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Nissan has announced it is taking legal action against the official campaign for Britain to leave the European Union after the group used the Japanese car manufactueres' logo in leaflets calling for voters to back Brexit on June 23.
On one "Vote Leave" flyer, the firm's logo appeared next to those of four other major companies including Unilever and fellow carmaker Vauxhall with the message: "Major employers ... have all said they'll stay in the UK whatever the result of the referendum."
Nissan, which says it would prefer Britain to remain in the EU, said it would be issuing legal proceedings on Monday in Britain's High Court to stop 'Vote Leave' from using its name and logo and to "prevent them making any further false statements and misrepresentations concerning Nissan."
I think that's completely unfair. Where would Vote Leave be without false statements and misrepresentations?
This conversation reminds me of my favourite ever film review.
Independence Day (1996)
What should the international proletariat do when space aliens
attacking earth with the intent of killing all humans? ID4,
doesn't say, but once the principal contradiction shifts from
imperialism-vs.-oppressed nations to Humanity-vs.-Space Aliens, a
lot of old enemies work together against the new enemy. Of course,
Hollywood makes the Amerikans the smart ones who have to lead
the fight. After the aliens are defeated, the oppressed may have
a revolutionary opportunity amid all the destruction. Still, MIM
asks, "who wrote this?" For now, aliens are cultural creations,
and therefore class creations. If this was a movie written with
proletarian politics, advanced aliens would more likely be communists,
not evil imperialists. Or in a different as yet unwritten revolutionary
alien movie, the proletariat unites with the space aliens behind the
bourgeoisie's back. Then, at the crucial moment, the bourgeoisie
realize they have been outflanked by the combined forces of the
space aliens and the proletariat. Then, the aliens and what's left
of humanity peacefully coexist.
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