BS: Brexit and other UK politics thread 4

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit and other UK politics thread 4
From: r.padgett
Date: 30 Jan 26 - 04:38 AM

O sorry misunderstood ~ yes I have it and have re read the content

Ray

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit and other UK politics thread 4
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 30 Jan 26 - 05:16 AM

No probs Ray!

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit and other UK politics thread 4
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Feb 26 - 03:50 AM

I am pleased Mandelson has resigned

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit and other UK politics thread 4
From: r.padgett
Date: 02 Feb 26 - 03:56 AM

So Sir Keir has been making deals with China, due to Big T's attitude to Tariffs

Indeed many countries are appalled at the yet to be proved legitimacy of the confetti tariffs being weaponised

Time will tell if the high costs being extorted from US population by tariff imposition was worth while!

Ray

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit and other UK politics thread 4
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 03 Feb 26 - 03:07 AM

”Time will tell if the high costs being extorted from US population by tariff imposition was worth while!”

And all the while, he’s telling the Magats that his tariffs have brought “Billions of dollars flowing into the US”. Are they really such dumb-f*cks that they don’t realise those billions aren’t ‘flowing into the US’, they are flowing straight out of their own pockets?

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit and other UK politics thread 4
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Feb 26 - 03:49 AM

Are they really such dumb-f*cks that they don’t realise those billions aren’t ‘flowing into the US’, they are flowing straight out of their own pockets? QUOTE
Yes

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit and other UK politics thread 4
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Feb 26 - 02:28 AM

yes, but nnly those who voted for him

Subject: RE: BS: Brexit and other UK politics thread 4
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 04 Feb 26 - 12:39 PM

Backwoodsman:
You quote "From Daniel Lismore (UK-based artist, designer & perfumer) on his FB Page…
“Polls say Reform voters are the least educated.
Polling consistently shows that Reform UK draws its strongest support from voters with lower levels of formal educational attainment. That fact matters. Not as a slur, but because it helps explain a pattern that keeps repeating.

I saw that polling, but could find no evidence that 'weighting' had been applied to the figures.
A quick Google for percentage of entrants to 'higher education' gives the following:
Higher education (HE) entry in the UK has grown significantly, rising from ~3% in the 1950s to ~8% in 1970, ~19% by 1990, and peaking near 50% by the late 2010s. Recent data shows 18-year-old entry rates increased from 24.7% in 2006 to a 38.2% peak in 2021, settling at 36.3% in 2025.
The House of Commons Library

So if Reform are supported mainly by the older generation then that will always mean that those supporters will have lower levels of 'education', but higher levels of life experience.