Sounds like ‘Fiend without a face’. Invisible things attacking soldiers…..

Movie on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCVFvntyt4

June 23rd for all time, will be Independence Day. It is the day the people voted. It won’t be Independence Day on the day we sign Article 50. It won’t be the day that we repudiate the European Communities Act, it will be June 23rd and all the subsequent anniversaries.

It will be that day because that is the day that the people, with either much to gain or, depending on your point of view, much to lose, voted to leave. Altho’ the EU is much about tangible signatures on tangible pieces of paper, it is much more importantly about the intangible expression of the will of the people.

From that moment in time, June 23rd all else flows. All that remains is to cross the ‘tees’ and dot the ‘eyes’. Should elements of that be apparently unacceptable, we should remember that a few of those causing problems have ‘axes to grind’. And again, this would be the opportunity to remind ourselves in these Islands that much blood has flowed defending our freedom from tyranny (which has many guises) and preserving our independence.

Perspective is a funny thing.

What you see as independence many see as cowardice. A surrender by the ‘Great’ British nation with an acceptance that they no longer have the will to fight the small number of federalists in Brussels to make a Europe that everyone could be proud of. As for independence when have you ever been denied freedom for you to have the first clue of freedom from tyranny?.

You’ve been ‘under’ the pen of a faceless nothing in Brussels and you’ve had equal voice there guiding the pen!. You blame Europe for your inability to effect meaningful change and then you run away on the first excuse you get. You can talk about blood flowing when you haven’t the stomach to defend your points across a conference table?.

June 23rd – a celebration of a retreat a few weeks after VE day. How sad.

Raketa, you would do well not to underestimate a nation that has changed the world many times over in the past. You will find our hand just about everywhere you look – for good or ill. Whilst not a supporter of the Leave campaign, I have, as a supporter of democracy, to bide by the result of the referendum. We don’t yet know what it will mean, but I suspect it wont be exactly what anyone thinks they voted for.

You changed the world when you had the courage to do so. If you still had that courage, Bruce, if you were still the people that led the world in engineering, innovation and diplomacy you would have remained in the EU and provided the leadership and vision to steer it back on track. You would not have tamely shrugged your shoulders and let fools give you the excuse to walk away from the tough job. The price of being a great nation is to do great things. In the past you did those things but now you pat yourself on the back for leaving your friends hanging in the wind. Friends that once looked up to you for the difference you had made in the world.

I hope you find your way back to the kind of people you were.

Jza

A welcome reminder that there are things even more absurd than 17 million people voting to make their little island a history laden afterthought.

The arrogance of your sort is astounding. There is life on this planet we haven’t even seen yet let alone catalogued, studied and attempted to slaughter.

Go west from the Urals you’ll see no human for days even weeks until you close on the Pacific coast. Huge areas of the North American continent the same. The Amazon the same. There are regions on this planet where, if you found yourself unprepared, you would be killed by a very cold and unconcerned nature and your body, like as not, would never be seen again.

My strong hope is that those of you with these views gets just that chance to witness the reality of nature that you prioritise above human life. Then, hopefully, your last thoughts can be an understanding of how vital our dominion over nature is!.

I remember media images of a tour bus saying that you were going to claim back hundreds of millions a day from Europe.

The story has changed now has it?. That wasn’t what you all voted for?. This keeps getting funnier.

Honestly I had to comment on the insanity of Japanese subsidies. The rest of it I’ll let you make up as you see fit.

….”can support the subsidies…”

Well, there is an excellent precedent. The French and the Germans have been doing it for years.

I would tho’ appreciate access to your excellent crystal ball. It seems in far better nick than mine. GB’s pursuit of independence was bound to affect traditionally nervous markets waving their collective antenna, ready to detect the slightest shift that can be held to indicate a potential money making opportunity.

As I’ve commented many times, it is all about confidence.

It appears 17 million of your people failed to understand your point about confidence John. Perhaps you can be the one to explain it as the current trend of price rises gets worse and quality of life starts to drop.

It’s further amusing that at this point you talk of French and German subsidies. Something that has strangled the French most notably for decades. At a time that you are ‘breaking free’ of your ties with them that you should claim to copy their worst qualities is very funny.

A cunning plan is to have no plan isn’t that what was said in the House of Commons recently?. The point seems very true though spoken as joke.

Thank you for the entertainment anyway. I did read that there was a new Monty Python sketch being written for The Ministry of Silly Referendums. This might have been a joke though!.

Baz,

My comment was in response to John Green. He had noted the comedic value in his response where he brought in common sense. ?

Mycroft

Your growth was meant to be 0.7% pre vote wasn’t it?. It was reset downwards after the vote to 0.3% but you managed 0.5%. You’re worse off than you should have been. I’m not sure if it’s quite right cheering about things not being as bad as they could have been when you’re damage is all self-inflicted ?.

You need to watch your manufacturing sector though. The last figures showed a 1.5% drop and that’s with a weak pound that should be pushing your exports. You import much of the materials for the things you export. That drop is only going to continue as your costs base gets worse with tariffs. At least your prime minister has shown willingness to step into the market. Expensive precedent she’s started though. Hope your economy can support the subsidies for all the other sectors who demand the same deal as the Japanese are getting.