The more sinister side of Brexit

[BrilloPad]

Obviously these things are hard to quantify, but insofar as research has been carried out it does tend to support the notion e.g.

https://hbr.org/2016/01/income-inequ...ies-less-happy

If you're well travelled you'll also observe that the rich in countries with extreme wealth disparity (e.g. South Africa, Kenya) tend to retreat into highly securitised gated communities and don't go out much at night. Which I don't suppose makes the rich very happy either.

Ditto Greece.

However, as you say, "tend" is the correct word.

[shaunbhoy]

you see Shaun you can do clever humour when you put your mind to it

good job

Milan.

Mmmm.....a benesy recommendation does come with certain strings attached though. A bit like getting a decent Trip Advisor rating from someone that has been sleeping rough on the rain-soaked streets and has just spent a night in a hostel.

[milanbenes]

Mmmm.....a benesy recommendation does come with certain strings attached though. A bit like getting a decent Trip Advisor rating from someone that has been sleeping rough on the rain-soaked streets and has just spent a night in a hostel.

that would have been funny but it was too long for the meagre ending

still some work to do old chap, but you're getting there

Milan.

[bobspud]

I do understand that there are a lot of angry people out there who feel that previous generations have let them down and to some extent have some sympathy with that but there is no point arguing with these people as even if the outcome is disaster , and I think some now realise that, in some kind of twisted way its what they want.

So I have now decided to focus my attention on getting the Young Conservatives to vote differently , a few photos of cuddly foxes to pursue them that fox hunting was not a good policy and maybe they are backing the wrong team seem to have gone down well so far.

A few points to note:

1) Of course we are leaving the EU to teach the rich idiots in London and south east a lesson. That was never any doubt on that and you could see the poor sharpening their pencils for exit the very minute that chinless twat Osborn stood up and said it will crash house prices and cause economic woes. Yes it was cynical that the leavers used that vitriol to get them what they wanted but frankly we the middle classes provided the petrol for this no doubts.

2) On Foxes: If you let the countryside alliance hunt the little ginger c%nts with rocket launchers, there would be 10 mile queues. The only people that care about foxes are the inner city dwellers that have never had to sweep up the body parts of their chickens or other pets just because they had fallen victim to a fox that wanted to play.

[cojak]

Instead of a one liner critique, how about you explain to us all how a nurse who will get no real pay rise over the next 2 years and is now facing higher mortgage / rent costs , food and fuel prices is going to dramatically improve her life as a result of Brexit ?

Appreciate you don't need to apologise that would be the job of Mr Johnson as he quite categorically stated that the economic outlook would not be worse, still it would be helpful for me to understand as I know a nurse back in the UK who is struggling and can pass your comments on.

Ah, but you didn't say that in your original post did you? You said:

Although many of the assumptions , misconceptions and sometimes downright lies are easily disproved there seems to be a growing trend of spite in some of the responses, its a sort of "well my life is tulip so why shouldn't other people experience what I am?" a lesson to understand their plight.

And that's what we've known for ages.

It's all here in this article (from a US paper, so there's a different viewpoint.
The isolationist catastrophe of 'Brexit' - LA Times

[simondolan]

Obviously these things are hard to quantify, but insofar as research has been carried out it does tend to support the notion e.g.

https://hbr.org/2016/01/income-inequ...ies-less-happy

If you're well travelled you'll also observe that the rich in countries with extreme wealth disparity (e.g. South Africa, Kenya) tend to retreat into highly securitised gated communities and don't go out much at night. Which I don't suppose makes the rich very happy either.

Interesting article isn't it. Strange though how the nordic countries are high or highest on the wellbeing list, and yet suicide rates much higher than the UK for example. Goes to show how complex a field it is. One thing is for sure, zero disparity between the rich and poor doesn't work - not like it hasn't been tried many times before! By trying to artificially manipulate the market driven disparity you are on a slippery slope to the bottom. Which benefits no one.

[Bee]

that is indeed an interesting question

if we ban all of the idiots who would be left, hmm,

me, and who else, can't think of anyone, if I'm the last one will I have to be the Moderator too ?

Milan.

and me.

[milanbenes]

Hello Bee,

in that case you can be the Moderatoress

Milan.

[Bee]

Hello Bee,

in that case you can be the Moderatoress

Milan.

Only with you.

[bobspud]

Interesting article isn't it. Strange though how the nordic countries are high or highest on the wellbeing list, and yet suicide rates much higher than the UK for example. Goes to show how complex a field it is. One thing is for sure, zero disparity between the rich and poor doesn't work - not like it hasn't been tried many times before! By trying to artificially manipulate the market driven disparity you are on a slippery slope to the bottom. Which benefits no one.

My dad (grew up in the east end in the second world war) has a great theory on this. TV kills more people than guns. They were pot-less when he grew up but they were all in poverty so everyone was in ignorance of how tulip it was. Today we have a media complex built on showing twats like the Kardashians pissing money up the wall and being well deserving of a painful death. So the poor get infinite time to sit and watch how the other 1% live.

It not only creates envy but it shows them how tulip their life is and how they need a new phone coat or other piece of crap to make them feel like a class they will never reach.

As for suicide in the Nordics. Try living without sunlight for most of the year...