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> If you want to change people's opinions, a good start would be to stop calling people who disagree with you stupid. > I have yet to see a single remoaner eve
by kristianc 10y ago
> If you want to change people's opinions, a good start would be to stop calling people who disagree with you stupid.
> I have yet to see a single remoaner even acknowledge these people's existence
Then clearly it's just a matter of which particular epithet you choose. Just as people had well-founded reasons for wanting to leave the EU, others (48% of the country in fact), had well founded reasons for wanting to stay in. There are many different kinds of Brexit we can have even once you accept - as almost everyone does - that we are leaving. I don't see how childish name calling like this possibly moves debate or understanding forward.
And as pertains your point on fishermen - there's good evidence that leaving the EU will leave the fishermen no better off than they were before as we will still be bound by commitments we've made to the UN. Perhaps yet another example where a group have been told that leaving the EU would be a land of milk and honey only for the promises to be quietly withdrawn at a later date.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/15/uk-fishermen-may-not-win-waters-back-after-brexit-eu-memo-reveals https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environme...