New Daily Mail editor .... who's pro-remain ...plus, anti brexit protests

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Permalink Reply by Roger on June 10, 2018 at 7:47

... his work is done... he's got what he wanted... the UK is broken and only the reunification of Ireland and independence for Scotland remain...

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Permalink Reply by Ian Craine on June 15, 2018 at 9:06

Yes I agree, Roger. The one thing I would say though is that it's always Scotland and Ireland who get the publicity. Wales also is going to suffer greatly from Brexit, but the Welsh often suffer in silence which is not the way to get results out of this wretched government.

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Permalink Reply by Neil on June 15, 2018 at 13:17

You are wasting your time trying to block the will of the people and democracy by opposing Brexit.

You should be concerned by all the untruths and scare stories spoken by the Remain politicians during the referendum.
None of their lies have come true. Today, 20 million pensioners benefit by having their pensions invested in the booming UK stock market.
800,000 new jobs have been created since the Referendum and unemployment is at its lowest since the early 1970's.
Exports and tourism are booming.
Once the uncertainty of our exit deal from the declining Eurozone is gone after a great deal for the UK, the UK will prosper even further and millions of working class people around the UK will benefit.
Go and live in France if you don't support the will of the British electorate or Britain's great talent in leading a world class economy.
Brexit was voted through in the Commons by a big majority of Labour and Conservative MPs. Even Jeremy Corbyn supports Brexit.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Craine on June 15, 2018 at 13:43

That's the will of the small majority of the less than impressive turn-out for the referendum. A referendum concocted solely to shore up David Cameron's position in the Tory Party. A referendum he expected to win, but too many Remainers assumed it would be a walk-over and didn't bother to vote. Meanwhile those minded to Leave were encouraged by lies from the likes of Johnson about the NHS, and told nonsense by Farage and the right wing press about immigration and unemployment. As if for every one immigrant one native Brit loses a job, In fact we need immigrants in many parts of the economy including the aforementioned NHS, and they also set up their own businesses creating new employment opportunities to benefit us all.

No mention I see of the views of the Scottish Parliament or the Welsh Assembly- just the House of Commons.

Government pensions in this country are very low and you couldn't possibly live on one. A lot of older people are forced to go on working. Employment statistics btw are rigged. They're defined by benefits and at the same time the Government makes entitlement ever harder, thus lowering the "unemployment" rate.

And our economy is booming so much that almost a million people a year have to use food banks. Perhaps you'd explain how that fits into your rosy State of the Nation post, Neil.

We're not leaving the Eurozone. We were never in it. So really we had our cake and ate it in the EU- our own currency and all sorts of benefits we're in danger of losing- Human Rights, research funding, arts funding, environmental protection etc etc. I could go on. And France would be a wonderful place to live if I was more fluent in French.

Jeremy Corbyn has disappointed me in the sense that he's a Leader of the Opposition who's not really opposing. But I understand where he's coming from and he's utterly consistent in his point of view from the old days with Tony Benn. If he gets in I'm sure he will do his level best to replace Human Rights and other things we'll lose out on from Europe. The same cannot be said of the likes of Johnson or Rees-Mogg. Their advent to power post Brexit would be a tragedy for this country when at its most vulnerable.

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