Friday 19th August 2016

[RogerOThornhill]

Gold to the women's hockey team!!

Well, at least one GB team can win on penalties...

[ohsocynical]

Gold to the women's hockey team!!

Well, at least one GB team can win on penalties...

Talk about taking it to the edge. And then some!

[ohsocynical]

Gold to the women's hockey team!!

Well, at least one GB team can win on penalties...

Talk about taking it to the edge. And then some!

My goodness those women are tough. Watched one have her head cut open the day before yesterday. Eight stitches and she was out playing again tonight. They were taking balls in the head and not even stopping...Could teach some football players how to take pain....

[TR'sGhost]

In so many ways - from our education and social security, our armed forces and our royal family - I wish we were more like the Nordic countries in attitude. That will never happen as long as we have this jingoistic thing going on; plucky little Britain, punching above her weight, we-used-to-have-an-empire-you-know......we can't have a truly egalitarian country as long as we think like that.

Marx made the point somewhere or other that the English working class wouldn't see its own interests clearly while hampered by accepting the upper class's viewpoint on the Empire and (then) Ireland.

A surprising amount of "the history of Britain everyone just knows to be true" is more than a bit suspect when you look a little deeper.

[TR'sGhost]

If things were that important then where are the demonstrations and public outcry to overturn the result? It is hardly even mentioned on the news now

Yes, curious how the media has gone fairly quiet. I think there's maybe a consensus that the argument is won and Article 50 will get triggered at the optimum moment. Or maybe it isn't just Johnson and Gove who'd been demanding the UK exit the EU as a propaganda point and are stunned to finally get what they "wanted" for so long.

The Mail and Express are still in full-on anti-Europe, anti-refugee, anti-immigrant mode of course, but they've been running those lines for over a century so I'm not sure how much can be read into that.

[HindleA]

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