Posted by marknadim on June 1, 2019, 9:56 pm, in reply to "Re: Some"
Might hold a little water if the stats weren't as they are: i.e., pls you explain why 70% of those with no post-16 education voted Leave, and 68% of those with a degree voted Remain.
Do you really believe the billionaire-backed Leave campaign's plotters didn't try to target disgruntled (austerity-hit) people with a scapegoat easy solution, using the Sun-Mail-Express as its prime vehicle of propaganda?
There's not much correlation btw Australia's native population as you've described and the UK working class in terms of mistrust of the media. Perhaps it's being at a distance that blocks you from witnessing the narrow-minded power of the Sun-Express-Mail; "anger is an energy" and they know how to use it. In the run-up to the 2016 vote their readers' minds had long been under a barrage of stories like this:
Cameron himself was in on the ruse of breeding hate - "swarms of migrants" - along with most elitist Tories, despite claims by most that he was pro-Remain. No, he was playing a blinder bluffing.
Re food choices, I specifically pointed out I meant before the current austerity poverty under which people are literally being starved. This was not the case previously to anywhere near that extent, basic food prices have shot up. Previously, various programmes were in place to try to educate parents to improve their families' diets.
e.g.: "By the time Labour - in the guise of 'New Labour' - returned to power in 1997, there was a mountain of evidence that the nation's - and especially children's - diets had become significantly less healthy, with excessive levels of sugar, salt and fat.
The National Heart Forum campaigned to increase the average daily consumption of vegetables and fruit from 250g to 400g a day and estimated that this would cut deaths from heart disease in the UK by thirty thousand a year (Chris Mihill The Guardian 25 March 1997).
The Medical Research Council reported that sugar consumption in Britain had risen by more than 30 per cent between 1980 and 2000. The UK, it said, was now the fattest European nation, with 17 per cent of men and 20 per cent of women considered clinically obese. It concluded that today's children were more at risk of developing osteoporosis, heart and respiratory diseases and some forms of cancer than their more deprived parents and grandparents (John Crace The Guardian 23 May 2000)."
Anyway, enough. If it riles you to hear of a majority of less educated people (and a significant minority of more educated people) being conned by a carefully crafted populist campaign, so much so that you insist it can't be true, so be it. Enough providing supporting evidence.