He panicked in the face of Farage’s rallying the oiks and gambled that the population weren’t stupid enough to give up on a good thing. That gamble backfired spectacularly.
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I agree that this was particularly vacant leadership but Labour were just as cowardly.
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He was a fucking idiot. An over promoted PR man, who set the country on its current path to ruin.
Set aside your views on his economic programme (which was to essentially punish poor people for the excesses of the wealthy) or even your ideological views about Brexit.
He gambled the country on a referendum to solve an annoyance in the Tory party, and lost. He thought remain would win the referendum and ran a piss poor campaign to take this to the people. He failed to see that the divisions the Tory party had stoked in the country with their austerity programme, EU scapegoating and anti-immigration rhetorical, would inevitably lead to a massive Leave vote.
He breezed into that campaign with the arrogance of a public schoolboy for whom everything in life had just worked out fine, only for the Eurosceptic coalition of politicians, think tanks and media to absolutely rinse him.
No way can he be described as a ‘statesman’. He was a fucking chump. Great statesmen don’t leave office humiliated.
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I think that’s a rather generous view of Austerity…as it wasn’t really fully functioning nor did it get the economy back on track.
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It was a plan though, so there’s that…
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So your answer would have been to deny the people a vote on leaving the EU ? I mean even back in Blair’s day the issue was a burning one that he had to promise that he would have one (we all know what happened there ), but as usual with you it’s always the Tories fault.
The referendum was an issue because many people felt the country was felt betrayed over the issue of EU membership.
What would you have done ? Ignored the issue and watch the festering resentment grow even worse and possibly lead to something far worse than Johnson or Farage?
Genuinely seems like half of this shit was avoidable, but because we have an elected house that behaves like a bunch of spoilt little brats that both sides just trade barbs and insults to get one over on the other whilst the country is left in limbo.
And worse part is whilst people are genuinely struggling with real issues on every front, some here just revel in the fact that the it’s the Tories that are imploding, if everything was fine they’d still complain because it’s the Tories (the fact of being Labour party members and having agendas is always not mentioned ).
As I said the country is a mess, but then most of the world sadly is right now, but here we are watching a shitshow and no one has offered solutions.
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I think that had more to do with Corbyn’s own anti-european history and his leadership. It wasn’t reflected across the entire party.
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Nor do they scurry around afterwards , petitioning old chums and cabinet ministers , trying to change government policy to enrich themselves.
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Likewise for the Conservatives.
I’d forgotten his involvement in the Greensill saga
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How do so many completely unlikeable, talentless knobheads get promoted so highly? Is it a relentless commitment to arse-kissing?
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Hitler in a nutshell.
The far right form the current govenment.
I wonder how long it took him to memorise that.
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