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Posts Tagged ‘europe
Irony of the #Brexit vote is poor/working class whites convinced to vote #Leave through xenophobia will be the ones who suffer the most.
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D (@Delo_Taylor) June 24, 2016
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This is a superb comment on the Financial Times. Sums it up perfectly. https://t.co/5i1uzWxUzi
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Liam Canning (@OffsideLiam) June 24, 2016
A Leave voter on the BBC:
"I thought remain would win. I didn't think my vote would mean anything. I'm quite worried now."
Great. Thanks.
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Adam Sweeney (@AdamWSweeney) June 24, 2016
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Woman on Radio 4 who voted Leave. "I'm pleased. Don't think it'll effect us cause we're elderly. For the young people I'm not sure."
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Game of ThEUROw-Ins (@GameofThrowIns) June 24, 2016
Age breakdown on Brexit polls tells underlying story. Older generation voted for a future the younger don't want: https://t.co/kMPECqQF6u
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Murtaza Hussain (@MazMHussain) June 24, 2016
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Scotland voted remain you incompressible jizztrumpet twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
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TechnicallyRemain (@TechnicallyRon) June 24, 2016
This is everything.
@realDonaldTrump #Brexit https://t.co/0NfdEvbYlr
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(((Amy Siskind))) (@Amy_Siskind) June 24, 2016
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To anyone watching from the US - not a single person I know was voting Leave, and that still happened. Don't let it happen with Trump.
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Claire Greenway (@clairegreenway) June 24, 2016
#BREAKING EU chiefs say Britain must start exit process 'as soon as possible'
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AFP news agency (@AFP) June 24, 2016
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Time for real talk. Economists favor more integration, not for the economic gains, but because it fosters peace, which is more valuable.
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Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 24, 2016
Christiane Amanpour explains how Brexit was fueled by "demagoguery, anti-immigration, xenophobia" mm4a.org/28Q2Sdq
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Media Matters (@mmfa) June 24, 2016
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I don't get all these people expressing Bregrets NOW. What did they think they were doing when they voted?
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Lisa Tozzi (@lisatozzi) June 24, 2016
Waking up to a pound collapse and econ doom, Brits now frantically Googling to figure out what they've done. washingtonpost.com/news/the-switc…
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Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 24, 2016
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Nigel Farage is a scumbag
We're not often classier in America, but we usually give it at least 12 hours before doing a 180 on our worst lies. twitter.com/KathViner/stat…
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Big Sexy Jeb! Lund (@Mobute) June 24, 2016
I'm already struggling with the smugness of Nigel Farage! We have not 'got our Country back' we have set it back, many many many years!
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Russ Haworth (@RussHaworth) June 24, 2016
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Brexiteers like the cheating man shocked he can't stay in the spare room for 2 years while he sorts himself out. twitter.com/afp/status/746…
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J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 24, 2016
Congratulations exiters. Reverse is across and down, easy on the clutch.
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Hugh Laurie (@hughlaurie) June 24, 2016
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I can't get my head around what's happening in Britain.I'm so sorry to the youth of Britain. I fear you've been let down today x
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James Corden (@JKCorden) June 24, 2016
"...and in the end, Britain, which had colonized the world, destroyed itself in fantasies that it was being colonized in turn" — historians.
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Ted Scheinman (@Ted_Scheinman) June 24, 2016
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The next James Bond will just be him spending 2 hours in passport control at De Gaulle
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Bobby Big Wheel (@BobbyBigWheel) June 23, 2016
We must learn from brexit: Elderly xenophobes will lie to pollsters to hide their racist views, then vote for destructive policies anyway.
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Anil Dash (@anildash) June 24, 2016
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You have to admire Leave Brits. They were so worried about immigrants ruining their economy than they preempted it by doing it themselves.
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Emile Hokayem (@emile_hokayem) June 24, 2016
UK lost 350 billion in less than 3 hours. Some people gonna learn: racism is expensive.
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Lexi Alexander (@Lexialex) June 24, 2016
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The Great Migration

A group of migrants leaves a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary, September 7, 2015, as they decided to go the nearest town of Szeged. – Reuters/Marko Djurica
With the new millennium, Europe increasingly became a magnet for migrants. Such a migration engendered nativist movements, racism, and violence. (In the former East Germany, migrants’ hostels were firebombed at an alarming rate. In France, the National Front kept gaining in popularity as the immigrant population kept increasing.)
But what we’re seeing this year is something Europe hasn’t witnessed since the end of World War II. Frankly, it’s something Europe has never witnessed. A swathe of humanity is on the march, and it’s heading for European shores.
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#ThisIsACoup – Updates on Greece
As most of you know, I was hoping for a “Yes” vote in the Greek referendum, especially as the proposal which the Tsipras government put forth this week encompassed most of the demands which Greece’s creditors had been making.
The Syriza proposals were approved by the creditors, and sent to the Eurozone finance ministers. And then Germany got in the act.
In an act of suicidal hubris, Germany is demanding nothing short of humiliation for Greece. Even though I had hoped for a Yes vote, this petty revenge is unbelievable from a country which plunged Europe into two World Wars. It is Germany’s gambit to establish the EU as merely a Greater German Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Here is where we stand at the moment.
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Newspaper headlines.
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Translation: Trust has been lost; Doubts of Greece’s willingness to reform.
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Le Figaro
Translation: Greece has driven a wedge between France and Germany
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Liberation
Translation: What game is Germany playing?
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Wall Street Journal
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