Re: Jesus I despise Brexit. | Forum — The Modern Antiquarian

Jeez May 28, 2018 15:53:34

Replying to Captain Starlet

I used to believe that the EU would make a better job than the UK government of running this country. In the 1980s I was in such despair I secretly hoped that the EU's powers would gradually emasculate the Thatcher government, but now I don't think that would be a good idea. At the moment I'm reading "Adults In The Room" by Yanis Varoufakis. It's worth checking out to see how the EU suppressed the socialist uprising there. I'm fed up of this country being run by people who are pretty much unelected and then cling to power with all the might of the establishment. Brown, Cameron, Clegg, May - none of them had a legitimate mandate and neither does the EU.

BTW, I'm not saying that the people of Dudley are not racist. I also grew up in the Midlands in the 1970s and I witnessed people running through the town centre with NF banners. I myself was frequently tormented and beaten up by gangs of English black kids at junior school and I remember being followed through town by an unknown person chanting in a low voice "Me no like the white man" in the early 1980s. So I know it can be fucking scary. It's just that I know there is just as much racism in Europe - don't make it out to be a paragon of virtue just because it's not Britain.
We're no more racist than anyone else.

nigelswift May 28, 2018 16:58:11

Replying to Jeez

We're no more racist than anyone else....

Agreed. All I am saying is that a chunk of pro Brexit votes were racist votes and still are. Which puts all the complex economic arguments into a rather sad context.

Captain Starlet May 28, 2018 18:13:57

Replying to Jeez

There is a difference with Greece in that the socialist economic plans were somewhat irresponsible and the country had to pay its debts, regardless of how it got into the situation in the first place a position had to be made to basically stop the country crashing completely and put in place some system of responsibility.

That was a single instance, however it's not suppressed any form of socialism otherwise, and regardless of the inane bleatings of people like corbyn, socialist ideals are very much alive and well in the EU.