Margaret Thatcher and her cronies back in the 1980's.
So who do you really want to take back control from ?
Who do you want to stop coming to live in the UK?
What criteria will migrants have to fulfil in order that they can come to live in our country?
I was one of the 48.1% who wanted to stay within the EU. One of the 16+ million who wanted cooperation not isolation.
One of those who is glad that my country is multi cultural, diverse.
I am but one lone voice who is staggered that so many have fallen for the biggest con our people have ever fallen for.
Don't ever imagine that Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, George Galloway, Jacob Rees Mogg and all the other prominent Brexit campaigners care about the common man, the ordinary person, the rights of the British worker because they don't. They always wanted a Britain that gave them credibility and a validity they don't deserve.
Its time for the moderate, outward looking in our society to stop hand wringing and get angry. Don't let the duffers, the racists, the elitists shout the loudest.
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