Can we stop pretending that unconditional national pride is a good thing?
e.g.
If knowing the UK is intentionally participating in and benefiting from the murder of 1000s of innocent children in foreign countries has NO EFFECT on your sense of national pride, you're a sociopath.
If a PM hires a Health Sec he calls "hopeless", watches him give NHS contracts to family/mistress-linked companies, kill 130K people, spend £156million on unsafe PPE & shag his aide in lockdown, but still has "full confidence" in him...
Maybe Matt Hancock isn't the core problem.
It's been half a decade since the 2016 EU Referendum.
Here's an amusing/depressing thread of some of the posts I made in the 5 days before the vote. #5yearsofBrexit
20 June 2016
LOOK AT ALL THESE FACTS!
We debated Brexit for 3 years after this, and the British media STILL failed to explain this stuff. #5YearsOfBrexit
This is the song the UK government is encouraging kids to sing.
We've skipped straight to the Tory Youth phase... I can't. 😬
It took me 8 minutes to tweet that. The first 5 were purely on disbelief... I was planning to tweet something along the lines of. I know this is a parody, but isn't it crazy that we all think they could actually do this. joe.co.uk/news/uk-govern…
My flatmate after reading the website this government just promoted: "Are we... Are we going to war?"
I got 3 white friends (worse academic/detention records than me) to untuck their shirts, pull down their ties & undo their top buttons while queuing to be let into lunch.
I undid one button.
Anyone with a brain knows that if 6 flatmates vote to go out and 4 vote to stay in & watch Friends, but they all end up at Nandos, which only 2 of the 6 wanted, that's not democratic. So:
How many Brexit factions need to reject this Brexit before they stop calling it democratic?
The DUP and the Brexit Party rejected it before we'd even left.
I'd like to say a big 'F*** YOU' to anyone who thinks it's OK to let older vaccinated people get back to their lives before the young people (who gave up one of the best years of their lives to protect old people) have even been offered their jabs. #VaccinePassports
Question:
You have to pick one year of you life where you can only socialise with 2 people.
Raise your hand if you'd choose your school years.
Your uni years?
The years where you hope to meet your future partner?
No?
No takers?
Nobody?
Then stop spitting in young people's faces!
They voted AGAINST the government who ballsed this up.
They objectively lost out on a lot more social interaction.
They had their education damaged, hindering the rest of their lives.
And they suffered all this to protect elders from a disease they weren't vulnerable to.
Come on!