If you're some think tanker who backed Johnson and Brexit and trolled the life out of everyone, saying it would be fine, while branding facts "Project Fear" and experts and naysayers "Remoaners" - don't think you can just dust your hands and walk away. You created this nightmare.
Years ago there was a cartoon in (I think) Private Eye of a tortoise caught in a giant mousetrap in an entirely empty landscape and two other tortoises looking on. One of them says: "he never saw it coming."
That's Brexit summed up for me. All of this was so blindingly obvious
That Farage and co were listened to and taken seriously suggests that there was something else rotten at the core but it was all nonsense. Self-indulgent, self-destruction. Wrecking your country because you once had an Empire and liked 1970s passports. The philosophy of drivel.
Someone said to me the other day "well at least it gave you something tow write about" but honestly I'd rather be writing about something sane. Anyway have a good morning people
Clearly this has hit a chord so will be writing something once I've finished untangling who invented hummus....
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● Life expectancy is 50
● Women can't vote and neither can 40% of men
● Poverty is rife
● Thousands die unnecessarily in absence of vaccines and universal healthcare
● No old age pension
● And those boys - just 13 years later - would have been sent to the Western Front
He burned churches, tortured prisoners & executed a member of his own crew on spurious grounds. He orchestrated the massacre on Rathlin Island that saw children and women butchered.
Drake's reputation is built on posthumous myth making and the Victorians latching onto him as a "swashbuckling, sea faring hero". He was a braggart and a violent slave trader who slaughtered people of these islands too in the most appalling circumstances.
An account of Rathlin
Also Raleigh never chucked his cloak in a puddle - that one came down to us from Thomas Fuller aka Thomas the Bullshitter.
For more - I can recommend a couple of books.... #fakehistory
This is genuinely the most preposterous story I've ever heard. Susan Hall has zero evidence to support her theory that she was pickpocket. In all likelihood she's dropped her oyster wallet on a seat.... and then a very kind person has gone out of their way to reunite her with it
London is not some crime ridden hell hole. I've lived in this city my entire adult life and it is safer and better now than it has ever been. Sure it has its problems and pickpockets and street crime are a thing... but Hall comes across as someone who hates and fears this city
So quite why she wants to be mayor of it is beyond me.
John F. Kennedy was assassinated this day, 1963. In the decades that have followed there have been theories and counter theories – tales of magic bullets & men on grassy knolls – but in fact his death was significantly aided by a corset-like brace he was wearing that day - thread
One of the great USPs of JFK when he became the youngest elected president (Theodore Roosevelt at 42 had been younger) in US history, in 1961, was his perceived athleticism, vitality and youthful appeal. But beneath those handsome good looks and toothy smiles he was a mess.
Kennedy suffered from a veritable smorgasbord of health problems which resulted in low energy, recurrent fevers and bouts of nausea. By the time he was president he was on an estimated 12 medications a day – and injected himself with gamma globulin daily - but there was more....