Why don't you stand then? Get nominated, make your deposit and convince your electorate that you know what's best for them.

I suspect that, in this new age of social media, it won't be too long before the traditional party system breaks down. We already have citizen journalists publishing whatever they want, without the deadweight of truth and fact checking to restrict them. Why not citizen MPs, unrestricted by party whips?

We can then descend deeper into the swamp of really fake "news" in which conspiracy theories dominate and truth is replaced by opinion.

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Just as much dubious stuff from Putin

Paua oouaarancì Irà chiyeah Ishé galé ma ba oo ah

Fake news tells us that all is fine and Brexit will be the sole reason for any downturn......despite the truth.
Global debt has now hit over $240trillion, (exposure for liabilities/derivatives will easily double this).
In short, we are heading for a s***storm. A s***storm that should've been nailed in '08/09 but was, surprise surprise, allowed to continue for the past 10yrs through QE and zero interest rates that only benefited the very few at the top.
During this time of unprecedented amounts of currency circulating the globe, personal debt has grown, ie the average Joe keeps borrowing from his future to pay for today.

THIS should be worrying everyone here. Brexit is merely a diversion from the true reality.

Buy Litecoin.

Are you a Russian by any chance?

If not, when will the penny drop?

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“This year, Soros moved to defy his critics over his £400,000 donation to Best for Britain by pledging an additional £100,000 to support efforts to fight Brexit. OSF’s total funding for pro-Europe campaigns and organisations is now at more than £800,000”

You are being played my friend.

I don't agree with you on everything Tux by a long way, but you're spot on with this. We are heading for something beyond nasty. The answer to the biggest debt crisis in history in 2008 is, apparently, to borrow more, because NO ONE wants to cut back.

The rise of populism has been all about 2008. It's always for someone else to deal with because the electorate all over the world have said it's nothing to do with them. They vote for who tells them what they want to hear.

There's no real solution unfortunately, other than war. The last time the world looked like this was just before WWII, and before that just before WWI. It's called multipolarity, when global power is shifting. With the US declining in relative terms, the resurgence of China as a global power, the reawakening of Russian nationalism, and (in my opinion) the unravelling of the European Union in the next 5 to 10 years), we're headed for something far more worrying than a traffic jam in Dover.

Still, there's not much we can do about it which is why I'm having a tenner on us to get something today at Liverpool, then going on holiday for a couple of weeks, having booked another break for the Summer. Deal only with what you can control.

Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.

As I am not the least bit left wing you definitely misunderstand me! I have no time at all for the current Labour Party, or any kind of stifling socialism. I am an economic conservative but socially liberal. Capitalism with a high safety net!

Anyone who regards people like me as "left wing" reveal more about themselves than they do about me. Only the hard right could come to such a conclusion.

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