The Consequences of Brexit (part 3)

[I1L2T3]

So, it was decided by just over 600 000 voters then, out of 45 000 000.

 

More half of those 600,000 are now dead.

 

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Exactly.

 

So it was decided by just over 600 000 voters

 

Yes if 600,000 out of 46m had voted the other way it would have been a dead heat.

[apelike]

Exactly.

 

So it was decided by just over 600 000 voters

 

How do you work that one out then when the majority was 1,269,501:huh:

[Guest sibon]

How do you work that one out then when the majority was 1,269,501:huh:

 

Because I can count.

 

I'm repeatedly told that Brexiters aren't thick, poorly educated, innumerate etc, etc.

 

So go and ask a Brexiter about it, I'm sure that most of them can do basic arithmetic, such as counting to 350M:rolleyes:

[apelike]

Because I can count.

 

But you are not counting the right figures are you. Can you take away 16,141,241 from 17,410,742 and tell me what is left as that was the majority in favour of leaving.

 

As I1L2T3 points out if 600,000 out of 46m had voted the other way it would have been a dead heat, but they didn't did they.

 

Even if you think the majority was 600,000 that is also not by any means "very few indeed."

[L00b]

I'm repeatedly told that Brexiters aren't thick, poorly educated, innumerate etc, etc.

But then, without fail...

 

<non-contentious historical information>

Phew! Thank goodness you got out of it then.

 

...they just can't help themselves proving the contrary

Edited May 5, 2017 by L00b

[I1L2T3]

How do you work that one out then when the majority was 1,269,501:huh:

 

OK, if you want to be picky it was decided by 634750.5 voters.

 

For each voter voting the other way the majority is reduced by 2

[Guest sibon]

But you are not counting the right figures are you.

 

Yes. Yes I am.

 

Basic arithmetic.

[I1L2T3]

But you are not counting the right figures are you. Can you take away 16,141,241 from 17,410,742 and tell me what is left as that was the majority in favour of leaving.

 

As I1L2T3 points out if 600,000 out of 46m had voted the other way it would have been a dead heat, but they didn't did they.

 

Even if you think the majority was 600,000 that is also not by any means "very few indeed."

 

It's 1.38% of the electorate.

 

That is a tiny amount really for such seismic consequences.

 

Like I said given the UK death rate of 1,600 a day and that fact that most of those are of pensionable age, and the fact people of pensionable age voted overwhelmingly for Brexit on a high turnout then hundreds of thousands of Brexit voters have already died.

 

Two groups of people with nothing to lose voted to push Leave over the line:

1. Those who were more likely to die because they were cracking on in years

2. The poor who voted for change

 

All this is going to get very important as we progress Brexit. It's going to haunt the politicians who push it through and facilitated it, Labour and Tories included.

[apelike]

Yes. Yes I am.

 

Basic arithmetic.

 

OK I'll bite.. now show your working out.

[Guest sibon]

OK I'll bite.. now show your working out.

 

There is no working out, beyond the figures that you provided yourself.

 

If you don't understand how elections work, there is no hope.