Brexit the economy and house prices part 7: Brexit Harder

Takedap

Dee_Best wrote: »

The so-called "intelligent people" are the ones that caused the Great Financial Crash. Enough said.

A lot of the so-called "intelligent people" went on to make a lot of money out of it.


The losers were the ones who were given mortgages they they could never afford to pay for properties that weren't worth buying.


And then the austerity policies kicked in.

SpiderLegs

Herzlos wrote: »

Because they were incentivized to take dangerous risks.

Incentivised by who?

A. Other people with similarly high IQs
B. Thickos

Answer on a postcard please.

phillw

SpiderLegs wrote: »

Incentivised by who?

By whom

SpiderLegs wrote: »

A. Other people with similarly high IQs
B. Thickos

C. Crooks.

Thrugelmir

Takedap wrote: »

And then the austerity policies kicked in.

Government spending was on unaffordable trajectory.

Herzlos

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Government spending was on unaffordable trajectory.

The Tories managed to find all sorts of money to fund stuff that suited them and their donors, whilst gutting services and still not doing anything about the deficit.

You can't really blame the Tories last run on Labour.

Sailtheworld

Malthusian wrote: »

If the demographic dice had fallen such that Leavers had the bigger IQ, you can guarantee that nobody would bring it up.

Well apart from the leavers that is.

Moe_The_Bartender

phillw wrote: »

By whom

From another post of yours.
However if you are an addict then your choices can be influenced by your addiction, without you realizing.

Spelling and punctuation errors in one sentence and you criticise others.

mayonnaise

Oh my God. Spelling and punctuation errors!
This forum is going downhill fast.

Malthusian

Sailtheworld wrote: »

Well apart from the leavers that is.

Why would they bang on about Leavers being more intelligent when they won the referendum? It's only the losers who feel the need to bring up irrelevant statistics. When Muhammed Ali beat George Foreman did he dance around shouting "Check out my 14" biceps!" and waving a tape measure, or did he celebrate winning a boxing match?

If a football fan is banging on about "we were the better team, we had 60% possession and 10 shots on target" it means they've lost the match. The winners are content with winning.

Whether Remain or Leave are the more intelligent side, or which one of them is taller, or has a bigger average shoe size, are irrelevant statistics with no practical effect on reality. If every Remainer in the country hit their heads and lost 20 IQ points, the UK would still be leaving the EU.

Banging on about irrelevant statistics is a deflection strategy. Remainers don't want to think about the thing that matters - the referendum result - because it went against them. So they try to think about something nice - like a survey which shows that they are the side with the higher IQ.

Problem is that this nice thing doesn't actually matter. It makes them feel good but so does getting drunk. Shutting yourself away from the real world inhibits your ability to affect it, which helps explain why Remain has been unable to stop Brexit despite having three years against political opponents that are (apparently) much thicker than them.

JoeyG

Malthusian wrote: »

Why would they bang on about Leavers being more intelligent when they won the referendum? It's only the losers who feel the need to bring up irrelevant statistics. When Muhammed Ali beat George Foreman did he dance around shouting "Check out my 14" biceps!" and waving a tape measure, or did he celebrate winning a boxing match?

If a football fan is banging on about "we were the better team, we had 60% possession and 10 shots on target" it means they've lost the match. The winners are content with winning.

Whether Remain or Leave are the more intelligent side, or which one of them is taller, or has a bigger average shoe size, are irrelevant statistics with no practical effect on reality. If every Remainer in the country hit their heads and lost 20 IQ points, the UK would still be leaving the EU.

Banging on about irrelevant statistics is a deflection strategy. Remainers don't want to think about the thing that matters - the referendum result - because it went against them. So they try to think about something nice - like a survey which shows that they are the side with the higher IQ.

Problem is that this nice thing doesn't actually matter. It makes them feel good but so does getting drunk. Shutting yourself away from the real world inhibits your ability to affect it, which helps explain why Remain has been unable to stop Brexit despite having three years against political opponents that are (apparently) much thicker than them.

I'm a remainer and I don't think I've seen anyone bang on about this subject as much as you