Honestly with the amount of money the Tories have spent and with the attack on civil liberties you might as well have had Corbyn.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Rudi, nobody is going to admit they got it wrong. So I'm afraid your final sentence is the best advice.

How's Sweden doing by the way? MSM seem not to be reporting lately......

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

And we would no doubt be smack bang in the middle of a second referendum vote as well. Or rather just the Remain side planning to vote whilst everybody else decided to deliberately boycott, spoil their papers or planning on burning down polling stations.

With a level of civil disorder that does not bear thinking about, especially if we still had all that BLM stuff breaking out as well.

Dodged a huge bullet back in December on a variety of levels.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

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A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

This constant focus on the current loss of civil liberties and wah wahing about it is beginning to grate.

Yes, a lot of legislation passed since march has been done so on the quiet or unopposed, and certain things have been slipped in without scrutiny. Is that ideal, no. Should we expect civil liberties to be eroded at this time? Yes. Absolutely logical. If you think otherwise then you're an idiot – an entire book could be written on why that's a stupid position to hold.

Will these measures always be in place? No. Why? Because there would be a revolt (an actual genuine chance of one this time, Matov, not all roads lead to civil war). Opposition parties would also seize on them, expose them and therefore result in a power change.

That's not to say there's not some sneaky stuff going on while they can get away with it, but it's being massively overblown. Just strikes me that people with no job or livelihood are bored and resentful, and searching for more meaning than just bad luck (which it is – wrong job, wrong time) and some bad decisions (which there have been, but everyone has the gift of hindsight now, don't they) to justify their existence and have someone to blame. Fine.

But if someone tells you to stop whinging about it, don't take offence. There's always someone worse off than you, and there's always someone else who ends up making a better life than you will out of the exact same situation.

What people can't grasp sometimes is, bad s*** doesn't always happen for a specific, calculated reason. It feels better if you can convince yourself that it did, or make something up to fill the void, sure. Everyone wants to feel like they're in control. The hardest thing for some people to understand that not everything is controllable, deliberate or with reason. If they could, religion wouldn't exist. Sometimes it's just how it is. No deliberate campaign, no specific strategy to f*** them over. It's just life. The sooner they accept that the sooner they can progress.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

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And there’s why we get stitched up and they’re not being held to account while governing by decree.

It’s as idiotic to believe their random closures. If their lockdowns worked then there would be similar peaks of infections in deaths nationally or show some sort of explainable results. I e just seen it’s random dates everywhere. Luckily down here we’re cleaner and more sensible than up north.

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