Very erudite for the Mirror, via Joerg Fliege.
The question posed was, in hindsight, the wrong one. The ballot paper should have said: "Would you like Britain to be remain as stupid as it is now? Or would you like it be more stupid?"
Because once Michael Gove pushed all the experts over a metaphorical cliff of ignorance we were left, by definition, with people who are not experts. And the stupids running the show are driving us over the same cliff, insisting all the while we'll like it once we're over this scary bit at the edge.
And through it all, amid all the blaming and moaning and fumbling around, no-one asks the most obvious question. Who benefits from a fall in the pound? People who are paid in foreign currencies, like Nigel is and unlike the 17m who voted for Brexit. Who benefits from a City slump? Mega-rich traders, not the 17m who voted for Brexit.
Who benefits from a lack of maths and experts? People who want everyone else to stay stupid.
Who benefits from Britain behaving like ignorant racists? Only ignorant racists, who think it confirms they were right all along.
Brexit was about giving the wealthy elite one in the eye, and it's failed miserably.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brexit-means-stupid-who-voted-9078503
Why? Why? Why did I scroll down to the comments? The stupid, it hurts.
ReplyDeleteMore stupid, please! Were some tinfoil hatted conspiracy monger to tell me space aliens had seeded the English-speaking world with a brain-eating virus, I should believe him at this point. I was on a television panel to be broadcast on local television (to be broadcast tonight) and was asked to sum up the election in one word. I replied: Appalling. The lunatics are running the asylums in Washington DC and Whitehall.
ReplyDeletePer Dave Sutton, who lives Seven Oaks (just a bit south of London), the Brexit is a good thing despite the bad press.
ReplyDeleteOnly time will tell if the UK made the right decision but I believe only stupid people would describe the situation as stupid
ReplyDeleteCall me stupid if you want, but I believe the situation is unbelievably stupid.
ReplyDeleteRhys Taylor With great pleasure
ReplyDeleteDave Sutton - 😂
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