Well, I put this in the valid point made very badly category. White males have - generally speaking - made it higher up the career ladder.
True. And I, for one, welcome our new overlords.
The bus campaign was an excellent piece of public relations, which may have accounted for some of the winning percentage. It's the kind of factoid in which political campaigners trade all the time at general elections, so it's disingenuous to alight on one point as uniquely misleading. Most people vote from the gut, and that's as true at referendums as elections. The Lib Dems promised to do away with higher education tuition fees, instead they went from £3290 to £9000 under the coalition. That's what politicians do. In the world of Tom and Jerry politics both cat and mouse can be killed stone dead only to reappear in rude good health in the next episode.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/dominic-cummings-brexit-referendum-won/#
Absolutely. Britain will neither pass into a sunlit economic upland, nor a new financial dark age after Brexit, because global forces are more powerful than any Brussels desk jockey. WE will be pretty much as before, a nation on the tide of global events. The truth is nobody had a clue what would happen because no large EU contributor had left before, but that didn't stop either side spinning it to their advantage. Until negotiations are formally under way, we still don't know but we can be certain both sides will claim victory and the immanent demise of the other.
You would think so. Unfortunately the Civil Service is known (possibly unjustly?) for protecting higher-ups at the expense of front-line staff.
The evidence is - if writing a big darned lie on the side of a bus (and the considerable expense of doing so) isn't done to "influence" voters...then why do it? For a laugh??
And I don't recall any Brexit supporters writing on this or any other forums that "oh, the bus advert, that's a lie obviously" before the vote. Did you.....??
No, we will not move on from this. Ever.
"The Pound In Your Pocket"
"The Lady's Not For Turning"
"Let's Give The NHS £350m/Week"
It's there for eternity. We didn't write it....
They'd take notice. There'd be an almighty stink for a week, millions of internet threads words would be wasted on the subject, and people will go on exactly as before. Remember the materialist-atheist-humanist bus campaign slogan, "There's probably no God, now stop worry and enjoy your life"? A meme based on so many unprovable assertions that did nothing except occupying air time and raise sales of Richard Dawkins' latest book. On Blair's demon-eyes, or Britain Isn't Working. None were empirically true, but all's fair in the institutional hypocrisy that is party politics.
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Seems to be nearly every day Labour comes out with "if elected we will give many pennies to such and such a cause", without actually saying where those many pennies will come from.
And good news, Mrs May is going travelling around the country... in a helicopter to avoid having to talk to regular people
There's nothing to stop government putting £350m into the NHS instead of whatever was paid into the EU.
Labour threaten to tax the rich, but as such people are adept at tax avoidance they raise taxes for average earners. The Tories claim wealth creators will flee if they raise taxes, realise the poor can't pay much tax, so also raise tax for average earners. By the time defence and health spending have been taken out the pot, most claims are spin.
