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Rjk
24-06-16, 19:59
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24/the-british-are-frantically-googling-what-the-eu-is-hours-after-voting-to-leave-it/?postshare=6141466785533076&tid=ss_tw

Embarrassing.
Llanedeyrnblue
24-06-16, 20:04
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24/the-british-are-frantically-googling-what-the-eu-is-hours-after-voting-to-leave-it/?postshare=6141466785533076&tid=ss_tw

Embarrassing.

Doubt if it's true and millions of Americans are voting for the toupeed idiot
jamieccfc
24-06-16, 20:15
All the people I've heard today who voted out was complete numbskulls one women's response was "we'll be OK we always are" I'll just take her word for it! Others couldn't understand why the pound was crashing :shrug:
Llanedeyrnblue
24-06-16, 20:17
All the people I've heard today who voted out was complete numbskulls one women's response was "we'll be OK we always are" I'll just take her word for it! Others couldn't understand why the pound was crashing :shrug:

Democracy
Vimana.
24-06-16, 20:26
Democracy

It's a funny thing though - democracy eh?
Can't knock it, but 52% of those that voted get 100% of the outcome?

Not to mention this, which is a bit of a bombshell really (albeit one that has already gone off), though I cannot verify its accuracy :-)


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Clq7LmNWkAQ5GA1.jpg
Rjk
24-06-16, 20:28
Doubt if it's true and millions of Americans are voting for the toupeed idiot

Why wouldn't it be true, are Google going to make up what people are searching for?
Llanedeyrnblue
24-06-16, 20:30
All the people I've heard today who voted out was complete numbskulls one women's response was "we'll be OK we always are" I'll just take her word for it! Others couldn't understand why the pound was crashing :shrug:

All of them really? This was a referendum and to vote you didn't need a degree in economics or politics just the ability to choose who you want to vote for and turn up at the polling station and put an X in the box.

We're all the people that didn't vote at the last General Election idiots too because they never voted the same as you?
Llanedeyrnblue
24-06-16, 20:32
Why wouldn't it be true, are Google going to make up what people are searching for?

Still voting for Trump though in a country that loves seeing their people slaughtered needlessly by gun toting loons
Rjk
24-06-16, 20:34
Still voting for Trump though in a country that loves seeing their people slaughtered needlessly by gun toting loons

Yeah I'm not gonna defend that.

However

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/british-lose-right-to-claim-that-americans-are-dumber
Llanedeyrnblue
24-06-16, 20:43
Yeah I'm not gonna defend that.

However

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/british-lose-right-to-claim-that-americans-are-dumber

I'm sorry but the slaughter of innocent people and the treatment of black people by their police being allowed by the U S of A population makes them not only thick but evil
Teddy Bear
24-06-16, 21:12
Must be the remain voters. Why assume its brexit voters? Surely the ones who votes in would be searching this.
Llanedeyrnblue
24-06-16, 21:13
Must be the remain voters. Why assume its brexit voters? Surely the ones who votes in would be searching this.

Well said :thumbup:
lardy
25-06-16, 01:31
Must be the remain voters. Why assume its brexit voters? Surely the ones who votes in would be searching this.


Well said :thumbup:

It's unlikely to be completely one side or the other (although there were more Leave voters so chances are there were lots of them searching). The point is that there are British people, whichever way they voted, who waited til afterwards to see what it was actually about.

There might have been lots of arguments on here leading up to Brexit but at least almost all of us could justify why we voted the way we did. I'm not so sure that's true across the country.
lardy
25-06-16, 02:12
Here's a nice example.

https://twitter.com/junayed_/status/746431614285025280

Guy in his 60s in Barnsley. He's in favour of free movement for Europeans but doesn't want muslims from Africa, Syria and Iraq coming in. So he voted Leave.

I don't blame him for this. How is he supposed to know what the EU actually does? His opinions are formed from the media he reads/watches and that comes from the politicians that those media want to support. This is pretty true of all of us. But when the politicians he is following are telling outright lies (Farage admitting within hours of victory that the £350m bus was bollocks, Boris knew it wasn't true and comically defended it in that tv interview) then how is he supposed to make a proper decision for what actually affects him?

Do muslims affect his life? Barnsley is well below the national average for muslims, there are less than a thousand in the population of 230k. Maybe lots live in his area, statistically it's more likely that there is one muslim family in grandson's school. So his decision is more than likely made from the lies he has read than from his own life experience.

And this goes both ways. Are Osborne's increasingly bleak predictions about Brexit true? We'll find out soon enough but I'd be pretty confident things won't be anywhere near as bad as he says and he knew perfectly well he was exaggerating and lying. The rest in the Remain camp who supported the figures also knew this.


You have to conclude that if what this man says is true, he supports free movement but wants to stop immigration from muslim countries, then the vote he has made will not help him.