Post #1882032
2026-05-02 10:08 UTC
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@H4Heights@mstdn.social 2026-05-02 11:35
@Geri @markmason @Remittancegirl @ApostateEnglishman You’ve just articulated why populism is so effective… they press visceral buttons which trump rationale every time. It’s a concept that Zak seems to have twigged however.
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@markmason@mas.to 2026-05-09 06:49
@Geri@mastodon.online @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world I think the other side of this is that Leave promised everything to everybody. Multiple often mutually exclusive options. Whatever anybody asked for they said #brexit would deliver. In essence they just out and out lied to everyone about everything counting on the fact that most people expect lies from politicians and aren’t really listening. It’s not a failure of recent politics but the culmination of the last 50 years of political failure.