09 Feb 17
Originally posted by rtmillerThat's a point. Well done. While age is certainly correlated with having seen more of life, as aging is by definition the passing of time, would you say the same about lack of education?
Because they have experienced life and know more.
Absence of academic achievements equal more experience? Please don't spare arguments. We're listening.
09 Feb 17
Originally posted by Trev33The younger, "educated" folk decided not to vote in the UK's single most important constitutional decision since WW2. And 7% of the 'Remain' voters also voted for UKIP in the general election.
The BBC and every other news agency and website... simple statistics, the vast majority who voted to leave were old and didn't go to university. That's just fact.
Had more of the younger, 'educated' people bothered to turn up and vote remain probably would have won. That's why elections in countries where you're free not to turn up are fundamentally fla ...[text shortened]... options, remain, leave and no vote and make it a crime not to to show up or make a postal vote.
So much for youth, education and statistics.
Originally posted by SeitseBecause being young and having a degree doesn't make you wise, politically informed or commercially aware, as any corporate employer will confirm and as the post referendum howls of millennial anguish demonstrated. I'm afraid that in politics as in life, evolution selects for the most fit. 🙂
...why do you think statistics show that having little school and being older suggest an inclination towards the Leave camp?
09 Feb 17
Originally posted by divegeesterYou are aware that you just made a value judgement which can be read in
Because being young and having a degree doesn't make you wise, politically informed or commercially aware
both ways, right? Just flip the "wise" decision as being "Remain" and, indeed,
your point is also possible.
What I'm interested in is a bit more complex and deep than slogans. First,
what did the Leave vote mean and what was its main trigger? And, how is
that meaning (whatever it is) linked to education and age?
Fear, bravery, independence, dependence, hatred, love, isolationism,
globalism, etc. What exactly is at the bottom of the vote and what do the
stats say about that essence?
Originally posted by divegeesterOne needs to be a UK citizen to understand the human condition and the
You would need to be a UK citizen to understand that. Instead you are a Fin, pointless, hopeless and cold.
complexity of its functioning within a social context? Interesting. I presume
you wrote your PhD on that subject.
It seems the polls indicate something quite in line with what we're reading
here.
P.S. And thanks for releasing yet another piece of private information. I
wonder, what would happen if someone does the same to you? Oh, yes,
and it is "Finn". But the polls already hinted at us some stuff about you.
Originally posted by Ghost of a Dukewhy you treacherous dog! I thought you had the blood of the Kings of Strathclyde running through your veins from being partly Welsh (the Kingdom of Strathclyde stretched from Glasgow to North Wales) and here we find out that you have the best blood of the North in those veins!! Get up here man and leave all that red brick city jive to itself, feel the wind in your hair, the sunshine on your face and let the fresh country air permeate your nether regions!
No worries. I even have a drop of Scottish blood in me. (Don't tell Robbie).
