'The wisdom of the British people'
31.01.2026 17:38
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'The wisdom of the British people'
No fireworks. No parties. No flags. No celebrations.
No comments from the Brexit leaders. No "wasn't that a great idea."
Six years after we left the EU - everyone knows it was a disaster.
But....
You are right of course 🙂 nevertheless I get frustrated.
You might be right. But how we got to the situation that arrived at was despairing, and it hasn’t got any better. So unless we “qualify” the vote when we know that social media might swing it, what’s the answer?
Except we give them the vote as well. Critical thinking = vote. Inability to do so = no vote. We should educate and qualify young people as they gain the vote and like the driving test check them again as they age. If they prove not fit to “drive” they lose their licence.
Deeper, deeper and deeper she goes, where she stops, nobody knows.
#Truss
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A dark blue mug with an American flag reads “AMERICA 1776 – 2026”
Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
Almost anything was ok as long as it provoked “liberal tears”. That’s precisely why we are where we are.
Wanna be exceptionalism vibe. Grim.
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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
Reading through the FT at the moment is a strange experience: revolution, war, disaster, brutal autocratic oppression, mad dictator shit....and then "markets continue to thrive"; "record profits".
And the dystopian future has arrived. We should all have paid more attention I suppose 🫤
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Misogyny is an official priority of this gvt
At least Peter Jones was available for late night shopping though, right?
Has anyone done a really big survey asking not how you would vote in rerun Brexit referendum but how you *did* vote and, as far as is possible, if it even is possible, mapped it onto actual result. I bet more people now think they voted remain in 2016 than voted remain.
Consistent fluency in French probably tipped it 😬
🔥 The mood in Brexit-world is changing...
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Looks good. Will be spending Christmas in Annecy. They had better keep some cochons till the 23rd…
Wilma hopes he is doing ok.
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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If only we had some kind of person whose job it was to investigate the news and present a balanced set of challenging facts. We could call them something like “journalists”. The whole craft could be called a cool name like “journalism”.
My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
You are right that with Brexit the political calculation added even more to this. Vocal minority etc etc.
Every major programme of change in nation states suffers from optimism bias. Layers of bureaucracy, politics, power, money all combine to create the modern day equivalent of the Emperor’s New Clothes. The system doesn’t “know” and individuals feel out of step so time after time we rinse and repeat.
So many fundamental misconceptions about how the world actually worked, and how it might turn out even worse than expected. All of the flags should have gone red with the reality gap at the NI/RoI border back in 2016/17. But optimism bias is just a permanent state of mind.