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remember: the FT have managed to mis-predict every single major UK political event relating to brexit: - they'll vote remain - they'll ignore the referendu
by blibble 3y ago
remember: the FT have managed to mis-predict every single major UK political event relating to brexit:
- they'll vote remain
- they'll ignore the referendum result
- they won't invoke article 50
- the article 50 court case will prevent it being triggered
- we won't exit
- we'll stay in the single market
they simply have no understanding of how the electorate think
(though I suppose it's possible they may eventually get one right)
- Biologist123 3y agoMagical thinking generally is alive and well in certain strata of British life. UK politics generally seems to be a game of make believe, with a broad failure to grasp that decline is now baked in.
- red-iron-pine 3y ago"perception is reality" is not a trait that is particularly limited to the UK.
- disgruntledphd2 3y agoTo be fair, they're a business paper and from an economic perspective Brexit made absolutely no sense, so it's not that surprising.
- blibble 3y agomaybe it's unrealistic that political journalists should have some insight of the subject matter beyond that of a politics student (similarly: their recently retired stock-picking columnist revealed he'd never traded a stock)
- disgruntledphd2 3y agoDid you expect any of those things? Like I followed the process religiously and I kept being surprised by the sheer insanity of all the UK government decisions.
- blibble 3y agoyes, I successfully predicted all of the above from June 24th 2016: a hard exit with a fudge on the NI border was the only path that kept the tory party in one piece and the tory party has always prioritised that over everything else remember: it's the only reason they called a referendum in the first place the only way it would have gone differently would have been if Labour had a leader other than Corbyn having him as the opposition guaranteed it would happen (because Middle England hated the idea of Corbyn in power more than they hated brexit)
- disgruntledphd2 3y agoI mean no disrespect, but that seems very unlikely. Like, the Tory party didn't remain in one piece, they expelled a bunch of people and are almost unrecognisable from the people in power in 2016. Any chance you have comments here or elsewhere supporting your predictions?
- scott_w 3y agoThey didn’t split. By that metric, they’re still in one piece and that’s the only metric those in the party care about right now.