There's a really good documentary made from a Serbian perspective. If I can remember the name of it I'll post a link. Suffice to say there's a whopping disconnect between how mainstream media in the US & UK portrayed the Serbian-Milosevic government and reality.

C-SPAN gave a pretty hostile [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8or18rPZUE0interview of Milosevic[/url in which I thought he gave a creditable performance.

Now, I'm not saying the guy was all sugar and spice. But you have to remember that he was balancing the needs of the entire nation against the very bitter (and understandable) resentment the Serbs had for the ethnic genocide they suffered during WWII at the hands of the Croats.

Did anyone watch the SHAM that was the international tribunal before which Milosevic was brought? I knew something was very, very wrong when they kept censoring his words. To say I wasn't surprised when he died of an "apparent heart attack" in prison is an understatement.

The fact that we imposed outright fascist governments on the newly created former Yugoslavian states tells you a lot about what the objectives of the war were.

I've said this for years now - Yugoslavia was a very public and brutal message to anyone harboring delusional notions of self-determination. It is completely intolerable to the owning class and any attempt to follow such a path will be ruthlessly suppressed.

With this in mind you have to ask - what kind of "self-determination" are Boris and Michael offering?

Ever watched one of those vampire films? Remember how you must "invite" Dracula into your home before he can enter?

The illusion of democracy works best when the people willingly gravitate toward a leader. Right now their man, Cameron, is toxic. Yet how do they get people to switch allegiance to another Tory when the entire party is perceived to be corrupt and filled with nutters?

The answer lies in taking advantage of wedge-issues they've been cultivating for several years now ... national sovereignty, immigration etc. It wasn't all that long ago when you couldn't get a cigarette paper between Johnson & Cameron. Yet now you'd swear the former was Churchill re-incarnated (he's even wrote a BOOK on Churchill ... LOL).

I mean, after all this pantomime is anyone any the wiser about what EXACTLY will happen (policy-wise) the moment a decision to leave or stay is made?

I know its been mentioned for a little while but, it certainly never made the press before, during or after the campaign.
Using the modern analogy, usually favoured by Labour, it would certainly pay for a few schools and hospitals or care for the elderly.

Who cares about that - the NHS is in rude health, and once all the nasty immigrants are kicked out of the waiting rooms, Dr's and nurses will be sitting around twiddling their thumbs; or at least the ones who weren't immigrants will be.

The folly in letting French and German energy companies buy half of our suppliers is now apparent post the Brexit vote.
nPower is to raise gas prices by 5% and electricity by a whopping 15%

And rather than the rest sticking together and shafting the greedy s , they will follow suit and shaft US!

Also, if I am correct, we are connected to the French grid. At periods like breakfast and tea time we are importing electricity from France.

What kind of dumb-ass thinking got us here?

If Brexit doesn't result in a change of tack, then I will be staggered.

Keep the coal-fired stations going now.

How will Brexit make any difference ?
The deals with EDF, to build new Nuclear Power Stations have already been signed (prior to the referendum) and we have effectively agreed to I think a 30% increase by 2020 ?.
Unless you think that Brexit will change this, which it wont, you should expect your energy costs to rise steadily until 2020 and probably beyond.
If we were still digging coal from the ground we may still have some control but, instead, we have put our energy supplies in French hands, oh yeah and then fallen out with them



All good stuff.

At least we will have "control"

Please use the thread 'Brexit Anyone? (2)' as we are well past the 1000-post limit ... the most recent posts are there.

Thank you.