Chomper Higgot

I wonder if it’s occurred to these serially offended rightwingers gnashing their tooth over ‘drag shows’ that at the time of his writing, all the female roles in Shakespeare’s plays were performed by men, and boys. Juliet, was played by a young man, the gentle words of a young woman’s love spoken by a man in drag. Kate, a shrew played by a man in drag. And of course, from Hamlet, Queen Gertrude (played by a man in drag) gives us, ‘The lady doth protest too much, me thinks’. (The lady was of course a man in drag). The question needs to be asked, why this obsession with other people’s gender and sexuality, why the constant outrage, why doth the rightwing protest so much?

Your guess, is once again wrong. An error which completely undermines your second assertion. How about, not making laws to control what parents choose is or is not acceptable for their own children. Nobody is forcing you, or anyone else to go see any drag show.

You’ve not answered the questions I put to you.

Hyperbole and strawman all rolled into one.

Is this the voice of experience or the voice of blind bigotry? It can only be one or the other. How about letting parents decide what their own children may or may not see and not dictate to other parents what their children may or may not see?!

Actually not everything. The Government has seen fit to call a secret meeting to discuss the problems Brexit is causing. Kind of shoots tge ‘It’s not Brexit’ argument in the foot.

The only ‘hidden agenda’ relevant to this thread is that surrounding the Government’s secret Brexit Conference, refer to of the thread.

And creating growth and jobs.

What, like in the same way as the Kray Twins were good to their old mum?!

Erm, I read the widely published news reports. Holding a meeting ‘in secret’ and keeping the ‘facts of that meeting secret’ are two entirely different things.

We should have a thread on that. This isn’t it.

There were many reasons why people voted for Brexit, I don’t believe racism was a significant factor, I rather think xenophobia, not racism, was more significant. That’s not to say Leave Campaigners did not play to racist themes nor to deny racism had some part to play amongst some voters. Either way, it is not relevant to the topic. Though I’m sure Brexiteers would rather argue that point than address the fact the Government are clearly signaling a reversal from hard Brexit.

More denial of the unfolding reality.

I know what the title says, I wrote the OP. The fist step to fixing a problem is to admit the problem exists. The Government have now admitted the problems Brexit has caused and is causing for the UK. Hence my observation that this is an inflection point. The campaign to rejoin started on the morning of the referendum result. Regurgitated Brexit arguments in the face of Brexit damaging the UK is obviously not what the conference or indeed the Government are discussing.

The facts of the conference are staring you in the face. It’s not about your myopic focus on reports of corruption being dealt with in the EU (while buried or ignored in the UK). It’s about admitting the damage Brexit is doing to the UK. Look at who was included in this conference and then ask what is that telling you?!

Right, so the Government convene a conference together with prominent supporters of Remain and you ignore what that’s telling you and go off on a ‘withdraw from the ECHR’ thing. Firstly, the ECHR is absolutely nothing to do with the EU or Brexit, secondly this conference is nothing to do with what’s happening in the Eurozone, it’s about admitting the damage Brexit is doing to the UK, reversing the policy of antagonism towards the EU and examining better cooperation with the EU. My punt is first off, ditch Rees Mogg’s lunatic idea to repeal the so called ‘residual EU laws and regulations’. I also suggest give up on the hopes you’ve been fed on ditching the ECHR. It ain’t going to happen. Hard Brexit is dead.

Have the rightwing pro Brexit press reported this conference yet? If not, why not? Where’s their usual pro Brexit outrage?

Let’s stick with some realities shall we. After years of denying the evidence of the damage Brexit is doing to the UK the Government have held a cross party conference to discuss the problems of Brexit. The significant issues are firstly admitting the problems and secondly precisely who it is that have been included in this conference. This is, as I suggest in OP to this thread, a point of inflection

Wake up and smell the coffee Johnny. Hard Brexit is over, the whole point of the meeting is to reverse the direction of Government policy. The Tories aren’t leading here they are following the direction of public opinion.

Not all the people of the UK voted for Brexit, only a narrow majority swallowed the Brexit lies. Take up your grievances listed in your post with the people who promised you they’d take back control. Either they have not taken back control or they aren’t using the control they have to do what they promised.

The benefits of those concessions were explained to Brexiteers before the referendum. They chose to ignore facts and went with emotions.

Yes. Or I want some tax payments back.

From the moment of the BREXIT victory throughout to last week the UK Government have had an open policy of seeking a path forward for the UK without any involvement of or cooperation with the EU. Then all of a sudden this happened. https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/11/revealed-secret-cross-party-summit-held-to-confront-failings-of-brexit

Here’s the really clever bit. Billionaires enlisting people at or near the bottom of the wealth ladder defending the very practices that have stripped wealth out of blue collar workers and the middle class to line the pockets of the hyper wealthy. It’s a stroke of genius.

Beat me to it.