Reply To: Cruella Braverman

[Gurnelista]

Aye, a quick emotional outburst is far easier than thinking.

BS, what you need to understand is that Brexit – the whole exercise – was just a distraction from failed Tory policies. Briefly, here’s why…

Back then, the elderly, sick, poor, vulnerable, those on universal credit etc. were all suffering, not to mention many in work/business – just like now, in fact.

To stay in power, the Tories needed a scapegoat, a distraction, a way to blame somebody else for failure. They knew immigrants have always been an easy target. They knew they could get people to think the ‘problem’ was immigration and a so-called ‘loss of control’. So the government and their client journalists (80% of which are right-wing and helped Cameron and co. get elected) made people panic about being in the EU, about the ‘evil empire’, about jonny foreigner taking ‘our’ jobs, and so on.’Faceless eurocrats’ were the problem, not the Tories. So, the country went mad, and voted narrowly to leave.

So, who won? And what did they win? Answer: nobody and nothing.

You have to understand BS, that the current Tory party, and their mouthpieces in the right-wing press and TV, do not have your best interests at heart. They pretend they do, because they want your support, rather than making you think critically about complex economic and political issues. They know how to easily press your buttons and get you worked up about something or somebody else, but it’s never them.

Now, have a look at the study mentioned here. It’s a 20′ read, maybe, with some big words. Stick with the abstract if that’s way too much.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289312

And here’s a tip. Next time you have to make a difficult decision, ask the least clever person that you know, what they would do. Then, do exactly the opposite.