Pope, why are you always going on about the level of education and the referendum? The only reason I can see is that it's your (extremely thinly) veiled way of saying leavers are thick and remainers are intelligent. Does the level of education really make a difference? There could be many reasons for the correlation:
- The better educated have better jobs that aren't so much under threat by the import of labour.
- The better educated have undergone a process of indoctrination. Up until now I haven't mentioned this but I have a degree in Economics. When I look back it was actually a period of indoctrination and I fell for it at the time. Yes we learned the usual microeconomics/macroeconomics, econometrics, banking/money supply (funnily enough though not the Ponzi scheme of the central bankers), GATT, WTO, Bretton Woods, etc, etc but among all that was 'how good' the Maastricht Treaty and the EU (that was yet to be formed as it is now) was going to be.
- The better educated, in general, think that the pro-remain BBC is a honest, unbiased media source.
- Does Tarquin with his Art or Philosophy degree really know more than the 'uneducated' people like Eddie Dempsey or the late Bob Crow?
One further question I have for you is why is ok for you to HATE (your words) scousers, based on how they act towards a fairly meaningless (in the grand scheme of life) sport yet some who doesn't like eastern Europeans filling jobs that they would like to do (warehouse/building/etc - not just fruit picking) are the devil incarnate?
I have posted two links on this. Read them.
I haven't said why the link is there. But it is. That is unarguable. By all means, make the assumption that it is statistically insignificant if you like. In fairness, it is; brexit has happened and there is no going back now.
But education gives you the tools to make better decisions. It gives you the tools to weigh up different options and arguments properly and reach a confident conclusion. It gives you the ability to listen even to arguments that are complex or go against your own preconceptions and potentially build those into your thinking. It allows you to be analytical and reflective. It enables you to act based on logic, evidence and knowledge rather than in instinct.
That is why remainers get so frustrated listening to less educated leavers go on about absolute nonsense; rubbish about migrants they have read in the express, or nonsense about the courts or straight bananas. Educated people have the tools to recognise these things are bullshit and find that our for themselves.
If you are highly educated and reached the conclusion that Brexit was right then I have nothing to say to you. If you used your educational advantages to weigh up the evidence and conclude that Brexit was the best choice then I can respect that as much as I profoundly disagree with it. I hate your decision and might question your motives (as I do LK) but at least you know what you are talking about.
Your "indoctrination" is irrelevant. In your degree you were told stuff about the EU. That's just knowledge. Your education have you to tools to later dismiss that knowledge and question it as biased and unsafe.
I can't recall saying I hate ALL scousers. Maybe you can find the quote where I said that, but if I did, it's not true and I reject/retract that. I do have a very strong antipathy to Liverpool fans, and Liverpool as a region does have more than its share of the social problems that I absolutely hate the most based on my career experiences, IE gangs, refusal to work with the police, glorification of criminality, etc.
But generally speaking I reject the idea of "hating" entire groups. It just doesn't work