You get the worst anti-democratic statements from people who believe their own voting to be based on rational thought and everyone else's on irrational fears.
Direct democracy isn't the only form of democracy.
We're all irrational and biased, that's inherent to being human. Some people are more informed than other and there are processes to mitigate biases (direct democracy isn't one of them).
The problem comes from people who have no business in the vote, no knowledge of the issues, are not even aware of what biases are, and drink the propaganda kool aid.
Brexit was mostly about:
- "we spend to much money on EU"
- "too many migrants"
Well first off London only strives because of international financial businesses, closing the borders and making it harder for people to migrate is a death sentence [0]. Since the vote Brexit cost the UK much more than what they contribute to the EU [1], they export/import ~50% of their good to/from Europe [2]
Time will tell, what I'm convinced of is that Brexit was sold on lies. It might turns out good for them, but if it does it won't be because of good planning and well thought decisions, it'll be a combination of luck and really good damage control.
[0] https://www.ft.com/content/371c63ba-4b08-11e9-8b7f-d49067e0f...
Of course, that's always the other people...
> Well first off London only strives because of international financial businesses
London isn't the UK and "international" doesn't mean "about the EU-27".
> Since the vote Brexit cost the UK much more than what they contribute to the EU
Laughable nonsense.
> they export/import ~50% of their good to/from Europe
So does Iceland. Is it broke yet?
> Time will tell, what I'm convinced of is that Brexit was sold on lies
I rest my case about irrational voters... It's also quite pointless to turn every discussion into a superficial pro/con Brexit argument.
I never said that. It's all about intellectual honesty.
I know that I'm not qualified for my opinion to matter on the topic (I'm just debunking low quality propaganda here) despite the fact that I did hours of research on it.
We don't ask random people about their opinion on string theory, do we ?
> Laughable nonsense.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-economy/brexit...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/29/britain-bil...
https://qz.com/1477680/brexit-is-a-bad-idea-whichever-way-yo...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-22/u-k-brexi...
https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-membership-fee-55-million...
