tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post5490037238941813030..comments2024-02-15T04:42:41.606+00:00Comments on James' Empty Blog: Just when you thought you'd heard the last about brexitJames Annanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-52112026746602449872020-01-16T20:37:44.120+00:002020-01-16T20:37:44.120+00:00>"A bit odd that they never managed to agr...>"A bit odd that they never managed to agree what that exactly was (beyond a few trivial slogans)"<br /><br />It seems to me this is up there with supplying weapons & help to Lybyan rebels. When they wanted weapons and help all the rebels groups would happily say they wanted Gadaffi gone and afterwards they would be all in favour of giving up weapons and supporting democracy. After Gadaffi was gone and it was time to give up the weapons, it was a great surprise (NOT) to see the groups suddenly getting differing views on what should happen.<br /><br />It may not be wise for me to be saying brexit appears to have similar traits to people who firmly believe in brexit but disparate groups having more than 50% does not necessarily make a good majority.<br /><br />The obvious necessity for something like a single transferable vote between different version of brexit and the more united remain camp (48% before any difficulties with doing it emerged) not happening seems to me to be an obvious travesty of lack of due process.<br /><br />(This is in addition to the electorate close to the time it happens being the more appropriate electorate as you covered.)crandleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15181530527401007161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-64207721853454054842020-01-13T11:44:05.105+00:002020-01-13T11:44:05.105+00:00Yes of course you're right. Even at the extrem...Yes of course you're right. Even at the extreme right hand end, the tory vote is only 60% or so of the total and labour almost 20% (and there are other parties too...). In fact I know a bunch of older people locally who are horrified at what is going on. I also understand that the correlation with education is even stronger than it is with age though given these graphs that's hard to believe.James Annanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-27763740976519342020-01-13T00:39:34.935+00:002020-01-13T00:39:34.935+00:00What we have now is nothing short of an ideologica...What we have now is nothing short of an ideological war being waged on the young by many of the old.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16914264739638166750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-23050650999030053502020-01-01T18:57:10.371+00:002020-01-01T18:57:10.371+00:00Chance would be a fine thing.
“Life! Don’t talk t...Chance would be a fine thing.<br /><br />“Life! Don’t talk to me about life.”<br /><br />HNY to you too. I look forward to more interesting comments in the future :-)James Annanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9959776.post-25963311289952619362020-01-01T18:24:25.932+00:002020-01-01T18:24:25.932+00:00And a happy new year to you and J.And a happy new year to you and J.William M. Connolleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05836299130680534926noreply@blogger.com