You must look at the money. I've been saying for years the Deutsche Bank debt crisis is a major cause. What's the name of the number that comes after trillion?..yeah, that kind of debt. Money used like Monopoly game, trillions being thrown on speculation and futures. Someday those investors will ask the bankers where their money is- do they know? Not likely...and so the game continues. If any country in the EU needs to be bailed out from crushing debt, they'll have to borrow from the richer. Now the ultra-rich Brit politicians are faced with sharing the wealth if they're to be in the EU. Pounds will pounds will be pounds. The game of Monopoly continues. Just my two cents worth. I've felt this for a while now.

So true whispered, so true. I recently read someone comparing the EU banking system to a great big Ponzi scheme! If you know anything about Trump and Deutsche Bank, you could see why.

It's the Patriarchy, like usual. Just like the Catholic Church, a bunch of morally and spiritually corrupt old men in power covering for each other's crimes. A tale as old as time, but their time is coming.

The great Nye Bevan, Labour Party Health Minister and chief conceiver of the NHS 70 years ago, had them summed up and said it best all the way back then.

Thought this thread should have a bump in the current situation with Boris Johnson becoming British PM.
'They say he's the British Trump' says the orange overlord. 'That's what they want; they really like me over there'!
Er, no, we don't! The only people who like Trump in the UK come from the same racist, extreme right wing background that he does. When Katie Hopkins, well known hatemonger, who claims to support 'Christian values' but is caught on film naked in a field, being arse piped by someone else's husband; the woman who is banned for racism from, of all places, South Africa; when she starts retweeting your tweets, you know you are not among the good guys! When he says 'I could end the Afganistan war in 8 days; I could do that but I don't want to kill 10 million people', you know that the current American President is a despot, no better than Pol Pot or Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Interestingly, Ceaușescu also started along the lines of calling ethnic populations 'Cockroaches' and set about illegalising abortions. He encouraged Romanian woman to have at least 5 children, with significant benefits if the did, and any woman who had 10 children was hailed as a 'Heroine Mother of the State'.
He then moved on to genocide and after many years, following a revolution, arrest and drumhead court marshal, he and his wife were immediatley executed by firing squad.
If you do not see the parallels in the West today, particularly in America, then you ain't paying enough attention!

Johnson is not a British Trump, but he is a duplicitous, vain man, a proven liar who will change opinion at the drop of a hat (so they have these in common at least), and he is desperate to succeed, and that leaves us vulnerable.
Buckle up everyone. We are all in for a bumpy 18 months at least!

A different kind of war is being waged. What annoys me the most is, at our level, the public level, it is one of hearts and minds and a lot if the public are so easily duped by lies and propaganda. Many of them have become emboldened to be seen as openly racist; an opinion that has been given to them by the media; particularly the newspapers who are spouting the creed of Billionaires who don't care a fig about us, particularly the poor, the homeless, or the disabled.