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| Brexit - worth a read from the indispensible Dalrymple |
| 2016-07-26 |
| [Liberty Law] No result of an election or referendum in Britain during my lifetime has produced such an excess of rhetoric among those on the losing side as that concerning Brexit. One survey found that nearly half of young people who voted for Britain to remain in Europe either cried or felt close to crying afterwards. This survey suggests either their depth of feeling or their emotional incontinence. I think the latter is probably the more accurate interpretation. Certainly, many young people selectively interviewed by the media said that they felt that their future had been stolen from them by those who voted for Brexit. (The fact that the youth unemployment rate in Belgium and France was 25 percent, in Portugal 30 percent, in Italy 39 percent, in Spain 45 percent and Greece 49 percent did not seem to worry them. They were not of the youth-unemployment class.) And it was the old, who predominantly voted to leave, who had snatched their glorious future from them. |
| Posted by:Bov Flimbers |
| #11 I guess homophobe and racist are losing their luster and they need a replacement? When both sides of the equation are white heterosexuals (the main concern was Polish plumbers and Romanian grifters, not vicious invaders from the ummah), and the accusers are over-educated but underlearnt, going straight to the Greek polysyllablism is inevitable. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-07-26 12:09 |
| #10 Hey! BrExit did my portfolio good. I can't knock it. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2016-07-26 11:32 |
| #9 Yeah. I liked emotional incontinence too. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-07-26 11:22 |
| #8 emotional incontinence Good one! I think the word "xenophobe" is frequently over used. I guess homophobe and racist are losing their luster and they need a replacement? |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-07-26 11:18 |
| #7 Glenn Reynolds at the Instapundit this morning again makes a point that he's made before: if the elites wish to be trusted, they need to be trustworthy. If the elites wish to run things, they need to be competent. If the elites wish to have the support of ordinary people, they have to respect ordinary people. You can't govern a country you've never been to. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2016-07-26 09:01 |
| #6 I think the word "xenophobe" is frequently over used. I find your statement problematic. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-07-26 08:54 |
| #5 ...nothing ever changes: because the abuse and the complicity, the secretive rule by decree by career politico-bureaucrats without any real oversight, is not the consequences of the so-called European Project, it is the European Project. There is but one "solution" to the march of the bureaucratic tyranny, individualism. The central planners, aka tyrants, are always with us and unless they are controlled with something like our original constitution AND THE WILL TO ENFORCE IT the cycle of violent revolution against the tyrants will continue. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-07-26 08:31 |
| #4 I think the word "xenophobe" is frequently over used. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2016-07-26 08:18 |
| #3 Read about it here EUSSR: The Soviet roots of European Integration - Vladimir Bukovsky |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2016-07-26 07:49 |
| #2 There is no doubt that the campaign to leave the European Union appealed to xenophobes, and indeed that there have been xenophobic incidents since the referendum; but it is an elementary error of logic to argue that if xenophobes voted for leaving, then those who voted for leaving were xenophobes. The fact that so many commentators and supporters of Britain remaining in the European Union did make precisely this error suggests that education and the ability to think are not necessarily identical. That'd leave a mark, if the intellectuals were patient enough to read the whole paragraph. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-07-26 07:24 |
| #1 Who Understands the European Project? Putin? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-07-26 05:53 |