Aha! There’s Scrooge

I dunno, didn’t Scrooge just want to be left alone, and was happy to let everyone else alone?

I’d be along with Julia. Spud’s much more the Ghost of Christmas Present. Demanding a shiny new train set whilst gift-wrapping a pair of socks from the 99p Shop.

A Joyous and Peaceful Christmas and a Prosperous New Leave on WTO Terms to Tim and all his fellow conspirators on this blog.

No. Scrooge learned the error of his ways. Fat Ass will carry his – proudly – to the grave.

With Julia and BIS here, Christmas Present wants to be happy as long as someone else funds it. Cratchit is living beyond his means and wants to be bailed out. Sounds like a modern banker to me

Yeah, well. Kids who’re still believing in Santa at 7 just have to be born Democrats.

I got a paywall on that Economist article

I can’t find the Gatwick drone post here.

It has vanished with the drones.

The Mail is reporting that the drones may have been imaginary (!).

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6526447/Twitter-pokes-fun-police-claims-not-drone-flying-Gatwick.html

Basic premise of economist article is that city people are more committed to the European ideal as are people that have moved about, and repeatedly mentionns they are more educated and country people are thick and racist and need to stop complaining, listen to their city dwelling betters and become good ‘Europeans’
Even goes so far to say that even in low level jobs like a Spanish barman working in Germany the person who has moved is more educated than those at home etc.
Use the we have made Europe now let’s make Europeans quote

The article BniC refers to is truly patronising and part of the continued dismissal of us hicks by the educated metropolitan elite:

This European class has a political wing. Cities and other places where the educated and mobile gather are diverging from their hinterlands. Pro-European Green parties are surging there, most notably in Germany. Mayors such as Rafal Trzaskowski in Warsaw, Femke Halsema in Amsterdam and Sadiq Khan in London are among their country’s most outspoken opponents of Eurosceptic populism. Emmanuel Macron came top in the first round of France’s presidential election last year thanks to similar sorts of voters, and hails “the Europe of Erasmus”. In March expatriate Italian voters bucked their country’s nationalist trend and voted primarily for the Europhile Democratic Party. Sporadically, such voters take to the streets in anti-Brexit, anti-xenophobia or Europhile “Pulse of Europe” marches, protesting, in effect, against the politics of their provincial cousins and former classmates. “The problem with the educated is that they’re a tribe that don’t think they’re a tribe,” jokes David Runciman, a political scientist at Cambridge University.

The Christmas getaway is a rare moment when this European Europe intersects en masse with the other, national Europe—and everything in between. “I love my father very much, but he has a totally different mindset,” says Mr Beneke. “He doesn’t like the eu because he says Germany pays too much and shouldn’t have the euro. And he’s not alone in that opinion in the village.”

Add that to the sneering Der Speigel journalist who made up shit to make a small town in appear like thick Trump supporters and the way Remainers dismiss Leavers as old thick racists bigots from the backwaters of small towns and rural areas. Its been a constant drip drip for years.

And they wonder why there’s a rise in populism.

the writer of that article makes a heroic effort to ignore the fact that his Great Leaders have turned out to be useless windbags.

A bit late to the core of the article with Christmas and all that (Belated Christmas good wishes to all the excellent people on here throughout the year BTW) – My guess is with the Fair Tax Mark something like 90% below target and impending redundancy from his role at City University he is angling for something from somewhere and the Green New Deal, although widely discredited by serious economists was prominent around 5 or 6 years ago – which in political terms is an eternity.

It may also be a way for the Corbinites of trying to attract Brexit voters in ‘Leave’ parts of the country when they flip to a ‘Remain’ stance. Not that The Great tuber has the vision to think in those terms, but my guess is Long- Bailey, effectively a paid agent of the regime in Pyongyang but seemingly possessed of a greater degree of tactical acumen, is thinking in those terms….

Ritchie hasn’t filed the LLP accounts with Companies House yet. Only 4 days to go…..

Macron topped the first round due to the Socialists accusing the natural front-runner of crimes which have not yet, more than a year later, come to court. Why has the government not pursued the eminent alleged criminal? Could it be that the whole affair was created by the left to nobble the clear front-runner in the Presidential election?