Another Brexit Bonus

[JamesWales]

The right wing tabloids are eventually realising what a shit show Brexit is. Campaigned for and supported it and now shedding crocodile tears. Hate to say we told you so!!!

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https://twitter.com/emmakennedy/stat...501058049?s=21

Well well..8 carefully selected articles from a shit rag posted by an arch EUphile on twitter. How many UK daily newspapers? Maybe 10? How many articles a day collectively? Perhaps 250? That's 1,750 a week. 91,000 a year. Five years since the referendum so that's the best part of half a million articles there, you can double that with news websites.

But yeah, those 8 articles.. absolutely damning. The same definitely couldn't be done in reverse. I definitely couldn't find any articles predicting Christmas being ruined or unemployment rising or dozens of other things that proved to be wrong. Definitely not.

[the other bob wilson]

Well well..8 carefully selected articles from a shit rag posted by an arch EUphile on twitter. How many UK daily newspapers? Maybe 10? How many articles a day collectively? Perhaps 250? That's 1,750 a week. 91,000 a year. Five years since the referendum so that's the best part of half a million articles there, you can double that with news websites.

But yeah, those 8 articles.. absolutely damning. The same definitely couldn't be done in reverse. I definitely couldn't find any articles predicting Christmas being ruined or unemployment rising or dozens of other things that proved to be wrong. Definitely not.

You have a strange way of looking at things, have those articles been proved to be right currently? Drawing attention to things where “the other side” have seemed to be shown to be wrong is standard fare on both sides of the political divide - those in power in a democracy tend to be judged more by what they get wrong than what they get right.

[JamesWales]

You have a strange way of looking at things, have those articles been proved to be right currently? Drawing attention to things where “the other side” have seemed to be shown to be wrong is standard fare on both sides of the political divide - those in power in a democracy tend to be judged more by what they get wrong than what they get right.

No, they haven't been proved right, and that's my point.

Firstly, they are from the Express which is the most bombastic paper there is. I criticise the guardian mainly because people treat it with more reverence than it deserves. I criticise the Express because it genuinely is full of shite, or at least it's headlines are.

Secondly, there is not a direct correlation between the stories being compared aside from the mobile charging reference. the idea that farming will collapse and one farmer suggesting some farmers will go out of business are not contradictions. Farms have always gone out of business.

Thirdly, there isn't a farming DISASTER and British fishing hasn't COLLAPSED and there's no evidence that food bills have SOARED due to Brexit.

Fourthly, this kind of cherry-picking of articles can be applied to any argument. So many of the anti-brexit predictions have proven false, so the same headlines can be put together for that.

It's all just weird populist stuff designed for twitter that doesn't actually help move forward the understanding of issues. It's the same approach that Leave.EU did on the other side. Pointless.