The campaign so far
Posted: 23 Apr 2016, 12:46EU that is.
There is a certain almost fixed percentage who will vote in. A similar percentage who will vote out. Neither side will budge. So the key to winning the referendum is to persuade the up to 20% of undecided people.
These are the people who say they need to know more before they vote. Which is fair enough; better an informed vote than an uninformed one.
But when they turn on the tv after a day at work, to try and get some more information, what do they see?
Will they be more informed about who Jean Monnet was, and what his view of the European Project was? No.
Will they learn about the EU council of ministers? No.
Will they learn more of the words of wisdom of Jean Claude Junker, one of the half dozen Presidents that the EU has lying around? HELL NO. And here's why:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... tions.html
Will they learn about the Common Agricultural Policy? No.
Will they learn the scale of youth unemployment in Greece and southern Europe? Maybe.
Will they learn about the TTIP trade agreement? Maybe, but in no detail.
Will they learn about the possibility of an EU of the regions and the abolition of England? No.
Or TISA, another proposed trade deal that the EU was going to lie about until wikileaks blew the gaff? Absolutely not.
Will they even learn about the good work that the EU has done on raising cleanliness standards on our beaches? No.
Or how EU rules on state aid preclude nationalisation? Nope.
So what will they be learning?
They will see Barack Obama issuing a casual threat or George Osborne saying that we will be poor until the end of time if we leave.
That's it. No intelligent discussion, very little information. People are going to end up after the referendum knowing as much about the EU as they did before - not much.
And that is imo, criminal.
The attitude on TV seems to be that we're in, we're staying in and you lot are so thick that we don't intend to even try and inform you.
There is a certain almost fixed percentage who will vote in. A similar percentage who will vote out. Neither side will budge. So the key to winning the referendum is to persuade the up to 20% of undecided people.
These are the people who say they need to know more before they vote. Which is fair enough; better an informed vote than an uninformed one.
But when they turn on the tv after a day at work, to try and get some more information, what do they see?
Will they be more informed about who Jean Monnet was, and what his view of the European Project was? No.
Will they learn about the EU council of ministers? No.
Will they learn more of the words of wisdom of Jean Claude Junker, one of the half dozen Presidents that the EU has lying around? HELL NO. And here's why:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... tions.html
Will they learn about the Common Agricultural Policy? No.
Will they learn the scale of youth unemployment in Greece and southern Europe? Maybe.
Will they learn about the TTIP trade agreement? Maybe, but in no detail.
Will they learn about the possibility of an EU of the regions and the abolition of England? No.
Or TISA, another proposed trade deal that the EU was going to lie about until wikileaks blew the gaff? Absolutely not.
Will they even learn about the good work that the EU has done on raising cleanliness standards on our beaches? No.
Or how EU rules on state aid preclude nationalisation? Nope.
So what will they be learning?
They will see Barack Obama issuing a casual threat or George Osborne saying that we will be poor until the end of time if we leave.
That's it. No intelligent discussion, very little information. People are going to end up after the referendum knowing as much about the EU as they did before - not much.
And that is imo, criminal.
The attitude on TV seems to be that we're in, we're staying in and you lot are so thick that we don't intend to even try and inform you.