There's a few snags with you comfortable tabloid informed certainty about the rights and wrongs of this case. If you take a step back and consider her and IS symptoms of a systematically destabilised middle east in which the west - and especially the UK and USA - have regularly switched between backing puppet authoritarian regimes (Al sisi) or fundamentalists (tali an, elements of Arab spring) on the basis of self interest and expediency, you may realise that you're, again, being played by the establishment, media, politicians. Your fervour against IS is simplistic splitting, manufactured populist support for displacing the blame for our government's actions to others out there. I don't like or support IS, but their very much part of a mess the UK created and are responsible for (going right back to the colonial division of Syria) and the sykes picott agreement.
Brexit, for once some facts.
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Sadly it isn't it is reporting the situation Brexit has got us into
The adult in question chose to leave the U.K. to join a IS. The long term plan has failed. They must now be forgotten about and are no longer of any concern.
According to you, the U.K. is an unsatisfactory place to live. I’m happy with that, so the adult in question can live outside the uk and find somewhere more accommodating. If you feel strongly enough, take action and stop your activity. You continually confuse activity with action, go and help the adult if you are so outraged and put an end to your keyboard activity.
Now let’s not bring this subject up again. The correct decision has been taken. It’s over.
There were companies on your list which would have taken the same decisions to close regardless of Brexit. There are some on your list which have undoubtedly been adversely influenced by Brexit, but my point is that you can’t blame everything on Brexit. It becomes background noise.
As much as it pains me to say it, there are aspects of the above which I agree with. The U.K. shouldn’t pick convenient fights. We should stay out of the internal conflicts which are far away and non of our business. I can’t quite bring myself to reach for the agree button though.
Yes Corbyn is certainly resolute in his ambition to make the Labour Party entirely unelectable for a decade. It looks like we are going to be stuck with TM.
TM has less than a year in her post.
Apparently, the ERG would vote for her deal if she hands over the top job to Boris Johnson.
I watched Lucy Worsley on BBC 4 'British history's biggest fibs' - brexit may make it to the list in due course.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08cgp55/british-historys-biggest-fibs-with-lucy-worsley-series-1-2-the-glorious-revolution
the question at this moment is "What difference does arguing over the deckchairs make as the deck of the Titanic takes on a tilt?"
I said as much in my post.
The point is you can’t blame everything on Brexit. By all means single out things which you can, but not everything.
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...and I’ll go with what this big fella has gotta say on the topic...
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I wonder what the odds are of anyone standing as a non party MP?
Anyone care to guess?
And what use to the country these little fringe nut job parties such as the UKIP and these seven will be ?
It just makes a bad situation even worse.
And another interesting little detail is this
Four out of eight had lost votes of no confidence - leaving a party before you get deselected is thwarting democracy, not engaging with it
Nice work if you can get it(if only till the next GE)
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I don’t like the sound of that. I hope this group of 8 gets large enough to have influence & force another referendum.
I was attempting to give a glimpse of the full situation, and remember many of the reasons given for the moves are extremely dubious, enough so to be remarked on, as face saving is going on big time with these companies.
This is not your business. If you want to interfere, go to the person and help them directly.
Not likely though is it? too many compartments on this particular Titanic have already filled with water.
The only question is do we slide gracefully under the waves of capsize?
No wonder a long list of the Champions of the leave campaign have already taken to the lifeboats.
It is everyone's business to oppose dictatorships, I'm not impressed at having my EU citizenship removed by the result of an unlawfully flawed referendum result., where this Government is an accessory after the fact.
I take your point on that. It’s not beyond possibility that some companies have been “asked” not to quote Brexit when announcing their closures in return for, who knows what.