Comments by "Tim Murphy" (@timmurphy5541) on "FRANCE 24 English" channel.

Few people understand how the things in their supermarket get there and yet they are asked to vote on issues that greatly affect the whole process. It's obviously a recipe for trouble.
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@argus0ia I think you're right but the more people who've been to university the better the quality of the misunderstanding IMO :)
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Of course it's an instrument of power - people like Putin don't leave such things alone.
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@rasheedh7043 only western media? I can read the news of eastern and western countries without any problem.
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He built up the army according to my Ukranian friends who liked him. I think he did right.
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It's when people think they're superior and have the means to do something about it that we all get into trouble. Doesn't matter what country. The idea that "might is right" is very very worrying. Also to suggest that Germany has political dominance is .... a recipe for disaster.
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@wohdinhel I'm, from Zimbabwe where there was a one-party state for a time and people called each other comrade (as long as they were the right colour). So no I don't think it's worth trying to use Brexit as an issue to fight your old war. This is not about that ideological battle at all.
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@mogznwaz You all misinterpreted me. People who have done higher education have that much better chance of realising that they don't know everything because education shoves it in your face again and again that the amount there is to know is a lot more than what you know. Not everyone is "saved" but there's just a higher chance.
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@mogznwaz the word communism doesn't seem relevant anymore. There are no communists left. It seems to be one of those extreme exaggerations that is used to describe anyone who isn't a racist, xenophobe or mysogenist.
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@mogznwaz well, obviously people with big commitments to a certain viewpoint won't let anything influence them.
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@mogznwaz Usually people start off with narrow preconceptions and try to travel and get educated to widen their view so they essentially see things and understand the world in a way they couldn't before. It's fairly obvious that we start of knowing nothing and will continue to fail to understand the world if we don't make an attempt to learn. Some learning is very uncomfortable and there's a great temptation to reject it totally. Some information that shakes one's own view of oneself, one's own origins etc for example.
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I don't want to soil this comment section with the name of the enemy but where is he? Where is is gun and his tough-man image? Hiding back in the Ural mountains and sending young boys to die for him?
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@anamarvelo That's why a) they should not be elected frequently b) the "commons" as we call them in the UK do their best to take all power away from the representatives (house of lords in our case).
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@claudermiller That's America. I think abortion isn't legal in Brasil but birth control is.
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@loc4725 before the UK was one unit the bits fought each other. The way to resolve a problem was to fight. Integration is just a way to solve problems and provide normal, relatively cheap ways of doing it by having common laws.
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Macavity hope the insults made you feel better. If you ever allow yourself to realise what you voted for then you will feel worse than any insults I can think of.
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It's emotional so you can't get through to Brexiters - they feel deeply inferior to immigrants who they cannot look down on - and the English ones just cannot get over the idea that they can't be the top dog in the EU like they are at home in their existing Union.
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@rcsart6409 that is the first line of defence English people tend to use to any criticism and I'm 1/2 English myself so I understand it. "Move on" is a lovely one too but usually it is someone who wants to get away from the consequences of their actions who is so keen to do it.
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@rcsart6409 I didn't aim my comment at you - you responded because you felt it did apply to you for some reason.
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