Reality is not reality to a man who has bought into an alternative version. Bad economic news? - "Remoaner propaganda/nothing to do with Brexit." Why are we seeing no upsides only downsides - "Give it time." Key industries collapse? - "They're dinosaurs that we don't need." 2/
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Major companies relocate elsewhere? - "It was time we rebalanced the economy." Millions of jobs lost? - "You can't put a price on freedom." Trade deal negotiations looking disastrous? - "All the fault of those evil Europeans." "It all proves we were better off leaving." 3/
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Truth is not truth to someone the man who'd prefer it not to be true. But underpinning all of this is an industrial-scale propaganda effort. The spiv Johnson has no observable talents except one - he is a past master of misinformation. 4/
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This government is jam-packed with all the spivs who mis-sold Brexit and it's already showing its determination to decouple Brexit from any of its negative consequences. The very word Brexit is being removed from service to assist with this project. 5/
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And on top of that we have the massed battalions of media outlets who committed every resource for many years to selling Brexit as a good idea in spite of the evidence. And we saw how successful they were. 6/
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Hundreds of thousands of jobs have already been lost to Brexit but the propaganda machine has been entirely successful in deflecting the blame from Brexit itself. We know the propaganda works. We have the evidence. 7/
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Every problematic story will be spun as nothing to do with Brexit, while fictitious stories about the upsides of Brexit will be trumpeted from the rooftops. Exactly as now. 8/
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Neither the government nor the media are suddenly going to abandon their propaganda efforts on 1st February. All the evidence is that those efforts will be redoubled. It's safe to say that the more Brexit fails, the more it will be "a success". 9/
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The truth will not, this time, set us free. If truth is the enemy of Brexit, it's truth that will be wrong, not Brexit. 10/
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In the manual of Johnsonian Brexitism it says (as we all knew it would): "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." 11/
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The cost of Brexit now exceeds the total of all our EU contributions for 47 years. How will Brexitman react to that news? Will he say, "Oh my gosh, that's terrible. Time to reverse this idiocy"? Or will he say, "You can't put a price on freedom"? You know the answer.
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I don't of course mean that we should stop trying to get the truth out there, relentlessly, tirelessly, every day. I just think we need to be realistic about the limits of that strategy on its own.
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@NickCohen4: "I feel as if I have written this sentence every week since 23 June 2016 and no good it has done." It's right to keep repeating the truth. It's sensible to recognise the limits of what it can achieve.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/11/beware-a-closing-of-the-british-mind-if-we-abandon-european-endeavours-brexit …Prikaži ovu nit
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