Labi Siffre - Into The Light

THE BASIS OF BIGOTRY

How dare you be different from me

How dare you not look, talk, think,

Feel

As I do

How dare you constantly suggest

As you do by being other

That I

What I think

What I feel

What I am

Is wrong

 

How dare you suggest

As you do by being other

That I am not the standard

By which all should be judged

How dare you

As you do by being other

Make me feel uneasy

Insecure

“Uncomfortable”

 

I will hurt you for your insult

Of not being like me

I will punish you for this affront

I will righteously condemn you for your crime

Of existing

As “other”:

How dare you be different from me

How DARE you be DIFFERENT from me

 

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Brexit: No, They Don't Need Us As Much As We Need Them.

When leaving a club, don't expect club rules to be changed to benefit you at the expense of remaining members.

 

Expect your debts and commitments to be pursued, in full.

 

Statements that your creditors can "go whistle" won't encourage your creditors to trust you.

 

It should come as no surprise to adults that the more powerful in a negotiation use that power advantage, as we have a history of doing (e.g. in the slave trade and the Commonwealth, the proceeds of both of which we continue to benefit from through the infrastructure advantage resources from both gave us).

 

Without the UK, the EU will remain the second largest economy in the world.

 

As a nation, rather than "taking back control" we have chosen to be supplicants. Post Brexit, we will be weakened by no longer being part of the second largest economy in the world. America, China, India etc will take advantage of that weakness in any trade deal negotiations, including those with the World Trade Organisation.

 

Since the referendum, we have learned more about the complexities and dangers of Brexit. To ignore what we have learned, and continue to learn, would be to betray "the will of the people". Our sovereign legal system of government, Parliamentary Democracy, demands that our supreme legal authority, Parliament, not the government, has the final say.

 

"Zombie Ideas About Brexit That Refuse To Die"

The Children Of Brex Get It

And so in this the children
Wiser than their parents see
Their future blocked
By their elders' fears

The children denied a voice
By gerrymanderers offering scapegoats and
A good old days that cannot come;
That river they promise ... has moved on

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Statement Of The Obvious re: Brexit

A Statement Of The Obvious that we British, in our collective arrogance and wilful ignorance, seem incapable of grasping:

The rules of a club I join then wish to leave are made by the club not by me.

re Brexit: "Just a polite reminder to British exceptionalists that our only decision will be whether to accept or reject whatever the EU27 offer us." ~ Seb Dance UK MEP

In our collective defence, the Single Market and Customs Union (and so much more required for an informed referendum vote) were rarely (never?) mentioned by the instigator, PM David Cameron, nor by "The Brexit 5", Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Iain Duncan-Smith, Michael Gove, Jacob Rees-Mogg and their Brexiteer fellows.
Quick, someone call a statistician. Sorry, we can't ... they're experts!

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