More EU Madness!

Indeed. I wonder how many women in India go to the cricket. Far out, I sense I now must deport myself to a country that doesnt have cricket. Or Rugby League for that matter because I don't like that thugs' game either.

The state of this thread, tbh. Some creepy af behaviour.

Oh, btw, Mr Intel might want to take into account that some people use VPNs.

Yup. Not to mention condescending and trying to do research on other members.

Remind me to rep his posts and engage in conversation and feign interest in his threads. Class dude.

He must have found someone with the same name on some other social media. Gee I'd like for someone on my aussie forum to think they tracked me down. A search of that name, which is actually the name of a dog I had, comes up as nearly 150,000,000 entries. I just looked at Dani8 - nearly 80,000. Goodluck with that.

And best cop out for Show and Tell on the internet goes to....

Well thank you for that small mercy. I'm sure my family will be happy to have the depraved label removed from my person. However the only time I'm befuddled is after I read your sermons about life in the UK and the effort it takes to match your lack of facts with the real life here.

Does that mean you and I can't drink some vino and get into some salacious talk looking at Gideon's photos of sexiest actors?

Not only women in India watch cricket , they watch men's cricket and don't watch women's cricket . Right now the women's cricket world cup is being played in that regular target for terrorists that will be conquered by the Islamic hordes in future ( England what else ) , but women around me are more into men's cricket. Now take that !!

It bears repeating.

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I'd like to think that the U.S. could actually get a better president than Obama but what are the odds of that happening? That'd be true even if your proposed hypothetical came true since we shouldn't have to expect another country to swoop in and deal with our problems in a way that absolves us of our responsibility (and, if anything, just makes us look even worse than we already do).

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You are talking about the older form of cricket called test cricket, where the game goes on for five long days . New forms of cricket like twenty twenty cricket are much faster and the game is over in 3 hours.

I'm talking about any cricket, old, new, vintage or semi-modern. It still 3 hours too long IMO but glad you find it entertaining. I have to say, not many women in the stands though.

In any case, you might want to discuss cricket in the appropriate thread you started. It seems like there are a few people interested.

I thank you on behalf of dani8 for the pointed support

What the???

I think labelling Nigel Farage a right-wing extremist is a bit lazy, and that whilst on an authoritative and social scale he's on that side of the spectrum - patriotic, supports monarchy, anti-PC, very traditional, believes in historical culture and against multiculturalism, he's not a far right economic conservative. As I said I believe that wanting to end the free movement of people is actually more inline with left wing economics that favours protectionism and internal economies. I've never really understood where UKIP stand on other economic issues, I know they want to reduce foreign aid, but they also want to increase certain areas of domestic spending, on stuff like nationalisation of services they seem to be inconsistent. I think Farage and definitely Nutall (who previously admitted he wanted to privatise the NHS) are actually quite conservative, but tailor their personal beliefs slightly to appeal more to the working class. That's what I never understood, why working class socialists voted for UKIP when a lot of the key party members are ex-Conservatives and are unclear on socialist economic issues like nationalisation and trade unions.

It's a shame that leaving the EU and wanting to end freedom of movement became associated to the right, and that no politic argument or party that was socialist and supporting left wing economic policies but was anti-EU really came about. We saw people like Dennis Skinner vote to leave, people like Tony Benn and Bob Crow would have too, but this all got very little media coverage.

UKIP's hijack of leave really distorted media opinion and created two distinct camps with no middle ground. It's also a failure of the left in not making a case for criticism of the EU, here is a good article - https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-from-the-left

I think there needs to be more education and an attempt to learn about what left and right wing actually mean, we need to be able to break down and distinguish policies to look at them from both an economic and social perspective. Nowadays people just think left wing = liberal, right wing = authoritarian, when it is much more complex than that.

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