Tag Archives: Brexit

Change in absentia

Posted on 20/09/2021 by sabremeister

24 years ago, I moved from Yorkshire to Edinburgh for college. I had visions of myself returning in four years at the end of the course to meet with my friends, and be told that everything is shit now because … Continue reading →

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Escape From the Country

Posted on 24/12/2020 by sabremeister

There is something very hurtful about having the concept you’ve been embracing being used as little more than an irreverent comment by someone whose ethos you despise. A few days ago, I emigrated to Sweden. I was on one of … Continue reading →

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The Sick Man of Europe

Posted on 21/12/2020 by sabremeister

A hundred-plus years ago, that nickname was applied to the Ottoman Empire. It was over-stretched militarily and financially, and facing internal unrest on both ethnic religious lines. Today, it is applied to the UK, and it is applied literally. The … Continue reading →

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Brexugee

Posted on 15/12/2020 by sabremeister

Six-or-so years ago, a very dangerous idea was brought to prominence in the UK. It was the idea that a foreign superstate was controlling every aspect of the UK’s governance, allowing us to be flooded with immigrants and drowning us … Continue reading →

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Petition to revoke Article 50

Posted on 21/03/2019 by sabremeister

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584

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Who’s the real traitor?

Posted on 30/07/2018 by sabremeister

Yesterday, I was playing Star Trek Online. Despite it being based on a TV show structured around a socialist utopia, there are a large number of right-wing trolls who play it. Someone made a comment involving the words “treasonous remoaners” … Continue reading →

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Posted on 22/12/2017 by sabremeister

Some of my previous posts about politics, particularly relating to the EU Referendum and its’ result1 may have been a bit ranty. This isn’t. 1 Actually, I don’t think I managed more than one, in case the rage-stress of the … Continue reading →

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Stopping Brexit

Posted on 05/08/2017 by sabremeister

“Brexit is the will of the people, democratically expressed in a valid referendum.” No. No, it isn’t. It never was, and it never will be. The only reason people are saying so is because the mainstream media, the majority of … Continue reading →

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