Does the Irish Times try to pish the peasants off on Fridays?

darkman2 · 11-07-2008 01:38AM #1

Friday, July 11, 2008 Poll reveals class a key element in Lisbon vote

A STRIKING feature of the recent referendum on the Lisbon Treaty was a massive difference in the class composition of those who voted No and Yes, according to an analysis of the results of an opinion poll carried out for the European Commission.

Among manual workers, 74 per cent voted No to the treaty while among the self-employed, 60 per cent voted Yes. There was a corresponding difference between the more educated who voted Yes and the least educated, who voted No.

Roysh.

Joe Cool · 11-07-2008 01:39AM

I smell wee.

Jesus Wept · 11-07-2008 01:44AM

I'm guessing you voted NO darkman2, ya big thick!

nocal · 11-07-2008 01:46AM

About time the peasants were exposed.

Dave! · 11-07-2008 01:48AM

Any more info on this? Any more detail on the numbers?

Jigsaw · 11-07-2008 01:48AM

Which is why referenda are a waste of time. The general public are thick and stupid and don't understand things. They take their lead from some sh1te newspaper and don't have the intelligence to assimilate the information and come to a reasoned decision based on an objective analysis of all the issues.

I believe in the benevolent dictatorship, but that is an ideal that can never be realised.

darkman2 · 11-07-2008 01:50AM

The-Rigger wrote: »

I'm guessing you voted NO darkman2, ya big thick!

Shut up........You...............West Brit Tory Toff.:D

The full story is on IrishTimes.com somewhere.........out there

genericgoon · 11-07-2008 01:50AM

Jigsaw wrote: »

Which is why referenda are a waste of time. The general public are thick and stupid and don't understand things. They take their lead from some sh1te newspaper and don't have the intelligence to assimilate the information and come to a reasoned decision based on an objective analysis of all the issues.

I believe in the benevolent dictatorship, but that is an ideal that can never be realised.

Or failing that having a voting licence. :cool: Just use old JC CSPE papers as the test lol

biko · 11-07-2008 03:05AM

Damn workers, we should all eat cake.

The Hill Billy · 11-07-2008 08:05AM

The-Rigger wrote: »

I'm guessing you voted NO darkman2, ya big thick!

* Wipes coffee off keyboard, screen & face *

super_furry · 11-07-2008 08:14AM

When will people learn, only men with blonde hair, blue eyes and an IQ above 140 should be allowed to vote.

Setun · 11-07-2008 08:20AM

Jigsaw wrote: »

Which is why referenda are a waste of time. The general public are thick and stupid and don't understand things. They take their lead from some sh1te newspaper and don't have the intelligence to assimilate the information and come to a reasoned decision based on an objective analysis of all the issues.

I believe in the benevolent dictatorship, but that is an ideal that can never be realised.

Many people who voted yes also took their cue from newspapers aswell.

thelordofcheese · 11-07-2008 08:26AM

darkman2 wrote: »

Roysh.

If you can go a week without making another thread about the lisbon treaty, i'll give you cake.

Nice cake too.

kaimera · 11-07-2008 08:34AM

thelordofcheese wrote: »

If you can go a week without making another thread about the lisbon treaty, i'll give you cake.

Nice cake too.

Screw cake, give him a back handed smack instead :pac:

Sherifu · 11-07-2008 08:35AM

thelordofcheese wrote: »

If you can go a week without making another thread about the lisbon treaty, i'll give you cake.

Nice cake too.

I'll donate an old sock too.

thelordofcheese · 11-07-2008 08:45AM

So we're agreed. The cake will be placed inside the old sock and kaimera will deliver it with a backhanded smack.

humanji · 11-07-2008 08:47AM

super_furry wrote: »

When will people learn, only men with blonde hair, blue eyes and an IQ above 140 should be allowed to vote.

Why should only the Polish get to vote?

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Occidental · 11-07-2008 09:19AM

Darkman,

Shouldn't you be reading the Indo.

Occidental · 11-07-2008 09:24AM

The Scientist wrote: »

Start reading the Irish Examiner tbh...

The Longford Leader's a good local paper too.

Steve_o · 11-07-2008 09:36AM

humanji wrote: »

Why should only the Polish get to vote?

We've been through this... Irish people aren't allowed vote cause we'll only start messin and nothin will happen!:D

TwoShedsJackson · 11-07-2008 10:10AM

Jigsaw wrote: »

Which is why referenda are a waste of time. The general public are thick and stupid and don't understand things. They take their lead from some sh1te newspaper and don't have the intelligence to assimilate the information and come to a reasoned decision based on an objective analysis of all the issues.

I believe in the benevolent dictatorship, but that is an ideal that can never be realised.

+1

Climate Expert · 11-07-2008 10:12AM

I believe in the benevolent dictatorship, but that is an ideal that can never be realised.

haha thats weird, so do I. I thought I was the only one.

Its the perfect political system if it worked. I'd like to think I would be able to do the job without falling foul of massive murderous corruption.

Irishcrx · 11-07-2008 10:51AM

Cause the more educated you are the less nationalistic you are, have some damn pride...up the RAAAAAAAAA!!!

Steve_o · 11-07-2008 10:53AM

Irishcrx wrote: »

Cause the more educated you are the less nationalistic you are, have some damn pride...up the RAAAAAAAAA!!!

:rolleyes: Plenty of pride here...

ejmaztec · 11-07-2008 11:03AM

At least the Buy & Sell doesn't get involved in party politics and tell us that two thirds of the population are knuckle-dragging, peat-chewing cretins.

javaboy · 11-07-2008 12:19PM

So the stats say that a majority of No voters are dumb dumbs and the majority of Yes voters are smarty pants.......

And since the No vote won does that implies Ireland is a country largely populated by dummies?

Finally a statistic to prove what we knew all along :pac:

Aurora Borealis · 11-07-2008 01:10PM

javaboy wrote: »

So the stats say that a majority of No voters are dumb dumbs and the majority of Yes voters are smarty pants.......

And since the No vote won does that implies Ireland is a country largely populated by dummies?

Thought struck me too...

entropi · 11-07-2008 01:17PM

Joe Cool wrote: »

I smell wee.

not only the wee you smell, it's the bs opinion the Irish Times usually has. If i was a betting man, i would bet they either don't give a f*ck about the working class or...wait thats already true haha:D

I'm quite sure there were alot of very well educated people who voted NO, and since 78% of all statistics are made up on the spot they got something wrong.

WindSock · 11-07-2008 01:19PM

Maybe the smrtr ppl are so smrt, they don't have to vote?

funk-you · 11-07-2008 01:21PM

Joe Cool wrote: »

I smell wee.

T'is him...he smells like wee.

Why would the times be able to pish peasants off anyway? They're all way too busy filling out claim forms/getting jiggidy jiggidly snoopy doggy doggy style with page 3 and yer wan kerry from iceland.

-Funk

Does the Irish Times try to pish the peasants off on Fridays?

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