Quote Originally Posted by Andy_Faber View Post
As you might guess, I don't agree

The vast majority of the electorate DID have sufficient knowledge to offer an informed opinion, that knowledge was that the issues and potential outcomes hadn't been made clear and based on that their opinion SHOULD have been 'The issues and outcomes aren't clear enough, therefore I will vote for the status quo'.

HOWEVER, such rationality never came into it. The population were given a vote and did with it what they wished

some of your descriptions of those who voted (in both directions) may be accurate (certainly more so than Lord Swale's bile) but you clearly didn't/don't get out enough to realise there was (and still is) a genuine unrest with 'the way things are' amongst what is still the biggest demographic group in the country, who, not wanting to go on wrecking sprees such as we saw last year, see their 'moment' as being at the ballot box not, for instance, Bristol Harbour.
Oh, I get out enough, AF. Probably just mix in different circles.
I’m still trying to reconcile your point of a few posts ago...when you described people coming to you to find out how to find out more, with the statement... ‘the vast majority of the population DID have sufficient knowledge’.
Clearly, if they were coming to you to ask how to find out more, they didn’t have sufficient knowledge and I doubt that the a large proportion of those who voted for Brexit would have been found within your peer group anyway.

As regards Bristol Harbour...if you really want to confuse two distinct political campaign groups...let’s not pretend that the post Referendum behaviour of certain victorious Brexiteers was acceptable either. It also had nothing whatsoever to do with the ballot box.