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Bremain redux a lesson for our political class : Comments

By Graham Young, published 27/6/2016

It is a powerful coalition because it tends to value experience over theories, which is really to say reality over fantasy.

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The lesson given appears to be that the voting population is far more insular, inward looking and greedy than commentators expected.

Of course John Howard understood this well. That is why he gave Australia middle-class welfare and the Pacific Solution.

The take away for the political class is that it is possible to lead and the outcome of that is likely to be preferable to kowtowing to a few loud voices in the hope that they will go away. Sadly the political class seems more hell-bent on the latter than the former.
Posted by Agronomist, Monday, 27 June 2016 3:52:36 PM
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Runner,

Actually, the global climate industry is costing $1.5 trillion per year (as claimed by the Climate Industry itself and the Insurance Journal), not just $ billions. Thanks for the opportunity to point that out to the gullibles and the loony Left.
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2015/07/30/377086.htm
http://www.climatechangebusiness.com/
Posted by Peter Lang, Monday, 27 June 2016 5:38:07 PM
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Rubbish Agronomist. It is the silent & ignored majority that has spoken in Brexit result.

The majority that have seen what they are losing with bureaucratic control of their lives & futures.

They are sick of being lied to, & taken for granted.

I'd say the political, bureaucratic, & academic classes would be wise to shut up, pull their heads in, & keep them down. I have a feeling that the silent majority now have a baseball bat in their hands, have seen what it can do, enjoyed doing it, & are itching to use it a few more times, before they put it away.

This should go double for the noisy greedy Scots. Keep pushing & the poms might decide to ditch them. Why they think the EU would want another beggar state in Scotland, when they have just lost the cash cow of the UK, I can't imagine, except that they are lefties, & given to foolish flights of fancy.
Posted by Hasbeen, Monday, 27 June 2016 5:39:29 PM
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The Brexit vote is NOT a referendum, it's a plebiscite, so the UK parliament, can and probably will ignore the popular vote. Parliament is supreme, Britain doesn't have a written constitution.

The worst news for the Coalition would be a similar working class revolt in Australia.
Posted by mac, Monday, 27 June 2016 6:49:41 PM
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Alas this site is as delusional as our major parties. The debt created by our Central Banking Masters cannot be repaid since it is 3 times the GDP of the planet. Their derivative gambling scams are officially 20 times the GDP of the planet. Have you viewed the movie ' The Big Short' ?

At the Brisbane G20 meeting it was determined that "bail in" was passed enabling the confiscation of banking deposits on the whim of bank failures. Even Rhonda Jamb, acknowledges this reality Graham. James Rickards the Author of the 'Death of Money' admits that this system is going down because exponentially more debt money must be created now to pay for the debt of yesterday. WTF Graham, have you have learnt nothing ?
Posted by Arjay, Monday, 27 June 2016 9:45:06 PM
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The EU needs Britain more than Britain needs the Eurozone
so it will just be business as usual, maybe after a few petulant hiccups
from those against the decision.

Britain is actually propping up Greece, and will probably continue to do so,
only now they can oversee it from a more independent stance.
Also the border security can be tightened. Given the millions of refugees trying
to find ways to sneak into Britain, this is a prudent move.

In some respects you could once again blame the muslim wars for shutting
down the easy passage of people across borders in the eurozone.
Also all the Greeks and basket case country citizens coming to Britain to claim welfare.

Given these problems it is a sensible decision to leave.
j
Posted by CHERFUL, Monday, 27 June 2016 10:14:34 PM
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