Comments by "Edward Cullen" (@edwardcullen1739) on "Styxhexenhammer666"
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@19822andy Define "absolutely disastrous".
Major cities will suffer months of aerial bombardment? Ships bringing goods to UK will be sunk by submarines?
Businesses in the UK are ready for a no-deal - not that you'd know it from the propaganda you get from the BBC.
1. We ALREADY get huge amounts of food from outside the EU - most of the oranges I buy are from South Africa or Israel (depending on time of year and which supermarket I go to). I know that a major UK supermarket has already got contingency to buy 100% of its veg from North Africa, if the EU started to play silly buggers (something which would only hurt EU farmers; how long would that last?).
2. The UK government is in control of customs checks - if there was a "shortage" of something critical, like medicines, then the government could charter a plane - or send the ruddy RAF - over to the continent to pick up whatever was required and just wave it through. Sure, there may be some delays and additional costs, but ANY change is going to incur these - should the Irish not have become independent? The Indians? The South Africans?
No, life would go on with very little or no disruption for people like you and me BECAUSE THERE'S TOO MUCH MONEY TO BE MADE on both sides of the channel and THAT is what they're afraid of; they're afraid that business people, who're good at making money, will find ways to make Britain successful - of making money - outside the EU.
And just as a historical note, Napoleon tried to blockade the UK. He failed, because the blockade was bad for business.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Continental-System
The ONLY people it will be "absolutely disastrous" for are our politicians, as they'll no longer have the EXCUSE that "the EU made us do it".
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@michaelscott-joynt3215 Morally, I strongly disagree with you.
"They're an elected politician" should NOT grant immunity against a charge of treason/sedition/terrorism.
If an any politician is inciting - or even just encouraging - violence and/or intimidation, against the politicians on the other side, something that is anathema to the democratic process, then they should be dealt with in just the same way that an unelected individual would.
It's called "equality before the law". It is precisely because "there are no kings" that this is the case.
Even the Queen is subject to the law (though, she can't commit treason against herself, obviously 🤣).
Remember: we executed a King to prove this principle.
If it is the case that they cannot be held to account, legally, for what they say and do, when what they say and do would see you or I in prison, THAT is corruption. THAT is tyrannical.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I have the impression that, *Constitutionally*, not just morally, any action taken against tyranny is justified.
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King Crimson Yeah, all fine, until someone builds a quantum computer and it becomes defunct overnight... Real, physical, tangible things are the only way forwards.
Don't care if it's gold, grain, electricity stored in batteries, but as soon as the unit of exchange is disconnected from physical goods, you've put Capitalism into a death spiral... Like Communism, it's a long, drawn-out death spiral, but it seems pretty obvious that's where we are...
Since Breton Woods, we've had shocks and crises, which your always going to have, but when each one is worse than the previous and the answer is always "more if what got us here"... Well, isn't that what the Communists say?
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