There are a lot of people in risk-averse Britain that believe if “They don’t ever gamble, then they cannot ever lose”.
This is rubbish of course, as if YOU don’t gamble, then it doesn’t stop someone else gambling your stuff for you, and losing on your behalf, or winning their own profits and commissions whilst things go OK. This is the nature of the Derivatives world.
More younger people are now encouraged to Vote, and yet less young people are encouraged to Gamble. I’m not talking about donking away one’s wages on some FOBT somewhere, but the kind of gambling one does when making “life changing decisions” such as “Buying a Property” or “Which kind of car to get” or even “When and where to go for my holidays”.
If you are not a person used to taking risks, then when you go out and vote for example, you DON’T expect for all your efforts to then LOSE.
There seems to be a serious psychological problem with Remainers, Liberals, Lefties, and even Middle-Class Conservatives where they just do NOT accept having lost an argument ANY issues.
Imagine the scenes if among actual gamblers at a Race Meeting where a fancied horse gets beaten by a short head by a rank outsider… Such an outcome is described as “An Upset”.
BUT… Bookmakers prompty pay out on the winner, and no matter how much the beaten favorite backers grumble - they never EVER get their money back.
GAMBLERS then - have their moan, and then shut up, and think of the future ahead, that doesn’t involve the “yesterday’s news” of having been robbed on yesterday’s outcome.
That’s what WE need to know do as a public in the Post-Referendum country we live in:
Let the result stand, and let it be weighed in - so the winners can be paid out, and the losers - accept we are are not going backwards to pick up their lost cause.
The reason that Brexiteer sentiment - is still as strong as ever, is simple: We have not been paid off yet!
Above all things, we WANT what we voted for. Even if 100 people voted for 100 different kinds of Brexit, the ONE thing that all 100 of them, and any Remainers could all benefit from - is an END to these prententions over Brexit.
The day we stop paying the EU our cash, and are no longer subservient to EU courts - is the day we have Left the EU.
Anything else, like trading arrangements, laws already on our statute books, and cross-channel company cooperation - can wind down in their own time later.
The £350m on the side of the bus, wasn’t a lie, but just inaccurate. The actual amount we send the EU, even after the rebate is deducted - is way beyond this three years on, after Brexit with an EU struggling to meet it’s budget whip-round as it is. It was wrong of people like Boris Johnson to suggest that ALL the money we used to send the EU - would and could go to the NHS. That’s why we have different political parties to vote for: Given the same windfall cash, the parties would doubtless ALL spend the “Brexit Dividend” - differently. I doubt if ANY political party would use all that cash just for the NHS, and none of the other worth causes that such cash could be spent on, such as New Schools, Better Social Care, or even Higher Benefits.
Isn’t it time to stop pulling the Tories back from this “Cliff Edge” spoken off, and give them a hearty PUSH instead?
…We can always vote for another party LATER, after all - once Brexit is complete, and all that money lies in our coffers, waiting to be spent differently by a changed government moving into Downing Street.
Blair’s Labour - benefited from a strong balance sheet when taking over in 1997. Cameron’s Conservatives however - got the exact opposite.
It is time we stopped blaming Tories for “Austerity”, Labour for “Squeezing the middle earners”, the Libdems for “Banging the Remain drum”, and even Brexit Party for “Being a Right-Wing Wish List” for too many that would benefit from any or all policies of ALL four of those parties I’ve mentioned.
More money = More of everything people want, regargless of politics. I don’t give a ■■■■ about Immigration, but voted Leave to get our nation’s hands on that MONEY.
I’d LOVE to see better public services AND lower taxes to boot - wouldn’t we all? It is not worth wishing ill upon your neighbor, just to put across a conflicting political view.
I’d even put up with another Labour government IF the Brexit Money was secured in UK coffers. We can worry about how to “spend it differently” Later, I’ll say it again.
