Farage to Launch Brexit Party Today

[Saracen999]

Hey, it's not me being accused of abusing my mod powers. How'd that happen?

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[peterb]

Hey, it's not me being accused of abusing my mod powers. How'd that happen?

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No - surprisingly, but as you know its an occasional response when we do something someone doesn't like...

[Saracen999]

No - surprisingly, but as you know its an occasional response when we do something someone doesn't like...

Indeed.

[blueball]

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Thanks for the message mate!

[Saracen999]

I keep forgetting, I no longer havethe MUCH larger admin settings in my PMs. Or, if that happens, go in and increase the size until I can have a clear-out. I'll clear it but not tonight, and I'm out most of 2moro too.

[Top_gun]

These days, far right organisations portray themselves as non-racist and respectable when really they have racist intentions and not exactly respectable.

Considering the fine margin between the Brexiters and Remainers, could the Brexiters have won the referendum without the help from the more racist elements of our society? Probably not.

The reality is, Brexiters didn't won because they had the better argument, they just had more racists, who couldn't care less about the Remainers' argument, supporting them to take them over the finishing line.

Now, I'm not saying all Brexiters are racist. However, it is fair to say they drew a great deal of support from the least intellectual members of society who probably didn't have the tools to understand the finer points of the referendum.

The failure of Brexit is not winning the heart and mind from the more intellectual members of our society. Instead they exploited groups of people who couldn't make a rational holistic decision.

[Saracen999]

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Now, I'm not saying all Brexiters are racist. However, it is fair to say they drew a great deal of support from the least intellectual members of society who probably didn't have the tools to understand the finer points of the referendum.

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But all Remainers were intellectually superior and did fully understand all the finer points, I presume?

Sorry, but I though we had what was supposed to be a democracy, operating on one-person, one-vote, not some meritocracy where you had to demonstrate some arbitrary level of understanding of the issue. And if that meritocratic logic applies to the referendum, prssumably it applies to general ekections too, and now we have to demonstrate that we have a sound grasp of policing, education policy, taxation and national finance, international trade, defence and so on, ad-infinitum?

It's probably the biggest single weakness of democracy that bright, well-educated, experienced and discerning people get the same one vote as the village idiot, even if he thinks he's ordering a burger when he purs his cross ob the ballot paper.

Thing is, for all the obvious drawbacks, nobody has yet come up with a better method than equal voting rights for all eligible people, regardless of efucation or IQ.

And if we're going to have some qualifying level of understanding, who gets to determine who qualifies You? Me? And how? Exam? Good luck with that.