Welcome to European Tribune. It's gone a bit quiet around here these days, but it's still going.
Display:
Open Thread 18 - 24 Sep | 39 comments (39 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Open Thread 18 - 24 Sep (none / 1)
Politics.co.uk - Ian Dunt - Boris' attack on young people is part of Brexit's 'traitor' narrative

Anyone who is remotely interesting is many things all at once. And they know, from an early age, that people will try to stop them being interesting.

The tedious only ever want you to be one thing. It starts early in life. They tell you to only like boy stuff or girl stuff. If you're a boy you have to like sport and cars and guns. If you're a girl you have to like dollshouses and pink dresses and princesses. Then when you're a teenager they ask you to chose again. You can be a goth, or you can be indie, or you can be into rugby (these are all categories from my youth, which are presumably completely out of date now, but the basic mechanism will be the same).

This goes on throughout your life, from the way you do work, to the people you date, to your posture, to your politics, to your hobbies. You are asked to be one thing, easily definable. Anthing else is confusing and upsets those with simple minds.

This is what Brexit is, in terms of national identity. It is the demand to be only one thing. Put aside all the technicalities and you'll find this sentiment at its heart.

Boris has decided that, if you do not support brexit, then you are against Britain.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 19th, 2017 at 01:52:47 PM EST
Re: Open Thread 18 - 24 Sep (none / 1)
Well - if Boris has decided anything, it's that he'd rather lead a rabble of no-hoper xenophobes who believe that being against Brexit is being against Britain, than serve as a minion in May's multi-dysfunctional riven "government."

In other words Boris has gone Trump, and is pandering to the deplorables in order to win the party leadership and - he hopes - an election.

The lying is part of the act. In the world of the deplorables, sticking a boot in the face of anyone who has real facts to discuss is considered a virtue, not a crime.

Boris doesn't care about facts. Boris only cares about Boris. And when you're on your way to the top, populist rhetoric always trumps (sic) truth.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Sep 19th, 2017 at 04:14:33 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Re: Open Thread 18 - 24 Sep (none / 0)
The lying is part of the act. In the world of the deplorables, sticking a boot in the face of anyone who has real facts to discuss is considered a virtue, not a crime.

Yes, this.

A real 'rebel yell' for the fuddy-duddies on the back benches. Forget yer facts, vote for the most outrageous one if you're going to vote in a clown prince of terminal idiocy.

"Good ole Boris, watta wagster, did you hear the latest yet? He showed 'em up for the fact-ridden fools they are, eh."

Britain once again aping America, in Teresa May's case vying for the nastiest female leader with Hillary, while Boris tries to out-buffoon the Donald.

With leaders like this enemies don't have to lift a finger, just enjoy the meltdown.

Boris the historian, making hysteria against Johnny Foreigner great again.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Sep 20th, 2017 at 05:30:08 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Re: Open Thread 18 - 24 Sep (none / 0)
Yeah, who can go down first and fastest, Brits or Euros?
Faites vos jeux...
Well dressed spivs to the left of me, jokers to the right.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Sep 20th, 2017 at 05:40:25 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Open Thread 18 - 24 Sep | 39 comments (39 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
Display: