I see Brian Harvey has gone proper radio...

[Sir C]

Or one about their parents.

My parents didn't vote at all, but then they're pretty much brain dead anyway.

[Burney]

Or one about their parents.

I mentioned my parents' feelings as exemplifying the fact that there were many, many, many different reasons why people voted Remain. The specific purpose was to make clear that they were not symptomatic or emblematic of anyone else and that generalisations were idiotic.

Your anecdote, on the other hand, was explicitly about the only leave voter you knew and was meant to suggest that huge numbers of Leave voters were idiots who had no idea what they were doing. In fact, all it actually served to demonstrate was the narrow range of political opinion in your social circle. Echo chamber thinking, in other words.

[7sisters]

I said we dont want to be poorer.



I dont think that is what she meant. As I understood it she was talking about the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. THat is a poorer society, not one with greater public spending arising from higher taxation. THey are very different things.

And yet. Despite being two years into this seesaw process, the markets continue to ignore the political process and those within it from all sides, by continuing along its merry way.

According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) unemployment fell by 12,000 to 1.41 million in the quarter to May giving a jobless rate of just 4.2 per cent.

At the same time employment increased by 137,000 in the quarter to May to 32.4 million, the highest figure since records began in 1971, giving a record rate of 75.7 per cent.

Job vacancies increased by 7,000 to 824,000 - the most since records began in 2001.

Average earnings also increased by 2.5 per cent in the year to May, co

No one on either side really knows . The markets will always find their own way..