The Political Thread

[Hawkmumbler]

People seem to be developing an increased preference for people isolation without acknowledging the inherent dangers historically have been demonstrated through it.

[soggy]

Shark did you even read the article you linked to? Nowhere did it suggest an EU army, the only shared resources mentioned were transport aircraft. The 2% spend on defence is the NATO standard. The EU defence procurement cooperation already exists.

And anyway until the UK finally leaves the British government would still have a veto in Europe, so how the hell could troops be ordered into the UK.

[Theblazeuk]

Given the choice between an American vassal or chipping in with our neighbours....

[Hawkmumbler]

Glancing at the "family" copy of the mail today i'm struck by how absolutely disgusting it's lowered itself once again. Victim blaming aimed at Jo Cox is utterly disgusting.

[IndigoPrime]

I've no idea about the paper copy, but the online story was literal terrorist sympathising. Instead of noting a right-wing lunatic murdered an MP, it essentially said: but what if he thought immigrants were going to take away his house (the one he actually wasn't really entitled to anyway, due to the 'bedroom tax'), and what if the MP in question had not been hugely sympathetic to this WHITE BRITISH MAN?

It's hard to think how that rag could sink any lower. It must be clawing at the core of the Earth by now.

[Modern Panther]

HOW IS THIS A THING?!

[Hawkmumbler]

Vermin.

[IndigoPrime]

Fucking. Hell. He has NO RIGHT to that role. Why is everyone playing up to this arsehole? Gah.

[TordelBack]

He has NO RIGHT to that role.

Standing in for Katie Hopkins?  As Thorin Oakenshield might say, he has the ONLY right.

More seriously, it's fecking disgraceful.  I still can't quite convince myself that Farage isn't just one of Mainwearing's petty antagonists in Dad's Army.

[Dandontdare]

I've heard him referred to as our "shambassador" today

[Grugz]

HOW IS THIS A THING?!

I keep seeing him as saddam Hussein in satans pocket a la south park the movie!

[Tjm86]

See my thing is this.  We have Boris Johnson as foreign minister.  Tony Blair as Middle East Peace Ambassador. Exactly how much further is it stretching credibility to think that Nigel Farage would make a good ambassador to our Lords and Masters in the states.  Certainly you can understand why other countries might think it was a contender for 'sound thinking by those Brits'.

[JayzusB.Christ]

[Modern Panther]

Decades of Hugh Grant films have worked.  The Americans have been convinced that an English accent and stuttering delivery mean you're talented and intelligent. 

[CrazyFoxMachine]

The Twitterverse is alive with strawmen - it's like a miniaturize-the-Wickerman-finale contest out there and there.

The criticisms levelled at Fidel's Cuba are only interesting in what they reveal about the tolerance the person levelling them has for their own countries flaws. For instance - some folk saying "WELL... HE MET WITH GADDAFI IF THAT'S NOT PROOF OF HOW BAD HE IS I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS"

But


who


didn't?