EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Seems there are well over 500 different Johnson/Brexit ads being run on Facebook at the moment. Lots of targeted advertising there.

Right out of the Cambridge Analytica playbook. And unregulated since we're not in an election :)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49278999

MPs can't choose which votes to respect on an advisory referendum.... Righto

Well, electoral registration letter here when I got home. Snap election? How very dare you suggest...

Re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic... the WA is still the only thing on offer.

Unless they want a majority to talk to the EU to ask for the CU/SM which would remove the backstop but... not seeing that atm.

Where did this £100 million figure come from? Genuine question as i’d like to reference this in arguments with bigoted relatives and I don’t want to be accused of fake news.

From the Brexit budget/no deal planning budget announced soon after BoJo took over.

A new wun!

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So sad that I left Facebook, this looks fun!

you dont need to be FB user to access the ads: https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/report/

Can't you just post the fun ones for lolz so I don't have to trawl through the terribly boring ones?

K thnx

Regarding ads on FB there's an add-on called FB Purity for desktop/laptop browsers which allows you to remove ALL of the crap that you don't want to see.

Regarding the EU, I'm what they class as a 'remoaner'..... the UK, or just England if Scotland goes Indy, doesn't have the infrastructure to support itself. Plus if we leave, especially with no deal, then we will all by and largely lose our human rights. That's incredibly frightening as I'm disabled and it's bad enough as it is.

It's a Conservative Party power grab at whatever the cost in order to avoid the soon-incoming EU's tax haven rules. They dont want to be caught up in that.

They certainly don't want Corbyn as PM, he can't be bought.

All well and good but how do you add it to everyone's devices? If you think this kind of thing is bullshit you're not really the person who needs to get rid of it above a level of it being annoying.

Sadly there is no phone version.... I don't use the FB app on my phone merely a web link.

If you mean add it to your computer's browser merely type FB Purity add on in to your search engine.

https://youtu.be/mKkzGVtxitg

Saw this today, possible repost..

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https://web.archive.org/web/20180925153319/http://jackofkent.com:80/2017/07/in-some-possible-branches-of-the-future-leaving-will-be-an-error-an-exchange-about-brexit-with-dominic-cummings/

Hum so Cummings wants to reform the UK perhaps more than leave the EU?

He'll still throw us all under a bus for that, but perhaps he can be placated with reforms coming from remain politicians.

Though what exactly does he want...getting rid of Whitehall power, ok more people can get behind that. But he doesn't seem so interested in electoral reform etc..

Dominic Cummings....

Talk about undemocratic representative. No one has ever voted for that guy and yet, here is , throwing things under buses for governmental reform that has never been proposed in a single manifesto, whilst (allegedly) plotting to subvert and circumvent our (Sovereign) parliament.

For the love of irony, this really takes the biscuit.

When you talk to a lot of leave voters it turns out that a lot of their complaints would be resolved by UK reform rather than leaving the EU.

a lot of their complaints would be resolved by UK reform rather than leaving the EU.

The greatest trick the Tory has pulled is convincing the UK that the EU is the one to blame.

When you talk to a lot of leave voters it turns out that a lot of their complaints won’t be resolved by UK reform or leaving the EU.

ftfy

Fascinating stuff about Cummings the heroic reformer. One of the comments to the jackofkent pages leads to:
See also Richard Holbrooke’s 1975 article on the role of academic advisers in the Vietnam war, The Smartest Man in the Room:
https://harpers.org/archive/1975/06/the-smartest-man-in-the-room/

I had already been thinking of Cummings in relation to David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest path to disaster. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414062.The_Best_and_the_Brightest
Do we need a separate discussion thread on What is Dominic Cummings?

Him and Gove stopped by the office today