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Hamish_McTavish

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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Alec Cadzow: Global Br... · 1 reply · +1 points

This article is utterly delusional.

The large majority of Brexiteer voters and activists have no desire to see Britain as a global player bringing peace and prosperity to other nations, but rather embody the 'Little Britain' or perhaps more accurately 'Little England' mentality, which sees isolationism as the solution to all problems.

Brexit Britain is an irrelevance - and soon to break up in a Balkanised fashion anyway. We can't even surveil our owns shores as to dinghy's full of refugees, or prevent Russian chemical weapons attacks in England, let alone (risibly) project meaningful power into SE Asia with our one and a half toy carriers and insufficient fleet assets to protect them - and must instead now rely on the combined might of the EU (and under Biden, the USA, which thankfully is more reliable than under Trump) to block any potential threat from the East.

Britain post Brexit is an international joke - weak - powerless - incompetent - isolated.

Plague Island - to be shunned and laughed at - and most certainly not to be taken seriously in World Affairs.

Best just sell off the armed forces and use the funds to subsidise our declining nation as long as possible until we elect a different government and choose a different path.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - "A fair and reasonable... · 2 replies · +1 points

Define 'new'? It appears I've been posting here roughly twice as long as you.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - "A fair and reasonable... · 0 replies · +1 points

That's nice.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - "A fair and reasonable... · 8 replies · +1 points

Was a life long Conservative voter until the 2017 GE. Now I vote tactically for whoever has the best chance of beating them. I'm one of the millions of economically conservative, socially liberal, pragmatic centrists appalled at the recent conversion of the party to BlueKip.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - "A fair and reasonable... · 23 replies · +1 points

May's deal was bad, this deal is worse, and has precisely zero chance of getting through Parliament or being agreed by the EU.

So the Benn act will take effect, followed by the ignominious removal of this govt in favour of a medium term caretaker GNU.

Anyway, now that Boris has failed as well, I wonder who the next PM will be?

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Johnson - "I sa... · 7 replies · +1 points

Cringeworthy.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andrew Green: Neither ... · 2 replies · +1 points

1. Our 'culture' isn't under threat. I meet people from other countries every day and yet every day when I get home it turns out I still like Haggis, SIngle Malt Whisky and Bagpipe music as much as I ever did.

2. Why do we need more people? Because 1970 was the last time we as a nation bred at the Replacement Fertility Rate (clue is in the name). We have spectacularly failed to breed enough children to even replace ourselves with ever since.

3. AI will not remove millions of jobs. No technological revolution in the history of humanity ever has. It almost certainly will displace millions of jobs, meaning people have to learn new skills, but it was ever thus.

4. We don't have 'cheap labour' now... In fact we have a significant shortage of labour driving up wages at greater than inflation. The UK is one of the most expensive countries in the World for employers to do business and minimum wage has risen much faster than inflation both since it was introduced and also over the last few years.

Of course, I don't expect these facts to change your mind, as people who hold unreasonable opinions will never be swayed by reason...

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andrew Green: Neither ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Quite right.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andrew Green: Neither ... · 1 reply · +1 points

The biggest problem we have with immigration on this country is that sadly, there is nowhere near enough of it.

Employment is at record highs, unemployment at record lows, there are large and growing shortages of labour across huge swathes of the country and in multiple sectors of the economy.

We have, as a nation, spectacularly failed to breed enough of our own young people even to replace ourselves with for the last 5 decades, and the price we're now paying is an explosion of old people with not enough youngsters.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: "I felt it was ... · 5 replies · +1 points

Great to see patriotic MP's like Margot putting country before party, and a damning indictment of the current woeful state of the Conservative party that there were 270+ MP's prepared to make the opposite choice today.