Posts by Rich Lock
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to Russell Brown,
George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, has been silent.
Concerned nation joins hunt for George Osbourne.
Today Mr Gove’s wife committed to Facebook the hope that “clever people” might offer to “lend their advice and expertise.”
Ah, 'clever people'. A distinct difference between them and 'experts', eh, Govey?
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to linger,
By contrast, there is no one unified cluster of “Leave” voters: i
You're correct, but there's a mirror image of that as well, where no-one could really outline a coherent case for remain. It was more a case of 'eeeeh, well, we're not racist and we have a few European friends and colleagues, so I guess we'll be voting remain.'
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
That can't really be right can it?
Obviously a lot more complicated, but here's a very very rough heatmap comparison I half-completed yesterday. Darker colours on the salary side (RH side) indicate higher salaries. It compares reasonably with the 'remain' and 'leave' areas on the left (yellow is remain, blue is leave).
You're right about the majoirty Labour voting remain, BTW (about 1/3 to 2/3, apparently), but I very strongly suspect that skews heavily towards the liberal metropolitan wing. There's been a lot of chatter about watching the results come in from places like Sunderland early, and realising even then that it was all going tits up when the traditional labour heartland areas were adrift of predictions by 20-odd percentage points.
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
Labour voters voting Remain
Apart from the majority that didn't, you mean? Where are you getting your figures?
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It's very simple, as pointed out by someone John Harris* talked to post-result: "If you've got money, you vote in ... if you haven't got money, you vote out"
The breakdown of results (scroll about halfway down the page) bears this out: Got a degree? You probably voted in. ABC1? You probably voted in. No formal qualifications? You probably voted out.
There's no starker illustration of the disconnect between those in power and those on the outside than the fact the referendum was called in the first place. A mere formality with an absolute sure thing result, intended for one thing and one thing only - to silence the rabid right-wing of the tory party - has turned into the biggest shitstorm since...Suez? WW2? The 'invisible' masses, overlooked, ignored, condescended to and used as a punchline for decades, finally got a chance to make their voices heard. Thanks for that, pigfucker. What exactly did you think was going to happen?
*John Harris is one of the very few journalists woth reading any more, mostly due to the fact he actually spends time outside London talking to normal people, which makes him more or less unique these days.
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Hard News: Hate and guns, in reply to Russell Brown,
One thing this is not looking like is a man actually directed by ISIS, or a part of a conspiracy.
Yes, but......even if not actively directed, still involved enough to pop up on the FBI's radar as someone who needed to be interviewed twice. A toxic mix of self-hate and self-radicalisation, would be my guess.
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This is a bad morning. I'm a straight man, but the location of the Florida massacre – a gay club – makes me think not only of the gay friends who found their identities in such places, but of the things that are culturally important to me that were forged and founded in gay clubs of yore.
I had the same sort of feeling when this idiot was busy planting bombs in the same general areas I was regularly hanging around at the time. You don't need easy access to assault weapons to carry out deranged hate crimes, but it certainly helps.
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Hard News: Ali, in reply to Russell Brown,
Okay, okay ... work with me here. Two pro wrestlers buy neighbouring houses – and then the problems start.
It's 'Neighbours at War' only with PRO WRESTLERS.
Throw in a leaked sex tape, an online 'new media' organisation with a dubious ethical track record, and a shady libertarian billionaire with a grudge, behind the scenes pulling the strings, and you might have something. Or is that all too OTT....?
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Hard News: Three Dreams, in reply to BenWilson,
I've heard that it's quite possible to have particularly unpleasant experiences of bodily paralysis when doing this, the "night watchman syndrome". I've had something like it once, and it was really not nice. Sleeping causes some kind of muscle control suppression, and being "awake" when that happens can be quite frightening.
It's one hypothetical explanation for 'alien abduction' stories - malevolent Greys around the bed paralysing you in preparation for wisking you off to their ship to do unspeakable things with probes.
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Hard News: Three Dreams, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
nested this two levels deep
