'If Brexit were a business, everyone involved would have been sacked by now. Two years & massive amounts of money spent on it = no plan, no idea of where it's going, never mind how to get there. Imagine the Project Manager & team getting together this Friday to agree a plan. After 2 years
One thing that puzzles me about the no deal supporters of brexit is why they are so adamant that March 2019 is when we leave the EU, whenever I make a decision complex or otherwise I leave time to change my mind reflect, just as I would on my bike in plotting a route on a map, so I did a little bit of research on voters in the EU referendum
first question was how many old people have died in 2years that voted leave, luckily for me somebody else got there before me:
Bluntly, older, mainly Leave, voters are dying – and younger, mainly Remain, voters are joining the electorate,’ expert says
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 71451.html'Since the referendum around 1.2m electors have died, while 1.4m have joined the electorate. If we extrapolate from YouGov’s data from the youngest and oldest voters, and take account of variations in turnout by age, then I reckon that around 600,000 Leave voters, and 300,000 Remain voters have died; while 650,000 young Remainers and 150,000 Leave supporters have joined the voting population. Combine these figures, and these demographic factors have given us 350,000 extra Remain voters and 450,000 fewer Leave voters.
In the 2016 referendum, the 17.4m Leave voters outnumbered the 16.1m Remain voters by 1.3m. Demography has already reduced that lead by more than half. At this rate, Remain will take the lead by late next year, even if not one person changes their mind. Add in the second thoughts now apparent in some groups who voted Leave two years ago, there is a real prospect that a fresh referendum would reverse the decision that the electorate took last time.'
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/blog ... -to-remainnext I looked at the 30 areas with the most elderly people that voted leave
next I looked at the correlation between leave voters and the key voting characteristics of people that voted leave
Based on the above I have undertaken a modest amount of field research on two areas I know well:
Dudley and Mansfield
Based on that research and speaking to people in Dudley those who voted against Brexit of the people I know ( all decent people) are predominantly stuck in dead-end jobs or unemployed in Britain’s structural poverty areas. What came across to me was that the parents knew poor education and work opportunities for their children came with the territory. In essence they themselves were stuck, but feel powerless to create more opportunities for their children. So I looked a little deeper into Dudley and Mansfiled areas where the multi-millionaires of gove, mogg and 'Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson have never ventured. 'Born in New York City to wealthy upper-middle class English parents, Johnson was educated at the European School of Brussels, Ashdown House School, and Eton College. He studied Classics at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was elected president of the Oxford Union in 1986. He began his career in journalism at The Times but was sacked for falsifying a quotation' wikipedia
What I thought did Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson have in common with the people I met in Mansfield and Dudley
