<in the future, all elections will re-elect Boaty McBoatface>. Indeed
... accompanied by the 'Smirky McSmirk Face' that dominates all mainstream media analysis in the UK On 16 October 2018 at 20:32, Ariston Theotocopulos < ariston.theotocopu...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is all true, you could add that the UK news media delights in > spreading lies, it does it purely for the lulz. > > But... In 2016 only political lunatics had strong opinions one way or > another on the EU, and nobody here thought that there would be any > significant change whatever the result of the referendum - these two > things together practically guaranteed a leave result. > > In retrospect, the real historic vote in 2016 was the vote for Boaty > McBoatface, this was the template for the 2016 referendum, and the > 2017 general election. Those people singing 'Oh Jeremy Corbyn' were > not a cult (as the Guardian ludicrously claimed), they did it because > it wound up all the right people. > > In the future, all elections will re-elect Boaty McBoatface. > > -Ariston > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 at 14:55, James Wallbank wrote: > > > > (1) The "United Kingdom" is not a nation state as Europe knows it. It's > > actually a shrunken, dwarf empire. > > > > (2) Areas outside the Southeast (both the nations: Wales, Scotland and > > Northern Ireland) the Regions (The Midlands, The North, The South West) > > and the unrecognised nations (Cornwall, Mercia, Northumbria) are > > effectively colonies under occupation by London. London has total, full > > spectrum dominance over the national narrative. > > > > (3) Britain is suffering from a kind of post-imperial psychosis. > > > > (4) Britain is notable in being the only European nation to have failed > > to rid itself of hereditary rulers. Of the 250 or so Dukes in Britain > > (that's the highest level of the aristocracy outside royalty) around 180 > > of them still own the land that their ancestors owned just after the > > Norman Conquest. That represents nearly 1000 years of occupation. They > > will stop at NOTHING to retain their hidden power. > > > > (5) Britain's manifestly defective parliamentary system is really window > > dressing, that conceals other centres of power. > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: > -- Bronaċ
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