Remain would win Brexit referendum if held now, poll claims

[vetran]

Desperate attack at rough maths despite Spain having a huge 18.75% unemployment rate.

Personal attack because he lost

Personal attack because (s)he lost

Ah the usual arguments....

[sasguru]

Ah the usual arguments....

Indeed. Sorry your maths isn't up to the job.

[northernladyuk]

Withdraws into sulk because he's shown himself up to be a cretin again.

Ah the usual snowflakery...

[BrilloPad]

Ah the usual arguments....

What do you expect when you argue with cretins and particularly the ubercretin?

Been round this before with Nibiru.

[WTFH]

Ah the usual arguments....

"Rough maths" being out by a factor of 4, then repeated, then claimed it was "rough"

You provided numbers, your numbers were proved wrong. That was not a personal attack, that was responding to false data with facts.

[WTFH]

Let's look at your figures (before they get edited again)

That would be 1.7m contracts so one third of Spain's unemployed figure. They are of course not claiming benefit so are officially employed. As staff get scarcer I expect the zero hour contracts to fall.

So, 1.7m UK people are on zero hours contracts (according to your figures)
And 1.54m are claiming unemployment benefits (according to the government's seasonally adjusted figures excluding those who are not seeking work or not available to work)
And there are 8.85m people aged 16-64 who are "economically inactive"

Let's ignore the inactive for now.
1.7+1.54 = 3.24

That's 3.24 million people who are effectively unemployed in the UK, which is almost 1/9th of 4.26 million. Sorry, almost 1/3rd of 4.26 million. Sorry, a lot less than half of 4.26 million. Sorry, terribly high and Spain is really struggling.

[northernladyuk]

"Rough maths" being out by a factor of 4, then repeated, then claimed it was "rough"

You provided numbers, your numbers were proved wrong. That was not a personal attack, that was responding to false data with facts.

Don't disturb their Safe Space.

[vetran]

Let's look at your figures (before they get edited again)



So, 1.7m UK people are on zero hours contracts (according to your figures)
And 1.54m are claiming unemployment benefits (according to the government's seasonally adjusted figures excluding those who are not seeking work or not available to work)
And there are 8.85m people aged 16-64 who are "economically inactive"

Let's ignore the inactive for now.
1.7+1.54 = 3.24

That's 3.24 million people who are effectively unemployed in the UK, which is almost 1/9th of 4.26 million. Sorry, almost 1/3rd of 4.26 million. Sorry, a lot less than half of 4.26 million. Sorry, terribly high and Spain is really struggling.

in an employment contract whether zero hours or other is not equal to unemployed whatever your assertions. I suspect a large number people on here have an IR35 avoiding zero hour contract. Absence of Moo. I know I did with many of my clients and my company. I was most definitely employed.

So whilst you might believe your maths are good your logic is obviously shot.

Now I believe some employers are abusing zero hours contracts but that doesn't make their employees unemployed.

[WTFH]

in an employment contract whether zero hours or other is not equal to unemployed whatever your assertions. I suspect a large number people on here have an IR35 avoiding zero hour contract. Absence of Moo. I know I did with many of my clients and my company. I was most definitely employed.

So whilst you might believe your maths are good your logic is obviously shot.

Now I believe some employers are abusing zero hours contracts but that doesn't make their employees unemployed.

I was quoting you, who said about the 1.7m people on zero hour contracts. I can't help it if you think your own logic is shot, but glad to see you're coming round to begin understanding.

[Mordac]

Congratulations. You've done the impossible and made Diane Abbott look like a genius in comparison to you.
You and Mordac make the characters in Dumb and Dumber look like Bohr and Einstein.


That's the problem with democracy - if a nation has bred too many idiots, it doesn't work. We're at that tipping point now.

So you think a major EU country with 44% youth unemployment (and they're not the only one) is just fine and dandy, and what could possibly go wrong? Fine, if you think I'm an idiot for pointing that out, I'll just have to live with the fact that an idiot thinks I'm an idiot. Could probably live with that, if I'm honest.