What has Brexit flagged to me?.... that there is a group of people with a phenomenally developed capability to talk and write. Who are looked upon by many as gurus.

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Sages. Marvellous individuals. People with drive, gusto and personality. Who are wheeled out into the bright lights of the TV cameras and repeatedly the demonic nature of their lies are hardly questioned.

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Think Farage, Hanan, Singham, Baker, Rees-Mogg. Their sentences are so well constructed, such perfect button pressers, and delivered in a relentless monologic style, that the rationale is not questioned.

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Statements that are built on half-truths, straw man arguments, and absolute lies are packaged up so well in hectoring rants that journalists put these people beside accredited experts.

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Accredited experts who are not equipped with the tools of demagoguery, and so fail abjectly to expose the charlatans for what they are.

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There is the excellent BBC documentary about the effect that false equivalence has had on the climate change debate.

https://twitter.com/Big_Headers/status/1218554498614022148

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What makes these people tick? I have no idea.

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It’s like some area of their frontal cortex is so well developed, it manages to obscure the fact that the back element is festering, with libertarian nematode worms perhaps, and deprived of social conscience, care for a country, or its people.

8/31 https://twitter.com/Big_Headers/status/1156819745859092481

Stuck in the rift of a grift. Good dinners, supercilious conversations, general raucous laughter. Superior brothers and sisters of the Brexit battalion, this thread is certainly about you.....

Of course the big thing that they all have in common is the grift. From the pundits, such as Hartley Brewer, keeping Daily Mail UK minds in a particularly poisoned, angry, and ignorant state, to the journo-politicians such as Gove, Johnson, Rees Mogg.....

Their unctuous words dripping in cloying syrup.

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Paid for by press barons who are so isolated in their own worlds that they probably don’t have a clue how malign they are.



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MPs paid huge ‘advisory’ fees by companies such as Tate and Lyle, Bamford’s JCB, US Health firms, etc.

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Political groups, financed not by the economic mainstream, but by gamblers, hedgefunders, millionaires, and billionaires, trying to generate economic uncertainty, as it is from the fields of chaos that they reap the biggest financial returns.

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Crispin Odey: “Il mattino ha l'oro” to the tune of £200 million after the Brexit referendum. They stand to make more with No Deal.

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Daniel Hanan, Steve Baker, the Economic Research Group, and Shanker Singham of the Institute of Economic Affairs which apparently only 0.25% of the population have heard about.

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The IEA and the ERG are not academic institutions. They are not ‘think tanks’. They are the opposite. They are the proselytizers for extreme libertarian sects. Basically the product of people who have too much money, but not enough brains, and even less of a conscience.

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Overall an abject failure of the Fourth Estate in Britain to deliver fact and truth to the British people. The British being now so far down a rabbit hole, so hyper normalised, that it really will take years to start to remedy the problem.

16/31 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c/adam-curtis-hypernormalisation

There are some superb sources of information – Bloomberg, The Financial Times, The Guardian, opendemocracy, bylinetimes Yorkshire bylines, Private Eye.

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But what difference can they make, if the mainstream press continue to manipulate and gaslight the British population?

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Well – we have come to another crunch time – that of the deadline for any sort of deal.

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However, beyond this crunch time, there is the horror of the Corona virus pandemic, and the ugly army of the brainwashed, the anti-maskers, the ultimate fruits of the libertarian think tanks, spreading corona virus amongst themselves and the wider community.

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Who identifies with this ugly army of the brainwashed? Julia Hartley Brewer? Some of the leading pundits at the BBC? Or Paul Dacre? Or John Humphrys?

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These proud protesting patriots are the product of the proselytizing, the Mail, the Express and the radio show rants. Have a look at them, in all their glory last Saturday.

22/31 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/thousands-of-covid-19-sceptics-and-anti-vaxxers-protest-in-london-1.4342128

Will the pundits read a good book….?

23/31 https://twitter.com/Big_Headers/status/1310500439885074433

Perhaps they have, and are deliberately using the tools therein described. but if a bookshop is too far, they could read this thread, which covers some of the same issues….

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https://twitter.com/Big_Headers/status/1218548596703930320