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Warning: a rant about baby-boomers coming up - don't read the thread if you are of a sensitive disposition.
I don't hate Northern working class leave voters; I feel sorry for them. They were so lacerated by austerity it was a choice of stay in the burning building or jump.
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I DO hate the Shire Brexiters: the malevalent old xenophobes from Scrote-in-the Wold and the elephant-thewed termagants of Much Ranting.
They "survived the war" mostly by not being born yet & got rich by luck: a house price bubble when THEY stopped council house building.
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They voted Leave because they were lied to, but now all the lies have been exploded. They KNOW brexit will ruin the economy, bring violence to NI, destroy the NHS, lead to medicine shortages and empty food shelves. But the evil old bastards still want their Bwexit.
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What the fck is WRONG with them? Why would any nominally human being want to inflict this on the own children and grandchildren?
Do you know what really gets my goat?
When they return from their winter break - skin suntanned, sclera red on yellow with alcohol abuse and...
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...have the fckg GALL to say "it's the ones growing up today I feel sorry for... houses are so expensive...we had it lucky I suppose (ooh we worked hard for it)"
Jesus AITCH! How does saying THAT make a victim of your stupidity and sefishness less want to stab you?
Ends
PS The logical corollary of all this of course is that those boomers who voted remain despite the Biggles books and Daily Mail poison deserve special praise.
And those who were leavers then and are remainers now deserve the highest praise of all.
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