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> If the fishermen only look at Brexit through the lens of the fishing industry they cannot be expected to understand the effects of Brexit on all of society.

> If the fishermen only look at Brexit through the lens of the fishing industry they cannot be expected to understand the effects of Brexit on all of society. This can be expanded to any group, even your classy ad hominem "remoaners". Not to be sarcastic or rude, but the comment you're responding to actually does say exactly what you said there. The remainers did not seem to care very much about the fishing industry, and they've shown no ability to understand the effects of the EU or leaving the EU on other groups of people, such as the fishermen.

louithethrid 9y ago
All of society is always all of me, maybe some friends, ocassionally family, but definatly me - im all of society. But i dont want to soundt egocentric. The massesmolasses are definatly with me, i can feel the avalanch of opinion, everytime i go online, like a huge fluid-physics simulation, going towards the drain, that is my viewpoint. The strange thing is, this even occurs, if i had a radical change of opinion. The people dont just have the same opinion as me, they follow me- im the chosen one, as prophezized by the facebook.
notahacker 9y ago
Alternate hypothesis: the remainers noted that whilst the effects of the EU on the fishing industry may have been bad there are only around 10,000 fishermen in the whole of the UK[1] whose livelihoods aren't guaranteed to be improved by leaving, and there was no reason not to prioritise the far greater number of jobs and revenues in other industries that are threatened by leaving. Or more likely, most of them didn't because few people understand the intricacies of the Common Fisheries Policy or financial passporting and their respective impacts on the job market and most people actually tended to make their decision out of a vague sense of whether right-wing politicians shouting about taking back control of their borders resonated with or appalled them. [1]and fishing jobs were lost at a much faster rate last century before the UK joined the EU than afterwards. Needless to say, the proportion of the 17 million people who voted Leave who were affected by the Common Fisheries Policy is vanishingly small.

louithethrid 9y ago

All of society is always all of me, maybe some friends, ocassionally family, but definatly me - im all of society. But i dont want to soundt egocentric. The massesmolasses are definatly with me, i can feel the avalanch of opinion, everytime i go online, like a huge fluid-physics simulation, going towards the drain, that is my viewpoint. The strange thing is, this even occurs, if i had a radical change of opinion. The people dont just have the same opinion as me, they follow me- im the chosen one, as prophezized by the facebook.

notahacker 9y ago

Alternate hypothesis: the remainers noted that whilst the effects of the EU on the fishing industry may have been bad there are only around 10,000 fishermen in the whole of the UK[1] whose livelihoods aren't guaranteed to be improved by leaving, and there was no reason not to prioritise the far greater number of jobs and revenues in other industries that are threatened by leaving. Or more likely, most of them didn't because few people understand the intricacies of the Common Fisheries Policy or financial passporting and their respective impacts on the job market and most people actually tended to make their decision out of a vague sense of whether right-wing politicians shouting about taking back control of their borders resonated with or appalled them. [1]and fishing jobs were lost at a much faster rate last century before the UK joined the EU than afterwards. Needless to say, the proportion of the 17 million people who voted Leave who were affected by the Common Fisheries Policy is vanishingly small.