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You may well have issues with the way you're run locally by Labour but looking at at the national issues and my own experience of life under the Tories I'd say it's a bit rich to criticise the party out of government for 14 years when the current lot couldn't organise a burger at Mcdonalds and would probably pay their mates millions to open their own burger chain and rustle one up instead.

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Nice one, you are that big of an idiot!
So Russia invading Ukraine(a war) is the result of Brexit. Please explain.

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You misread something and he's the idiot, nice

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Nice one, you are an idiot who can’t read.

At no point did I say Russia invading Ukraine was a result of Brexit. I merely pointed out that political and economic crises are a reality of Government.

Off the top of my head since the Falklands you’d have the Gulf War, Bosnia, NATO air strikes on Serbia, September 11th, Afghanistan, Iraq 2 and the 2008 financial crisis and a decade of austerity.

The idea of a 7 or 10 year period “breathing space” without one crisis or another is an absolute fantasy. It’s the role of Government to manage these things.

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In fairness, ignoring reality is a pip staple.

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Oh well, case closed. Brexit is a disaster then.

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No, it was just a good example of the dizzying array of Brexit benefits. It would only be case closed if it affected you in some meaningful way.

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If you were to say that the removal of opportunities to improve your language skills, broaden your horizons and improve your employability after leaving university is a disaster, then yes, you are right.

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1984, George Orwell

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Maybe tell John Redwood that you did not vote for the country to become insular like this and ask him what plans he has to restore opportunities like this one for future generations.

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A quote I'm very familiar with, not applicable to what I said though.

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Unlike the EU and the US, UK GDP per head has fallen since 2019. I wonder why?

Lest anyone tries to clutch at the Covid and Ukraine straws. The US and EU were impacted by those as well.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...8&d=1708105281

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My son is an Opera singer and now has a so much more difficult task to forge a career in Europe. His generation's birth right was literally taken away from them by an older, selfish generation.

Tradition has it that the parents/grand parents in society did all they could to enable the success and prosperity of their children/grandchildren. What we had was the exact opposite of this. The Boomer and some Gen X decided that they know best and the wishes & aspirations of those that would follow them would count for nothing. A perverse & selfish decision if you will.

As these older generations die off, they bequeath a poisoned unwanted legacy. Made all the more perverse in that these very people will expected to be looked after in their dotage by those they spited.

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That'll be the old people paying in while we ran a deficit at the same time as plundering state assets in privatisation?

Nobody is entitled to anything on the basis of money that wasn't paid in. It's a complete lie on the part of the older generations to pretend otherwise.

2.5 trillion pounds of debt. Someone wasn't paying.

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They certainly seem to be.
BB + GenX is basically anyone over 44.