David Homer Personal Blog

You can tell if you're speaking to a Brexiteer with no knowledge of what Brexit actually is by using this easy Brexiteer Bingo list. "Will of the people" I've already covered this here . "We're a world power, currently fifth in the world" If you hear someone say that then they're clearly using very basic logic because that's GDP how much cash the country generates as a whole (5th). GDP (PPP) per capita is how much cash the country generates per person, then adjusted for currency (basically how far that cash actually goes compared to other currencies). We're actually 25th, behind a load of other EU countries. "It's democracy" Well it's not really, you're confusing democracy with Pop Idol. "Stop moaning/whinging"  It was your moaning about all problems with the country being caused by the EU that lead here. It could easily have been builders/doctors/Tories any arbitrary group or subject that th...

The Brexiteers talk of "will of the people". The problem with the "will of the people" is that firstly the "will" changes with the wind (which is why direct rule doesn't work - just watch " A Century of the Self ", but "the people" also change. Leave had only 1,269,501 people more vote for it. In two years when we finish negotiations (assuming we don't get an extension of a transnational deal) there will be a change of population of around 3,000,000 of "the people" since the referendum date. That's a bigger number than the Leave lead , so do we then risk frustrating the "will of the people" if that will has changed?  Or is the "will of the people" on of paramount importance when it happens to coincide with your own opinion. "Will of the people" is mob rule speak for "shut up, there are more of us than you". It is not democracy. ...