Near Miss of the Day 691: Close pass lorry driver not prosecuted due to foreign plates

IanMK wrote:

..... Alas no, keeping the foreigners out still seems to be the main agenda.

You take that back. The true principles are of a loftier goal, that of disaster capitalism. The racism is just the sugar-coating....

I had never come across the term disaster capitalism so I'm now up to speed, thanks for that Captain.

Does not being as clever as Flintshire Boy thinks I am make me one of the little people 

#dontlookup

"Actually I was quite open to the idea of Brexit until the arguments for it turned in to a racist shit show rather than discussing econonomic & political advantages. I would still be encouraged if Brexit meant increasing standards or that global corporations, Google, Amazon Starbucks etc were made to pay their way or even if we used an independant taxation system to transform the country to becoming greener - eg the higher taxation of fast fashion. "

All of that was totally possible and doable without leaving the EU. 

joe9090 wrote:

"Actually I was quite open to the idea of Brexit until the arguments for it turned in to a racist shit show rather than discussing econonomic & political advantages...

All of that was totally possible and doable without leaving the EU. 

And quite possibly more doable by being in the EU, on account of the disproportionate influence the UK had in the EU (compared to its population size).

The arguments inevitably degraded into xonophobic rants instead of rational advantages on account of the complete lack of the latter.

GMBasix wrote:

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And quite possibly more doable by being in the EU, on account of the disproportionate influence the UK had in the EU (compared to its population size).

The arguments inevitably degraded into xonophobic rants instead of rational advantages on account of the complete lack of the latter.

Shhh, doesn't fit into the narrative about poor Little Britain being pushed around by the horrible foreigners.

The thought of UK leading and influencing as part of Europe is not the kind of thing they want to hear. Kind of makes it look a bit stupid to have stomped off with the football. That we then had to return...

You are either very crap at satire, or I rather fear just a toxic and not very nice commenter. If so, you self-identify as a little person quite accurately. 

Flintshire Boy wrote:

Correct. That's why the majority did, and why an even bigger majority now favour staying out.

That is a very slanted view of both the original 27% of the UK population that voted to leave in 2016 and a sample of 2,333 people (of whom, those who do not support rejoining are Remain voters who are probably sensing the further distruction of society by the disingenuouse representatives who led the 2016 Leave campaigns).

Flintshire Boy wrote:

Democracy, eh? I know that you hate it when the little people don't do what the clever people like you tell them that they should do.

Right(!) And you voted to leave because it was your very own bright idea(!)

Flintshire Boy wrote:

Guess you're just going to have to suck it up.

This is a variation on "you lost, get over it".  We've all lost, but some of us realise it.