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Can She Be Stopped?
At this point, the continued Prime Ministership of Theresa May is a grave danger to the British National Interest. Her so-called ‘deal’ is far worse than a WTO clean Brexit or simply staying within the EU.
WTO clean Brexit is the simplest and best way out. All of the worst doomsday predictions fostered by her government have been shown to be gross exaggerations, if not outright lies while the backstop threatens the very constitutional composition of Great Britain. Meanwhile, the obvious benefits of clean Brexit WTO trading in making the most massive trade deals with a host of willing partners have been completely ignored. Finally, the EU itself is likely to be a dead weight. There has been little increase in EU trade for Britain, but Britain has already been rapidly expanding her trade on an ad-hoc WTO basis with the rest of the world. Anyone can see the writing on the wall as country after country elects populist anti-EU governments shaking off the dead hand of EU bureaucratic tyranny. The EU at this point is a mindless whale that the PM has hopelessly tied herself to. This did not work out well for Captain Ahab.
She has refused all objective advice and clung on to a fantasy position that manipulatively promotes her own personal political advantage. She will drag Britain under while she continues her robot-like pseudo-leadership. The only members of parliament who could continue to support her are the worst kind of political sycophants and parasites. Her single-minded stupidity makes one wonder what drives her. Is there something sinister or is it just a flaw of character? Whatever the reason she must be removed.
Perhaps there was something in her childhood?
There was a time when Parliament couldn’t be frightened by mindless stares.
Regards,
Jim
Published in General
Awesome.
Teresa May isn’t the “problem”, reality is. Who’s going to stop that?
Thanos?
I’m partial to Thanos, so okay. (Full disclosure: same species, so….)
Booze!!
I think you mean lots of booze!! This isn’t the usual problem with reality paradigm….
Mendel,
You really know how to make it tough. However, I’m submitting ‘bad case of toenail fungus’ as comment of the week on Ricochet. Keep up the good work.
Regards,
Jim
TCG,
The keyword is labeled. They posture as conservative to con you and then they stick it to you in the back.
Regards,
Jim
Nick & Val & Zafar,
Theresa has never been a fan of reality. Reality does not fit her narrative so she doesn’t let it get in her way. The band of ridiculous flying monkeys that are still following her around should be ashamed of themselves. However, shame has never been big on their agenda.
Regards,
Jim
The UK is a shadow of its former self. The population is dispirited and readily accepts the worst injuries the political class can deliver upon it. I see no way it can be rescued.
Drew,
You mean give up?! Never, never, never, give in.
Regards,
Jim
Today Churchill would be arrested for doubleplus ungood thinking and shown to Room 101. Right next to Tommy Robinson.
Guess they just have to beat up on some Irish, or disposes some African of their land and they can be right on top.
England without its Empire is a just another medium sized country, pleasant but nothing special (What would Texas be without the US? Another Medium sized nation). What leverage does it have in international affairs? The size of its economy? Its army? The whole idea behind the EU (or one of them) was the realization by the European countries that alone not one of them is really much of a mach to the US economically. But together they make up one of the largest markets and economic zones in the world. I think technically the largest.
But now the UK is leaving that body, to be on its own, by the logic of the old geopolitical order favored by nationalist though the UK is basically in the EU’s sphere of influence. It is the Mexico to their America.
SO England should either embrace its power decline and seek to settle into a Switzerland state of placid irrelevance (who asks the Swiss what they think?) or seek to find a way to turn the EU to a grander ambition by staying in it a reforming it. Sadly the Brexiters sold Brexit as a return to glory rather than the true acceptance of their geopolitical irrelevance.
Val,
So the phony whine of the Irish Republican Army of terrorists is now gospel. Ireland conspired with the rest of Catholic Europe to invade Britain. The British may have overreacted by invading but how else could they stop the direct threat. As far as Africa goes, as soon as the British and other colonial interests pulled out, the tribal wars started up. Obama’s father was well connected to the second most powerful tribe in Kenya. Unfortunately, when the British left he found out what being part of the second most powerful tribe was really like.
If the South Africans are stupid enough to start expropriating land they will cause a collapse of their own economy which will not come back for a very long time. The ANC has been in control for a very long time. If they have learned nothing then there is nothing that can be done for them. Murdering the remaining white farmers and stealing their land won’t help in any way but it will destroy their own future.
Regards,
Jim
Moderator Note:
Please don’t use memes or gifs to make ad hominem attacks.You say that like it’s a bad thing.
I don’t understand the fetishising of the Raj by Americans. Ordinary people in Britain and in the Commonwealth live better now than they did then. Who was it for, really? Would you rather still be a colony yourselves?
Define “better.” Is it better to live under constant surveillance, with a police force that monitors your online speech, punishes people for what they might say on Twitter, while averting their eyes from rape gangs, under a system of socialized medicine that specializes in death by neglect, . . . oh, I suppose for some people that’s “better.”
That’s the question, isn’t it? But there is another possible answer – one which I would not have considered before the Obama Administration but which has become plausible to me now. Maybe she just thinks the wrong side won WWII, and wants to correct the error by making the UK a vassal state of Germany. I don’t know why she would think that. But Occam’s Razor and all – it is the simplest explanation that explains all the data.
Deus Vult! I’m one of those partisan Catholics who still holds a grudge over Henry VIII. No Monarch is legitimate unless crowned by the Pope.
Val,
Napolean grabbed the crown out of Pope Pius VII’s hand and crowned himself, Emperor. It didn’t work out so well. I’m just an old Anglophile that is sick and tired of listening to Marxists hide behind the good intentions of the Catholic Church. BTW, the Bolsheviks murdered more Catholic Priests than anybody else. You can hold your grudge against Henry VIII and you can hold your grudge against Trump. How’s about realizing who the threat really is. Socialists just love the Catholic Church because it helps them get into power. Then when they are in power they dismantle the Church piece by piece or dead Priest by dead Priest whichever is more convenient.
Regards,
Jim
It is better to be well fed and not hungry, it is better to be warm rather than cold in winter, it is better to have shelter than to live on the street, it is better to be able to afford to get married when you want to. In all these ways (and many more) life for ordinary people in Britain is better than it was during the Raj. It is not perfect, but it is better.
Sadly it’s the British government that’s responsible for all the things you just mentioned, so Brexit won’t really fix any of them.
Were any British monarch crowned by the Pope? Pre airplanes, that was a long journey from Rome or Avignon. Maybe a fake Pope (remember, one had three to choose from at one point) crowned a king or two.