More from the archives...
A blog post of mine from December 2012, criticising a @fromtga column about a future in-out EU referendum (it wasn't called Brexit then)
jonworth.eu/enlightenment-…
A blog post of mine from December 2012, criticising a @fromtga column about a future in-out EU referendum (it wasn't called Brexit then)
jonworth.eu/enlightenment-…
TGA: when the people are “confronted with the facts” they will keep UK in 🤔
JW: "if we are to learn anything from the Irish referendum debacles over the Treaty of Lisbon it is that civil society based campaigns make more sense – any campaign must be participative, not top down"
JW: "if we are to learn anything from the Irish referendum debacles over the Treaty of Lisbon it is that civil society based campaigns make more sense – any campaign must be participative, not top down"
JW: "The problem is that – contrary to the way TGA frames it – there is no one definition of the facts when it comes to the European Union. How can a number of jobs or a GDP gain [...] be balanced by a return of national sovereignty or no more contributions to the EU budget?"
The blog post also links to this web.archive.org/web/2012122307… by @usherwood that makes some excellent additional points, and is closer to my view than to that of TGA. He applies Daniel Kahneman thinking to the referendum too...
