Quote Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult View Post
B, you're meant to be better than this.

Where have I ever said voting Brexit was about the economics?

Yes, as you sort of hint after, I believe that it should have been about the economics. But I know full well the Brexit voters weren't thinking of that beyond a few Tory neo-lib loons.

My sister in law (in immigrant free Cornwall) voted leave "To **** the lot of them."

I'm sure loads of northerns voted out for immigration like that 2010 "Bigotted woman." But, and I quote:

"the big mistake you remainers always make is thinking that the economy was a factor in voting for Brexit. "

I never said that, ever, did I?

So why the veil of fiction?

Could it be that I've shown that your criticism of JC at the start of this post applies exactly to Brexit too and you can't find a way out?

"people knew very well there might be a negative financial impact from leaving and voted to do it anyway. It's a thing called principle."

Er, that's what Momentum say, B, init?

That's what this 'JC's **** or bust with the UK econ" is, init, B?

Same ting, blood.
There are a million reasons not to vote for Corbyn. The fact that the economy would go down faster than Herb's mum on a hen do is just one of the minor ones. However, I can make that argument until I'm blue in the face, but if the electorate choose that route, I have to live with it.

The other point is that the predictions of economic ruin from a Brexit vote have already been shown to be bullshït. You're speculating wildly in the hope of creating the false equivalence between a vote for Brexit and a vote for Corbyn. By contrast, there is no doubt at all that Corbyn would wreck the economy. None. He has made his antipathy to our most successful industry clear and has outlined plans to raise taxes across the board to pay for unaffordable levels of public spending. The 'fully-costed' sums quite simply don't add up, which means economic disaster as an absolute certainty. Anyone who votes for Corbyn does so knowing that he will wreck the economy - indeed, many of them see that as a feature rather than a bug of voting for him.

By the way, I don't know if you've spotted this, but the flipside of your argument is that anyone who votes for Corbyn's Labour and also makes the argument that people shouldn't have voted for Brexit because it would damage the economy is a rank fücking hypocrite given that the Shadow Chancellor has admitted that the first thing they have to prepare for should they get in is a run on the banks.