Brexit Voters Believe Barmy Things

[bainbrig]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/23/study-shows-60-of-britons-believe-in-conspiracy-theories

Official survey shows that Leave voters far more likely to believe in the daftest conspiracy theories (like an Islamic conspiracy to take over Europe!)

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[bainbrig]

No sense, no point.

[-Talbot-]

Remainer believes this bullcrap.

[ichkeria]

Trouble is bainbrig your question title was a rather provocative distortion of what’s actually in the article (nothing new in that of course)
There was an interesting study the other night about how conspiracy theories gave really hit a grip in the US since Trump. To be honest I’m surprised the figure here is only 60% - conspiracy theories are very appealing to people. It’s interesting reading David Aaronovitch’s “Voodoo Histories” to see how everything from antisemitic nonsense from over a century ago through Hilda Murrell, David Kelly, Princess Di, the Clintons etc has got us all going.

[youngmafbog]

There are lies, dammed lies and statistics.

[Spicerack]

Why would anyone have to make up conspiracy theories about a pair of low-life scumbags like the Clintons?
Do us a favour, ichi. Go and find out what the thick commie alleged was a conspiracy theory against the Clintons. Probably been proved correct in the 10 years since he wrote about it.

[bainbrig]

Which thick commie, spice? I’m searching for a word.. is it shunt? Or punt? Or grunt?

Never mind, it’ll come to me.

[Theland]

Bullpoo

[Spicerack]

Learn how to read and it will come to you.

[ichkeria]

Heavens: wind it up and watch it wobble ;-)

[Spicerack]

^ In other words, it did turn out to be true. Lol, I can read you like a book, Isis boy.

[ichkeria]

Lol if you say so :-)

[Togo]

Remember how the Brexiteers were howled down when we warned that the EUSSR had their sites on a one party state with no representation for the ill bred masses?

" German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that European Union (EU) member states must be prepared to transfer powers over to Brussels at a debate on the ‘tensions’ between globalisation and national sovereignty.
“Nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty,” Merkel said, speaking at an event organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin on Wednesday."

She went on to condemn the German politicians that floated the idea that Germany might want to join the Nations that had turned against her open doors closed minds policy on immigration and pull out of the forced "agreement" with this pearler… “there were [politicians] who believed that they could decide when these agreements are no longer valid because they are representing The People”.

Can't have that now can we? Fancy wanting to represent "the people" Tut Tut. Just do as the Hildabeast recommends love and tell a few more lies.

[Togo]

Of course Meerkat is aided and abetted by the Gallic imp Macron.

" Macron travelled to Berlin at the weekend, where he told the Bundestag that “the Franco-German couple [has] the obligation not to let the world slip into chaos and to guide it on the road to peace”.
“Europe must be stronger… and win more sovereignty,” the French president said, demanding EU member states surrender national sovereignty to Brussels over “foreign affairs, migration, and development” in addition to “an increasing part of our budgets and even fiscal resources”.

[Togo]

How did sights get changed to sites?

[bainbrig]

You see, I would have been content to kick around the article’s points, but it hasn’t happened. No-one has read it and put forward specific counter-arguments, just trotted out the same old tub-thumping, the same old accusations.

I suppose on one level this heartens me, as it demonstrates the paucity of the ‘opposition’.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm sure folk read it. You just don't like the responses.

[bainbrig]

No evidence of it, geezer.

[-Talbot-]

No-one has read it and put forward specific counter-arguments



I read it and my argument is that it is complete bullcrap.

[bainbrig]

Talbot. Since your contribution was “Remainer believes this bullcrap”, it isn’t what anyone would call reasoned discourse.

[naomi24]

And 'No sense, no point' is?