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  • amateur51

    Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
    I think I agree with everything aeolium has said in #119. Something we should remember, which UKIP must surely be uncomfortable in reminding us, is that the EU is the capitalist class's way of rationalising its sphere of operations to maximise profits, and if this priority comes before the circumstances of most other people on the ground, so much the worse for them: business's first duty being making profits and secondly its shareholders. It's even useful fostering a bit of divide-and-rule in the process as a by-product.

    I think the above should be reproduced in the How do we remember slavery thread.
    Laurie Taylor was discussing this very issue on Thinking Aloud on R4 recently - several distinct resonances.

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    • Serial_Apologist
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 37707

      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
      Laurie Taylor was discussing this very issue on Thinking Aloud on R4 recently - several distinct resonances.
      He's sometimes rightly criticised for superciliousness, but with tongue in cheek it is possible to get past that - which certainly couldn't be said of Paxman.

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      • aka Calum Da Jazbo
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 9173

        death

        cars

        because they are worth it
        According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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