Sounds about right to me Archived Message Posted by Ian M on December 13, 2019, 8:24 pm, in reply to "Off-the-cuff analysis" ...though I was expecting more people to look beyond Brexit at the choices on offer in the manifestoes. I'm finding it profoundly demoralising that the 2nd referendum fudge was apparently reason enough for so many to gift the result to a party that will shaft the NHS, pursue austerity to the ends of the earth, rig the economy in favour of the 0.1%, dump even more debt on the young, throw Palestinians under the bus, continue to ignore climate change and the extinction crisis etc etc. How the f* can 'getting brexit done'(TM) possibly be more important than these other issues? Combined! The generous interpretation might be the 'stockholm syndrome' that Margo suggested ( https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/1576229347.html ) or that they succumbed to the weight of propaganda in the mass media. But are voters really that blind & stupid? I can imagine people looking back at these results in, what, 50 years, 20 years, 5, 1? with absolute fury and incomprehension at the self-interest and delusion on display in this & the 2017 results, when some genuine change to the toxic status quo was on offer, against all the odds. What is it going to take for people in this country to stop voting f*ing tory?? cheers, I Message Thread: Off-the-cuff analysis - scrabb December 13, 2019, 5:54 pm Sounds about right to me - Ian M December 13, 2019, 8:24 pm Re: Sounds about right to me - Ian M December 13, 2019, 8:59 pm Re: Sounds about right to me - dereklane December 13, 2019, 9:07 pm Re: Sounds about right to me - Ian M December 13, 2019, 9:23 pm Re: Sounds about right to me - dereklane December 13, 2019, 10:43 pm What about the polling? - Gerard December 14, 2019, 2:08 am Re: 'What on earth was Seamus Milne doing all this time?' - Ian M December 14, 2019, 12:47 pm   Searching