Quote of the day 24th October 2017

Some highly-educated professional people still consider it perfectly acceptable to describe those who voted for either" (Trump or Brexit) " as stupid." 

"Rarely do these well-credentialed professionals with some power (however big or small) consider what it is about their own attitude and behaviours that turns people off. Or why it they have been on the losing side of so many recent political debates."

"In short, the people who think they know everything are the ones who don’t understand, and don’t even want to find out why other people think they are wrong. Their arrogance is their biggest enemy."

"In the coming years, politicians and business leaders will demand to be heard, and for their views to be taken seriously before our future and fate outside of Europe is sealed. That’s right and as it should be. But let’s not forget that’s all everyone else wants too.

If we don’t proceed with greater respect for each other, by the time we leave the EU the divide between “them” and “us” will be even bigger than before. The consequences of that could make the disruption of Brexit seem like a picnic – and the arrogant among the intellectual elite will have no-one else to blame but themselves."

(Extracts from article written by Baroness Tina Stowell, former leader of the House of Lords, calling for mutual respect. The article was published on CAPX,  and you can read it in full here.)

Comments

Anonymous said…
The people who'll suffer the most under Trump or Brexit are in general the people that voted for it, then there are those that voted for it so we could make a killing in the markets. Happy days.
5:49 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
I'm inclined to agree wth the first half of your comment, though in general the sort of people who make or have made lots of money in any sort of market were mostly among the most vehement remainers. (Farage himself being an exception.)
10:55 am
Jim said…
I would tend to agree with neither point, but why. Well, there was a leave plan put together over 2 years that if followed would have provided for a smoother transition. as things stand I think if all goes as its going we are going to have a few years of hell, and then move to a brighter place.

I could have voted to remain, but i did not, I did not because I knew for a fact that the UK was on a track that i most certainly did not want to be on.

would we still be on that track if remain won, well yes.

The problem with a lot of referendums is politicans immediatly start asking the qustions of "what did people really mean by leave" and of course now we have that it is leaving the single market and the customs union and all and everything else. Of course that is not the question that was asked, the question that was asked was "should the uk remain a member of the European union or leave the European union"

it asked nothing about the single market or the customs union did it
6:37 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
Yes there is a lot of "what people meant by leave was ..." often followed by claims that this provides a mandate for whatever the person concerned would have wanted to do anyway.

You're right, Jim, the question on the ballot paper was whether Britain should remain a member of the EU or leave the EU and that is all there is a mandate for.

What we have to do now is try to get on the best track to make leaving the EU as successful as possible.
2:15 pm
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