Comments by "" (@col.hertford9855) on "Philosopher spells out how populists defeated liberal democracy | John Gray interview" video.

  1. Generally a long meandering journey on one’s own opinion with zero challenge or rebuttal by the interviewer. One of the few points agreed with is the fact Brexit voters we’re not racist, they were in my experience totally clueless as to what they voted for or against, and were generally quite xenophobic.
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  2. It’s a monologue rather than an interview really isn’t it.
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  3.  @James333-n2q  literally my whole social group and much of my work social group voted brexit, and not one of them did it for the reasons John postulates. Most brexit voters are middle class which is borne out with statistics not hyperbole.
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  4.  @donaldwebb  maybe you are unaware, but the two main reasons for voting leave in polling was immigration and sovereignty. Hence the driving facet has a strong undercurrent of xenophobia. This isn’t all leave voters, but it is a sizeable majority. It also doesn’t change the fact Brexit has not changed either. Edit: just to be clear, I mean fear of foreigners rather than hatred. I realise the term is sometimes used interchangeably.
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  5.  @jmolofsson  his was more a advert for a book, that a journalistic interview. It’s generally considered there is some form of conversation in an interview rather than just long monologues.
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  6.  @oldishandwoke-ish1181  they clearly don’t, because they keep voting for the people screwing them over the most.
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  7.  @donaldwebb  please tell me what I’m clueless at? Thanks in advance.
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  8.  @donaldwebb  it was more about foreigners controlling our laws than immigrants, when the actual issue would be someone of a different political perspective being a more key reason. So wrong on that count.
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  9.  @TTFMjock  possibly not, but saying the country is full is a fairly big tell, as we have a declining birth rate and clearly can’t maintain the population to maintain the economy. Saying I don’t want foreigners having a say over “our” laws is a fairly big tell. I never said it’s a conscience or malicious bias either.
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  10.  @TTFMjock  please it explain it then? Usually I’ve found the sovereignty example used by brexiteers was about immigration controls, or to a lesser extent removing trade barriers (which counter intuitively means actually erecting trade barriers as we have seen post Brexit).
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  11.  @wasdwasdedsf  got any examples?
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  12.  @wasdwasdedsf  we have far more immigration now we have left. Try again.
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  13.  @wasdwasdedsf  we do have an impact over Japanese laws. Every treaty and agreement we have with them and they have with us does this. Hell, even getting the Olympics or the FIFA World Cup means adopting a legal frame work to make it compatible. Please try again
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  14.  @Patriotische-Aktion  I didn’t realise the EU was making people have foreigners sleep in their house 😂🤣😂🤣
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  15.  @Patriotische-Aktion  no, your comment is not areal thing. Oh, and Brexit made immigration “worse”.
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  16.  @Patriotische-Aktion  at no point during the entire membership of the EU was there a proposal to allow random people to sleep in anyones house. You have created one hell of a straw-man to argue against.
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