You want me to name business owners who like making money out of cheaper employees from abroad. Unless you think all business folks by default are morally sound individuals.
We have had this over the years and eventually even the remainers admit some woukd vote in preference to.their wallets rather than their prejudice.
Then a daft donk brings it up again at a later date, usually one that has spent years moaning about dishonesty from the other side.
I mean someone even mentioned obsession before, a remainer haha. The self awareness on this subject never ceases to amuse l.
As a collective electorate, we all deserve to be called stupid tbh.
The danger may be in believing there was a time when that wasn't true. It becomes a new spin on The Golden Age Fallacy. Brits have always been the same sort of mix. We're just seeing more self-belief in certain quarters, and hearing a lot more from them.
Speaking of which, what did happen to the idiot who set that up?Oh absolutely. There’s a reason we don’t do referendums that often :)
To be fair, it's not just race it's xenophobia too. I would think a significant proportion of Brexit voters had issues with, for example, Poles. I would also suggest that many would not be 'prejudiced towards people of other races' but maybe there's a form of NIMBYism at play. Bit like people are in favour of housebuilding but as long as it is not in their area.That's not true as you can see from the below. Plenty of Remainers held racist attitudes as well. Not as big a percentage as Leave voters but a significant number nonetheless:
"Brits who voted Leave in the EU referendum are more likely to describe themselves as "racially prejudiced" than those who voted Remain, according to new research.
A survey of 2,220 people found that 34% of Leave voters admitted holding racist attitudes compared to 18% of Remain voters.
The study, conducted by the National Centre for Social Research, found 26% of Britons still described themselves as "very" or "a little" prejudiced towards people of other races."
That’s a gross over simplification, mate. Plenty of folk (for example) simply don’t want to be attached to Europe in that way, irrespective of the economic consequences. It’s visceral but also an honestly held belief that isn’t (necessarily) founded in stupidity.To be honest and I don't want people to take offence but anyone who voted for Brexit was stupid, we voted to put economic sanctions upon ourselves despite all the warnings about the consequences, and all the consequences have happened or are in the process of happening
I don’t think that’s necessarily true either. I’m sure there’s plenty of racists who voted Remain for economic reasons; some City of London traders or farmers maybe.I think the saying goes “not all vote leaves are racists, but all racists voted leave”
They were daft, not stupid. There’s an important difference.That’s a gross over simplification, mate. Plenty of folk (for example) simply don’t want to be attached to Europe in that way, irrespective of the economic consequences. It’s visceral but also an honestly held belief that isn’t (necessarily) founded in stupidity.
I’m not sure that’s a totally fair description either, if that’s their perspective on national sovereignty.They were daft, not stupid. There’s an important difference.
Most did a daft thing for daft reasons mate. I’m happy with the description. A minority had Machiavellian and selfish Motivations and they manipulated those too daft not to see through them.I’m not sure that’s a totally fair description either, if that’s their perspective on national sovereignty.
If they are alive to, and accept the consequences of their views then I’m nor sure that’s ‘daft’. It’s wrong imo, which doesn’t necessarily amount to the same thing.