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Old 17-03-2019, 12:33   #8751
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Re: Brexit

Labour signals no-confidence vote if May is defeated in a third meaningful vote. Fox and Hammond both saying no meaningful vote if Theresa May looks set to lose it. https://news.sky.com/story/jeremy-co...omise-11668175

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
And clearly, some do make up their own minds to the contrary. I was generalising, of course, as do those who claim that it's only the older generation who voted for Brexit. Not true, but there is an element of truth in it.

In the world of academia, you get taken to task quite severely if you say you support Brexit, dare to question climate change or criticise left wing views. In that environment, people can be overly influenced by views that they would not otherwise believe in.

It is not confined to young people and education either. One of my meteorologist friends told me that there was scepticism over the global warming campaign but they were threatened that their careers would suffer if they continued to promote that view.

So much for being a free thinking society.
Denying climate-change is pretty much in the same category now as flat-earthers. So any academics would rightly pull you up on this.
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