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| The best speech on Brexit -- from a shocking source |
| 2019-09-10 |
| Keep in mind that, according to most of our media (and even more so the European media), we are supposed to regard with fear the German "ultra-right-wing" political party, the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD). Also, keep in mind that we are supposed to believe that the Brexit battle pits Brits against a united Europe that is horrified at their effort to shatter the European Union. But, in fact, the arrogant, unaccountable transnational organizations, of which the EU is a leading example, have served global elites better than ordinary citizens of their constuent countries. Watch this speech in Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, by AfD’s co-leader Alice Weidel and start to realize that populism is a global force in the highly industrialized world, and that the complaints we Anericans feel against our elites, and the complaints Brits have against ceeding controt ot he EU, are all of a piece. She does not hesitate to point her fingers at France, which is leading the resistance to a negotiated Brexit. I just can't believe that in any business run jointly by Germans & French, the French are calling the shots. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 It wasn't Ringo Starr? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-09-10 22:48 |
| #7 And yet Cromwell's status stands outside Parliament. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2019-09-10 20:47 |
| #6 Mixed reviews, I'd say. Wikipedia Cromwell is one of the most controversial figures in the history of the British Isles, considered a regicidal dictator by historians such as David Sharp,[5] a military dictator by Winston Churchill,[6] and a hero of liberty by John Milton, Thomas Carlyle, and Samuel Rawson Gardiner. His tolerance of Protestant sects did not extend to Catholics; his measures against them in Ireland have been characterised by some as genocidal or near-genocidal,[7] and his record is harshly criticised in Ireland.[8] He was selected as one of the ten greatest Britons of all time in a 2002 BBC poll.[9] |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-09-10 16:45 |
| #5 A little reminder: Winston Churchill called Cromwell "a military dictator". |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-09-10 16:44 |
| #4 Well, you got... Cromwell. Didn't go too well, did it? |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-09-10 16:34 |
| #3 Wow |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-09-10 16:33 |
| #2 No. THIS is the best speech on Brexit (and the remainiacs in Parliament): Cromwell to Parliament: It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice. Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government. Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance. Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do. I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place. Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go! |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2019-09-10 16:29 |
| #1 I suspect the French can take the lead on anything the Germans don't really care about. Since Germany is the economic engine of the Eu anything they care about is going to be done their way. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2019-09-10 15:06 |