Detournement

The right wing press has completely fallen in behind May's soft Brexit judging by today's front pages. Even the Sun are right behind it so presumably Rupert will have told Gove to behave himself for the rest of the year.

The next part only makes any sense if you are a myopic nationalist. By your logic Labour campaigned for No in 2014 so we are stuck with austerity until the mythical second referendum is won.

You said Most of corbyns vote winning policies are already in place in Scotland Which is a load of shite.

Nonsense. Austerity is in place in Scotland is it not? Do we have a publicly owned energy company? Are there zero hour contracts in Scotland? What is the rate of corporation tax in Scotland? Do we have a state investment bank? Is the minimum wage 10 pounds an hour? Is the trade union act law?

Pyrgos is useful as a kicker as well as being a handy scrum half. Glasgow currently have P Horne, Hastings and Hogg who can kick.

Corbyn addressing the Dutch Labour Party Obviously Corbyn is a fool and the correct form of political action is to squabble online for a decade waiting for a referendum that isn't coming.

You can understand how he got that idea given what happened to Iraq, Libya and Vietnam.

The UK is an extremely wealthy country. No deal would obviously disrupt the economy was already a disaster based on escalating private debt and continually wringing more out of workers for less. I'm confident that progressive taxation, a state investment bank delivering fiscal expansion and cracking down on tax havens would outweigh the negative effects of whatever deal we end up with. Creating an economic structure fit for the 21st century is more important than worrying about BMW's supply chain. The primary achievement of the EU has been to drive down the share of GDP taken by workers in wages. That has been pretty much covered up by Chinese slave labour providing us with cheap consumer goods but the EU is fully committed to Neoliberalism forever. It's not going to change and it'll eventually collapse when it becomes clear to the southern Europeans that they can only end austerity by leaving the Eurozone.

Customs union doesn't mean freedom of movement. Look at Turkey.

They have a position. Customs union and regulatory allignment. Which is where the government is about to end up after 18 months of bluster. Labour doesn't want to join the EEA or have a second vote. They were in favour of a meaningful vote in parliament. Those are positions. There are very legitimate reasons for left wingers to be against EU membership.

Labour have a clear strategy of focusing on issues that directly effect voters. Housing, transport, health (especially mental health), education etc. Brexit is still fairly abstract to the vast majority and is essentially constant background noise. It wasn't a factor in the 2017 GE and by the next GE it'll be done.

Yougov is run by Stephan Shakespeare (from head of Conservative Party digital strategy) and Tory MP Na***** Zahawi founded it. Funnily enough every time there is a Brexit set back Yougov pull out a poll which shows them well ahead....

Is a hard border less popular than an internal UK border amongst Unionists? Both surely violate the GFA.

If you genuinely can't see any difference between Corbyn/May, McDonnell/Hammond, Abbot/Javid, Thornberry/Boris or Starmer/Davis then you obviously don't know much about politics.

They don't have a grassroots. They have some young oddballs, a few careerists and a load of coffin dodgers. America has a genuine conservative culture. We have a load of bores who are only relevant because the Barclay Brothers are happy to lose millions on the Spectator every single year.

Not while we are in the EU. Post Brexit they have no excuse.

Higher rate payers pay a lower percentage of their wages in NI than basic rate payers. It's regressive and favours the rich therefore it's left alone despite being an anachronism.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/29/nhs-wields-the-axe-on-17-unnecessary-procedures Hunt's attack on the NHS continues. They can't get rid of the NHS so they are restricting it to purposefully push people towards private health care. The next step is creating a direct NHS tax which they have been talking about for a while. And after that I predict that calls will start for people to be allowed to opt of the NHS entirely firstly by allowing private health insurance to be deducted from the NHS tax then probably making the NHS opt in.

What politicians are scared of minority groups?

The Irish border issue almost guarantees no deal imo. The DUP and the Brexiters will never vote for a customs border in the Irish sea. Agreeing to a deal which includes a sea border reliant on Labour votes ends May's tenure and brings on a GE as well a Tory leadership election. And it's possible the Tory members would vote for a leader who would promise to scrap the deal anyway.

Another way of looking at is how many Republican state congressmen/senators/governors from red states actually want to deal with the shit show that would erupt if Roe vs Wade was over turned?

The Kochs, Waltons, Adelson, Fords etc don't give a f**k about religion. These decisions were made by the court - and the cases only made it to the court - because public opinion swung behind them. It would be unprecedented for the court to make an unpopular ruling that directly takes rights away from people. Citizens United or gutting the voting rights act doesn't directly impact individuals. Reversing Roe vs Wade would be a political earthquake, why would the Oligarchs and their puppets do that when they already have everything they want?

Hopefully. I'm not holding my breath though.

The SNP have no interest in calling another referendum. They purposefully killed it off with their RBS economic plan. Austerity is ruining lives and universal credit is going to be an unprecedented disaster. Think seriously about finding concrete solutions to the crisis we are living through rather than fantasising about independence when it's not on offer.