Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Farage whines in the Telegraph about David Cameron" video.
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Well, if anyone knows about, “smug,” it’s Farage. Of course it’s very personal. The whole journey for Farage has been built on, “personality politics,” without any truth or substance to back him up. He reminds me of that oily character (sadly) named Ash in John LeCarré’s The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Lemas says of him, “He’s an empty space. There’s nothing there!” And he means a very similar thing. Once you lift the, “performance,” away and ask grownup questions about, “policy,” “foundation,” “facts,” “costs,” “statistics,” there is literally NOTHING there, other than lies.
Cameron is one the Tories’ greatest assets. He still has some credibility with conservative voters. (Lord knows why?)
Farage’s problem is the same as Braverman’s. When the cold, hard facts explode your, “policy,” nonsense, you can’t talk about them. You must redirect public discourse, urgently. And the only reliable way to do that is to get personal.
It worked for Braverman, who dodged all questions at the dispatch box regarding the workability of her plans, the costs, the active harm it was doing to innocent people, by simply spewing out a series of epithets about the, “Soy bean eating, Guardian reading, wokerarty,” etc. which dominated the headlines and became the talking point of all the editorials, opinion pieces and BBC interviews in its wake! We never got ANY direct answers as to the costs (human or otherwise) from parliamentary discussions! Not once! Not from Braverman.
But we did get a dividing line drawn through the metropolitan political landscape, which gave us protest marchers, angry far right activists suddenly back in the headlines and new, apparently equally urgent, discussions about our own personal freedoms and our rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Oh, it worked so beautifully for that twisted little harpy that she decided to make that, “technique,” a lifestyle choice!
And where did this parvenu learn her techniques if not at the feet of the drama QUEEN of harpy’s egg layers himself, Nigel Farage. Who needs facts, accountability or an estimate of the costs when they’ve got personal attacks, personality politics, populism and popular anger to misdirect?
It’s little wonder Braverman wants to get into the harpy’s nest with the harpy queen himself. They’re otherwise idle and superfluous anyway. So they can spend all their time circling the turrets of Westminster, telling all the black crows to, “go back to where they came from,” and choose their targets to swoop down upon, getting all tangled in their hair if they’re lucky, flapping their harpy wings and squawking at the top of their lungs, causing a horrific spectacle that focuses all public discourse on their attacks without them ever having to account for themselves! By the time someone steps up with the appropriate shotgun it’s too late, as they are back up in the battlements, leaving the press circle standing around their victim to ask, “What was it like to be dive bombed by a harpy?” And, “Did that harpy have a point?”
But I still think it won’t be too long before Braverman finds that she is suddenly the cuckoo in Farage’s nest, to be shunned like the Ugly Duckling. And that will serve her right.
Yes, “Thank God for Cameron,” indeed! Hold the line!
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@massivehero4871 : Yeah, you, “could go on.” Please don’t. Farage is King Cnut telling the tide to stop. You can’t just say, “zero net migration,” and watch as it happens, son. But, people who know better than you will explain why we NEED, “positive net migration,” to grow our economy, our workforce, our power. Shrinking populations is the biggest threat to western development in the developed world.
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@peteredwards338 : Oh, that old classic. I was wondering how long it would take before someone wheeled out the hoary old, “They’re as bad as each other,” false equivalency scam. Anyone who genuinely thinks that this current iteration of the Labour Party is anywhere NEAR as corrupt, inept, wilful, entitled, callously indifferent to human suffering, bogus, wasteful and at times, downright criminal, as the Tory Party, simply hasn’t been paying attention.
But then again, most trolls don’t even live in Britain anyway.
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@peteredwards338 : Oh, here we go, with the old, “False Equivalency Scam.” When the track record of your, “team,” is too shameful to defend, just say, “Well, they’re all as bad as each other.” That old copout usually works on the weak minded. And you don’t need a single, “fact,” at your disposal either.
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@peteredwards338 : Oh, here we go, with the old, “False Equivalency,” chestnut. When the track record of your, “team,” is too shameful to defend, just say, “Well, they’re all as bad as each other.” That old copout usually works on the weak minded. And you don’t need a single, “fact,” at your disposal either.
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@Tad1945 : Trolls arrive illegally. But, when you ignore international law and say, “Anyone who arrives in a boat is now breaking the law,” then we know there has been a break down in law. What’s next? Anyone who uses the channel tunnel is now to be criminalised? Anyone who arrives wearing a tie? Anyone called, “Anthony,” who arrives on, “Tony Tuesdays,” will be outlawed? Anyone using the YouTube name, “Tad,” could be next. You simply cannot make an arbitrary divide and decide, “All the people on this side of the line are fine, but all the people on THAT side are criminals.” At least, not if you want your system to work.
We are STILL subscribers to international, BINDING laws, which insist that each asylum seeker MUST be assessed on the merits of their case, NOT their mode of travel.
And I have yet to see a SINGLE example of any migrant or asylum seeker that has taken resources from the public, or bread out of the mouths of the working, tax paying public. This government has squandered all your cash, turned hotels into overcrowded prisons and liners into prison hulks, breaking the law in the process of emptying our wallets. We used to simply process asylum seekers, let them in, get work and contribute to the economy by generating economic activity and paying taxes, under the last government. And those cases that failed to meet the criteria resulted in swift deportation.
The Tories stopped all of that and gave massive cues and expensive waiting lists of people that cost the tax payer a fortune to imprison while they don’t get processed and get busy catching diseases and getting huge settlements through their human rights lawyers!
Learn the FACTS, son. You cannot afford to be this angry at the wrong people, while the people who are robbing you blind are telling you who to blame. And anyone will do, so long as it isn’t them. That’s a hostage mentality that can only do you harm.
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