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Tariffs will also be imposed back, which will then impact our trading partners. Many countries, including the world's largest economy, have signalled they want to do a trade deal with Britain provided they can and we're no longer bound by European law.
And as for setting the tariffs themselves, well the amazing thing is that once we've left the European Union and Parliament actually matters again, then it can stop debating free tampons and start debating things that matter - like what our agricultural tariffs should be. What our industrial policy should be. How our fisheries should be managed. I'll win some and i'll lose some - that's democracy.
Happy to have debates up and down the town halls of the land over these issues, as we should be doing.
are you referring to the US? because their current policy is no trade deal unless the border issue is resolved
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It isn't that I think you personally are well off, although you could be, but that your attitude is that of being well off. That you mentioned holiday homes abroad as some sort of pressing matter seems rather bizzare to most normal people who struggle to afford one home let alone one in Malaga. All this goes back to why Remain's campaign just sounded so hollow and didn't resonate outside the M25.
i never even mentioned holiday homes, where did you ever get that impression from
what i was saying is they could, if they chose to, move to any other country in the EU (provided they could support themselves adequately) if they didnt want to be here
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I read other statistics on private rent, so assuming not including council properties. But whatever.
not really private renting if its including council properties, total renting is 37%
id love to know where you get your stats from
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Immigration of course causes an impact just internal immigration *clearly* has an affect on local prices in an area, the same is true on a national level. Why is rent in London so high? Because jobs draw people to live there meaning shortage of housing = rent rises. The same can be said for Liverpool and Manchester in the last decade where the draw of students and young professionals in revitalised urban centres has pushed prices up, although both have been able to cope given the sheer amount of brown land surrounding the city core.
i literally said immigration most likely has an impact
the difference is that to you, its the only reason when there are a lot more factors at play
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The argument I have read before and which I think has merit is that because of our constitutional flexibility as compared with a written, European style constitution, has meant that our constitutional order has been able to survive events like the Glorious Revolution, the rise of socialism, universal suffrage and so on. Contrast this with say France or Spain where the constitutions were (naturally) a product of their conservative/liberal time which then led to civil wars and revolution.
from what i can see, and feel free to correct me if im wrong, but im basically looking through french history at a glance and aside from the change to the first republic, the reason for france changing their system is in part because of how they expanded
the uk treated colonies as their own external thing, and still does for any existing overseas territories - they are their own thing in their own right, with the main UK "controlling" certain aspects
france, however, seems to basically absorb at least some colonies into basically becoming a part of france (also that one time the germans invaded and split france up), with also mainland france changing over time
what it really seems like is that our system is so inherently undefined and malleable, it can become whatever it wants to be
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England has always been a unitary state and the English wouldn't stand for it. It was attempted under New Labour in the north-east, and voters roundly
rejected it in a referendum by 78% to 22% meaning it is dead in the water. Added to that, it still wouldn't solve the issue anyway as the English 'regions' would still be that - English. You'd then have say 10 English regions vs 3 non-English regions.
To prove how much I would object, I am as Unionist as you can possibly be given I don't believe in devolution and would have Ulster brought under direct rule on a permanent basis, but the moment England needs to be carved up to protect the Union would signal to me the actual end of the Union. It is a Union, not a disembowelment of a nation of the Union.[/QUOTE]
i wasnt even suggesting devolution, in reality it would be no different to how you elect your mp but the constituency is bigger
from an outsiders perspective, i agree that people would see 10 english vs 3 others and it wouldnt be easily achievable in that respect unless it was balanced out however just from a purely hypothetical point of view, say that it was just the UK so theres no wales/england/scotland/ni, its pretty fair to say the needs of the north east differ to the south west which differ to london
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I don't really understand their political systems well nor their political culture. French conservatism for example has completely different philosophical routes to Anglosphere conservatism which is why France has never had a Margaret Thatcher or John Howard, for instance.
Funnily enough I understand Spain's a bit more, but only because its political culture is a lot younger and is easier to digest with the civil war period. It's more black and white. Germany's is a right mish mash - you've got Bavarian conservatism with its Catholic roots hence a different party in Bavaria, and Prussian protestant conservatism that dominated the German Imperial period. It's left is a strange mix of social democracy from the Weimar period and hard socialism from the Eastern bloc. I don't pretend to understand it.
i mean i cant say ive really looked into the differences to be honest, maybe ill look one day but not understanding the ideology of shall we call it "French conservatism" isnt really the same as saying you dont understand the french institutions
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I think my distinctions though between the civil wars we've seen on the continent and those here, ring very true. There's never been a revolution or civil war here that was within society, and wished to overthrow the old order. Like I said, the most violent/closest thing to a civil war we've had - actually called a Civil War - the victors actually retained virtually the entire ancien regime, minus the Crown - and Cromwell as Lord Protector de facto assumed the powers of the Crown, he was simply an uncrowned monarch in many respects.
im literally not going to follow this further if your entire basis for something being a civil war is that it has to has civil war in the name
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Legally and in treaty, yes. But institutionally, politically and culturally? No.
if it didnt merge us institutionally, politically and culturally then you wouldnt be against devolution/independence movements in these areas since the acts of union effectively centralised everything
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Can you name a similar European country that still has offices and laws in existence from hundreds of years ago? The only examples I can think of from the top of my head would possibly be the Kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden? Britain (and its predecessor states) has had a remarkably smooth ride, and it is remarkable that our ancient institutions survived the 20th century when the 2,000+ year Chinese, Persian and Ethiopian imperial regimes did not. On an anecdotal, I once read that King-Emperor Edward VII was so concerned with the rise of socialism that he used to introduce his son, the future George V, as "the last King of England" - it turned out that the British throne weathered the coming storm better than he thought it would.
It is why many on the radical left hate the symbols of the Monarchy, House of Lords and Church of England despite them causing no harm and being universally liked. Other countries have their romantic (and often bloody) revolutions that they fetishise over, and here they have nothing - because we've changed but kept the golden frills and baubles, without spilling much blood. It annoys them that they never got their chance to tear it all down and start anew.
cant really say theyre universally liked when the left dont like them
ignoring the pedantry, its a bit of a stretch for 2/3 of those youve mentioned
https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.ne...tutions-01.png
i think what actually annoys those on the left is the imbalance those things represent, not because they want to go on a murder spree
just as a side point, you mentioned other countries "fetishising" over revolutions, can i just point out that a lot of people do that about WW2 in this country which probably includes yourself to a degree
also youre the one constantly calling for mps to be shot
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My distinction between them is pretty accurate which is why you haven't rebutted it. Our "civil wars" overturned dynasties, on the continent their "civil wars" and "revolutions" overturned society, religion, political systems and even borders (Germany).
i rebutted it by saying you dont get to decide what is and isnt a civil war
you also ignored my entire point about irish independence, which you could argue was even more destablising than a civil war
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It never took off here because of the different political culture. The same can be said for Dominions of Canada, New Zealand, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Rhodesia who inherited our political culture as part of the British Empire. One huge bulwark against it, which ironically many on the left secretly loathe, is the monarchy as George Orwell (himself on the left) one wrote. The little goosestepping and bowing that we do, is to our apolitical Sovereign. This was lacking in Germany, Russia, France, Austria and across Europe where the monarchy was either relatively newly established, was political or did not exist.
In fact, the two nations which really stand out as being similar to us as in not falling to fascism voluntarily would be the Kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. And what do they have in common with us? A monarchy that is as old as the land itself, and constitutional systems with continuity.
they also have the letter "n" in their country name
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Calling Farage, a mild anglosphere conservative, a fascist will only deafen your alarm bells when a real fascist comes along.
Don't do it.
using https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html as a base source of ideas
Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
debatable on how powerful but certainlly continuing
Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
Started with the EU and other countries (romania, turkey) but more recently has become a thing against "the establishment", but often will call the media biased
Supremacy of the Military
no real source on this but im sure back in the day the UKIP manifesto was very much on the line of increased military spending
Rampant Sexism
ukip itself being very sexist
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...y-9781885.html
basically defending donnys sexism
https://www.businessinsider.com/nige...6-10?r=US&IR=T
Controlled Mass Media
hes not exactly in government so nothing i can really comment on here
Obsession with National Security
often a secondary point when mentioning immigration/open borders
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi...endum-36167329
Religion and Government are Intertwined
defends christianity, so it could end up being so
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...-heritage.html
Corporate Power is Protected
https://www.businessinsider.com/all-...17-2?r=US&IR=T
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...vate-companies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8oMjswB8gw
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-a-garden-par/
Labor Power is Suppressed
not in power so cant comment
Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
the whole brexit campaign has been about ignoring experts
however i will also be fair and say he did publically advocate for scrapping tuition fees for STEM subjects, though personally speaking i do not trust him on that
Obsession with Crime and Punishment
obsession with brexit so no
Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
looking a bit like it
Fraudulent Elections
fairly obviously not
got a bit bored looking for sources
so using the list from that url provided which obviously isnt gospel, he seems to tick a fair few of the boxes (also lets not ignore the image from before) but some cant really be ticked unless he was in power