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Research About Brexit.
"People who voted for Brexit are most likely to be of low intelligence . ......Smarter people were more likely to have voted remain in the EU . Says a Research from University of Bath's school of management ...........There was no need for a research. ......I could have told them that
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"I did vote at the EU Referendum under the 15 year rule..."
So why didn't you vote in the General Election held less than a year later under that same rule? Your post suggests you were prevented from doing so:
"I could not vote at a general election and also local election but we were allowed to vote at the EU Referendum"
Unless your 15 years ran out between June 2016 and June 2017 (which you haven't mentioned), you were not prevented from doing so.
"I am not glued to answer bank..."
Possibly not. But you managed to post an answer 45 minutes after mine, simply to point out that another poster had posted eleven times, but you couldn't manage to address my post, which raised specific questions about what you'd said.
I can't be bothered to trawl back through seven years of your posts but I'm pretty sure you said you had been prevented from voting in the referendum. I don't really care whether you did or you didn't but don't try to tell us that you were allowed a vote in the referendum but not in the General Election.
"In one of his latest videos, my mate Phil made the observation that many moons ago, less than 20% of the population went to university, that figure is now close to 40% - so come the vote to re-join, there will be less stupid people about to vote for Brexit."
We'll leave aside the fact that a vote to rejoin the EU is solely in your imagination.
"Many moons ago" fewer people went to University because they received a very satisfactory and adequate education up to their 'A' levels at the age of 18, which equipped then for the adult world. Those not blesssed academically chose instead apprenticeships in technical trades together with further education at technical college. Those going to university were mainly those who needed “vocational” degrees, such as in law or medicine.
The successive "dumbing down" of that secondary education, together with the 1992 Education Act, which allowed former Polytechnic colleges to style themselves as "universities" and award their own "degrees", and finally topped off with Mr Blair’s ridiculous notion that 50% of young people should attend university, has led to the current situation.
Which is this: there are thus now too many universities (with some not worthy of the title) and too many people attending them (many not fully capable of absorbing a proper tertiary education). Many of them end up with largely useless degrees in jobs which do not require a degree anyway (because nowhere near 50% of jobs in the UK require education to degree level, of however little value those degrees may be).
Lots of people educated to ‘A’ Level “many moons ago” received a far broader and better education by the time they were 18 than many graduates receive today. It’s not the fault of today’s young people; they are simply victims of an education system that for many of them is completely inadequate and unsuitable. But you should not gauge the intelligence (or stupidity) of that generation as a whole simply based on the number attending university.
