A rant thread, because I am pissed off.
I’m tired of being told that I must “respect” a gerrymandered referendum won by wealthy bigots with backhanders, bullshit, #bots, the BBC & Boris Johnson, a man of no principles whatsoever, whom I despise with all my heart.
Meanwhile,
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those who happily take our taxes & our votes to uphold & protect our democracy as Parliamentarians, have instead stood by wringing their hands, as it is dismantled. With very few honourable exceptions, they have not only ignored & tacitly accepted the law-breaking uncovered
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by the Electoral Commission, but have meekly prostrated themselves before the very worst elements in the Tory & Labour parties, & wannabes like Farage & Banks. All in the name of “respecting” that which they should condemn.
The extremists, radicals, racists & reprobates
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now openly dog-whistle the f/r mob & the stupid, inciting them to actual, physical violence if we don’t “respect” their corrupted referendum!
They stand for everything I despise & I’ll never accept their writ.
We would have laughed these people off the planet, not so long
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ago, as Farage’s 7 failed attempts to be an MP, instead of just a lazy, heckling conman of an MEP, attest.
The fact they are now seen as mainstream bodes very ill indeed for our country.
If we are denied a #PeoplesVote, we will instead dribble into the worst of all
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worlds. A sloppy fudge which will see the end of our United Kingdom, economic ruin, years of hardship & neo-fascist government for the foreseeable future.
Respect that?
Never.
Never.
I would rather die. #PeoplesVote
Rant over.
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@redalphababe@chesterforeu So true! 👏👏
You’ve done it now, Pilar! I feel a rant coming on....
We’re all just people.
UK citizens, EU citizens, citizens of the world. People with families, businesses, jobs, mortgages, hopes, plans, dreams for the future.
We once believed we lived in a civilised,
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@redalphababe@chesterforeu modern democracy, itself part of a
union, unprecedented in history, of sovereign European countries, weary of centuries of war & rivalry, working towards a better future for the coming generations of Europe than their forebears endured.
We’ve watched with growing horror as
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@redalphababe@chesterforeu arrogant, nefarious politicians have sacrificed truth, integrity, decency, cohesion, & yes, respect, as they have played a mad game of Russian roulette with our lives.
With the diabolical assistance of a monstrously powerful, unregulated gutter press, this unprincipled
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I don’t know about anyone else, but it seems to me, as the Brextremists’ vicious attacks on anyone questioning or opposing their insane project become more & more outrageous & hysterical, you can just smell the fear.
They are watching with mounting horror
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as the narrative is spinning out of their control. Instead of passively accepting their entirely fabricated vision of a far-right, deregulated, privatised, nationalist utopia, whipped up by ideological snake-oil salesmen & delivered in a nefarious referendum,
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outrageously claimed as a mandate to do as they pleased, a majority of the British People are now revolting.
We are a famously phlegmatic people & slow to anger, but we are also known for our good, old-fashioned common sense & we have a keen nose for the unmistakable scent
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