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If the BBC is the only thing stopping the UK from becoming a failed state then God help us. Or, we could simply carry on without it and not really notice. I'm

If the BBC is the only thing stopping the UK from becoming a failed state then God help us. Or, we could simply carry on without it and not really notice. I'm going with the latter.

LatteLazy 5y ago
We've already had Brexit and Prime Minister Boris. How much more failed would you like the UK to become? We don't have the weather for literally being mad max...
- brigandish 5y ago
  I've been to a fair few places around the world, some experiencing levels of poverty, corruption and violence that should make any human weep. To compare the UK to those, while using the terms "Brexit" and "Prime Minister Boris" is absurd and hyperbolic, if not disrespectful to both the UK and those people in the places I mentioned.
  - LatteLazy 5y ago
    Yes, we should wait until it's happened and then try to stop it from happening.
    - brigandish 5y ago
      > failed state > noun > a state whose political or economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control: if we turn our back on the developing world we will see more failed states. This is not the UK based on Brexit or Boris Johnson or anything that entails from them. Will the UK still be in the G8 after Boris Johnson is no longer prime minister? Yes. - Will the UK still be in the G8 long after Boris Johnson is no longer prime minister? Yes. - Will the UK still be in the G8 after Brexit? Yes, it is. - Will the UK still be in the G8 long after Brexit? Yes. I also think you could change those questions to their opposites in an alternate reality, i.e. Jeremy Corbyn and staying in the EU, which is probably why I find your view to be overwrought. There are plenty of states outside of the EU that are in the G8, and though I don't agree with much of what Johnson has done, the likelihood it will transform the UK into a failed state is utterly absurd to me, and clearly, to any majority that counts, whether it is UK voters, those who put money into the UK, and every other nation state.

If the BBC is the only thing stopping the UK from becoming a failed state then God help us. Or, we could simply carry on without it and not really notice. I'm going with the latter.

LatteLazy 5y ago

We've already had Brexit and Prime Minister Boris. How much more failed would you like the UK to become? We don't have the weather for literally being mad max...

brigandish 5y ago
I've been to a fair few places around the world, some experiencing levels of poverty, corruption and violence that should make any human weep. To compare the UK to those, while using the terms "Brexit" and "Prime Minister Boris" is absurd and hyperbolic, if not disrespectful to both the UK and those people in the places I mentioned.
- LatteLazy 5y ago
  Yes, we should wait until it's happened and then try to stop it from happening.
  - brigandish 5y ago
    > failed state > noun > a state whose political or economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control: if we turn our back on the developing world we will see more failed states. This is not the UK based on Brexit or Boris Johnson or anything that entails from them. Will the UK still be in the G8 after Boris Johnson is no longer prime minister? Yes. - Will the UK still be in the G8 long after Boris Johnson is no longer prime minister? Yes. - Will the UK still be in the G8 after Brexit? Yes, it is. - Will the UK still be in the G8 long after Brexit? Yes. I also think you could change those questions to their opposites in an alternate reality, i.e. Jeremy Corbyn and staying in the EU, which is probably why I find your view to be overwrought. There are plenty of states outside of the EU that are in the G8, and though I don't agree with much of what Johnson has done, the likelihood it will transform the UK into a failed state is utterly absurd to me, and clearly, to any majority that counts, whether it is UK voters, those who put money into the UK, and every other nation state.