Some thoughts on BREXIT from Mark Knopfler's brother David

[GoneOffShore]

This is a bit of long read, but worth it. And it relates to the same problems that exist in the US. David posted in on Facebook and it has now been shared over 25 times.

By around 2010, no one in human history had ever lived longer, more enviable, happier, or richer lives than those of Western European’s... The many wonders of much derided liberal, Social Democracy in action. The hard-Right hates it because it keeps the worst excesses of capitalism caged by regulation; And because it isn’t soviet Communism, it’s inaccurately dismissed by the hard left as a “neoliberal project.” What it actually is however is democracy in action, dependent on who the peoples of its 28 nation states choose to elect as their MEPs. It has, by and large, chosen to move cautiously but consciously in the direction of their more progressive collective policy decisions and the strength of their vision. At its worst it has generated fall-out, and some failures, and the playing field is still not entirely level in all aspects, but at its best it is the single largest and most successful example of democracy in action ever achieved by humanity.

Meanwhile, the last person on the planet who still thinks 1917 Leninism has something to offer, one Jeremy Corbyn, moronically three line whipped the triggering of Article 50 shortly after the infamous 2016 referendum, allowing the vulture capitalists (who have given steroids to Thatcherism within the Conservative Party) to drive Brexit onto the UK’s statutes, where it continues to sit festering, like a bloated, naked, leper-emperor, creating comprehensive chaos out of order because our MPs don’t have the courage to take their hats off to facts and revoke it. This grotesque insanity is being window dressed, like lipstick and a tutu on a sickening pig, by disreputable liars as respecting the national interest and the will of the people. Fact check... It is neither such thing, even if we have to concede it was, in a flicker of madness, in June 2016, our majority expression... the fury of the people’s misdirected anger at terrible Westminster policy, which, by the way, the E.U. almost constantly mitigates against.

We absolutely know what Science, Business, the Union’s and the Arts, as well as every progressive institution on the planet, think of Brexit... Almost without a dissenting voice, they think it’s a stinking, steaming mountain of fetid bullshit. That the Right have even co-opted critical elements of our once most beloved BBC, to buy into this collective, destructive hysteria will be something that will be very carefully dissected when the public inquiry into this sh**show finally commences, when sanity once again prevails in our parliament and nationalism is banished back to the history books, written in tears, about Berlin in 1945, where it was ceremonially bombed to nothing but dust and Hitler’s burnt bones along with it. The bitterest of regrets were also buried there... that the good people of Germany had ever been suckered into the seductive lies of reactionary sociopathic madmen who promised the moon and used scapegoats and race to bend others to their twisted will, that of Herr Hitler and his willing executioners, comprehensively dismantling the institutions of the State on the tide of populist dogma they had unleashed. Those regrets were gratefully replaced, after the war, by the phoenix of peace and hope, the dream of progressive moderation, that became the European Union. It functions better when not undermined by the laziness of electorates unwilling to spend five minutes at the voting booth to keep destructive nationalists, like Farage, out of power sending them back underneath the stones from where they have been allowed to slither too easily in these difficult recessionary times.

We can choose to enter a dark age by following deluded egotists, who dream, pied piper like, of advancing their personal power through the triumphs of their infantile will or we can return to the idea that have made the powerhouse of the European Union the remarkable and globally envied work in progress it has become.

We really shouldn’t and needn’t, even at this critical stage, allow a billionaire plutocrat in Moscow, nor the threatened neo-cons of the neoliberal aspects of the US, define for Europe, nor its member state, the United Kingdom, what best serves the real European or national interest. #RevokeArticle50

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Hits all the key points, takes no prisoners. . . . nt

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

2. Sometimes there's no cure for stupid.

[Ford_Prefect]

3. Brexit "is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Brexit holds within it the hollow lies that Trump uses here. False promises of security and financial gains offered to disguise the demolition of genuine governance.

The conservatives lied when they took government on the back of the Leave Referendum results. They have lied throughout about the so-called benefits of leaving. When their own ministries reported in substantial detail the ruinous real effects of any version of Brexit, the Tories and sadly much of Labour denied the truth and continued to argue for Brexit. When anyone has asked the obvious about a 2nd referendum they are derisively shouted down as unpatriotic and lacking respect for the holy grail of Referendum 1.

6 million people signed a government provided petition to say they wanted a 2nd referendum. Although the law requires it to be brought before Parliament no-one has done so and the Neo-Thatcherites supporting May deny that it holds any value. They are 6 million UK citizens not some FOX news survey.

Putin along with Murdoch enabled if not arranged this nightmare. May cannot admit that her own chrished "deal" is politically unsupportable and literally unworkable.

Woe to those who refuse to listen to the 6 million regarding sense and sensibility. They may yet hang from a traitor's gibbet.