The precise things which were warned about for four years during the Brexit debate are now happening, right before our eyes scotsman.com/news/politics/…
If it wasn't for covid, this would be the main news story, day after day. But it isn't going anywhere. Businesses already hammered by coronavirus are being pummelled into the ground.
So far, everything is playing out exactly as people warned it would: A sudden mass of bureaucratic requirements, the difficulties with groupage, the nightmare of export health certificates.
All we have heard from ministers so far is glib nonsense about "teething problems" or British fish being happy, like childen playing around with a pack of explosives.
These are people's jobs, their livelihoods. And the government seems completely unable to get a handle on what it has done.
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This is correct. Johnson can hold off a referendum. But doing so would make the case against the Union more forcefully than any other course of action imaginable and all-but guarantee independence when it was eventually held.
Terrible situation to be in. But that is the situation they have created. At the moment, and unless something changes, Brexit is ushering in the break-up of the Union.
People asking what will change. The most obvious thing is the dynamic of a referendum. Brexit makes the political case for independence much stronger, but the economic case harder. Most SNP figures privately concede this.
This view that only government's can censor, that only state agents coming to your house and slapping something over your mouth counts as limiting free speech, really needs to be tackled.
The oddest part is that's it's generally the left which seems most content to let private companies wield extraordinary power over who can speak and how.
There are all sorts of legitimate reasons to limit free speech. Right now we are seeing one of them with Trump - to prevent incitement to violence and a threat to the functioning of democracy. But it is still censorship.
Wonder Woman 1984 tonight. The reviews aren't great. I've hated nearly every film from DC. But I have never wanted to love a film more.
One year without my superhero hit. And there's never been a better moment for a film about a superhero defined by hope and truth. I am willing that thing to succeed.
I can't remember which of you bastards recommended we watch Left Behind as part of our Nicholas Cage marathon but that was some fucked up shit.
I have never seen an actor cringe up and die behind his own eyeballs while delivering a line before. I've literally never seen a film with a 1% rating on Rotten Tomatoes either.
But most importantly, I've never seen a Christian movie from the US before. And dear God let me tell you, that is some fucked up nonsense like you would not believe.