Back in the day

when I was in financial services we would have representatives of investment companies visit us. Sometimes they were 'umble reps parroting the company line, often they were 'igh and mighty fund managers, managing many millions. "Experts" any way you look at it. What linked all these men (because they were always well-spoken white men in shiny suits) whatever their station was their remarkable facility for being wrong. Not occasionally wrong, not wrong half the time, but wrong just about all the time. Wrong far more often than chance would indicate was likely. So when Gove spoke about people being tired of experts what he said resonated with me. Because in the financial field my personal ecperience indicates that the "experts" are actually "idiots".
But I voted remain anyway because I'm not a racist c**t.

Posted By: Bernard Shakey on July 5th 2016 at 14:53:29

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some of those damned experts have been reporting to Parliament about what happens next for (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 5, 14:06:35
- Interesting that Lichtenstein has specific "sectoral adaptions" on freedom of movement (General Chat) - Jim, Jul 5, 15:25:00
- Back in the day (General Chat) - Bernard Shakey, Jul 5, 14:53:29
  - tbf there are an awful lot of idiots in the fund management racket (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 5, 15:02:45
    - My feeling was (General Chat) - Bernard Shakey, Jul 5, 15:05:30
      - Fair enough re those experts but you can't throw out (General Chat) - finkleton, Jul 5, 15:16:14
        
        As a non-expert (General Chat) - Bernard Shakey, Jul 5, 16:47:48
        
        you look at their sources and data and see if it checks out (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 5, 17:08:35
- Give it a rest you bed wetting pansy. (General Chat) - Pit, Jul 5, 14:44:01
  - What a pointless thing to say (General Chat) - mr chimp, Jul 5, 14:58:09
    - I am concerned. There is lots to be concerned about. (n/m) (General Chat) - Pit, Jul 5, 15:01:08
  - feel free to put me on ignore then petal (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 5, 14:47:14
    - you're too kind (n/m) (General Chat) - Pit, Jul 5, 15:05:16
  - Christ, can you imagine the shit storm if it doesn't? :-( (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Jul 5, 14:46:42
    - Delay it. People will get bored. Some other shit will crop up. (General Chat) - Pit, Jul 5, 15:10:55
      - Ah right, I'll look forward to that :-( (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Jul 5, 15:35:49
        
        Not much to look forward to :-( (General Chat) - Pit, Jul 5, 15:41:32
- Gove claims people have ?had enough of experts?... (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jul 5, 14:34:01
  - Certainly true when it comes to education. Every one knows that (General Chat) - CB41, Jul 5, 14:35:45
- Yep. As I said all along, nothing will change but our influence. (General Chat) - CB41, Jul 5, 14:12:05
  - Yeah but WEVE GOT ARE CUNTRY BACK! (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jul 5, 14:14:45
    - Ah right, forgot that. Trouble is, it isn't the country I've always lived in (General Chat) - CB41, Jul 5, 14:17:11
      - But Boris and Nigel will sort it...Oh (n/m) (General Chat) - colincanary, Jul 5, 14:20:30
- Sounds like staying in the EU but without having any say in the EU... (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Jul 5, 14:10:06
  - Surely Gove et al knew this. They had 2 years to find it out. (General Chat) - CB41, Jul 5, 14:32:28
  - Precisely (n/m) (General Chat) - Jambocanary, Jul 5, 14:16:45

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