EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

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h2o in reply to @Oliver Schick

Then why are they calling it #GreenIndustrialRevolution all over social media?

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snottyotter in reply to @h2o

Branding, the industrial revolution is a British (Manc) thing that is almost universally thought of as wonderful and the best of British ingenuity (dispite all the actual problems of pollution, slavery etc they went along with it) so saying it's like that but with all green stuff sounds a lot different than revolution sans industrial.

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h2o in reply to @snottyotter

When I said I didn't think the changes would be revolutionary, I didn't for a moment think that anyone would read that as meaning the kind of revolution where the state gets overthrown. I meant profound and rapid change - a bit like, erm, the industrial revolution. It's figurative language, innit.

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