But that's ok
Priti only meant it unintentionally
And she was frustrated when she said it
So that's ok
Priti only meant it unintentionally
And she was frustrated when she said it
So that's ok
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1330838685605093377
It's not like the UK talked of invading Spain or Calais
Or was busy trying to incite Irexit, Itexit or the AfD or so other discord in the EU
After all that 50 pence piece
Talks of friendship
So surely we were good friends?
Or was busy trying to incite Irexit, Itexit or the AfD or so other discord in the EU
After all that 50 pence piece
Talks of friendship
So surely we were good friends?
Those liars who had nothing
And knew they had nothing
Well they passed their withdrawal agreement
Knowing they never had any intention of honouring it
And knew they had nothing
Well they passed their withdrawal agreement
Knowing they never had any intention of honouring it
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1184843920578093057
Oh yes and a reminder
How many Tory MPs are unashamed they passed legislation without forming an opinion on it themselves
washingtonpost.com/world/2019/10/…
How many Tory MPs are unashamed they passed legislation without forming an opinion on it themselves
washingtonpost.com/world/2019/10/…
Now at the last
to justify breaking law the lies sown:
signed WA at pace
necessary to stop a foreign power breaking up our country
EU aren’t acting in good faith
its only a very specific & limited way
Thatcher said something about that
to justify breaking law the lies sown:
signed WA at pace
necessary to stop a foreign power breaking up our country
EU aren’t acting in good faith
its only a very specific & limited way
Thatcher said something about that
Imagine having to walk past that statue every day on the way to work
And knowing you are pissing on her memory
And knowing you are pissing on her memory
Well
So so much winning
So so much winning
Now in Autumn 2020
The hollow confection of lies around the NI border
Was beginning to bite
So to justify breaking the withdrawal agreement
Liars made up a series of bullshit to sell from
The hollow confection of lies around the NI border
Was beginning to bite
So to justify breaking the withdrawal agreement
Liars made up a series of bullshit to sell from
A reminder this is the party of Churchill
Where his grandson was expelled from
businessinsider.com/nicholas-soame…
Where his grandson was expelled from
businessinsider.com/nicholas-soame…
Here is a reminder of John Major on John Smith
Democracy – and concern for our national wellbeing – is not the preserve of any one Party or philosophy. It is our common heritage, fought for by our predecessors.
johnmajorarchive.org.uk/2015-2/sir-joh…
Democracy – and concern for our national wellbeing – is not the preserve of any one Party or philosophy. It is our common heritage, fought for by our predecessors.
johnmajorarchive.org.uk/2015-2/sir-joh…
So in terms of how you won
I am sorry that leave campaigns felt that they had to cheat, lie, peddle racist xenophobia & so many more shameless actions to win
It is a reflection of your desperation for the win
And that you would countenance anything that aided in that pursuit
I am sorry that leave campaigns felt that they had to cheat, lie, peddle racist xenophobia & so many more shameless actions to win
It is a reflection of your desperation for the win
And that you would countenance anything that aided in that pursuit
The contempt you have for decency, democracy and people who fall for your campaign is endless
And sadly people fell for the lies
"People don't drink the sand because they are thirsty
They drink the sand because they don't know the difference"
"People don't drink the sand because they are thirsty
They drink the sand because they don't know the difference"
If you groom an electorate with lies and xenophobia for so long
With scapegoating and deflection
With nativism and jingoism
THen don't be surprised when they vote to self-harm themselves
With scapegoating and deflection
With nativism and jingoism
THen don't be surprised when they vote to self-harm themselves
And I say that with regret
Because I respect politicians who hold a view on how we approach any area of policy
Whether that be European policy, foreign policy or national policy
A democracy thrives on different view points
And their debate and discourse
Because I respect politicians who hold a view on how we approach any area of policy
Whether that be European policy, foreign policy or national policy
A democracy thrives on different view points
And their debate and discourse
For example
Here is an example of a view on British foreign policy
And my question is - if you do not know who is saying the words
Why does your reaction to the words change dependant upon whom the speaker is
theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
Here is an example of a view on British foreign policy
And my question is - if you do not know who is saying the words
Why does your reaction to the words change dependant upon whom the speaker is
theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
So
I come back to our central point
How you win matters
What you win matters
I come back to our central point
How you win matters
What you win matters
And I have waited
Some four plus years
I have waited
To see brexit champion what it won
For example Liz Truss
I want her to explain how it will be better
Some four plus years
I have waited
To see brexit champion what it won
For example Liz Truss
I want her to explain how it will be better
but four plus years on
she can't
she just peddles anything to evade the question
she can't
she just peddles anything to evade the question
https://twitter.com/EmilyThornberry/status/1331920701171888133
I want her to explain
what made her change her mind that it *will* be better
what made her change her mind that it *will* be better
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1321755374618378240
So on "how you win"
M. Thatcher
"The manner of winning is a matter of honour."
"The manner of winning is a matter of honour."
To go latin (in honour of Jacob Rees Mogg)
“it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game”
exitus ācta probat ("the outcome justifies the deeds")
“it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game”
exitus ācta probat ("the outcome justifies the deeds")
E. Wiggins (Orson Scott Card)
'The way we win matters.
'The way we win matters.
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
Abraham Lincoln
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.”
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
“You should not honor men more than truth.”
― Plato
― Plato
“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”
― George Bernard Shaw
― George Bernard Shaw
“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“A Man Without Honor
is Worse than Dead.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
is Worse than Dead.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Maya Angelou
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time"
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time"
There is an adage from a Tom Clancy story
Amidst an attack on stock markets and on America
To recover from a technology disaster they resort to
If you don’t write it down it never happened
To Rewind a stock market to an earlier time point and resume from there
Amidst an attack on stock markets and on America
To recover from a technology disaster they resort to
If you don’t write it down it never happened
To Rewind a stock market to an earlier time point and resume from there
That perhaps is another way to say what Dominic Cummings was trying to say
You can’t write it down
As soon as you write it down
It becomes something opponents can critique
Never mind of course - your own side can’t agree to what to write down
You can’t write it down
As soon as you write it down
It becomes something opponents can critique
Never mind of course - your own side can’t agree to what to write down
I am sad though
We will never know
Did Dominic Cummings ever find those “reasonable people”?
Who were they?
What did they agree brexit meant?
We will never know
Did Dominic Cummings ever find those “reasonable people”?
Who were they?
What did they agree brexit meant?
Hence why “brexit means brexit” from May
Was such a god awful slogan
It just kicked the can down the road
Was such a god awful slogan
It just kicked the can down the road
Brexit has only ever been about one thing
Winning
At any price
At any cost
Winning
At any price
At any cost
It is therefore no surprise that four years into the hollow con
It is still
All about winning
Winning the continuation of the con
At any price
At any cost
It is still
All about winning
Winning the continuation of the con
At any price
At any cost
All that matters is that it is sold as a win
What you win / won
The reality of it
Doesn’t matter
It is how it is sold
And that there is always, always someone else to blame or deflect your attention from brexit
See: covid
June 2020
What you win / won
The reality of it
Doesn’t matter
It is how it is sold
And that there is always, always someone else to blame or deflect your attention from brexit
See: covid
June 2020
It is poetically ironic
That those who decried Project Fear
Are eternally afraid
Not for what is best for a nation
But what is best for feeding to their victims as a “win”
There is not a care as to
How do we move on?
That those who decried Project Fear
Are eternally afraid
Not for what is best for a nation
But what is best for feeding to their victims as a “win”
There is not a care as to
How do we move on?
After all
If you can sell any lies as a win
Then you can sell any lies as we have already moved on
lbc.co.uk/radio/presente…
If you can sell any lies as a win
Then you can sell any lies as we have already moved on
lbc.co.uk/radio/presente…
Hence why they fear a 2nd referendum
They fear losing
They fear losing
As David Davis put it
A democracy isn’t a democracy unless it can change its mind
A democracy isn’t a democracy unless it can change its mind
Or as Dominic Raab and brexit Tory MPs put it
Imagine only wanting a second ref because you lost
And you know what
I would support their right to campaign for a second referendum
Imagine only wanting a second ref because you lost
And you know what
I would support their right to campaign for a second referendum
I would love to know from Dominic Raab
Which of his colleagues Pre 23/6/16 were with him in that thinking
How many / which of his brexit colleagues were already afraid of losing and wanted a second bite of the apple in 2020
Which of his colleagues Pre 23/6/16 were with him in that thinking
How many / which of his brexit colleagues were already afraid of losing and wanted a second bite of the apple in 2020
Imagine if “remain” had campaigned for a second referendum simply because we had lost
Can you imagine
Can you imagine
So at the end
I end as I started
Congratulations on your win brexiteers
How did you win?
Are you a seller in that win?
Or are you a victim who fell for it?
I end as I started
Congratulations on your win brexiteers
How did you win?
Are you a seller in that win?
Or are you a victim who fell for it?
What did you win?
Pray tell me
What
Because I have not seen a single brexit dividend
Other than some glorious writing from Marina Hyde
And so so many of well those experts
Who pierce the veil of brexit
Pray tell me
What
Because I have not seen a single brexit dividend
Other than some glorious writing from Marina Hyde
And so so many of well those experts
Who pierce the veil of brexit
How do we move on?
Because all I see is a sad amoral rabble of brexit politicians desperately peddling on their con
And others who for self and career doing the same keeping silent as to reality
Hoping for the madness to pass perhaps
Because all I see is a sad amoral rabble of brexit politicians desperately peddling on their con
And others who for self and career doing the same keeping silent as to reality
Hoping for the madness to pass perhaps
That isn’t moving on
That is complicity
It is desperation
Hoping that the first past the post system
And an electorate
Can be gamed
To forget
To blame someone else
That is complicity
It is desperation
Hoping that the first past the post system
And an electorate
Can be gamed
To forget
To blame someone else
See for example
Sajid Javid
Who once said brexit would be a lost decade
We have lost five so far
So on the positive there’s supposedly *only* 5 years left to lose
He deleted his words
All to fit in to a cult
Sajid Javid
Who once said brexit would be a lost decade
We have lost five so far
So on the positive there’s supposedly *only* 5 years left to lose
He deleted his words
All to fit in to a cult
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1333798191238549507
Boris Johnson was a totem
At the head of a campaign of amoral cheating lying racist nativist peddling bullshit fantasy cakeism
He was just the totem
Sadly well
He became PM
At the head of a campaign of amoral cheating lying racist nativist peddling bullshit fantasy cakeism
He was just the totem
Sadly well
He became PM
This was never a battle for brexit
Brexit was just one element
The most important
Was control of a party
unherd.com/2019/08/the-ba…
Brexit was just one element
The most important
Was control of a party
unherd.com/2019/08/the-ba…
M. Thatcher on Macmillan
1963 Jun 22 Finchley Conservative Fair
"The Prime Minister is a man of the highest integrity and honour and should not, therefore, suffer for someone whose standards were not as high as his own.”
1963 Jun 22 Finchley Conservative Fair
"The Prime Minister is a man of the highest integrity and honour and should not, therefore, suffer for someone whose standards were not as high as his own.”
M. Thatcher
1970 General Election Address
"We want a nation with high standards of integrity, tolerance and personal responsibility."
1970 General Election Address
"We want a nation with high standards of integrity, tolerance and personal responsibility."
Jacob Rees Mogg
When asked a simple question on Boris if he has a moral compass
Not where it points
He cannot answer it
It is the how of how he dodges it that is so illuminating
When asked a simple question on Boris if he has a moral compass
Not where it points
He cannot answer it
It is the how of how he dodges it that is so illuminating
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1201096472235847681
Sadly a nation has paid a price for his incompetence
Boris Johnson of course sells this incompetence a “massive success”
Our “win” over covid
Ask a simple question
How and what did you “win” ?
Boris Johnson of course sells this incompetence a “massive success”
Our “win” over covid
Ask a simple question
How and what did you “win” ?
The answer of course: why a Union Jack printed on the vaccine
It's not a joke
He seriously wanted that
Ask why?
How desperate must he be to "want" that
It's not a joke
He seriously wanted that
Ask why?
How desperate must he be to "want" that
My third question I posed back at the start of this thread
Was how do we move on?
And I don't have an answer to that
Was how do we move on?
And I don't have an answer to that
A sad rabble of amoral cheating lying racist incompetent charlatans
Did anything they could to win on 23rd June 2016
Did anything they could to win on 23rd June 2016
And having won
They and others who proclaim to be "Conservatives"
Well they chose a path
They continue to choose a path
There is no nadir
No bottom to the barrel
They and others who proclaim to be "Conservatives"
Well they chose a path
They continue to choose a path
There is no nadir
No bottom to the barrel
How we move on
I do not know
More importantly ask a more fundamental question
Why do we need to "move on" from brexit
It was sold as a glorious victory
An epoch defining moment in British history
And it was
I do not know
More importantly ask a more fundamental question
Why do we need to "move on" from brexit
It was sold as a glorious victory
An epoch defining moment in British history
And it was
It was rotten to the core
It is rotten to the core
It is rotten to the core
So instead of moving on
Try living with what is
Ask questions
Always
On austerity
On brexit
On coronavirus
Always question
Because the answer or lack of
Is always revealing
Try living with what is
Ask questions
Always
On austerity
On brexit
On coronavirus
Always question
Because the answer or lack of
Is always revealing
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1335189438054469633
To end with some other compendium threads I wrote
Featuring Johnny Cash (on country)
Maya Angelou (on words)
Robb Willer on how we debate
Ronald Reagan on the rule of law
And Jacob Rees Mogg (on a moral compass)
Featuring Johnny Cash (on country)
Maya Angelou (on words)
Robb Willer on how we debate
Ronald Reagan on the rule of law
And Jacob Rees Mogg (on a moral compass)
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1325231638998110209
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