For many years now, when people ask me who I think will win an election I have advised them to go and see what William Hill and Ladbrokes are giving on the result. Bookmakers are the best and most neutral opinion poll you will get. They are not into politics and are only concerned that they are giving odds that will ensure that no matter the outcome they will emerge as winners. It is early days in the long and drawn out campaign we are now engaged in to determine the outcome of the European referendum but today the Stay In campaign are, on average, 2/7, whilst the Out campaign are on 5/2. That is, in betting terms, a substantial lead for the In campaign, giving the Brexit lot a mountain to climb. Ladbrokes are quoting England and Wales at 1/3 to stay and 2/1 to leave and a whopping 1/12 for Scotland to vote to stay against 5/1 to leave. All Scottish parties are supporting the Stay In campaign, even the Scottish Tories, once again demonstrating the therapeutic value of living in Scotland on even the most feverish and damaged brains.
I have decided to give the detailed coverage of this referendum a wide berth as I am already sickened by the lies and fearmongering propaganda from both sides. Other things that bother me are garbage like the speculation over which way Boris the Spider will go. He has decided to back Brexit but who on earth cares what this loathsome upper class buffoon says about anything? It tells you all you want to know about the intelligence of the electorate in large parts of England when they are waiting to see what an imbecile has to say. Yesterday we had the incredible spectacle of Nigel Farage and George Galloway sharing a platform, two people who share a mutual detestation for one another, so everyone must pause and contemplate the nature of the Out campaign. As well as Galloway and Farage, you will be in the delightful company of Duncan-Smith, Michael Gove, Boris the Spider, the Daily Mail, the Express, the Telegraph, UKIP, the English Defence League, the British National Party and every right-wing quasi-fascist imaginable. A greater Chamber of Horrors is hard to imagine.
However, when people ask me I tell them to contemplate the nature of a Britain governed by such people. These are the type of people who caused the financial crisis, who refuse to regulate the financial system but penalise workers at every opportunity, have stripped us of almost all of our employment protection, who wage a continual and savage war against everyone on benefits, who have driven the NHS into effective bankruptcy, who will have everyone on zero-hour contracts as soon as they can, will privatise education and social care, who have destroyed the housing market, the transport network, who want to give the security services total access to our most private spheres of life etc. etc. That is only a glimpse of a future under such people outside of the EU under the figleaf of so-called sovereignty. That is why I call an exit vote unthinkable, not because of the delights of Europe, but because of the genuine sinister nature of going it alone under such atrocious people. Take Galloway out of that picture and you have a group of people advocating unrestricted and unregulated capitalism, a recipe for certain disaster and tyranny. Capitalism, freedom and democracy are fundamentally incompatible. I will explain what I mean by that in another post. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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