Brexit

Watching him was like watching the live abortion of Churchill’s oratorial legacy. As the latter’s grandson Nicholas Soames observed: “Appalling ghastly performance by that dreadful cad Farage in the European parliament. #hownottoinfluence.” Agreed. There is soft power, and then there is politics as erectile dysfunction.
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Indeed, it is becoming increasingly difficult not to speculate as to the psychological underpinnings of the Farage condition. “When I came here 17 years ago,” he shouted, failing to hide his nervous elation, “you all laughed at me. Well I have to say: you’re not laughing now, are you?” He made it, you losers! He got out. He’s in the big leagues now. He’s the guy who just turned up to his school reunion in a white limo with two dead-eyed escorts on his arm.

zastitnik gotama wrote:ovaj Boris Dzonson je bog.


treba ga uvaljati u katran i perje jebote.

Where are we now?

Responses to the Referendum

So who is to blame? Please don’t say the voters: 17,410,742 is an awful lot of people to be wrong on a question of this magnitude. They are not simply suckers and/or closet racists – in fact, relatively few of them are – and they are not plain ignorant. You can’t fool that many people, even for a relatively short period of time. And yes it was close, but it wasn’t that close. The margin between the two sides – 3.8 per cent – was roughly the same as the margin by which Obama defeated Romney in the 2012 presidential election (3.9 per cent), and you don’t hear a lot of people complaining about the legitimacy of that, not even Republicans (well, not that many). Plus, turnout in the referendum, at 72.2 per cent, was nearly 18 per cent higher than in the last presidential election. The difference, of course, is that a general election is a constitutional necessity whereas the EU referendum was a political choice. If you don’t like the outcome, don’t say it was the wrong answer to the question. It was the wrong question, put at the wrong time, in the wrong way. And that’s the fault of the politicians.

Let’s make no bones about this: Britain’s poor and workless have risen up. And in doing so they didn’t just give the EU and its British backers the bloodiest of bloody noses. They also brought crashing down the Blairite myth of a post-class, Third Way Blighty, where the old ideological divide between rich and poor did not exist, since we were all supposed to be ‘stakeholders’ in society. Post-referendum, we know society is still cut in two, not only by economics but by politics too. This isn’t just about the haves and have-nots: it’s a war of views. The wealthier sections of society like it when politics involves detached cosmopolitan institutions and the poorer people don’t. The less well-off have just asserted their stake in society and the chattering classes — who peddled all the nonsense about a ‘stakeholder society’ in the first place — aren’t happy about it.

The Migrant Advisory Committee reported in 2014 that of 13 million low-skilled UK jobs in total, two million were taken by migrants, and of those, roughly 40 per cent – 800,0000 – were people born in another EU country. It’s a fair guess that migrants, EU and non-EU, are exploited, though ‘flexible’ working conditions are something we value: according to the MAC, an employer can expect a minimum-wage inspection from Her Majesty’s Customs and Revenue once every 250 years. We’re still waiting for proof that native wages at the lower end of the scale are undermined by immigrants. But suppose we’d had it: would that have accounted for 17.4 million votes to leave the EU?

Bluberi wrote:A nacionalizam je povezan sa radnim mestima.

Generalna politička reakcija našeg vrha na ove događaje bila je usmerena na to da nas predstavi kao apsolutne autsajdere. Vučić je tome davao ton. Mi smo mala zemlja, govorio je, i pritom previđao notornu činjenicu da je u politici mala ne ona zemlja koja je mala geografski nego ona koja ima malu politiku. Naravno da se i on folirao: možete li ga zamisliti da živi uveren u to da vodi beznačajnu državu? Naravno da ne. Kurir je to, recimo, lepo dokazao objavljujući na naslovnoj posle referenduma da je Vučićev prijatelj DŽonson srušio Evropu. Nije tu, dabome, bio važan DŽonson nego je bio važan srpski vođa. NJemu je nađena mera. U epohalnom događaju na glavnom mestu, sa glavnim čovekom, kako drugačije! To je bio srpski odgovor na Bregzit, pustite prenemaganja. Nije se računalo sa tim - i to je ispalo pomalo nezgodno - da će tvorac Bregzita napustiti političku scenu u stilu bombaša samoubice.

Nigel Farage odstupio sa čela UKIP-a

Nikada nisam bio političar karijerist, niti sam to želio biti. Moj cilj u politici bio je da Britanija izađe iz EU, rekao je Farage.

http://balkans.aljazeera.net/vijesti/nigel-farage-odstupio-sa-cela-ukip

otto katz wrote:Pošteno, ne žele praviti političke karijere na vanstranačkom protestu građana protiv EU. Dosta je bilo!