Brexit: Unions are for Pussies

[Gredival]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-this-election

Ahead of the election there were concerns about foreign manipulation of the electoral process. Although there were some issues – the prime minister refused to let a report into Russian money be released pre-election, and Reddit suggested a Russian-linked account may have helped distribute leaked US-UK trade papers – ordinary, politicised Britons proved more than capable of creating their own fake posts.

When the Tory campaign was briefly derailed by a photograph of a child on the floor of Leeds General Infirmary, a viral message spread among Conservative backers that the image had been faked by Labour supporters. Aided by a toxic mix of falling trust in traditional media outlets and Facebook’s hands-off approach to content moderation, the hoax message was spread to millions of people aided by promotion from mainstream journalists and influencers such as former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen.

Some of the behaviour of those sharing the message – often older, less tech-savvy Facebook users – was so strange that they were mistaken for coordinated ‘bot farms’. In reality it appears they were just copying and pasting the same message out of enthusiasm and a desire to believe the photo was faked for political reasons.

It was the election where politicians realised they could attack the media with few downsides. Boris Johnson’s decision to skip a one-on-one primetime television interview with Andrew Neil provoked fury from Labour, especially after they had agreed to put Corbyn up for scrutiny. But Tory strategists decided – apparently correctly – that a tough interview with Neil could be substantially more damaging than a few stories about Johnson refusing to take part in a television programme. The real concern, according to Tory campaign insiders, was about clips from the interview going viral.

Television stations used to be able to set the terms of engagement because they were one of the only ways for politicians to reach a mass audience. The debacle over the Neil interview, combined with Labour and the Tories working together to keep the Lib Dems and the SNP out of the televised leaders’ debates, showed the power may now lie with the politicians, with potential implications for the next election.

[kuronosan]

I'm nothing if not open to ideas, if you had any worth listening too now would be the time to present them too me.

Sorry, my ideas were confiscated by the state.

Maybe next time, once I've taken enough time to aspire to your level of intellect.

[Tarage]

It's been obvious to anyone for years that Labour would lose the next election by a landslide, simply because of Jeremy Corbyn and his hard left policies. I've been Labour all my life yet on Thursday I voted for the local Conservative candidate because I want none of the shit Labour are right now. Labour still won in my area as it's one of the safe seats in the northeast of England, but I was quite surprised by how few they won by. A difference of about 5000 votes, in a seat which has been Labour since 1935. They had lost a ton of support. That type of result played out across the country and lost Labour a lot of seats which were previously safe.

Whether or not Boris Johnson will be a good prime minister remains to be seen, but a strong majority gives us a functioning government which we haven't had for a while. There's a lot of lies going around that the NHS is fucked and will be sold, but I don't think the Conservatives would commit political suicide by doing that. They would be wiped out in the 2024 election and not get back in for decades. So don't believe everything you read.

Labour need to take a long hard look at themselves and what went wrong, sack Jeremy Corbyn and his team and become a centre left party again like the Tony Blair years. Otherwise they will see the same again in 5 years time.

People say the election was about Brexit, and yes that played a big part but a lot of people were also terrified of a Corbyn government with his spend spend spend plans.

What's your opinion on Brexit?

[guartz]

Eyyy, Boris is going to investigate George Soros.

Uk keeps on giving.

[Zealot]

Maybe he'll turn up decades of tax evasion, defiance of federal investigations, bribery, and fraud, as has been documented by every investigation into Donald Trump over the years, including just a few weeks ago.

And don't forget all the rape.

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[Zealot]

Or do we not care about those investigations for some reason?

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[guartz]

and yet, abuse of power is the best you got. Clearly democrats are just incompetent.

[guartz]

Democrats need Trey Gowdy or Nunes ... you guys got Schiff. Sad.

[guartz]

and what's his face? The guy who ripped a loud one on live interview. That guy needs a doctor.

[Byrthnoth]

Guartz, BG isn't Twitter. You can write it all in one post.

[Karbuncle]

Sorry, my ideas were confiscated by the state.

Maybe next time, once I've taken enough time to aspire to your level of intellect.

Shocked Pikachu.

[Zealot]

and yet, abuse of power is the best you got. Clearly democrats are just incompetent.

Remind me what the articles of impeachment against Nixon were?

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[Roranora]

didn't Nixon have members of his party willing to cut him down?

Trumpito has no such fellow Republicans because Fox News has had a few intoxicating decades of brain smoothing

[guartz]

[Gredival]

didn't Nixon have members of his party willing to cut him down?

Trumpito has no such fellow Republicans because Fox News has had a few intoxicating decades of brain smoothing

Mitch McConnell and co didn't need Fox to be convinced about the value of party loyalty

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[Salodin]

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/stat...218680322?s=19

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[Karbuncle]

Merry Brexit Day everyone. May the future years bring plenty of molehills to bitch into mountains.

[guartz]

https://interactive.news.sky.com/2017/brexit-countdown/

[Sephiroth]

Happy Brexit day! Time to get the beers out.

[Salodin]

Happy Brexit day! Time to get the beers out.

While you can still afford the good stuff!

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