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The United Kingdom has fallen
« on: September 21, 2020, 09:13:39 AM »
The following has appeared on Facebook in agroup called The Very Brexit Problems Club  It appears to have been originally posted by "Miriam Margolyes" .


“The United Kingdom has fallen. There has been a right wing coup in this country... . And nobody noticed. We did not notice because it was years in the making. We did not notice because when it came, it came in a blonde wig and a mask of buffoonery. We did not notice because it lied to us and hid its true intent. We did not notice because the foreign manipulation was hidden from us and continues to be hidden from us. We did not notice, because the lies when they were discovered were hidden by more lies, until lack of truth became normal and acceptable. We didn't notice because it appealed to our basest nature. It cried racist, it cried xenophobe, it falsified a threat to our way of life and blamed others. We did not notice because we accepted all the promises and lies and now we cannot admit to our gullibility.

Make no mistake it has been moving steadily and stealthily. Have you not noticed how Parliament has been emasculated and how decisions are now taken by a few in a closed room? Have you noticed how the judiciary is being sidelined? Have you noticed how the media are controlled & access to news is restricted? The BBC merely mouths faceless government sources and the papers howl racist xenophobic and government-fed lies? Have you noticed how the police, under cover of COVID, are being encouraged gradually to interfere more and more in our lives? Have you noticed how we are being encouraged to report 'unsocial behaviour' in our neighbour's? Have you noticed how  the impartial Civil Service is being packed with yes men and government cronies? Committee after committee is rigged with government-friendly sympathisers. Even now a review of the Armed Services is underway. Have you noticed how every means of objection or complaint is being stealthily closed? Have you noticed the intention to lower food standards, animal & environmental standards and abandon the guarantees of our basic human rights? Have you noticed how measures trumpeted as keeping foreigners out, actually make it harder for US to leave? Finally have you noticed how the government is engineering circumstances under which everyone's lives will be so much harder and under which we will have so much more to worry about than complain about our government?

Meanwhile the rape and asset- stripping of the country has already begun, with million-pound contracts awarded to cronies with no apparent expertise, siphoning money from the public purse to the private pocket and delivering nothing.

It may already be too late but surely the time has come to cry enough! To stand up against the lies, the manipulation, the takeover of our Society. This government does not govern for the people; this government is governing for itself. It has become an enemy of the people, its actions are treasonous. Surely it is time to demand better, time to TAKE BACK CONTROL.”

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Re: The United Kingdom has fallen
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2020, 10:27:27 AM »
I think very little of the current govt but this feels like hyperbole, and mirrors the sort of Brexiteer rhetoric about the EU.

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Re: The United Kingdom has fallen
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2020, 10:36:00 AM »
If it's by Miriam Margolyes the actor, and not someone masquerading as her, I must say that while I like her a lot, and broadly sympathise with her politics (especially her pro-Palestinian stance), she can be ineffably silly at times, and this is a case in point.
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Re: The United Kingdom has fallen
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2020, 10:41:30 AM »
I presumed the original piece was by "Mike Carter" as mentioned at the bottom of the post and that she simply re-posted it.
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Re: The United Kingdom has fallen
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2020, 12:05:07 PM »
hmm .. just bear in mind that the Brotherhood may not exist and just be part of a sting operation to catch thought criminals ... or am I falling for another meme, another part of the deception to undermine opposition? :)

 
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Re: The United Kingdom has fallen
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2020, 12:25:12 PM »
I think very little of the current govt but this feels like hyperbole, and mirrors the sort of Brexiteer rhetoric about the EU.

Apart from the first couple of sentences, every thought in the post can be supported with evidence.  That was not the case with anti-EU rhetoric which was mostly lies and distortions when it wasn't empty sloganeering.  The lies, distortions and slogans were eagerly embraced by the party now in power.  I'd hesitate to call them Conservatives.




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Re: The United Kingdom has fallen
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2020, 03:41:11 PM »
If it's by Miriam Margolyes the actor, and not someone masquerading as her, I must say that while I like her a lot, and broadly sympathise with her politics (especially her pro-Palestinian stance), she can be ineffably silly at times, and this is a case in point.
I agree. I happened to hear her on Radio 4 or 5live some weeks ago and she was saing this sort of stuff and I was disappointed because she seemed to be on some particular hobby-horse and presenting a very biased commentary.
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Re: The United Kingdom has fallen
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2020, 10:09:30 AM »
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