Brexit, the economy and house prices part 5

tracey3596

ilovehouses wrote: »

I had a skim through the manifesto. There was a whole section about the EU - calling for the EU to do things differently etc but pretty constructive. Didn't get the sense they thought the electorate were particularly worried about sovereignty or the ECJ like us lot in the UK pretend to be.

Like I said before, I'm sure the €6 billion/year or so they receive from the EU has nothing to do with that "constructive" manifesto. Let's see if the same sentiment exists when they are instead asked to contribute, rather than receive.

mayonnaise

It starts with a letter....but what's next? Brexiteering brown-shirts rounding up 'dissidents'?



https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tory-whip-sparks-row-with-letter-to-universities-demanding-list-of-professors-who-lecture-on-brexit-a3666621.html

Herzlos

Hopefully the university chancellors tell him to fornicate elsewhere.

westernpromise

Herzlos wrote: »

Hopefully the university chancellors tell him to fornicate elsewhere.

As they're state funded they are accountable to the taxpayer. If they're teaching rubbish they should be made to explain themselves.

cogito

mayonnaise wrote: »

It starts with a letter....but what's next? Brexiteering brown-shirts rounding up 'dissidents'?



https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tory-whip-sparks-row-with-letter-to-universities-demanding-list-of-professors-who-lecture-on-brexit-a3666621.html

Light needs to be shone into some of the murkier corners of what passes for university teaching these days but whether this is the right way to do it is another matter.

TrickyTree83

The letter is a blessing. Look at the huge over reaction to a simple request for information. All of a sudden it's thought policing and they won't comply. The veil slips... on MSE too.

So an MP asks for information, academics refuse on the basis that they will not be thought policed... The letter says nothing of intention with the information, but the reaction from the left wing media (incl. BBC, let's not pretend otherwise) and posters on here is assuming that he wants to shut down anti-Brexit debate. How shallow you all are, how pathetic. Equally as bad is the government not standing up for a simple request for information. The left is truly perverse these days.

System

I can't stand this misuse of the phrase "the left". It's so lazy.

antrobus

Joeskeppi wrote: »

I can't stand this misuse of the phrase "the left". It's so lazy.

Ditto for "the right" presumably?

System

antrobus wrote: »

Ditto for "the right" presumably?

No, actually. For the record I consider myself very central. I don't see as much abuse of the phrase "the right". But generally they strike me as meaningless categories.

Edit: To expand on this most people I see getting called "right wing" would happily be labelled as such and indeed would label themselves.

The other day I got called a liberal lefty because I didn't think every muslim in the country should be shot. *shrug*

vivatifosi

Herzlos wrote: »

Hopefully the university chancellors tell him to fornicate elsewhere.

What was he thinking? Someone on Sky said he might as well be a recruiting sergeant for Corbyn.

It's as though politicians of both sides are incapable of stopping to mull over unintended consequences before sticking their size elevens in it these days.