It won't keep everyone happy but there will be enough for majority support. The Hardcore Leavers will hate it but they are just a small minority and will be free to keep howling at the moon,

Apparently not

I'm in the north. In fact I'm further north than the 'north'. So I'm north of north.

Yet in my 'north' we voted remain.

So what is the difference between the north and the 'north'?

And some people wonder why Remainers are thought to be smug?

Doesn't matter who does it, it's wrong.

In fairness he was just stating a fact. Educated people were more likely to vote Remain.
Fact.

What level of education are you talking about when you say "educated people"? GCSE level? A Level? Undergraduate level? Or Post Graduate level?? Or a combination of all of them??

There's nothing negative with being "backward-looking".

A person who looks backwards at our long-history of Parliamentary democracy could well hold the positive view that Parliament should make the decision on whether or not ithe Government should trigger article 50. That's a perfectly legitimate, democratic conservative viewpoint to hold but one that is totally contrary to the iconoclasism that the Conservative party now wants.

Nostalgic and reluctant to accept the modern world. Hardly 'rabid' rhetoric, which was the term used to describe it.

"Oi, you! You're backwards-looking!"

Hardly going to make anyone tremble and weep.

How can pointing out known facts be "smug"?

I appreciate it's a fact that causes Brexiters extreme embarrassment, but that changes nothing.

I really don't get this element of carping.

Do you also judge speeches made by kippers and suggest they are alienating the 16,140,000 by saying they 'just don't get it'?

I doubt it.

Brexiters speak as if the referendum was a landslide and that a tiny out-of-touch elite need to be brought into line.

In reality, it was of course a close result.

Analysis has shown that, simply, the more educated you are the more likely you are to have voted Remain. Graduates are at the top of the graph. The less educated you are, the more likely you are a Brexiter. It's not hard to see why.

The graph shows a very similar diagonal for age.

I can't remember the criteria applied by the people who conducted the poll of voters sorry, but the findings were pretty stark, well beyond the margins of error.

If a party had over 1,4 million majority ina n election IT would be called a landslide

Another wasted MP like ours who cant change anything!

Brexiters shouldn't be embarrassed by it. Those who've been lucky enough to get a good education have generally benefited more from EU membership and globalisation than those who missed out. It's those on lower wages who've seen their jobs disappear and wages suppressed, those in poorer areas who find their schools, medical centres and housing struggling to cope with an increased population.
People didn't vote Brexit because they are stupid, they voted Brexit because remaining doesn't obviously benefit them.

No it wouldn't, because 1.4m on a turnout of 46.5m is tiny.

Would you say that an individual candidate winning by 1,400 votes on a turnout of 46,500 won by a "landslide"? Because that's the same relative margin.

No it wouldn't. Parties often have that margin of the popular vote and get nowhere near a landlside.
In a binary referendum nationwide, it was close, and by even suited thug Farage's standards, signalled 'unfinished business'.

That's a fair point. Many felt they had nothing to lose.
And why was that? Stagnant flat economy due to the austerity obsessed cretins in charge, bankers and obscene-end capitalists crashing the economy and being bailed out by the taxpyayer etc.

Yet they can so easily turn it around to blame the usual targets - immigrants, the 'different'.

Recession / Depression followed by upsurge in rightwing nationalism. That paradigm is as old as the hills,

Here are some good graphs: https://www.theguardian.com/politics...s-and-analysis

Of all of the demographics the one with the highest correlation was higher education (with Scotland providing the outliers where even areas with a low number of graduates voted Remain). Age had an effect but it wasn't so strong as while younger people were more likely to be Remain older people were more likely to vote.

The EU referendum was a landslide if it was counted by constituency.

I dont like the result can I go to he supreme court to overturn it?

It was really quite close.

How do you know "hardcore leavers" are a small minority, have you polled all 17.4 million Brexit voters? As with other Remoaners on this thread you make stuff up to suit your agenda.

If you like. What grounds do you have?

There's definitely some truth in that but wasn't a lot of it debunked by the Michael Rosen blog that was discussed yesterday? The EU doesn't cause those problems, the government does by not making those areas with pressure on public services a priority. And in the Guardian video about Sleaford, local people were linking investment in HS2 with cuts to local services, which (as far as I know) is not the case. It's the widespread perception that the EU does nothing for those areas that is the problem rather than the actual facts. There is no guarantee that those areas would receive bigger investment from the UK government than they receive from the EU.