29-06-2016, 11:49
Does anyone believe in the huge rise in immigrant attacks since last Thursday? This is another reflection of how dumb the opinion-formers think we all are. Sheep to be penned. And they might be right. Before the referendum we saw street interviews of people who neither knew there was a referendum or what the EU was ......... And people wonder why I'm not a democrat.
This morning I heard a lovely Danish member of Jean-Claude Juncker's team saying that they were saying PLEASE STAY all along. I watch political programmes, read the papers, access the internet & I never saw that message, yet they think that is what we heard. No one said you are our friends, we need you and we think you need us. Almost every picture you see of Mr Juncker he is greeting people, putting his arms round them, kissing them .......... if we had ever seen or heard anything like such a welcoming, friendly attitude then the vote might have been different. IN FACT from the very start we got Cameron in battle-mode going off to difficult negotiations with people who apparently wanted to give nothing away. As they have never given such leeway to a country before they think they gave us a lot. We think we got next to nothing. They think we turned down their generousity and feel hurt.
The message we got was STAY or it'll be the worse for you my lad.
I'd hate to be thought a Boris or Gove supporter, but don't conflate them with Mr Farage as the EU was trying to do yesterday. The campaign wasn't won on lies - it was lost (largely by The Biscuit Boy) on the substitution of wild prediction for facts and warnings of the austerity he and the markets would wreak on us if we voted the wrong way. They thought they'd win that way, the markets bought the idea and financed polls to back it up, they got themselves into the pound up to their super-sized piggy collars and then had to unload like crazy when they found they were wrong.
The English are sentimental fools. If they'd asked us to stay. If they'd told us we were needed and wanted, and that we'd be better off with them, they'd have got the 60% that the 4,000,000 idiots signing up to a re-run of this nightmare now think should be imposed retrospectively. Even I'd have reconsidered for a few minutes before spotting that the odd blow against the power of global corporations has to be worth it,
But no The City isn't going to decamp to Frankfurt. Even Scotland won't get to go anywhere soon.
This morning I heard a lovely Danish member of Jean-Claude Juncker's team saying that they were saying PLEASE STAY all along. I watch political programmes, read the papers, access the internet & I never saw that message, yet they think that is what we heard. No one said you are our friends, we need you and we think you need us. Almost every picture you see of Mr Juncker he is greeting people, putting his arms round them, kissing them .......... if we had ever seen or heard anything like such a welcoming, friendly attitude then the vote might have been different. IN FACT from the very start we got Cameron in battle-mode going off to difficult negotiations with people who apparently wanted to give nothing away. As they have never given such leeway to a country before they think they gave us a lot. We think we got next to nothing. They think we turned down their generousity and feel hurt.
The message we got was STAY or it'll be the worse for you my lad.
I'd hate to be thought a Boris or Gove supporter, but don't conflate them with Mr Farage as the EU was trying to do yesterday. The campaign wasn't won on lies - it was lost (largely by The Biscuit Boy) on the substitution of wild prediction for facts and warnings of the austerity he and the markets would wreak on us if we voted the wrong way. They thought they'd win that way, the markets bought the idea and financed polls to back it up, they got themselves into the pound up to their super-sized piggy collars and then had to unload like crazy when they found they were wrong.
The English are sentimental fools. If they'd asked us to stay. If they'd told us we were needed and wanted, and that we'd be better off with them, they'd have got the 60% that the 4,000,000 idiots signing up to a re-run of this nightmare now think should be imposed retrospectively. Even I'd have reconsidered for a few minutes before spotting that the odd blow against the power of global corporations has to be worth it,
But no The City isn't going to decamp to Frankfurt. Even Scotland won't get to go anywhere soon.