EU’re Full of Shit

My attention has been drawn to this cockrot. It’s fairly standard whining from someone who thinks the proles got it wrong. For a mixture of projection and sheer unadulterated misanthropy, it sums up the arch remainer perfectly.

You see, Brexit is a complete fabrication from beginning to end. There are people who want Brexit for their own selfish economic and political ends. But billionaire newspaper owners like The Barclay Twins (Telegraph) or Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere (Daily Mail), both of which are domiciled abroad and neither of which pay any UK taxes, can hardly run a campaign on, “We need to leave the EU to avoid losing our offshore tax-avoidance schemes.”

This guy needs to get himself a tinfoil hat. The newspapers are overwhelmingly pro-EU. Indeed, even the Mail has switched sides since it changed editor. And let’s be clear here, tax-avoidance is perfectly legal and legitimate. There is nothing wrong with it. However, the idea that this is some sort of billionaire conspiracy is akin to claiming that George Bush masterminded a false flag operation in September 2001. It’s nonsense. The product of an overactive imagination.

Publishing magnates are not alone of course. People like Arron Banks use shell companies within shell companies based in UK tax havens like the Isle of Man. And he funded Leave.EU to the tune of £6.5 million in order to help ensure that the campaign to Leave the EU was successful.

So what? People who voted to leave had made up their minds long before the campaign started – likewise those who wanted to remain. This is the whining of a sore loser. It is also a classic poisoning the well fallacy.

Underneath all of these multi-millionaires and billionaires is a whole raft of people whose businesses are set up to move the money around. Rees-Mogg is one of them. Thousands upon thousands of people employed in helping the super-rich avoid paying legitimate taxes.

Sigh… This guy is a cretin. He is a product of our university system and it is pitiful. If someone is avoiding taxes, they are behaving in a legal fashion. The question here is: are they evading taxes? If so, I suggest that Easson takes his evidence and presents it to the tax authorities. He has no evidence? Well, then other people’s tax affairs are none of his business. If they are not evading tax, then they are paying legitimate taxes.

And the EU directive which would put a stop to this practice comes into effect in April 2019. That May was in such a goddam hurry to leave on 29th March, though she had no plan, suddenly makes sense.

This is trying to make a link where none exists: a non sequitur fallacy. We should have invoked Article 50 on June 24th 2016, but there was delay after delay while politicians behaved like rabbits caught in the headlights of an oncoming juggernaut as they tried to comprehend a vote they had lost, expecting to have won. To turn this into some sort of conspiracy theory makes those troofers look rational.

But, as I say, you can hardly get the people to vote to protect your offshore tax-avoidance schemes. So what do you do?

Fantasy. Fiction. The product of a deranged imagination.

And this is the good bit. Take a British population struggling to cope after years of austerity and blame their plight, not on government policy, which is where it firmly belongs, but on foreigners.

Ah, yes, wheel out the tired old xenophobe trope and throw in austerity for good measure. If you chuck enough bullshit in, some of it might stick.

Foreign workers in this country are taking our jobs. Foreign immigrants are depressing our wages. Foreign immigrants are taking our benefits. Foreigners are clogging up our NHS. Foreign immigrants are terrorising our country and raping our children.

There is evidence to support all of these claims. If you import a mass of unskilled labour, the laws of supply and demand kick in. Of course it will have a depressive effect on wages as unskilled labour has little to bargain with. Clearly this moron has been so ensconced in his university ivory tower, he has no idea how the real world works and peers down on it with utter contempt, not wanting to sully himself with it, preferring to sneer from a distance. And has this cretin not noticed what was happening in Bradford? What happened in Cologne? Manchester or Westminster? Paris? But of course, he will not have to personally endure the effects of mass migration, only the little people will have to do that and presumably they don’t matter; the regressive left having moved onto new pets.

Never mind that half of the immigrants don’t even come from the EU. That the presence of African and Asian migrants in the UK is entirely down to Home Office policy.

Over which we will have sole control once out of the EU with no pressure from them to take in more.

Never mind that EU migrants are better skilled, have higher paying jobs and don’t need the NHS because they’re young and fit. Those are inconvenient truths. That don’t fit with our rhetoric.

Apart from those low/unskilled migrants coming from the poor eastern EU states such as Romania. But that would be an inconvenient truth, wouldn’t it? Such as companies being encouraged to recruit directly in those countries.

So who will get the blame when their dream of a utopian British Empire 2 collapses?

The idiots who, given a fairly simple job to do, couldn’t bring themselves to do it. Oh, and he has now used the strawman fallacy. This bloke is supposed to be educated, yet cannot put together a coherent, researched, evidence-based fallacy-free argument.

Why, foreigners, of course. That nasty EU making things difficult for us.

That, too, of course. The EU has acted in bad faith from the beginning. They could have given David Cameron something to work with instead of humiliating him, forcing his hand into holding a referendum.

Oh, and me. Because I am supposed to get behind this stupid decision. Apparently, if all Remainers get behind Brexit Britain and push it harder, then when it falls off the cliff it will be going fast enough to fly.

Fucking idiot. That said, this vote has produced one benefit. People like Bill Easson, sitting in their universities have sneered down on the proletariat for a long time. Losing this vote has brought them crawling out into the open, dripping their hateful poison, insulting the mass of the electorate. They are so lacking in self-awareness, that they pen spiteful articles such as this and in so doing, we can finally see them for what they are – nasty, undemocratic, sneering, snobbish, self-righteous vipers. If this is the product of a university education, we have been robbed blind.