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And the sum of who’s been elected are right wing parties such as the CDU and Renaissance (Macrons party).

The point is the EU is not much further to the left that any of Gove, Johnson and Sunak. Obviously, if the aforementioned “post brexit troika” weren’t so stupid they’d realise remaining in the EU aligns with their interests as a social class and many of the policies of the EU also align with their views. Instead they make it about issues such as sovereignty and immigration. I don’t really care about the whole sovereignty debate and have made it clear in other posts what my issues with the EU in its current form are. I’m not totally against something like the EU but I am totally opposed to it as it currently exists and the clique of French and German multinational companies with large influence on the organisation and technocrats like Macron have dug their heels in with regards to meaningful reform of the EU and if anything are moving further to the right. I’m not voting for Labour either and you are right about the SNP, but I’m afraid this is what European politics is becoming. Militarism and Neoliberalism are the flavour of the month and every major political party have made these their main focuses. There’s no clearer example than the formerly anti war German Green Party becoming one of the most pro NATO parties, with the likes of Ross Greer attempting to emulate this with Scottish Greens.

Stewart Lee’s opinion on brexit means absolutely nothing after he wrote this horseshit article https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/31/praise-be-to-mick-lynch-the-brexit-arse-made-good The gall of him to talk about ‘cognitive dissonance’ whilst claiming the EU is somehow not the polar opposite of leftism. Mick Lynch is absolutely right to oppose the EU.

Needs an update.

That’s not what is being implied here. If what Chris Cook says is true then it would be hard to think what’s being alleged isn’t true.

Lmao

f**k section b.

Scotland won’t drift towards that since it is supported by a tiny percentage of the population and an even smaller percentage of the parliament, unless Forbes plans on forming some sort of theocratic dictatorship but somehow I don’t think that will happen.

This isn’t the red states in America.

First question was very celtic-y.

I simply do not care enough about Transparency International and corruption indexes to keep this going. I’m sure there are plenty of sources that prove the US is a very corrupt country but I just can’t be bothered looking.

You done yet? It’s clearly not an unsubstantiated statement, the evidence is right there. Not only does Transparency International receive money from western governments and corporations it was also founded by ex world bank employees, so it clearly has colluded with western governments at some point, which is why the US and it’s allies are favourably ranked.

I just said. It’s biased nonsense.

Go across the kessock bridge to get to the better side of the Moray Firth.

It’s not going to rank western countries high on the corruption scale since they are the ones funding it. The US should not be as high as 24 (when 1 is the least corrupt) on any corruption index and any non biased would have ranked the US as much more corrupt.

Both heads of undemocratic organisations. They would have got on great.

The corruption perceptions index was published by Transparency International. This is who funds Transparency International: According to its 2012 Annual Report, it is funded by western governments (with almost €5 million from the UK government) and several multinational companies, including oil companies Exxon Mobil and Shell, hedge funds KKR and Wermuth Asset Management, Deloitte and Ernst & Young. Looks like TI has some internal corruption to investigate.

That map is hilarious. Straight out of Langley, Virginia.

JRM is the personification of the class divide in Britain.

It included the efl final. Fucked it and didn’t realise that it had that one too. This was the full bet

Raith fans did and burned their own pitch.