A quick warning, there is going to be some distinctly british swearing in this,if bad language offends you, please continue regardless, it should give you an insight into just how betrayed and fucked over most remain voters feel.
So, Red Markets is a game about economic horror.
Economic horror is a little to real right now, as i happen to be living through it. Long with a unhealthy does of political horror.
On Thursday, the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU. Somewhere in the labyrinthine halls of white hall, Nyarlathotep smiled, for this will mean chaos
I am going to start by talking about the politics of the thing..
This wasn't what you have been told it was...#
You might be forgiven for thinking that the United Kingdom European Union Membership Referendum, 2016, colloquially known as Brexit vote, came about as a result of a national desire to leave the EU.
You would be wrong.
Our political class largely did not believe that this would happen, and had they believed it was likely, they would not have offered the referendum.
No, in fact, there is every reason to believe that the referendum was offered by David Cameron and his allies as a way of securing their political position.
At the last general election, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) made some significant advances in the polls, enough that the extreme right of the conservative party were able to use the threat of UKIP to push for harder and nastier politics.
Our porcine premier used decided in his infinite wisdom, that the best way to de-fang UKIP, was to offer a referendum, as part of the manifesto. He did this im I suspect full belief that the british people would reject such a proposal.
No one ever suggested that Cameron is in touch with the wants, needs and fears of the electorate...
You would be wrong.
Our political class largely did not believe that this would happen, and had they believed it was likely, they would not have offered the referendum.
No, in fact, there is every reason to believe that the referendum was offered by David Cameron and his allies as a way of securing their political position.
At the last general election, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) made some significant advances in the polls, enough that the extreme right of the conservative party were able to use the threat of UKIP to push for harder and nastier politics.
Our porcine premier used decided in his infinite wisdom, that the best way to de-fang UKIP, was to offer a referendum, as part of the manifesto. He did this im I suspect full belief that the british people would reject such a proposal.
No one ever suggested that Cameron is in touch with the wants, needs and fears of the electorate...
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| Cameron and many of his political allies/enemies getting ready for a night of incredibly fine dining, drinking and smashing up restaurants. |
Oh, I just can't wait to be king!
Things might have been okay, if it hadn't have been for Boris Johnson.
Johnson is a social and political chameleon of highest order. Just look at his changing stance on gay marriage
“If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncertain on the issue – then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.”
Boris Johnson
‘One of the amazing things about London is that not only have we got a declining crime rate, declining murder rate, more theatres than New York, less rainfall than Rome, it’s also one of the few places in the country where the rate of marriage is actually increasing.
‘I see absolutely no reason why that happy state should be denied to anybody in our country and that’s why I’m supporting the Out4Marriage campaign.’
Boris Johnson
He shape shifts his politics mercilessly to gain power, and has done so through out his career. His most common public demeanor is near archetypal. It is the Idiot, and it haves made him wildly popular, well beyond London, the city of which had been mayor for some years. Even I, find myself grudgingly liking the man.
Boris, seeing an opportunity to grab power, joined the leave campaign, legitimizing it to a degree..
For without Boris "zipline" Johnson, they would have been left with the braying ass, that is Nigel Farage, a man who's political career appears to have involved playing bottom.
This is a man who conveniently forgot the political assassination of MP Jo Cox by a far right extremist, to state that the referendum had been won "without a shot fired".
No one saw this coming (except the SNP ).
Lets start at the end. Faisal Islam is the chief political editor of Sky News, owned by everyones favorite Australian Cunt Rupert Murdoch, If there was a political editor for a news organisation who should have known what was going on with the leave, it should be Faisal Islam. After all, his news service has been an ongoing ally of the leave campaign. One might almost call it the propaganda arm of the leave campaign, if it were not for the right wing press having gone so much further.
What makes Mr Islam interesting in this case, is what happened when he questioned leave campaign sources about plans going forward. Check it out here.
There is no plan for how to go about disengangling the UK from the EU. The only groups with any real plan for how things should precede from here on are the Scottish National Party, and the Bank of income, though the bank of englands plans revolve mostly around trying to stem economic chaos.
I would like to say that I saw the working class vote on this coming, but I think it is fairer to say that the reality was an extension of my worst fears of what might happen.
What makes Mr Islam interesting in this case, is what happened when he questioned leave campaign sources about plans going forward. Check it out here.
There is no plan for how to go about disengangling the UK from the EU. The only groups with any real plan for how things should precede from here on are the Scottish National Party, and the Bank of income, though the bank of englands plans revolve mostly around trying to stem economic chaos.
I would like to say that I saw the working class vote on this coming, but I think it is fairer to say that the reality was an extension of my worst fears of what might happen.
Fuck this shit I'm out!
A handful of hours after the election results became clear, the walking slab of gammon, known as David Cameron, announced to the public that his official position was...
And in a moment he managed to hand the whole poisoned chalice of Brexit over to the leave campaign, by not starting the process. In fact, it appears, he went to far as to say "Why should I do the hard shit"
Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty
Article 50, as it is mostly termed, is the process by which a nation leaves the EU. This complex and somewhat vague document's most easily understandable equivalent is a divorce.Undertaking Article 50 will be a long and complicated process, likely in the range of two years. During that time there is likel;y to be significant uncertainty about the future of the UK, as our diplomats hammer out details such as what will happen to EU citizens living and working in the UK, and UK Citizens living and working in the EU. Health insurance, social security, taxzation and much else besides.
What it doesn't do is set out new trade deals with eurozone countries, a process that could take 10 years. Professor Michael Dougan gives a concise and informative lecture on the implications of article 50.
In short, the whole affair is likely to be long, contentious and messy, exactly the sort of thing Boris and his rivals would rather David Cameron was doing for them.
Death of British Democracy
As Professor Dougan points out, our laws are intimately tied to EU membership. Leaving the EU will mean that vast quantaties of UK law is go to have to be rewritten. So much in fact, that parliment will almost certainly going to have to just allow the government to do the whole lot, with minimal oversight. Why, because the parliamentary system will now allow new laws to be made quickly enough.
We also live at a time when the conservative party has some really nasty agendas, such as the destruction of NHS and BBC, welfare 'reform' which can be summed up as "Workhouse were a jolly good idea, what!", and an approach to privacy and digital rights that is frankly terrorfying (See snoppers charter )
But this must be done, 'cause,you know, the EU is undemocratic...
We also live at a time when the conservative party has some really nasty agendas, such as the destruction of NHS and BBC, welfare 'reform' which can be summed up as "Workhouse were a jolly good idea, what!", and an approach to privacy and digital rights that is frankly terrorfying (See snoppers charter )
But this must be done, 'cause,you know, the EU is undemocratic...
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