- Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:20 am
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I dare say that these are the sorts of people who are opinionated enough to phone into radio stations like LBC .
I wonder what the opinion-forming process is for people like this. What basic principles do they cleave to that lead them to assess a given situation and arrive a position where they happily opine that, for example, Boris Johnson is doing a good job, or that Brexit was worth doing to "take back control".
Take the example of Brexit. Even though I have been strongly in favour of the UK's membership of the EU for many years, when the referendum campaign came around, I felt it incumbent on me as a responsible voter to take time actually to look into whether there may actually be anything in the argument that leaving the EU would be exceptionally beneficial to this country. So I did. I quite diligently read and researched everything I could about the EU and the UK's membership of the institution. I assessed the worth and veracity of the arguments in favour of Brexit, and against. I "did my research" - and I enclose the phrase in quotation marks because it has become so devalued by fuckwits taken in by fellow fuckwits disseminating utter bullshit on internet social media who then claim to have "done my research" to justify absolutely insupportable assertions and arguments. No - I really did do my research - and I could not find a single even remotely plausible argument in favour of leaving the EU. And yet the referendum was won with 52% of the vote by the fuckwits who had "done their research" and concluded that Brexit was the dog's bollocks. And in most cases, I'm prepared to wager, "doing my research" amounted to little more than parroting the absurd slogan "take back control".
Am I anywhere close to the truth about these arseholes ? Is this how Malcolm's reactionary fellow waiting room occupant arrived at his personal dispensation of wisdom ?
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