Is Brexit actually going to happen?

[Mr Moose]

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Interestingly this suggests that only up to half of Leave voters are particularly drawn to draconian or nostalgic right wing positions, so 25% of the electorate. This corresponds with the 23% who say they would vote for an anti-Islamic party or the recent poll giving a very racist UKIP 18%. It’s hard then to talk about Leave voters per se or what they want from Brexit other than some noisy cunts appear to get to speak for the whole.

 

[redsquirrel]

Interestingly this suggests that only up to half of Leave voters are particularly drawn to draconian or nostalgic right wing positions, so 25% of the electorate.

Pedantry alert: 19.9% of the electorate (0.7221*0.5189*0.53).

But I agree with the substance of your point.

 

[Steel Icarus]

They're not giving the impression that they are doing what's right for the population

I meant they're scrabbling to give that impression as well as preserve etc etc. I'm only on coffee number one of the day, forgive I

 

[butchersapron]

Not everyone who voted remain is a white supremacist neo-liberal refugee drowning racist, but every white supremacist neo-liberal refugee drowning racist voted remain.

 

[andysays]

Does it bother you who's on your side though?

 

[kabbes]

What exactly was the question they asked in the poll anyway? Was it “do you want to bring back pre-decimal currency?” Y/N? Or was it “How bothered would you be by bringing back pre-decimal currency on a scale of 1-10?” with anything other than a 9 or 10 being reported as being in favour?

 

[danny la rouge]

What exactly was the question they asked in the poll anyway? Was it “do you want to bring back pre-decimal currency?” Y/N? Or was it “How bothered would you be by bringing back pre-decimal currency on a scale of 1-10?” with anything other than a 9 or 10 being reported as being in favour?

And if you’re being asked to give a response about predecimal currency, how likely was it to have been on your mind before prompted anyway?

 

[kabbes]

I tracked down the original YouGov poll — it’s not short of remain voters who want death penalties and wasteful lightbulbs too, albeit at much lower levels of prevalence



Some of the questions are very open to interpretation. Does “selling goods in pounds and ounces should be brought back” mean ONLY selling them in pounds and ounces or printing it in both or leaving it up to the vendor? Are they saying people should have the option to buy incandescent bulbs or that they personally want incandescent bulbs?

Things like corporal punishment likely reflects age profile more than anything else.

 

[Lord Camomile]

And if you’re being asked to give a response about predecimal currency, how likely was it to have been on your mind before prompted anyway?

This is always the one that really bothers me about polls like this.

 

[DotCommunist]

nvm!

 

[SpackleFrog]

Does it bother you who's on your side though?

Doesn't it bother you who's on your side? Like the racists of the Chuk party for example?

 

[Combustible]

I tracked down the original YouGov poll — it’s not short of remain voters who want death penalties and wasteful lightbulbs too, albeit at much lower levels of prevalence

The overall numbers in favour of bringing back the death penalty seem a little low.I wonder if some pro death penalty remain voters are more likely to say no since it is tied to leaving the EU in the question. Although it's also possible that some people on both sides are in favour of the death penalty in principle but don't think it should be reintroduced.

 

[Pickman's model]

The overall numbers in favour of bringing back the death penalty seem a little low.I wonder if some pro death penalty remain voters are more likely to say no since it is tied to leaving the EU in the question. Although it's also possible that some people on both sides are in favour of the death penalty in principle but don't think it should be reintroduced.

By God it should be brought back for malfeasance in public office, show those pampered fops in westminster we'll not put up with their fuckwittery

 

[collectordave]

They're not giving the impression that they are doing what's right for the population

I thought they were doing the "will of the people" or at the least "delivering on the referendum". Where did this idea of "doing what's right for the population" come from?

Has anybody passed this novel idea onto their MP?

 

[Pickman's model]

Haven't we moved beyond "U R A RACIALISS"? Surely to god we've moved beyond that fatuous bollocks and onto examining the political class' desperate scrabbling to preserve themselves while giving the impression they're doing what's right for the population?

Here's where it came from

 

[collectordave]

Now that is a good idea might be a problem getting the government to understand it.

Maybe we should start a poll.

All those in favour of the government doing whats right for the population, should get their attention long enough to ignore it.

 

[danny la rouge]

All those in favour of the government doing whats right for the population,

What would that be?

 

[collectordave]

What would that be?

I don't know just trust the government to do it. That is why they get votes is it not?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

What would that be?

resigning?

 

[danny la rouge]

I don't know just trust the government to do it. That is why they get votes is it not?

I can see a flaw in that plan.

 

[Pickman's model]

What would that be?

Themselves in

 

[Dogsauce]

What exactly was the question they asked in the poll anyway? Was it “do you want to bring back pre-decimal currency?” Y/N? Or was it “How bothered would you be by bringing back pre-decimal currency on a scale of 1-10?” with anything other than a 9 or 10 being reported as being in favour?

Surely on a scale of 1 to 12?

 

[gentlegreen]

It's only recently I've learned how to count to 12 on each hand and I grew up with old money ..

 

[Serge Forward]

I learnt all my basic numeracy pre decimal then they had to go and change it all just to make it easy for future generations of lazy buggers... while similtaneously destroying my mathematical development. I'm with the Brexit scum on this one

 

[Wilf]

How far back are we going with 'pre-decimal' currency?

 

[collectordave]

How far back are we going with 'pre-decimal' currency?

denarius,solidus and libra?

 

[gentlegreen]

denarius,solidus and libra?

That fits in with their heroes Mogg and Johnson. By any chance does "School" mint its own coinage for the tuck shop ?

 

[Sprocket.]

That fits in with their heroes Mogg and Johnson. By any chance does "School" mint its own coinage for the tuck shop ?

Even those two simple words, ‘tuck shop’, are redolent of the class hierarchy. Stamped on youngsters from infancy, evoking characters like Billy Bunter, Lord Snooty and Winker Watson, that we may be successful, but never be like them. The Rees-Moggs and chums.
United Kingdom? Oh my sides.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's only recently I've learned how to count to 12 on each hand and I grew up with old money ..

I'm surprised, given your extra digits

 

[gentlegreen]

I walked right into that one