A handful of Conservatives were being dumb and were advocating for brexit, David Cameron (Cons PM) didn't want brexit but was like sure let's have a vote on it, and he was confident the British people would just vote to stay so they didn't do much campaigning.
“You either think this country needs to change, or you don’t. And if you do, you should stand with me and every person in this hall, you should stand with the Conservatives.”
Proceeds to cancel new public transport infrastructure, preventing change.
The common sense argument pisses me off because it can be understood in 2 ways.
It is an idea that it is commonly regarded as "true/right/good"
It is obviously the case
Both are obviously not the case. 1. Many people disagree with the statement. 2. Many educated people don't think it is like that, so it is clearly not obviously the case.