Elizabeth Bangs - No accountability? No democracy.
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I've always had opinions about everything. It's often a burden.
Me and that 'old Turkish proverb' (not) about clown, palace and circus: https://elizabethbangs.wordpress.com/2022/12/31/when-is-an-old-turkish-proverb-not-an-old-turkish-proverb/
Me and that 'old Turkish proverb' (not) about clown, palace and circus: https://elizabethbangs.wordpress.com/2022/12/31/when-is-an-old-turkish-proverb-not-an-old-turkish-proverb/
I've always said this. If the result had been honoured, we'd have ended up with the softest Brexit possible, not the hardest.
They pretended the majority was 17.4 mill, not fewer than 650k on a turnout of over 33mill.
They pretended the majority was 99% not less than 1.9%.
And refused to discuss it.
They pretended the majority was 17.4 mill, not fewer than 650k on a turnout of over 33mill.
They pretended the majority was 99% not less than 1.9%.
And refused to discuss it.
February 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I've always said this. If the result had been honoured, we'd have ended up with the softest Brexit possible, not the hardest.
They pretended the majority was 17.4 mill, not fewer than 650k on a turnout of over 33mill.
They pretended the majority was 99% not less than 1.9%.
And refused to discuss it.
They pretended the majority was 17.4 mill, not fewer than 650k on a turnout of over 33mill.
They pretended the majority was 99% not less than 1.9%.
And refused to discuss it.
Yes, that's a lovely one
February 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Yes, that's a lovely one
You too
February 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
You too
No. It isn't. They've only just arrived. Keir Starmer plays a long game. He just doesn't do short sighted. All the political toddlers asking whether we're nearly there just as the car turns the very first corner need to grow the fuck up.
January 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
No. It isn't. They've only just arrived. Keir Starmer plays a long game. He just doesn't do short sighted. All the political toddlers asking whether we're nearly there just as the car turns the very first corner need to grow the fuck up.
I don't even know what that means 😬
January 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I don't even know what that means 😬
We absolutely do NOT already know what to do. If we did, and if it were easy to implement, it would have been done long ago.
In addition, plenty of interim stages to assist are planned while this is going on.
In addition, plenty of interim stages to assist are planned while this is going on.
January 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We absolutely do NOT already know what to do. If we did, and if it were easy to implement, it would have been done long ago.
In addition, plenty of interim stages to assist are planned while this is going on.
In addition, plenty of interim stages to assist are planned while this is going on.
Every one of those is still utterly unbelievable. For a democratic government not under pressure of having lost a war to have acted so appallingly to the detriment of its own bloody citizens is beyond nightmare. And yet it happened.
December 9, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Every one of those is still utterly unbelievable. For a democratic government not under pressure of having lost a war to have acted so appallingly to the detriment of its own bloody citizens is beyond nightmare. And yet it happened.