I would like to know why for several years the business people invited onto news programs have been only the deluded idiots who did not understand this basic truth. The @BBC in particular made it look again and again like it was a 50 50 split on opinion on this.
https://twitter.com/hilarybennmp/status/1327689483412762631
In fact I bet it was probably, amongst business people, more like 80-90 percent of the opinion that Brexit is costly and will leave our businesses significantly worse off. And only about 5 percent who are absolutely convinced it is the bees knees!
The reality in business and industry is that there was no finely balanced opinion. Overwhelming consensus was, in the most simplistic terms, that #brexit was never going to be something which helps business or industry and was only going to cause damage.
The problem with the weird way the @bbc et al do “balance” is that they do not convey where the weight of opinion is amongst the people who actually know something about the subject being discussed. Equal weight without firmly showing an overwhelming consensus skews everything.
It’s been so damaging that Cummings going or not or getting a deal or not we are pretty much worse off already - we can see that from jobs and growth already lost - and the downsides are only getting steeper until we get to the laundry chute that is January 1st . #projectreality
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