09-06-2017, 10:05 PM
(09-06-2017, 05:26 PM)Conor-McStupid Wrote: Statistically, the vast majority of leave voters voted leave to take back control from Brussels. Can't believe some folk still try and argue 'our nationalism is better than everyone else's'.This guy gets it.
Farage - them over there, Brussels, it's their fault. Let's take back control and make Britain great again.
Trump - them over there, the latinos, it's their fault. Let's take back control and make America great again.
Nats- them over there, Westminster, it's their fault. Let's take back control and make scotland great again.
The article is riddled with comparisons
"which outlined a programme for comprehensive economic self-harm in order to satisfy the most mean-spirited elements of the national personality."
"Evidence, reason and material improvement are out. Identity and emotion are in."
"And not just that, but a poisoned political culture in which anyone who stands up to the xenophobes and little-Englanders is branded a traitor to the country"
"Whenever an MP spoke in these terms, for instance by attacking "Remoaners" or talking about "betrayal" - a word used with alarming frequency - Davis smiled"
"He accused Labour - there's that word again - of "betraying their own voters" for supporting customs union and single market membership during a transition."
"They insist it is about 'cultural values', as if that itself is anything less than a euphemism for xenophobia."
"This is the mania of nationalism, the triumph of identity over reason."