UK Elections
UK Elections
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- Fax_Benson1
hahahaha,
- Good God.detritus
- I'm laughing the maniacal laughter of the condemned. There's no way back for a world in which that is a serious articleFax_Benson
- Watch this...
http://www.independe…monoboy - You can hear the let's exploit this cogs whirring. Make a killing. Figuratively and also literally.monoboy
- Christ, I'd only ever seen the guy on the likes of HIGNFY and thought him simply an extreme archetype caricature. What a cunt.detritus
- he's a poster boy for the Empire revivalistsFax_Benson
- The what now?detritus
- the types who think brexit = empire 2.0 and want to return to imperial preferenceFax_Benson
- Surely there can only be like 4 of them across the entire country?detritus
- + 4 million daily mail readers.fadein11
- I think 4M+ DM readers 'just want their country back' not the Empire that hasn't existed for the bulk of their lives. An easy caricature though, i appreciate.detritus
- Not saying they're not somewhat delusional, mind you - just that I can't think I've ever met a Brit genuinely hankering after Empire...detritus
- ...closest I've ever gotten is meeting with colonials, usually Maltese or Gibraltarian, etc, who've all sounded way toffier than most Brits I've known.detritus
- Rees-Mogg was a speaker at a dinner for loopy Tory fringe the Traditional Britain Group. Could be that they like him more than he likes themFax_Benson
- He claimed he didn't know their views. I think Godfrey Bloom's involved somehow.Fax_Benson
- but yeah, still pretty 'niche'Fax_Benson