Chris Patten - Brexit Britain is becoming a failed state

What is a failed state? Not so long ago, when I was Britain’s Overseas Development Minister, and later European Commissioner for External Affairs, I would probably have tried to answer the question by pointing to specific examples, including several countries in Latin America and Africa.

I would have highlighted tribal conflicts, military coups, economic failure, extremes of poverty, and high mortality rates. I might have referred to the failure of more prosperous societies to ensure that globalisation helped everyone and did not leave some communities trapped in deprivation. In addition, I would certainly have mentioned systems of government that had ceased to deliver what they were intended to do, and certainly what outside well-wishers hoped and assumed they would do.

By these latter criteria, one no longer needs to travel to Latin America or Africa to discover failure. .................

https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/brexit-britain-is-becoming-a-failed-state-here-is-the-evidence-20190822

fatbob5 wrote:What is a failed state? Not so long ago, when I was Britain’s Overseas Development Minister, and later European Commissioner for External Affairs, I would probably have tried to answer the question by pointing to specific examples, including several countries in Latin America and Africa.

I would have highlighted tribal conflicts, military coups, economic failure, extremes of poverty, and high mortality rates. I might have referred to the failure of more prosperous societies to ensure that globalisation helped everyone and did not leave some communities trapped in deprivation. In addition, I would certainly have mentioned systems of government that had ceased to deliver what they were intended to do, and certainly what outside well-wishers hoped and assumed they would do.

By these latter criteria, one no longer needs to travel to Latin America or Africa to discover failure. .................

https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/brexit-britain-is-becoming-a-failed-state-here-is-the-evidence-20190822

fatty pang pang went native years ago.

Who??

smelly-bandit wrote:Who??

Patten, it's what the chinese called him when he was governor of honkers

Dean, I dont think your post was very Politically Correct

Don't have to be PC here Bob !

fatbob5 wrote:Dean, I dont think your post was very Politically Correct

what wasn't? Fatty pang pang is what the chinese called Patten

Flap Zappa wrote:
Patten, it's what the chinese called him when he was governor of honkers

patten is a gook??

He's a cunt, is that good enough ?

nicko wrote:He's a cunt, is that good enough ?

Good enough.

Better if he is angwy about Brexit