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Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe
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Ros Altman actually believing the divisive propaganda of the IFS and then reproducing it on the pages of The Guardian. She would have a difficult time convincing the pensioners who have to choose between heat or eat, and those who face social and economic difficulties every day, that this is just an attempt to create yet another division in society. "The massive rise in State Pensions" was true only in the cash amount paid. In real terms it represented at best, a neutral impact on living standards of the majority of pensioners.
Yesterday, (Tuesday 26th), in response to the story carried by the Independent, I wrote in another place,
"The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) trotting out the usual garbage. The Governments policy of divide and rule spreads to all corners of the "public information" industry. This garbage would be a credit to the Joseph Goebbels ministry of propaganda."
It seems that Ros Altman and no doubt many others, have forgotten that "people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it."