No, it really couldn't.
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[Politics] Brexit
- Thread starter KingstonSeagull
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No, it really couldn't.
Baldseagull
Well-known member
Most maybe did see it as bull, but it was a close result and if it persuaded 600,000 people to vote leave, instead of remain, that would have swung it from a 50/50 split to the 52/48 result. It had an effect, Farages poster had an effect, and both were misleading.
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
Must be just me that’s thick then as that’s how I read it....so much for a grammar school education eh
Fitzcarraldo
Well-known member
- Nov 12, 2010
- 960
It could be read as that but it doesn't say that.
Why would they make any spending pledges (suggestions, if you really wan) then if they didn't think people believed them? It doesn't make sense.
nicko31
Well-known member
We're getting our £350m at last, problem is that's got to last all winter for NHS. Why did they pick £350m as a figure, are they literally asking to be ridiculed?
All is fair in love and war and stay or leave, no?
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
Well they were trying to win a campaign by showing people how we could better spend the money we were sending to the EU. It wasn’t a promise as such but more a reason why the leave campaign thought we should leave.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Really, it was pretty clear how that message was taken by the general public voting.
You seem to think the voting public would probably stick their head in a gas oven if it were presented on the side of a bus. Remainers give no credit to leavers ability to assess the whole picture, instead focusing on a little red bus. Weird.
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
I cannot answer for them I can only answer for myself. As with most votes many people voting don’t actually even know what they are voting for half the time and use various different, false and accurate, assumptions to come to their decision.
Top level decisions like this need to be made by intelligent individuals that have taken the time to understand all the detail. They shouldn’t be given to the general public who in most cases have very few facts on the subject matter.
Unfortunately politicians seemed to have ducked their responsibility on this one.
I brought it up not because I thought everyone voted because of the bus but because it influenced enough to change the vote from Remain to Leave. It was a lie. Now compounded by them not even giving 10% of the money to the NHS. They really don't seem to give a sh
You didn't bring it up and I did not address my reply to you. The 'little red bus' has been argued about since remain lost. You are just perpetuating the 'argument line' which has been persued for what seems an eternity, as I said, weird!
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
But the current government and the leave campaign are 2 different entities so you can hardly make out they are the same
Not weird at all. It's a current issue because of today's budget.
You just haven't got a defence for it.
I don't need to defend it because I wasn't stupid enough to believe it. Stop assuming, it is a rather unattractive trait.
JC Footy Genius
Bringer of TRUTH
- Jun 9, 2015
- 10,568
The figure wasn't particularly relevant the underlying point was .. spending the billions we send to the EU on our own priorities. Just one of the many factual arguments that won the day. Whereas the project fear whoppers that duped many remain voters have already been proved false. Record employment, continuing growth not as scary as the forecast immediate recession and half a million unemployed ..
nicko31
Well-known member
Staggering downgrade forecast from the OBR compared to March, a £49B black hole in public finances. And this on the assumption we get a deal, so looks like this is on the optimistic side as was the forecast in March. Nothing to do with Brexit of course...
You'd make a good politician.
portslade seagull
Well-known member
Bore off