The only way to be Sovereign
As a Person
Or Nation
Is to be
The Only
Person
Or Nation
If you love someone
Or something
You can't be free
If you deal with others
You can be sovereign only by
Total War
And suffer
The consequences
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The only way to be Sovereign
As a Person
Or Nation
Is to be
The Only
Person
Or Nation
If you love someone
Or something
You can't be free
If you deal with others
You can be sovereign only by
Total War
And suffer
The consequences
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Great Britain fought WW2 in a Multi-Nation, Multi-Culture, Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Colour, Multi-Language force. No one did it alone. No one does it alone. As then we’re better together.
The Fantasy That Is Brexit Is An Ambush.
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In 1948, given the biggest share
Of Marshall Aid
GB wasted it
Clinging to Empire
While Germany invested
In Industrial Modernisation.
North Sea oil revenue?
GB wasted it
On tax cuts
While Norway invested it
With a North Sea Oil Sovereign wealth fund
(Now the world's largest)
For its people
Who because of that
Are now more secure
Than ours.
In answer to
The 2007/2008 US-made crash?
GB chose austerity
And more austerity
(Top down? You must be joking!)
And none of this
None of this
None of this
Had a jot to do
With the EU
So, the wilfully ignorant
GB lashing out response is Brexit
After all
We beat the Germans
All On Our Own
In two world wars
(really? All on our own?)
Then beat 'em again
In the '66 world cup
For twenty years, thanks to Rupert Murdoch and other robber barons, Brits have been taught to hate the EU (for things it hasn't done) by The Sun, The Mail, The Express (newspapers) and their ilk; but isn't it really Germany we hate, for doing what GB should have done after WW2 but didn't? And is it perhaps that, still with the hubris of Empire, we hate mirrors even more than we hate the Germans?
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["Britain received more than a third more Marshall Aid than West Germany - $2.7 billion as against $1.7 billion. Britain pocketed the largest share of any European nation"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/hist…/british/modern/marshall_01.shtml]
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["Had Thatcher been a truly visionary politician, she would have established a wealth fund for the oil windfall, not squandered it on tax cuts and current spending."
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/04/thatcher-and-north-sea-oil-–-failure-invest-britain?fbclid=IwAR0OF5zyvez7FtEXx3gMmlssK-PnHbxaoqTxfruYmGjwQyozVaaUHmTGH0A]
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[In Britain, Austerity Is Changing Everything
After eight years of budget cutting, Britain is looking less like the rest of Europe and more like the United States, with a shrinking welfare state and spreading poverty.
[https://www.nytimes.com/…/…/europe/uk-austerity-poverty.html]
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Theresa May says, "No government could give a blank cheque to commit to an outcome without knowing what it is.”
That is exactly what she and her government did on the 29th of March 2017 when they invoked Article 50.
UK citizens must fight, democratically, to revoke Article 50.
It is Parliament's duty to protect citizens, especially the vulnerable, not to slavishly kowtow to their whimsical view that the EU is responsible for our problems of austerity and serious shortage of resources (cash) leading to the 5th or currently 6th richest nation having a health and social care system not fit for purpose, a seriously depleted police force and a council cashflow inability to fill potholes.
Our problems of austerity and our serious shortage of resources (cash) were caused by the relaxation of USA & UK banking rules by President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; yes, history has a very very very long reach. These relaxations led to roulette bank practices which in turn lead to the 2008 crash, from which we and other nations are still recovering and because of which, UK governments CHOSE austerity. None of this is due to the EU.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47689415
Incidentally: Under European Parliament and Council Directive 2004/38/EC, EU member states can repatriate EU nationals after three months if they have not found a job or do not have the means to support themselves.
Unlike other EU member states, the UK does not use this directive. Why not?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/31/britain-take-back-control-immigration-eu-directive-brexit?
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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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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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