“A firm hand, that’s what you need when dealing with Johnny Foreigner, you know. That’ll have ‘em queuing up to do business with us, you mark my words.”
“…in his 1884 address on ‘The General Statistics of the British Empire’, Sir Richard Temple set out that over half of the annual revenue of the British national government came from taxing the labour and resources of those within empire, beyond the national state. That is, over half of the income at the disposal of the government in Westminster came from the land, labour, and resources of those who, today, are deemed to have no historically based claims here.”
— Gurminder K. Bhambra,
Brexit, Empire, and Decolonization
imo it goes a lot further than that – as utsa patnaik clearly explains it was the trade surplus from colonies, primarily India, that effectively guaranteed the entire british banking and currency system which in turn formed the centre of the global economy pre-great depression
No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. That’s a letter written in 2018, talking about Brexit, and saying we should just walk out of the EU and that we’ll be ok if we do because we beat France in the Napoleonic wars.
The suckered have to admit they bought the con job. Own up. You got played. Your judgment is flawed. You like racial narratives that appeal to the worst in people.
We don’t need to beg. The European court of justice today confirmed Britain can go back and withdraw, without any of the EU stopping us or putting extra demands on us.
We can pull article 50 ( which was the parliamentary starting gun for Brexit) which Mrs May triggered far too quickly.
Today she postponed the vote in Parliament because she knew that the deal she had made with the EU wouldn’t get through tomorrow.
By the way both trump and Brexit can be linked to Russian financial meddling. ( they appear to have bankrolled the Vote leave organisation.)
Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.
That said, I don’t think many supporters of either side of that mess are ever going to be able to admit they were purposely fed all kinds of bad information. Maybe find some other targets to double down on with the blaming and scapegoating, but face the idea that they were wrong? Unfortunately unlikely, even to themselves.
How to reasonably deal with that and move forward? Hard to figure out. But, that does seem to be the situation in front of us.
Tumblr is self-destructing and the entire conservative government just got found to be in contempt of parliament for the first time in HISTORY this is the greatest 24h of my life
What did I miss?!
Oh man. This is absolutely golden.
So first off. What’s contempt of parliament? In short, obstructing parliament from its duties. In the UK that extends to publication of reports and papers that would be necessary for parliament to, well, parliament. Normally this extends to an individual person being especially obstructive.
Now. The Conservative government obtained legal advice for the Brexit shitshow. But they refused to publish it in full which means parliament (which includes, y’know, opposition parties and non-conservatives in general) can’t parliament.
What reason could they possibly have to refuse to publish legal advice on something that effects the whole country? I wonder. Hmm. Thinking emoji.
Anyway. Today the entire Conservative government have been found to be in contempt of Parliament. The entire government have been found to be obstructing the proper running of the country. We hold votes on that sort of thing, and the general consensus (18-vote majority) was “the Tories are obstructive little pigshits”
Also they have to publish that legal advice. In full. Tomorrow.
No word yet on whether the entire government is going to be sent to the Elizabeth Tower yet. We haven’t done that since the 1880s but I’m willing to bring it back.
Glorious!
Readers from other countries: you have to understand that, so far, Brexit has been about three years of nothing happening and still somehow dominating the news cycle. A random MP from Croydon will say that they don’t think Theresa May is doing well and it’ll make headline news. Like, that’s not news, that’s rolling above a nat 1 on perception. The ‘nothing happens’ is occasionally broken by Something happening, except it’s always terrible. At this stage, people keep arguing about whether to accept a shitty deal or no deal, because nobody took Critical Thinking at AS Level and the concept of a false dilemma is somehow unthinkable to them.
Meanwhile a good portion of the Labour party really do not want Brexit to happen, except the leader (Jeremy Corbyn, and I would require a whole other post to talk about him) who is like ‘Brexit is okay but ONLY if we do it.’
Meanwhile the Liberal Democrats are like ‘we’ll cancel Brexit! And we’ll legalise weed!’, but nobody’s forgiven them for double-crossing us on tuition fees and they keep accidentally electing bigots, so the twelve voters who support them can’t really do all that much.
The Green party do technically exist, and that’s all I can really say on them.
UKIP, the nationalist bastards who got us into this mess in the first place, haemorrhaged membership back to the Tories in the most recent election (shocking. i know). General cretin Nigel Farage quit as party leader when Brexit got voted for, claiming he’d done his job, and recently he just left the party altogether because he doesn’t like where it’s going. something something moral backbone of a chocolate eclair something
Also the Leave campaign were found to have lied, accepted dodgy donations and pulled some VERY shifty things, meaning that a lot of people who voted for Brexit now feel they made a mistake.
So the people have been trying to demand a second vote on Brexit, or to at least have some say on the conditions of the leave agreement (did I mention everything we’ve done so far is fully reversible?), but TMay just keeps repeating things like ‘will of the people’ and ‘Brexit means Brexit’ and then going home to relax by killing a few disabled people after dinner. You know how it is.
But then the actual Brexit agreement is released and ministers start dropping like flies. The guy who wrote it quits IMMEDIATELY after it’s published because he Doesn’t Like It. Cue the tiniest violin in the world. People are squabbling over the right way to do Brexit and keep mentioning just leaving without a deal, which is like quitting your cushy job by taking a shit on the counter and just hoping things will work out for you.
So, essentially, I’ve given up hope on this not becoming a complete clusterfuck. It already is a clusterfuck. My only hope is that it will be an entertaining one, as it’s been so astonishingly dull, and this has very much met my hopes. They fucked up so badly that the whole government is on the naughty step. The fucktangular omnishambles continue, and I for one say throw them all in the tower, vote them out of government one-by-one like Big Brother, and televise it to make money for the BBC.
Yesssssss
So… from the little I know about parliamentary systems of government…
Does “contempt of parliament” also mean “vote of no confidence”? Are y’all about to have another election?
As far as I understand it, contempt of parliament is like, ‘stop that right now! Stop it!We can’t govern unless you stop.’ and it can apply to one MP or a parliamentary group or in this case, a whole party.
Vote of no confidence is, ‘you’re all fucking incompetent, I have no confidence that you can run a foot race, let alone a government’.
If a vote of no confidence is successful then a general election has to be held, but people won’t vote against their party so it’s super rare.
But if they can’t govern, that would mean they’re fucking incompetent, and therefore a new election should be held? That’s what I’m trying to figure out. Does this mean a vote of no confidence is going to be held, and then another election? (Because at least in Canada there are certain things that automatically trigger a vote of no confidence, like not being able to pass a budget. I was wondering if this is one of those things as well.) Or can you folks not recall the bastards who did this bullshit? (That’s one of the things I always liked about the parliamentary system… if the gov’t can’t run, y’all have an election, like pronto. Wish our system was like that.)
TIME TO COOK UP SOME DAMN GREEN PIGS TOO THEN! 🤬🔥 for real though these fuckers better not!
Edit: This is in Scotland but jfc don’t give the United Nazi States any ideas! Also, Scottish comrades please be safe out there! 💜💜💜
It’s the UK, the Scottish government aren’t this stupid. The British government, who govern the whole UK, is.
‘don’t give the United States any ideas’ THIS IS STILL! NOT! ABOUT! YOU! NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT HOW IT IMPACTS AMERICA!
consider: not everything is about you. not every bad thing is related to trump. in the UK there is a concentrated victimisation of the poor, the disabled, immigrants and people of colour that our government are doing ALL ON THEIR OWN, not in response to or as a message to America. And that’s about us not about you. just like Bolsanaro’s genocidal rhetoric is a problem for people because if how it affects Brazilians, not just because he’s ‘like Trump’ or interacts with Trump. just like European nazism is a problem for the countries it pops up in, not because it ‘emboldens American nazis’. it isn’t about you, it was never about you, and it constantly feels like everybody else is able to concern themselves both with local politics and with American politics but American discourse goes ‘this is what’s happening to us, and this is how your bad thing is also happening to us’.
When I was on the Trump march in Edinburgh, we went to the pub afterwards and every time we tried to discuss the Hostile Environment raft of policies, the Americans in our group derailed to talk about American anti-immigration rhetoric and how our government persecuting immigrants was going to embolden Trump. but that wasn’t what we were talking about and British anti immigration sentiment is worth addressing on its own terms, not as an offshoot of American politics, which it isn’t. When I’ve posted on Facebook about the ongoing collapse of the UK government, I’ve had American friends comment on it saying ‘oh its like what’s happening here is spreading’.
British militarisation of the police has been happening for decades, and this article is also about the imminent collapse of our economy and infrastructure with Brexit, which has nothing to do with ‘giving Trump ideas’ (he…also doesn’t need that idea, he’s already sending armed police to gun down women and children at the border?) and has in fact been percolating since the referendum six months before Trump was elected. The reason the government is considering armed military forces in the street is because they’re afraid of riots and looting in the event of No Deal Brexit, when they expect to have to ration food and manage profound shortages across the UK if we crash out of Europe with no trade deal and no continuity of supply lines, because it will take time to both reestablish the necessary infrastructure to run a separate economy and the trade lines to bring in food and necessary supplies. This is the version of Brexit that many higher-ups in the government are agitating for, because they’re filthy rich and it won’t affect them nearly as much. This is not a signal to America or an offshoot of American issues or a product of American politics. This is the British government making plans for what they’ll do if they starve their own people out.
And this my friends is why you fact check before you reblog something.
Lol thanks @avoidingthebinaryliketheplague it’s got an unnecessary amount of notes. Good that people are seeing it but genuinely terrible they are assuming it to be about America.
all the nonsense and bullshit in the notes aside, i am genuinely scared about what’s gonna happen after Brexit. Westminster already doesn’t give a shit about poor people or immigrants, and you can bet the most vulnerable and disenfrachised communities will bear the brunt of whatever shitshow we’re plunged into. i hope Cameron and Farage are proud of themselves.
The increase in racist abuse being thrown at poc in public, as well as the shitty treatment of immigrants, especially the Windrush generation and black immigrants in general involving them being kicked out of the country is representative of this whole Brexit mess, to be honest. Not to mention how many homeless people there are freezing in the streets now. The Tories got us into this mess and we’re just surrounded in chaos, but of course they don’t give a shit that they’re fucking everyone over. Fuck them.
This is scar I’ve been saying. All the Tories quitting, and the leeches waiting in the wings to take over. Like they really think it’d make a difference.
They’re not getting what they want because the EU won’t give it to them. Because the things they want are things you get from being a member of the EU. And they don’t want to be a member of the EU.
I don’t barge into a gym demanding to use the equipment and then get all pissy coz they won’t let me because of the fact that I’m not a member of the gym.
You chose to take on a bloc of 28 countries on your own. This is what happens. You’re not the empire you used to be, get used to it.
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