What the ever-loving fuck were you thinking?

[blamebrampton]

I know what it's like. I remember a couple of years back, spending weeks thinking 'Surely no-one could be stupid enough to vote for Tony Abbott?'

But the tragedy is that yes, they could, and the predictable disaster was even worse than we'd imagined.

What we learned from this is to never underestimate the lack of thought people can put into their vote, nor the stunning duplicity some political figures will practice in the service of their own self interest.

And while it is tempting to just look at the plummeting pound and adjust shopping and travelling plans, all the while cackling ruefully at the Leave voters who have been all over the news saying 'But I thought it was just a protest! I didn't think it would happen!' we should all learn from today.

I'm looking at you, Australia and the US. Ignore lies, ignore comedy, look to the social and economic futures of your countries and make your vote count rationally. And when it comes to economics, don't listen to anyone's smug words; look at the records, look at the numbers, look to the IMF and World Bank and your respective Treasuries, who are boring and more conservative than I would like, but who know the value of infrastructure and education.

I can't even be funny about any of this today. I have never seen such an appalling case of the older generations fucking the future of the young out of fear, self-interest and ignorance.

Comments

[germankitty]

I'm of the generation who voted yes to Brexit in the UK, and can only share your sentiment. My TV has been on since the polls closed last night, and what appalled me most is that barely an hour after the result was official, Nigel Farage said on live TV that one of the main campaign promises of the "Leave" faction -- that the 350 million pounds Britain is paying annually to the EU would be funnelled into the NHS instead -- was "a mistake" (verbatim) and (paraphrased) "was probably not feasible/going to happen".

Is it "honesty" if you admit that you've lied and profited from that lie?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I'm in the middle of a Federal election here and spending far too much time shouting 'Not true! Lie! Uncontextualised overstatement! False comparison!' but compared to the Brexit set, most Australian politicians look like models of probity and restraint, which is ridiculous because even with the ones I vote for half of them are bloody drongos.

The whole 'Oh, we can be just like Norway and Switzerland and get all the benefits and have to follow none of the rules and the EU will just have to do what we want for a change!' and I'm 'What, imaginary Switzerland and Norway? As opposed to the real ones who still have to satisfy EU regulatory demands, get some of the benefits but in no way all, and the ones they do get come at a price, and have ZERO SAY in how things operate?'

I'm just frothing.

I'm frothing at Cameron, too, who was such a smug, self-satisfied muppet that he gave no useful information to people who would have listened to him until long after they'd been convinced by the other chaps. And at Corbyn, who doesn't seem to have done much useful at all. I can't even blame a reasonable number of Leave voters, given the flat out idiocy and lies in large parts of the media, but I also find myself shouting 'OH COME ON! If Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and Rupert Murdoch all think something is a great idea, you can bet your last 10p that it will be a TERRIBLE idea.'

For crying out loud, we'd only JUST cleaned up after the last economic disaster England had a hand in. If Mr and Mrs Midlands were that put out by the whole Austerity thing, SURELY they should have agitated to jail a few bankers a la Iceland, rather than replaying the global economy tanking as an amateur production?

I'm going to bed, and hoping for dreams of Merkel laying Johnson out with a clean right hook.

[germankitty]

" I'm going to bed, and hoping for dreams of Merkel laying Johnson out with a clean right hook."

I'd pay to see that!!!

She's a physicist; shouldn't there be a way that Angie can get rid of these folks with science? Maybe feed them to that antimatter thingie in Switzerland?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

If Boris disappears, I'll be looking at CERN ;-)

[germankitty]

LOL!

[connorblond.livejournal.com]

Ah. As someone who lives in the same country as Merkel ... don't expect too much of her. That could be a mistake, too.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I find her up and down: great on some things, utterly lacking on others. But I also look at her sometimes and think 'You must just be dying to thump someone!' Watch her around Putin: I think she has a thing going on in her head where she imagines kicking him as a way to get through their interactions.