Comments by "M R" (@emm_arr) on "Brexit-voting areas 'will be hardest hit' financially" video.

  1. "I don't need Soros funding to get out of bed in the morning. Unlike the 'journalists' at Channel Four" They're not funded by Soros. You have to be a muppet if you think he pays them.
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  2. One of the oddest things about Brexit - and recent years in general - is how people can think they know better than people who know more than them. Life doesn't really work like that. You don't know better than your dentist as far as teeth go - or more than a cancer specialist about treating cancer - or more than the council surveyor about lintels.
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  3. Hereward, if you need to call people halfwits, you're on shaky ground. If you are a Brexiter, you're unlikely to be in the top 15% of the intelligence range.
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  4. Spinler. that claim is just stupid. You cannot be of normal intelligence and believe what you posted.
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  5. It doesn't. Why would you believe that silly claim?
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  6. I'm not blind, and its output does not support that claim of yours.
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  7. They want what they want (!) and they want to be right ... in the face of evidence and reasoning from most people who are relatively intelligent. Unfortunately for them, the world doesn't work like that. People who know more are usually the ones who know best.
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  8. Adam, you make two contradictory points. Which am I to take seriously here? I think the general point is that people are now likely to be arrogant an stupid enough to think their lack of knowledge is somehow equal to knowledge - and it's not.
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  9. Nope. Reporting opinions is not lies. Reporting on projected costs is not lies. False claims about lies is lies - and you are a little liar.
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  10. BonnieSumo100, it is most likely that leaving the EU will have serious consequences for jobs and overall prosperity. I have no idea what sources you are using, but prevailing expert opinion indicates that your beliefs are uunrealistic. You do know that you are getting primary school English wrong? I mention this because your ideas about the EU and the UK are even worse. Why presume you know best?
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  11. "real people". Like you are a "real person"!?
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  12. A problem with cranks is that they rarely know that they are cranks. Here's a little test for you: look into the EU (facts only please) top see that it is not a "dictatorship". It's easy to fact check that. Once you get your head around that, you may be able to see what other errors of thought are normal for you now.
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  13. Coeus, you give us a statement about your own mindset - including a "baseless assumption" of your own.
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  14. What you need Pip, is to use your brain a bit more.
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  15. Oddly enough, it's pretty much a new town and one people don't usually choose first. It's really, really pretty in Shropshire - well worth a visit and renting a car so you can get to places like Ludlow and Oswestry. It's probably a good base for a holiday in the UK if you rent a car.
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  16. You can assure us that very large firms may have little impact and no more. However you cannot assure us that EU Member States won't attract business away from London - and I've read about the way they are changin their laws so London activites can be done in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Malta.
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  17. "We know what we want its the remainers stopping it" Fingers crossed they will - for the sake of all the clued up and clueless people out there.
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  18. This 95% of global growth is the second and third world becoming prosperous. I have yet to hear practical suggestions as to how the UK could benefit here by leaving the EU. Employers keep wages down. Governments play their part too - if they want. Belgium, for instance, doesn't have wages like that. You blame the EU for policies created and enacted IN LONDON. You can do better than that.
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  19. Then don't be too surprised if you lose your job and home.
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  20. You could be more coherent.
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  21. That's not a leading question. It's merely a question. A leading question is this: "Don't you regret voting for Brexit?" You are the fake.
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  22. All the benefits of learning without having to put in any effort or have any ability?
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  23. BdaMonkey, I had a rather long conversation with an old friend on just that subject. It's a huge issue and it's taking us down dark roads.
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  24. The terms "knock-on-effect" and "consequences" are useful here - much like knowing stuff.
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  25. "M R which you obviously don't" I know more than you and have more ability in expressing it in English. You should master primary school English before you throw that attitude around.
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  26. They may be using supplies that originate from the EU - but that are bought from a UK wholesaler.
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  27. I get no money whatsoever. Stupid comment. I can play that game too: what do you get for posting what you post?
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  28. That stupid comment of yours does NOTHING AT ALL to address the issues with what you say. That's exactly why you did it.
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  29. You shut right up in response to that, Spinler. You must be on payroll. See what I did there?
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  30. "free your mind" is a dead giveaway of life's magical thinkers. This "hate the working classes" and "facist" show us you listen to the middle class operatives who are paid to help you think this way - and that you don't do much learning beyond that. "facist" - from "face"? Seriously lame stuff.
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  31. Jesus wept. The word is "fascist" with an s - from "fasces". You talk rubbish about fascism and "the left" - which doesn't really exist. That's a term that allows people like your good self to talk utter shite with conviction.
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  32. There is no "the left". Free your mind from the cage you chose to put it in.
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  33. "I am talking about people who identify as left" Sure - like Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn both do. That's just another reason why your sweeping claims aren't satisfactory. "I am able to de-centre" Really now?
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  34. "Know thy enemy" Er, right. It's "know thine enemy". All this "the left" and "the right" just leads to bad understanding, bad politics and poor decision-making. Really.
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  35. "Really bud, I don't need correting or told what to put." Arguably nobody needs correcting, but it's normal to point out flawed thinking. "Deal." You have every right to resist reasoning that undermines your views. "You express how you want to, and I will express how I want to. 😉" Or, perhaps "I'm going to do what I want. Smiley." - yeah - I get it: too into your beliefs to rethink them. Smiley!
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  36. You need correcting - or, rather, your habit needs pointing out so you can overcome it. You don't want to overcome it, though. You want to think simplistic stuff about something you call "the left". It validates your own views about something you call "the left". It's all circular. The preconception begets the evidence to reinforce the preconception. You clearly get something out of thinking this way. I can guess as to what that is and why it begets this habit of mind.
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  37. I'm pretty bored with people who make false claims about insults. I think many of them confuse their feelings with what was said. That's a very basic error.
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  38. "we will be better off" - No. We won't.
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  39. No. Prevailing expert opinion is quite clear. You and most of us will be less wealthy.
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  40. Fake fisher.
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  41. Attack the messenger!
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  42. I just check in when I get a silly reply. Some very silly views are being expressed here.
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  43. Hereward, be clear: you are closer to a cretin than I am because you are less intelligent. You always have been and acting like a child just helps keep you at that level.
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  44. Hereward, be clear: you are closer to a cretin than and you are closer to a silly little child - and that's your choice.
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  45. You know something? People like you remind me very much of these ancient aliens cranks. Evidence counts for sod all when it shows humans built the pyramids or made the world we live in today - but magical thinking that supports preconceptions is very highly valued.
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  46. Pretending to be British? Nice.
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  47. The "Brexit dividend" for the NHS will be raised taxes - and the UK will be following the EU! Funny that. If we had stayed in, we would be deciding policy and be collecting more tax by curbing offshoring. Brexit's all about tax and offshoring really.
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  48. "the Block have done load's to helps the countries of Europe" It's "bloc has", and, yes, the EU has done loads to help and it's largely been very successful. "Oh no sorry they don't" Be sorry that you get basic stuff wrong instead. "I've seen the drastic change for worse to all those EU countries in the past 30 years." Oddly enough, most people who live in them have seen changes for the better. "Also Britain in the most diverse country on the planet" I disagree. Outside a few very large cities, it's fairly far from diverse. "We have helped other countries for decades so your comments seems more of an opinion you have rather than facts you know." Yet I do know much more than you, so my opinions are more valuable.
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  49. Out of interest, why would you think you know best when you mess up English that children can get right?
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  50. "M R Your absolutely entitled to your own opinion." And you to yours - but ... why would you think you know best when you mess up English that children can get right?
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  51. That's childish. You are childish. So is your politics.
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  52. If you intended to be childish, then you succeeded with flying colours. I don't care who people vote for as long as they have good reasons - an that display of kiddie-think doesn't count.
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  53. That's bonkers thinking. You are somehow blaming the EU for allowing this to happen. Well, let me tell you as someone who lives in Manchester (note the capital M, thank you), that you are never safe - "real Bfitish people" are not fretting and overemotional like you are. Terrorism is a minor cause of death. That's verifiable. You're far more likely to die on a British road by the hands of a Christian.
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  54. "The main logical reason probably being are your kids' lives an acceptable price to pay for X ..." X can be anything that causes death. It could be cars, cigarettes or even houses, one of the most dangerous places people can be - based on mortality rates.
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  55. You were never "fucking safe" with unlocked doors. That's nostalgia. "Now stop been a coward stop hating your self" I'm not and you're frankly dim if that's your response to having me point out that terrorism is a minor cause of death. Dim - seriously not good at thinking at all.
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  56. "Leave is still the correct choice you have not changed my mind." It strikes me as unlikely that people can change your mind because you argue back on the strength of your beliefs. You're not into factual evidence and reasoning are you? Let's do a test ... spot the issue in this comment of yours: "So because terrorism is a minor cause of death a deliberate one may i add and that it kills much less than a natural disaster or other things we have no control over its perfectly acceptable." Can you see it?
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  57. "humour me." No. This is why you don't learn.
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  58. "Is there something i can learn from you" Are you capable and willing to learn? It looks like you don't learn when you encounter facts. "after our delightful conversation i'm feeling quite sceptical" Reasoning isn't done with feelings. Feel away. I'll stick to reasoning because it leads to better life decisions.
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  59. "Is there something i can learn from you take it on board without any detrimental effect2 The only detrimental effect is that you might end up realising that what you posted is flawed. It's really detrimental to reason better and learn - your brain might swell.
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  60. I think it already has: all that silliness about terrorism is Blair-era perspective-free nervous Nelly stuff. And once again - you're not learning. How many life chances to learn have you pissed up the wall? At least three here. It must be countless thousands in total.
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  61. "i know thats why im doing well for myself and my family." Really? Yet you are unable to apply reason over feelings here. How odd.
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  62. Let's see if you can quote these alleged "straw men and red herrings". Really - try it.
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  63. This is why I suspect that if Brexit ever does happen, most relatively young people will be even more keen on the EU than they were before.
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  64. Someone's may well be an idiot. It is usually the person deliberately asking the wrong question.
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  65. "Communist EU" That undermines you calling others idiots! You have to be a dullard to believe that claim.
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  66. "Sigh. ALL the main EU players have COMMUNIST BACKGROUNDS" No. Not true. Most do not.
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  67. "And speaking of "money", just think what British taxpayers will be able to do with the money they'll save" They wont save as the tax take from being in the SM exceeds the contribution - so you're trying to claim a net loss is a saving.
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  68. And - a point of order now - British taxpayers do not pay the contribution. The UK government pays this. That's woolly thinking on your part.
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  69. And they'll get none from the likes of IDS are Rees-Mogg. You could even - with reason - call them "feckless" and criticise "life choices" over Brexit.
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  70. Half the British are of below average intelligence. All the leavers needed to do was persuade more of these people that the EU was the source of their unhappiness.
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  71. Breaking news: David Davis has flounced!
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  72. There are no "independence voters" in the UK - but there are lots of people who tell untruths. You are one.
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  73. "17.4 million independence voters in the UK - fact." Like this: Its 1985! Fact. It was once. Massive UKIP wins coming soon to a polling station near me? No. Where I live, people think kippers are twats.
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  74. Disraeli the PM - fact.
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  75. Queen Victoria and the biggest Empire ever - fact.
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  76. The Beatles at no.1 again - fact.
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  77. Well, if you can, this summer might be the time. Schools break up in about 2 weeks with holidays ending at the end of the first week of September. We're having the longest spell of hot weather in many years. It's glorious - and it's light until almost 10PM. If you go up the Wrekin (it's a hill!) right by Telford, you can see as far as a couple of counties away on a clear day, and that's about 70 minutes in a car - an ideal time limit on how long you might drive to places to see. You're very near Birmingham too - and Cannock Chase (a place where people sometimes spot child ghosts with black eyes!). I'd say you definitely need a car as trains are so bad, but it's a nice part of the world to drive around in. If you do, I hope you enjoy it. I'm sure the counties next to Wales are the prettiest bits of England and the people - in my experience - are rather nice.
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  78. If only we knew who funded Arron Banks. It looks like we might at some point too.
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  79. Is a catcalling adult likely to know best?
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  80. "Of course, the establishment will be determined to punish leave voters." Lame. Some people you would term "the establishment" created Brexit by conning people like you into blaming "the establishment" and the EU. "Leave voters have upset money" Lame too. It's "money" who owns the press here and "money" who are so keen to avoid paying tax that they'll cash this country out of the EU ... all without you even knowing what they're doing.
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  81. You should be more ashamed of your own if that's representative.
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  82. You feel no shame about intentionally misrepresenting people simply because their views differ to yours. That's telling. You can be better than that.
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  83. "as ive revealed no such views" Untrue. You posted your original post. "One remainers view is different to another" Yes, so your original post is not a good post. "You assume or infer i should be ashamed. How so." I told you in two posts ago in simple English.
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  84. True. Admitting you were wrong is how humans learn. Some people are too arrogant - or fragile - to do that.
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  85. "to vote the way the media n government want you to vote" - Government policy is to leave the EU - as most of our press barons want. It strikes me that you didn't think about that post very much.
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  86. Ah. I see. Maybe it should cross your mind that the Brexit you were sold wasn't realistic.
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  87. How does that fit with JIT manufacturing?
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  88. Ah hah - so leaving the EU won't help, will it? Some goods cross the channel more than once, so that makes the UK unattractive for JIT - if Brexit happens.
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  89. Some goods cross the channel more than once, so that makes the UK unattractive for JIT - if Brexit happens. That means that investment and jobs are less likely to happen here. Obviously - surely?
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  90. Hardly pragmatic! Have you ever changed your mind?
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  91. No. An NHS doctor once told me I was human. I can change my mind too.
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  92. Sounds like you are enjoying it. I'd draw the line at incest.
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  93. Your crapmongering does.
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  94. You get over it. Just ... get over it.
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  95. Rejoicing? Get over it.
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  96. Get over it. If you can.
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  97. Shitposting liar!
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  98. That's what dullards proclaim in the face of things they dislike.
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  99. I wonder how few people here know of the remarkable timing coincidence between ATAD and some rich Brits suddenly deciding they want Brexit? Brexit is really about offshoring wealth to avoid tax.
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  100. That might be a hard one for people who are poor at cause and effect and who are really badly informed.
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  101. "I honestly think" ... well, honestly thinking unrealistic stuff doesn't make it workable. Some people honestly think dolphins are fish.
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  102. The dummies just voted to make stuff worse. By the way, grooming has been happening on a huge scale since way before the UK had Asian communities. It's curious that people like you only care when it's non-white people doing it.
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  103. "M R there are no recorded cases of none muslims 'grooming Muslims." Well done for missing the point by 1.78 miles.
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  104. And there you go again - you're into religious-based intolerance. That matters far more to you than the grooming. You are so obvious.
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  105. The vast majority of people who still post online in support Brexit don't have good written English. Doesn't that tell you that it's a bad idea?
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  106. That's right. Countdown is a plot to make you middle class.
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  107. Being pro-immigrant allows people with names as Irish as your own to live in the UK free of prejudice. If that's nonsense, you can stand in front of a mirror and punch yourself a few times. Might knock some sense into you.
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  108. Did they? A lot of them thought rubbish like "dictatorship" and that the EU had depressed their wages.
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  109. You laugh at this? That's not quite right.
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  110. People do - some of them are better qualified to speak on this than you are. "only an economically illiterate buffoon would believe that" Mmm. Seems unlikely. It might even be that you are an economically illiterate buffoon.
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  111. "THIS IS NOT NEWS." This has been news for decades. Stop being silly.
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  112. It's more like using able people to do what dimwits chose to do.
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