Yellow vests? You ain't seen nothing yet — MarkGB

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‘Core message’ contains a summary of, & link to ‘The Longest War’, written in January 2022.

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Jan 15

Jan 15 Yellow vests? You ain't seen nothing yet

2019 Q1: Jan-Mar

As you will probably know by now, the UK parliament voted down Theresa May’s ‘Brexit deal’ by a margin of 432 votes to 202. The largest ever parliamentary defeat suffered by a sitting government. Your morning papers will be full of it, and I have nothing to add to the acres of ‘ifs’, ‘buts’ and ‘maybes’ that will be competing for attention.

My interest is with the big picture. So here are the tweets I sent out after the result was announced, along with a link to a piece I wrote in the FT comments section in January 2016, when it was already clear where things were heading and the role that the mainstream media would play in that - denial and obfuscation.

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The full piece can be read here:

http://www.markgb.com/blog/2016/3/26/martin-wolf-thinks-the-peasants-are-revolting-hes-right-but-not-for-the-reasons-he-thinks

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