Unpopular opinions

[City Hobgoblin]

What got Brexit over the line were the votes by those who thought Brexit would end all immigration, and lead to some migrants already living and working here to be "sent back"

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

There’s another thing I think should be brought in - you should have to pass a DBS check to have kids.

Are you sure that you would pass the intelligence test?

If you spent ten minutes thinking about it, rather than five you would realise how daft and dystopian your ideas are.

 

[Phil1]

In the long run, Brexit will prove to have been a master stroke.

Cheers Moggy.

Out of interest just how long, you know in real terms?

 

[Dirty Harry]

Cheers Moggy.

Out of interest just how long, you know in real terms?

Ha was just about to ask the same, just hoping my grandchildren will be around to see it ;-).

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Voting is the most basic human right imaginable.

Nobody should be omitted from voting because certain members of the populous deem them incapable of being able to do so on a level that they are satisfied wth. If someone wants to vote Monster Raving Loony they have every right to. Having a complete understanding of the current political climate or knowledge of each parties manifesto claims does not and should not be used as an excuse to exclude a person from having a vote in political matters.

Having the right to vote and being able to competently operate a machine are not comparable situations. If we're some denying some people the right to vote should those people also be denied access to clean drinking water unless they can prove they will do something productive that day?

Quite right.
Who decides what someone else’s criteria for choosing their vote is.
Basically if they are less likely to vote like you?
Would you exclude them next for being Catholic/Protestant/Muslim/Atheist?
What next, exclude gay/bi/ lgbbcitvvch4 ? Or maybe just women.

That would never happen, would it?
You’d be dreaming of the good old days, when every eejit had a say.

 

[aguero93:20]

Cheers Moggy.

Out of interest just how long, you know in real terms?

50 years I think he said before.

 

[aguero93:20]

Quite right.
Who decides what someone else’s criteria for choosing their vote is.
Basically if they are less likely to vote like you?
Would you exclude them next for being Catholic/Protestant/Muslim/Atheist?
What next, exclude gay/bi/ lgbbcitvvch4 ? Or maybe just women.

That would never happen, would it?
You’d be dreaming of the good old days, when every eejit had a say.

Rags and dippers to start.

 

[Phil1]

50 years I think he said before.

Well that's good to know, I mean what's half a fucking century between friends.
The Tory boys really are fruitloops.

 

[flook]

Voting is the most basic human right imaginable.

Nobody should be omitted from voting because certain members of the populous deem them incapable of being able to do so on a level that they are satisfied wth. If someone wants to vote Monster Raving Loony they have every right to. Having a complete understanding of the current political climate or knowledge of each parties manifesto claims does not and should not be used as an excuse to exclude a person from having a vote in political matters.

Having the right to vote and being able to competently operate a machine are not comparable situations. If we're some denying some people the right to vote should those people also be denied access to clean drinking water unless they can prove they will do something productive that day?

You are absolutely correct, the problem here is that a nationwide vote was taken on a subject which most people did not fully understand, and where lying was systematic.

Our elected government, having taken the advice of professionals in the various fields, should have had the balls to make the decision based upon what was best for the long term prosperity of this country.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

You are absolutely correct, the problem here is that a nationwide vote was taken on a subject which most people did not fully understand, and where lying was systematic.

Our elected government, having taken the advice of professionals in the various fields, should have had the balls to make the decision based upon what was best for the long term prosperity of this country.

Agree with most of that. If we were an intelligent and properly functional democracy the tories and any other pro brexit party would be disbanded for the level if lying and shithousery over the last 5+ years.

Our population lacks the intelligence and the system can be easily corrupted by liars.