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rumbeando wrote:

William Murderface wrote:Prvi put čujem za tog čoveka.

Samo na ovoj temi pominjan je desetak puta.

William Murderface wrote:

rumbeando wrote:

Samo na ovoj temi pominjan je desetak puta.

Brate.

otto katz wrote:

William Murderface wrote:




Brate.

Što, pa pominjan je.

Zuper wrote:

otto katz wrote:
Što, pa pominjan je.

Kada?

kraj gusim se hahahahahahahahahha pic.twitter.com/d9AtINK2qU

— drk (@viveutvivas23) January 15, 2020

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Brexit is inherently anticlimactic. This is not just because the botched process of negotiating withdrawal has turned the gush of liberation into a dribble, with Independence Days (29 March; 31 October) coming and going like a millenarian preacher’s predictions for the end of the world. It is not just because the special memorial 50p coins had to be melted down. It is because the act of liberation itself is fundamentally spurious.

Revolutions unleash euphoria because they create tangible images of change and inaugurate, at least in the fevered minds of their supporters, a new epoch. Brexit can’t do either of these things. The problem with a revolt against imaginary oppression is that you end up with imaginary freedom. How do you actually show that the yoke of Brussels has been lifted? You can’t bring prawn cocktail-flavoured crisps back into the shops, or release stout British fishermen from the humiliation of having to wear hair nets at work on the high seas, or unban donkey rides on beaches, or right any of the other great wrongs that fuelled anti-EU sentiment – because all of it was make-believe.

And so is the golden age to come. Almost no one actually believes in the dawning of the post-Brexit Age of Aquarius. The real public mood in this month of liberation was revealed in a survey commissioned by the Conservative thinktank Bright Blue at the beginning of January: “The UK public is fairly pessimistic about the next five years. A majority of the UK public expects levels of undesirable trends – poverty (72%), crime (71%), inequality (71%) and national debt (72%) – to increase or stay the same.”

Thus the great moment of departure on 31 January will be like the last lines in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, in which Vladimir asks: “Well, shall we go?” and Estragon answers: “Yes, let’s go.” The stage direction is: “They do not move.” Nothing will really move. The entry into a period of transition of unknown duration and the beginning of trade talks likely to be marked by tedium, indecision and a slow climbdown from grandiose promises really doesn’t ring any bells.

All but the most swivel-eyed of the Brexiters know this. Johnson himself has executed a (highly effective) pivot, turning Brexit from a fabulous moment of liberation to a duty that must be “done”, a trial to be endured, a bad period to be put behind us. The logic of his election slogan is that 31 January will mark not a beginning but an end – an end to the torment that has been endured since the referendum of June 2016.

It is striking that the justification for setting aside £120m of public money for a festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 2022 has changed in parallel with this shift. When Theresa May announced it in 2018, it was meant “to showcase what makes our country great today”. Now, what she hailed as this “moment of national celebration” is repurposed as a moment of national consolation. The recently appointed director of the festival, Martin Green, has said it will have “a big narrative going on around healing and coming together”. You don’t have to come together if you have not been torn apart. You don’t have a festival of healing unless you’re feeling very sick.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/17/nul-points-eu-revision-contest-brexiters-big-ben?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#BREAKING Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan to give up royal titles, UK media says pic.twitter.com/kAzPnbofen

— AFP news agency (@AFP) 18. јануар 2020.

After the House of Lords proved to be a thorn in Brexiteer's sides, Boris Johnson is considering banishing the Lords to York. https://t.co/H6XB3C4PeQ

— Dave Keating (@DaveKeating) January 20, 2020

This is quite big. Parliament has passed the legislation needed to leave the EU next week.

Classic anticlimax on TV though#ByeByeBrexitBill pic.twitter.com/vbxcjhjPtw

— Daniel Kraemer (@dcakraemer) January 22, 2020