
ozimoron
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because there was a landslide vote to leave?
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Sure, a third of the left voted leave and a third of the right voted remain. Most people would think that was a significant partisan split.
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It would be wrong to cast brexit as apolitical. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/28/brexit-divides-the-uk-but-partisanship-and-ideology-are-still-key-factors/
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I think you're likewise trying to pin any garbage on the left, like the projectionist claim that the remainers don't understand that their energy bills are a product of the war, not brexit.
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I do agree that they should be required to pay the same wages but this sounds to me a like Apple making computers in China, the public corporations making poor decisions outsourcing manufacturing to save a buck, unfettered by government regulation. It shouldn't have taken Brexit to stamp that out but it did. Why? It's easier to blame somebody else.
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This reads to me like some companies wrote contracts with Polish labour agencies to ensure a viable source of contract labour. If this is not the case would you care to elaborate?
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If you actually read my post I said "Whether or not it was the main reason is debatable". That leaves room for some people to claim it wasn't their motivation. That at least some people voted based on racist attitudes is beyond question. Economists certainly weren't typically in favour of brexit, not many other obvious motivations out there. If not absolute racism then a big dose of xenophobia at least.
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Earlier this year, a Brookings Institution report worried that US democracy was “failing”, and that in doing so it was, God forbid, putting capitalism at risk. The solution, according to the report’s authors, was for US corporate capitalist heavyweights to intervene even more heavily in politics, ie to do more of what made the US an undemocratic corporate plutocracy in the first place. ... But since US democracy was designed to be undemocratic, is it not also succeeding in its failure? https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/11/9/has-us-democracy-failed-for-good
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Vintage military aircraft collide mid-air at Dallas air show
ozimoron replied to Scott's topic in World News
It seems like there was no effective air traffic control. Still, VFR rules should have been enough as you say. -
Is a tax cut of 2.5 trillion, mainly going to the rich, not handing out money like sweets?
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Ok, are you really saying you have never laughed at anybody's link other than in response to their joke? I will say your claim that racism had nothing to do with brexit is patently false. Whether or not it was the main reason is debatable. I believe it was because the predicted outcome came to pass. The UK joined the EU in the first place for a reason. There is a strong confluence between prominent racists (with convictions) and Brexiteers, that's not deniable.
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If it's not then you have to admit that the charts and numbers make a strong case that it did.
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The GOP should have read the writing on the wall when Trump experienced a blue wave in his mid terms and ultimately lost his own re-election. Biden was not popular as a candidate even then but still produced a record voter turnout and handily beat Trump who beat the previous record number of votes for a second term election. As the saying goes, stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
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Does that table demonstrate that the UK economy went up, down or sideways since Brexit?
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Kari Lake: Interviewing the election denier who could be Arizona governor
ozimoron replied to Scott's topic in World News
No powder found in the mail. Any guesses as to what actually happened there? -
https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/uk-and-global-economy-after-brexit