As
the campaign nears its climax in just over 2weeks we see statistic
after statistic thrown at us. What in the end determines my vote is
the soul that lurks behind each campaign. if the Mail in Sunday is
pointing out the infiltration of the Leave campaign by Neo-Nazis, ex
BNP activists and other fellow travellers..the die is cast. Its bad
enough having IDS and Michael Gove and Nigel Farage........ without
this lot joining in. I even quote from the Mail on Sunday as
evidence and that stuns me “The
neo-Nazi with a swastika on her breast... and Vote Leave badge on her
vest: From Holocaust deniers to EDL fascists posing at the Kray
twins' grave, the violent thugs and racists hijacking the Brexit
campaign”
The
ignorance I see is amazing around me it reminds me of a story I heard
during the Assembly Election. A friend of mine told be this story she
was at a hustings meetings and a question was asked about the role of
the state and art and literature. Up jumps a UKIp candidate who
claims that in the past all artists, writers and poets were financed
by selling their skills on the open market. That there role had
nothing to do with the state. if you bother to read your history you
will find that the states of Renaissance Italy, Florence, the Papacy,
Venice, and the Duchy of Milan gave state contracts and funding to
Giotto, Titian, Leonardo da Vinci and Michael Angelo contracts in the
same way that the state does today...read your history please before
you come out with this strange kipper history...........
We
live in a world dominated by statistics. I walk over an hour a day, I
have not eaten meat for nearly twenty years. I take low fat milk and
do my best to limit high fat foods. I have just reached 59 all my
Grandparents lived till 80. I stopped smoking my pipe over three
years ago. My father died at 55 because of heart enlargement caused
by medication. However I am 10 kg overweight. According to Nice as I
move up the age scale the percentage of heart attack and stroke
increases. my blood pressure is controlled by medication. However
when I went to the Doctors last year for my annual review of
medication because I have passed these age limits suddenly my chance
of heart disease and stroke jumps from 10% to 16% . So suddenly I am
a candidate for Stattins. There are many forms of statistical proof,
many forms of the mean, mode, median geometrical mean. There are
debates within the academic discipline of statistics on the value of
significance tests...you do your research and you pick your
mathematical model. For me the simple test was a follows. One Paul
Coventry from Port Talbot -Debate and Argue put up a post there
showing the White Cliffs of Dover with a sign saying “go away We
care Full” he added the legend above it “Fuck Off Immegrants”
Yes even with my slight dyslexia I could see both his soul, the
essence of the campaign and its link with the far right and the
Brexit campaign. I could have countered him with all the statistics
in the world, told him to read books, learn history and reflect...but
I saw it all in one glance at his soul. That is my emotional response
and I am proud of it. All of us Paul came out of Africa........
As for heath Statistics I will say
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