Oh, Will. The sadness. The tragedy. "We" lost ITV. "We" lost EasyJet. Britain, that "vassal economy in thrall to the USA."
Who is "we," Will? The shareholders who sold their shares for profit? The pension funds that made returns? Or the metropolitan elite who think they own the nation because they write columns about it?
You weep for foreign control, Will. You weep for the loss of British sovereignty to American corporations. And yet. And yet. You spent decades demanding British sovereignty be surrendered to Brussels. You campaigned for vassalage to the European Commission. You called Brexiteers "Little Englanders" for wanting exactly what you now claim to mourn: national control over national assets.
You blame the "British right obsessed by the ECHR." The ECHR that you would have us remain bound to. The foreign court you would place above our own. You cannot see the contradiction, can you? You want foreign courts to rule us, but not foreign corporations to own us. You want European judges to override Parliament, but not American shareholders to buy ITV.
You have been wrong about everything, Will. Wrong about the euro. Wrong about the immediate recession after Brexit. Wrong about British decline. Wrong about the EU's benevolence. And now wrong about who owns what and why.
"We" lost nothing. The market worked. Capital flows. Deals were made. Your "vassal economy" is the one you campaigned for open borders, free movement, foreign control dressed up as international cooperation. The only difference is the accent of the master.
Go mourn, Will. Go write another book about how the British people failed you by wanting their country back. Your tears are noted. Your consistency is nonexistent. And your relevance is fading faster than an ITV share price.
I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.
@NickKristof@elonmusk Think of how many lives you could save if you simply gave up all your income & assets…?
But you don’t, because those deaths don’t bother you, you’re full of shit fella.
Benefits of drinking:
-hilarious situational laughs that add years to your life
-being 7 beers deep in the Sun with your friends realizing you almost forgot the point of life is to have fun with people who make you happy
-3 bottles of wine with your wife then smashing all night without a condom (lasting 975% longer)
-heartwarming couples dinners hugging goodnight thinking ‘I’m so glad we did this’
-concerts with your girlfriend and friends making lifelong memories favorite songs slapping mythologically
-backyard party watching your girlfriend hit it off with your Aunt while your friends and Uncles plan a road trip to a Big 10 football game “Hanging By A Moment” by Lifehouse jamming in the background wanting to freeze time and live this day every day the rest of your life realizing ‘wow life is a miracle I’m so lucky to be alive’
"Lost her head!!!"
Such reckless and incendiary language, barely two hundred and thirty two years ago TO THE DAY since the Great Terror swept across Paris - a lot closer to home I'd remind you than Berlin.
@KemiBadenoch@ForWomenScot But you happily sat in government for years as your cabinet colleagues (Penny Mordaunt & others) pushed this bullshit, so we have little faith.
Only in her limited imagination is it remotely interesting or remarkable to be a woman or gay. Pretty standard fair in modern society or she wouldn’t be the token Mayor of Manchester.
Congratulations to @bevcraig who will be a fantastic Mayor of Greater Manchester.
I’ve seen first hand how she’s transformed outcomes for children and people across the city region. She’s a change maker and a leader and I look forward to hitting the campaign trail with her soon