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"If the objective is to mollify anger, it cannot be achieved by adding our anger to the mix. No voters will thank us for making them feel bad about their choices. Nobody will join our tribe, because we made them ashamed of theirs."

My piece.

politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/12/…
It's one of the pieces I've worked hardest on, but because of technical difficulties it came online on the evening of the 24th, and was read by about four people. DAMN YOU T'INTERNET.
Depressingly, much of the response has been "HOW DARE YOU TELL ME NOT TO EXPRESS OUTRAGE? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!", "Blairite centrist red Tory", "Ok, Boomer" (thanks for the extra decade, guys), etc.
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This sort of exchange is, sadly, not an unrepresentative summary of a generational divide. You know, future generations will not look at this and wryly quip "Peak Boomer". They will condemn us collectively as selfish criminals, both by act and omission. #ClimateEmergency
"Don't saddle our children with debt", screech conservatives the world over at any suggestion of spending valueless money on anything of value, while pumping out tons of lethal garbage, coz they can't be bothered to walk to a shop, put a spoon in their bag and buy a reusable cup.
Fuck the fuck off, to fuck.
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This made me SO angry: Blind Ghanaian student was dragged out of an Oxford Union debate BY HIS ANKLES because they wrongly thought he wasn’t allowed to be there. The union THEN disciplines HIM for - I shit ye not - “violent hand gestures” and suspended him for two terms. 1/
Oxford Union eventually backtrack and “unreservedly apologise” (not for their behaviour, but for “distress caused - which seems to me pretty fucking reservéd). I wonder why they thought this African man didn’t belong in the Oxford Union. 🤔 IT’S A MYSTERY WORTHY OF POIROT. 2/
The President of the Union, whose decision was to discipline the disabled student, a PPE oik named Brendan McGrath - no doubt “a very good sort of chap” being groomed for politics - has not resigned or apologised or even issued any sort of statement acknowledging he fucked up. 3/
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Raising trade barriers between us and our closest market is a backward step. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS. The fact we can overcome barriers like tariffs or distance and still do business, doesn’t mean it isn’t daft to ACTUALLY put up barriers ourselves (in exchange for what, is unclear).
It’s like switching off the light and saying “it’s fine, we can still read using candelabras; it’ll be difficult and more expensive, but we can do it”.

Sure we can. BUT WHY WOULD WE CHOOSE TO?

Switch on the fucking light, vote Remain and stop this utter nonsense.
Also, I’m a quite pissed. But even pissed I make more sense than these nincompoops do sober.
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