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T_i_B

(14,800 posts) Sun Jun 9, 2019, 11:34 AM Jun 2019

Eight reasons Conservative MPs keep getting it wrong

https://www.ft.com/content/8d7d7e0e-8719-11e9-a028-86cea8523dc2?segmentId=5b3cb929-a23e-88ae-662f-4cae036b0dee

Conservative MPs, the people choosing the shortlist of two candidates, keep making basic factual errors about Brexit. What explains the poor cognition of Britain’s governing class, which, unlike voters, is supposed to grapple with policy detail? Here are some possible explanations:

• Many Tories are cynics faking it.
• The corollary: there is no political advantage in grasping reality if your voters don’t.
• Widmerpoolism.
• An inability to admit past error
• If your genuine beliefs contradict reality, deny reality.
• Denying reality proves your fanaticism to other fanatics.
• Laziness.
• Stupidity and ignorance

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Eight reasons Conservative MPs keep getting it wrong (Original Post) T_i_B Jun 2019 OP

If Labour's Jeremy Corbyn was a competent leader comradebillyboy Jun 2019 #1

Corbyn is just as guilty of this stuff when it comes to leaving the EU T_i_B Jun 2019 #2

Yes Corbyn's opposition to Brexit has been half hearted at best. comradebillyboy Jun 2019 #3

comradebillyboy

(10,467 posts)

1. If Labour's Jeremy Corbyn was a competent leader

Reply to T_i_B (Original post)

Sun Jun 9, 2019, 11:45 AM

Jun 2019

perhaps the Tories would be voted out. But Corbyn doesn't appear to be the one to lead Labour out of the wilderness and save Britain. Maybe Marxism and antisemitism aren't the keys to electoral success after all.

T_i_B

(14,800 posts)

2. Corbyn is just as guilty of this stuff when it comes to leaving the EU

Reply to comradebillyboy (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 9, 2019, 11:48 AM

Jun 2019

And Corbyn's failure to hold the Tories to account for the disastrous project to leave the EU has only exacerbated matters.

comradebillyboy

(10,467 posts)

3. Yes Corbyn's opposition to Brexit has been half hearted at best.

Reply to T_i_B (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 9, 2019, 11:49 AM

Jun 2019

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