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If we vote for Brexit what happens
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How different parties voted:
What chance have pollsters got when 5% of UKIP supporters voted to remain.If I don't reply to your post,
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In the last few years whilst the EU has destroyed millions of jobs, we've created more than them all.
We will thrive free of the hulking jobs wreck
We have done this by creating lots of low paid jobs that most of our population are unwilling to do.The older generation is making th future better. My kids will have bright prospects
If this is the case then you will have a point. Fact is you are taking the "I know better approach". The majority of younger voters did not want this outcome. My fear is that they will not forgive us for doing this. But it is not the EU that created these low paid jobs it is UK employers. It is also fair to say that in other EU countries the solution was to accept a generation without work. Neither approach inspires me.
I still find it so odd that people are so funny about being independent, setting your own laws and working with your neighbours.
One day Bob I am certain you guys will see we the UK people, were visionaries leading the way. Globalisation and big lumbering blocks is not now the way to go. There are now double the number of new protectionary measures as new trade deals. Trump and Sanders are a byproduct of the new model people want
Also you will be proud when we can freely buy from poor Africans farmers, once free of the Customs Union
Leaving is progressive
I think its a hell of a risk to take with our future, but it is done.
If you are right then it will be wonderful. But at present I can see little good coming from this, except perhaps making the EU change more rapidly than it would have done.
You make it seem like a positive change, but I see it as more of a confidence trick perpetrated on the electorate to save UKIP and unite the Conservative Party.Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
I was looking for the full text so I could judge what he said in context. Perhaps he did say that on a leave vote the economy most certainly would crash and he most certainly would immediately implement an emergency budget. I'd still like to judge for myself.
This is the published text of what he planned to say.
http://www.strongerin.co.uk/leaving_eu_would_spark_deep_spending_cuts_sharp_tax_rises_warn_george_osborne_alistair_darling#C1ueYmQDArhuQiRY.97
He never said immediately............Difficult decisions starting next Friday, in the months ahead, and for years to come.
“The impeccably independent Institute for Fiscal Studies says there would be a £30bn black hole in the public finances which we would have to try to fill.
“And this would be a permanent and structural hole – we couldn’t just borrow more money to tide us over.
“As Chancellor, it would be my responsibility to try to restore stability to the public finances if we quit the EU – and – that would mean there would need to be an emergency budget
Read more at http://www.strongerin.co.uk/leaving_eu_would_spark_deep_spending_cuts_sharp_tax_rises_warn_george_osborne_alistair_darling#B90IsFGzGsi6tS6r.99Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
How different parties voted:
What chance have pollsters got when 5% of UKIP supporters voted to remain.
So it was a case of lack of educational opportunity. Graduates knew it mad e sense to Remain.:)Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
So it was a case of lack of educational opportunity. Graduates knew it mad e sense to Remain.:)
Considering the Leave voters tendency to be older, I don't think it's necessarily correct to blame it on a lack of "educational opportunity". They're not necessarily bitter now that forty years ago they didn't go to university, because most people back then didn't go to university. Many left school and got apprenticeships, building up skills on the job. They may be more motivated by the lack of the same opportunity, to leave school and go into a manual labour job which still offered stability and career progression, for their children or grandchildren.This is everybody's fault but mine.0 -
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What do you think we should do to avoid stupid people voting the wrong way in future?
The only stupid person was Upper Class and Educated by gambling his way into a Second term in office by betting on the future. He did not NEED to put a referendum into the Conservative manifesto, and clearly didn't assess the risk for very long. I may as well gamble my kids future on the outcome of the 2:30 at Chester races. Given that I know !!!! all about horse racing, I'm more likely to be doing the right thing than Cameron EVER did.
Cameron may have gone to the "best" schools and an "elite" university, but he learned nothing. Which makes me wonder if Daddy "paid" for the results.
He will go down in History as the "Spineless Retard who destroyed Europe and Slipped away to spend his and his wife's millions in luxury whilst millions suffered (again)"0 -
When confronted with this UKIP supporters have always said a lack educational qualifications aren't indicative of stupidity because they tend to be older folk and had less access to a decent education in the 'good old days'.
Thick as !!!! if you ask me.0
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