[Youngian]

Farage told Ferrari he couldn't open a constituency office in Clacton as he was advised by the speaker's office that there were security issues. Hoyle confirms Farage is lying his arse off as usual and no conversation took place.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/nigel-farage ... ea-knives/

[Abernathy]

So the real reasons he isn't doing constituency advice sessions are:

a. He is a lazy cunt.

b. There may well be a remote risk of someone turning up and having at him with more than a fucking milkshake - in which case he needs to seek security advice from the parliamentary security team - just like all the proper MPs do.

What a slimey, lying little cunt he is.

[Youngian]

in which case he needs to seek security advice from the parliamentary security team - just like all the proper MPs do.

As Hoyle has already pointed out if Farage had bothered to see him which he hasn't. I believe there's a mandatory allowance for MP's constituency offices rather than expense claims. So a nice little earner for Farage as well.

[davidjay]

And yet again, no-one will publicly hold him to account.

[Abernathy]

A typically “in-depth” (and completely redundant) phone-in conversation late last night on LBC : “Why do better-educated people (graduates, etc) tend to be more in favour of progressive left-wing policies and pro-immigration, and less well-educated people tend not to be ?”

Well, derr.

The whole phone -in should have been over in two minutes, but they dragged it out for a whole hour.

The (bleedin’ obvious) answer is of course that, in a nutshell, less well educated people are fucking stupid.

Putting it less bluntly, better educated folk tend to have developed a more expansive outlook on life, have learned to question things, in particular apparently simple solutions, have encountered a range of outwardly different fellow human beings and realised that they are not actually that different and that it doesn’t matter if they are anyway, and been exposed to a range of intelligent concepts and ideas. Less well educated folk are more susceptible to the sort of simplistic “solutions” put forward by the likes of Farage, Yaxley-Lennon, etc. They tend not to have been exposed to other outwardly different seeming human beings, and are scared of them, or encouraged easily to be scared of them, or hostile to them. They may not have learned to think critically or rationally. Racism is a fundamentally stupid concept, that appeals only to fundamentally stupid people.

Some of the contributors touched on these basic (obvious) factors, but generally speaking, they skirted round the question and avoided reaching any sort of firm conclusion. The presenter, a bloke called Ben Kentish, was as much use as the proverbial chocolate fireguard.

Some of these LBC late night phone-in topics are fucking desperate indeed.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

British culture (less so in Scotland) regards any discussion of intelligence as taboo, even to the extent of denying that it exists as a characteristic. Certainly it is taboo to mention another's intelligence, even when they are manifestly TAPS.

Yet it remains the single most influential factor, more than gender, race or social class, in life-success and socially responsible attitudes. And yes, there are always outliers who seem to defy overall trends, we are speaking always of a spectrum, not a switch.

I've spent a lot of time on this, but see also perceived intelligence, Dunning Kruger Effect, Kohlberg's hierarchy of moral decision making and Bloom's Taxonomy.

[Youngian]

You don't have to be left wing to be pro immigration, many are right wing people who weigh up the trade offs and just want to get on with business. I don't personally have any emotional reaction to immigration either way. If jobs become more automated and there's no demand for imported labour, so what?
To the headbangers someone thoughtful and educated who votes Conservative is a lefty. Tories had a slight lead among ex graduates until 2017. There's an obvious economic reason for that and an obvious reason why Tory voters who aren't dumb fucks stop doing so after 2016.