The Brexiteer’s guide to Christmas – avoiding arguments and other tips

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The best way to avoid Brexit bust-ups is to pretend that Remain folk are right about virtually everything...

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The Brexiteer’s guide to Christmas – avoiding arguments and other tips

Lloyd Evans
22 December 2018
The Spectator

The best way to avoid Brexit bust-ups is to pretend that Remain folk are right about virtually everything. This may not be easy. A relative arguing for a second referendum will probably say, ‘in a democracy people can change their minds.’ To which the obvious reply is, ‘So change your mind and accept the verdict of 17.4 million Leavers.’ But it’s wiser to nod and ask mildly, ‘Which part of the Brussels charm-offensive has persuaded the largest number of Brexiteers to recant so far?’

Or you may hear someone claiming that the EU’s world-class diplomatic service has guaranteed peace in Europe and beyond for many decades. It’s best to concede the general point while flagging up the odd exception. ‘Catalonia, eastern Ukraine, the land-grab in Crimea, the riots in Athens following the credit crunch, the gilets jaunes protests today and the tens of thousands killed during years of civil disorder in Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo. Apart from that, you’re right, it’s all been tickety-boo.’

If poor Theresa May is mentioned, it’s tempting to describe her as ‘the woman who can’t stand up to a man who can’t stand up’. But it might be better to tilt your head sympathetically and say ‘she’s amazingly single-minded, isn’t she?’ and no one will hear you muttering, ‘like David Koresh’.

My Christmas destination is Exeter where my brother lives with his brood of teenagers. Too young to vote in 2016, they consider themselves ‘the disenfranchised’ who will have to endure the consequences of the Brexit blunder. Privately they think of me as an illiterate, hate-filled, racist, thickhead neo-Nazi ideologue who was brainwashed by Facebook on the orders of Putin. At least that’s what they put on my Christmas card. I have a treat in store for them. Each will receive a big shiny box sporting a £39 billion price-tag and containing nothing. Beyond that, I don’t intend to push the Brexit thing too hard. I’m looking forward to a happy family feast on Christmas Day, ‘without rancour’, as Roy Jenkins used to put it.

Exeter is a sad blip of Remain in a wonderful swathe of pro-Leave territory. Travelling there, I often find myself on the same train as the beautifully coiffured Exeter MP, Ben Bradshaw, a People’s Vote enthusiast. I know it’s only a matter of time before he resigns from parliament and demands a by-election to give his constituents a ‘final say’.

On Christmas Eve we all go to the carol concert at the cathedral where I hope to find the Crib modified to suit the city’s Remain sentiments. The star of Bethlehem will be surrounded by eleven twinkling orbs arranged in a harmonious circle. Joseph will be holding a 7 kg ‘Parenting Manual’ written in each of the EU’s 24 official languages. Mary will be enjoying a statutory two days’ leave after being in labour for 35 hours. A behavioural psychologist will be monitoring Baby Jesus for signs that he’s actually a she. And the whole thing will be concealed behind an opaque screen for fear of offending non-Christians.

After carols, I’ll wander the streets handing out cash to the city’s large population of junkies and crackheads who have been cruelly overlooked by the government’s No Deal preparations, even though they rely more heavily on drug supply-chains than most of us. I’ll also distribute the 600 Mars Bars I bought last week in a fit of panic triggered by a Project Fear piece in Guardian.

Hopefully we’ll be able to chomp our way through our Christmas dinner without ‘the backstop’ being mentioned. After all, nobody knows what it does, why it’s there or how it got its name. A bit like Boxing Day. We’re usually invited to drinks with a diehard Remain family (he’s a lawyer, she’s a nurse), and their large family. As they’re generous and highly sociable, their Boxing Day bash is a popular and very boozy affair. This, I feel, will be an ideal place for me to shine. I’ll ask male Remainers which European city they’ll enjoy fighting for when they’re conscripted into Juncker’s army. And I’ll playfully tousle the hairstyles of female Remainers while asking them to recharge my vodka glass.

If challenged over my conduct, I’ll claim that I was merely lampooning the toxic propaganda of the far-right Brexit head-bangers. And then, in a pre-rehearsed speech, I’ll delight my hosts by outlining the perils about to be visited on this great European nation. ‘It’ll be chaos. Millions on the dole. Sterling trading at 49 cents. Our beloved NHS in its terminal agonies. The Troubles reignited. Babies starving. Pensioners freezing to death. Pregnant mothers collapsing from hunger in rat-infested gutters heaped with unburied corpses. Plus, it’ll be really hard to just hop on a plane to Pisa.’

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https://www.investmentwatchblog.com...ents-propaganda-war-against-their-own-people/
“The Truth is the Greatest Enemy of the State” Joseph Goebbels. Brexit and the UK government’s propaganda war against their own people.

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to repeat it.
The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or miltary consequences of the lie.
It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the Truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the Truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
So said Joseph Goebbels.
This statement has never been more true than it is today, in the so called Western “democracies” – actually Corporate Oligarchies (Big Lie number 1) and especially in Theresa May’s Extreme Neocon Fascist Globalist UK government.

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Big Lie Number 2
The UK government is currently running a Propaganda War against its own people in an organized Mass Disinformation Campaign called the “Integrity Initiative” to push the Russia Hoax.
This campaign consists of:
A £2.2m UK government (i.e. taxpayer) funded core of extreme Neocons who are paid Lobbyists for the War Industry and do nothing but tell lies all the time.
A group of Neocon War Propaganda mainstream media hacks, to push the UK government’s desired propaganda in their “newspaper” columns and articles on TV and to “amplify the message” using, their usually large, social media accounts..
A group of Foreign Office officials to co-ordinate the disinfo propaganda efforts.

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The workings of this group has recently been exposed, because their records have recently been hacked and published online.
A full analysis by a team of British academics, including Piers Robinson, on the workings of this propaganda group known as the “Integrity Initiative” from the “Institute of Statecraft”, has just been published and is available here:
syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers/briefing-note-on-the-integrity-initiative
Craig Murray has also written a series of excellent articles on this, here is his latest:-
British Security Service Infiltration, the Integrity Initiative and the Institute for Statecraft
www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/12/british-security-service-infiltration-the-integrity-initiative-and-the-institute-for-statecraft/
This group is primarily concerned with pushing the UK government lies on its primary agenda of provoking conflict with Russia and gaslighting the public on all things Russian.
The UK government lies on Russiagate, the non-existent “Russian meddling”, the non-existent “Russian threat” and the “non-existent “Russian trolls” are Big Lie number 2, in this article.

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Obviously the same network can also be used to push propaganda on other subjects such as pushing the government’s lies on Brexit or covering up its War Crimes in Syria etc.
The group is actively involved in smearing Jeremy Corbyn and (the non-Blairite parts of) the Labour Party with false accusations – See Big Lie number 4, below.
It also meddles in other countries internal domestic policies and has recently boasted of preventing Pedro Baños, who is somewhat sympathetic to Russia, from being appointed to the post of Director of Spain’s Department of Homeland Securit.
The main British Group members.
Basically ALL of these people are working for the War Industry, directly against the interests of ordinary Brits.

The British media is operating an almost complete blackout (apart from one Scottish newspaper) on this UK government funded, Major Disinfo Propaganda Network, which in any functional democracy, with any functioning “Free Press”, would be headline news for days on end, both in the British media and other Western media as well – which just goes to prove they are ALL completely controlled.

 

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