"I refer my disgruntled friend to the answers I gave earlier."
In a phrase - we are staying while you are 'Brexiting'.
Perhaps your memories of Edinburgh extend to that modest building with three Palladian palace fronts, on George IV, the Royal Mile and facing St Giles, recently acquired by the French government for their... 'consulate' - and clearly actually for their coming Embassy. We are becoming even better friends with our oldest allies - among the very countries your lot are busy p***ing off.
Before you go on cheering for those who are doing all this, I'd read the FT - just a bit, John. As Obama just said at Rutgers, "In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. It's not cool not to know what you're talking about. That's not 'keeping it real' or 'telling it like it is'; that's not 'challenging political correctness'; that's just not knowing what you're talking about."
At least that quote gets us back to where this thread is supposed to be going. The start of his neat summation of why Trump and his 'team' are a disaster, starting with their cult of ignorance and their contempt for the truth - and contrasting that with the vast potential of a new generation of graduates. Like the miserabilist Unionists/Brexiteers and would-be Empire revivalists here, the Trumpers have no vision for a future that is other than the exhumation of the corpses of mythic pasts. Along with all their other vices, they are simply rotten historians - and that's a failing with very high charges.
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