Why do so many people only learn their lessons after it's already too late? If we hadn't done Brexit in the first place, we wouldn't have to be dealing with this mess.
Usually a couple people trick the majority into working against their own interest. Those couple people obviously stand to gain from the situation. Democracy doesn't work
They're absolutely right, but he won't.
He wants to be Tony Blair and the "special relationship" enabling of war crimes and other atrocities is no exception.
The "labor" parties of 5 eyes are more like counterintelligence operations. They're manufactured opposition. At the end of the day, their leadership is groomed and financed by the same oligarchs and corporations as the "conservative" parties.
They will never offer anything other than corporate-whore lite with a hope of change™️, but there actions — for decades — speak louder than their rhetoric ever could.
he can't.
they bungled the EU friendship and now financially it's actually better for them to lean on support elsewhere
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