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February 28 has the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Barnier laying down the law to the Minority UK regime vis a vis the EU's stance on the conduct and preferred timetable for the remainder of the UK/EU Leave negotiations.

The pro- Minority regime press and media platforms cavil about the EU's supposed attempts at wishing to annex Northern Ireland and in doing so break apart the United Kingdom. Even the most jaundiced genuine brexiteer finds this accusation going a hyperbole too far.It's not 1938 and the Irish Border problematic isn't a re-run of the Sudetenland or Austria.

Had the then still majority UK Tory government gone ahead and triggered Article 50 as was anticipated within hours of the EU referendum result,then all this would be speculative persiflage instead of which we're now stuck in someone else's nightmare scenario for us.

The only rational course of action for this now Minority Regime would be to disengage from the EU's  Leave process and boldly go to full WTO rules.That noble if somewhat tenuous scenario is itself predicated on the purely hypothetical presumption that the minority government is itself committed to delivering Brexit.

It however isn't.

In the minority status or as a parliamentary majority it was in before May stuffed things up with a woefully imbecilic call for  a general election to reinforce her majority prior to the Leave process commencement.

It make me wonder whether the true intention was in fact to make Brexit even more unlikely with such a machiavellian coup-de-main.

Not that Labour are faring any better under the stresses and strains of assuaging its own  competing interests factions. Labour is home to MPs from the top ten constituencies that voted Leave as well as the top  ten constituencies that voted Remain. Though some 90% of all Labour MPs actively espouse Remain.Only in that context does Corbyn's most recent foray into the realm of cogent public policy pronouncements make any sense.

The declared contents of Corbyn i.e. Remoaner Labour's put them firmly on the EU's side of the negotiations.

Brexit,ladies and gentlemen, is getting buried a little deeper with every day that passes.

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The full and final betrayal of the British electorate's verdict on June 23 2016 to Leave the EU is now imminent.

The minority Tory regime held, what was ironically termed by their supine kowtowing lackey Press as, a  " war cabinet " at Chequers, to finalise the otiose cant and non sequitur verbiage that will shortly be broadcast/published outlining the precise details of how this Grand Betrayal ,this Act of monumental Treason is to be enacted.

There is no longer any need for the Labour Party to strive to return to power when the Tories-manque are doing precisely what Labour would do plus a little bit more besides for good measure and so outflank their adversaries in parliament.A parliament that decide long before 23 June 2016 that the plebs could go and get stuffed.

The leading metropolitan Remoaner /seditionist EU shill Mary Creagh, the itinerant benchwarmer for Wakefield,must be beside herself at this prospect;if indeed someone with so huge a grossly inflated ego can ever find space to be able to in fact be besides themselves.

Only the other day,Our Blessed Mary of the Reduced Majority,hurled her usual otiose cant into the HoC echo chamber, " If the UK leaves the EU ",she began. If? If? Given the brazen cowardice of the Minority Tory Regime in its spectacularly blatant endeavours to fail to carry out the verdict of the EU referendum, " If " is a confident,self-assured piece of ironic mockery.

Of course the UK isn't bloody well leaving the EU.Whatever gave the 17.4 million who voted Leave that idea in the first instance?

The forces of Global Corporate capitalism and its Usury-Finance system have ineluctably triumphed over Society one more time.

The residual hope, if indeed there is any, lies in the widespread and continuing eruption of political fissures across a number of national polities such as France,Germany,Italy,Austria and increasingly eastern europe too.

At least, but as it turns out for an all too brief a historic moment,the British people raged against the dying of the light that was Britain and all it ever stood for.

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On February 15,the US secretary of State,Tillerson met with Turkey's Foreign Minister to discuss the current burgeoning imbroglio following Erdogan's launching of a blitzkrieg against the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin.

This what the pair of venal,posturing petomaines of international diplomacy and apprentices of Realpolitik came up with as a statement at the conclusion of their hastily arranged rendezvous:-
“Turkey and the United States reaffirm their commitment to the preservation of the territorial integrity and national unity of Syria. To this end, we will decisively stand against all attempts to create faits accomplis and demographic changes within Syria, and are dedicated to coordination on transition and stabilization of Syria.

“Recognizing the fact that there can only be a political solution to the Syrian crisis, and that it requires a viable political transition, Turkey and the United States agree to intensify their cooperation to bring about this result within the framework of established parameters, namely the UNSC Resolution 2254, and through the Geneva process.”

The US and its errant or otherwise compliant satrapies are present inside the territory of the sovereign state of Syria without the permission of the legitimate government of Syria.

It's what used to be called an " invasion " ; such an action was customarily undertaken as an integral part of what used to be called   declaring  " War ". Not that any country has actually declared war or anything else against the sovereign nation State of Syria.

No,not at all,the US and its NATO/EU lackey running dogs are simply there inside Syria on their own cognisance.They are ,minus all the carnage,war crimes and needless mayhem, trespassing.

Russia and Iran and elements of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement,au contraire are assisting the legitimate government of Syria at its request
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Clearly Tillerson and his Turkish glove-puppet have adopted the Humpty Dumpty Weltanschauhung that words mean precisely what they want them to mean,no more and no less.

So; accusations of putative war crimes,genocide,ethnic cleansing,unprovoked aggression against a non-belligerent country that hasn't expressed any hostility towards the USNATOEU aside,we are left where we began; lost in a labyrinth.

The Syria Kurds ,part of the anti-government SDF have apparently concluded an agreement with the goverment to send its forces into the Afrin enclave in order to counter the Turkish menace who are in turn supported on the ground by the FSA etc and so forth,ad nauseam,ad infinitum.

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The metropolitan ruling elites were always going to " betray " the vote to Leave? Not true!

They didn't even have the slightest inkling that the result of the 23 June 2016 Referendum on the UK's continuing membership would actually fall to the Leave side.

Nobody amongst the serried ranks of itinerant benchwarmers at Westminster nor in the byzantine bureaucracies of Whitehall actually thought it remotely conceivable that after 44 years of satrapydom,the British electorate might somehow not vote in the majority for a continuation of the status quo. And yet they did!

The same ineradicable spirit of dogged determination that got our men safely home from the beaches at Dunkirk,prevailed on another such auspicious day when confronted by the seeming inevitability of a predetermined fate,the people erred on the side of resistance.

That's how the History of our ineluctably glorious island Nation rolls.We get there;we make it;we carry on.

And now,not for the first time,what ought by the dint of inexhaustible existential endeavour to have presaged the apotheosis of triumph for the Common Man has been usurped,pimped out,squandered,bartered away for a mess of pottage by the metropolitan ruling elites.

It's a shame and a pity that our longed for liberation from the asphyxiating constraints and harrowing burdens of vassalage to the Franco-Teutonic Superstate has been denigrated,devalued,debauched and defecated upon by all our major parliamentary parties and their minor ideological cohorts.

Shall we carry on? we shall,in spite of everything,we must.

I have no time for the lost and abandoned souls of Remoaners,the 48%,the smug hubristic academics,thespians commentariat,EU-funded scientists,City financiers,shyster QC's,Uni student common room agitators-manque and all the other feckin treasonous utterly deplorable eejits who chose long before Brexit came along to live out their futile corporeal existence with a back so terribly deformed by incessant kowtowing and their egregious temerity of drawing upon our common atmosphere for their daily breaths that have singularly proven to be an extravagance courtesy of the Cosmos .

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They really seem to want this,the Yanks.

Washington has confirmed that its aircraft killed around 100 fighters they describe as belonging to Assad's forces.

Which is just fine and dandy but for one crucial lacuna in the U.S. " doing the right thing for humanity " narrative.
The US shouldn't even be in Syria,irrespective of whether they're merely advising and training or as this latest episode has so glaringly highlighted,yet again actively taking part in combat missions against the forces of the legitimate government in Damascus.

A government that has invited certain friendly foreign states to assist it in its existential battle for survival against various indigenous and islamist terrorist insurgents.
All the diverse military elements of NATO satrapies -UK,France,Canada,Italy,Turkey et al ,as well as their lord and master the US , are in violation of international law by being present on Syria soil against the wishes of the Syrian government.

Rabid dog Erdogan's  " Operation Olive Branch " blitzkrieg against the Kurds in and around Afrin is the same category of international war crime as are all the other actions of all the other US/EU/NATO forces ( to which can be added Israel ) carried out against the Syrian government ,its forces and those of its allies in the campaign against ISIS/Daesh and the other insurgent terrorists SDF/FSA/Al Qaeda.

Despite earlier doubts,it is to becoming increasingly clearer that the world is sleepwalking into a kind of Nuclear 1914 scenario.
An otherwise unconnected series of events,none significant by themselves, are lining up and a historic synchronicity is bringing about a significance they would otherwise not have. Think the two contiguous Balkan Wars that as it turned out preceded the Great War.

To mis quote Bismarck , none of this is worth the life of even a single Pomeranian grenadier.

Not that the US was ever any good at studying history and its Pandora's box of precedents.

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(The original blog was posted on February 3 2016 ,4 months prior to the Referendum.)

In any war ,you can learn more about how the struggle is actually faring by listening to what your enemies are saying amongst themselves than you ever can from what your allies are telling you.

And the remorseless struggle to bring about the dissolution and permanent downfall of the European Union is going very well indeed ; better in fact than any true enemy of this megalomanic Euro-Ruling Elites' project could possibly have dreamt of.

The renowned Historian /Commentator and all round anti-working class ,Tory Supremacist Max Hastings bemoans excellently in the DailyUsurer Mail of 3 February 2016  :-

" David Cameron today believes himself on the brink of a triumph. His proposed EU renegotiation needs only endorsement at a summit of the other 27 members. This would be followed by a June referendum, ending with an ‘in’ vote that will scupper his foes in Ukip and on the Tory Right.

But what if he is wrong? 

What if yesterday’s draft settlement, requiring merely a shifting of deckchairs in Brussels, provokes a seismic shift in the British body politic? 

Read President of the European Council Donald Tusk’s letter, which makes plain how little has changed, for instance on migrants: ‘We need to fully respect the principles of freedom of movement and non-discrimination.’

Most of what Cameron claims to have secured will remain vague aspiration, a country mile from implementation. Who else would trumpet the securing of an ‘emergency brake’ on migrants’ benefits over which he will have little control, or a red card system that requires the support of more than half of our bickering EU neighbours on any given issue?

This much is plain: the sham of a renegotiation, the pretence that the Prime Minister meant what he told us for years about his intention to change our terms of membership of the EU, has spawned a cynicism across the land that will not quickly be dispelled.

No politician dares to tell voters all the truth about difficult issues, because the message would be so bleak that they could never win an election. "

Hastings' conclusion is interesting. Life is hard then you die Max.

Works alone will not save your tawdry,backwards shitty little futile economic system and all of its petty ,soul -enslaving hierarchies

.For all true and genuine enemies and haters of the very concept and existence of this THING calling itself the European Union or any idea even remotely resembling it , it's all rather simple and straightforward. Bury it.

There's nothing to be gained ,nor does it make the necessary task any easier by concocting some entirely specious ,pseudo-philosophical / ideological ,grandiose argument over whether it gets buried in a coffin with ceremony or simply ,as it ought to be ,slung into an anonymous ditch somewhere and urinated over before the last shovelful of earth.

Can you feel the earth beginning to shake and tremble ? I'd get out now before you end up getting buried along with the rest of the legions of the doomed.