Government shutdown & no more taxes ??

[Lance]

Half the people are above median intelligence.

well yes. That's what I said.
Median is a measure of average (as is mean and mode).

Sorry for not being more specific. Your mathematical prowess had escaped me.

[meridian]

If I genuinely believed any politician had any interest in anything except lining their own pockets I would be happy to let them have more control.

But as they have demonstrated time and time again they simply cannot be trusted.

But you voted for them to have more control. Where do you think "taking back control" was taking it back to?

[Mordac]

well yes. That's what I said.
Median is a measure of average (as is mean and mode).

Sorry for not being more specific. Your mathematical prowess had escaped me.

To be fair it's about all I remember from O Level statistics. Aside from the fact that 98.3% of statistics are made up...

[Mordac]

But you voted for them to have more control. Where do you think "taking back control" was taking it back to?

Many of us (clearly deluded fools such as we are) hoped that having given our instruction via a referendum, we were instructing the body of Parliament to deliver the result.

[meridian]

Many of us (clearly deluded fools such as we are) hoped that having given our advice via a referendum, we were advising the body of Parliament to consider the result.

FTFY

[Mordac]

FTFY

I wouldn't want to guess how much the referendum cost (we know it's more than the £9m they spent on that crappy leaflet) but probably in the low hundreds of millions. If they wanted something "advisory" they could have done some opinion polling. Although, as we know, they did that as well, and it still didn't work out as planned.

[AtW]

Many of us (clearly deluded fools such as we are) hoped that having given our instruction via a referendum, we were instructing the body of Parliament to deliver the result.

Which of the many possible results did you vote for?

[Old Greg]

Which of the many possible results did you vote for?

A red, white and blue Brexit.

[Whorty]

A red, white and blue Brexit.

Blue passport, red jam, white bread

[Mordac]

Which of the many possible results did you vote for?

There weren't "many" results. There was Leave or Remain. I'll leave it to you to guess which one I picked.