On 03/10/2017 22:59, pamela wrote:
On 20:47 3 Oct 2017, James Harris wrote:

On 03/10/2017 12:28, pamela wrote:
On 11:07 3 Oct 2017, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

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The graph comes from a PWC report published a few months before
the referendum and it and other Brexit predictions were soundly
laughed at by the Brexit camp.

It represents the sort of "selective facts" which sadly came to
typify the Leave campaign.

I thought both campaigns were selective of their "facts". They
were run by politicians, after all.

ISTM there's a certain intellectual dishonesty in blaming one
side. It's easy to believe what we want to believe. It's far
better to see if there is genuine evidence and base our beliefs
on the data rather than cherry picking reports to fit our
preconceptions.

Large parts of the Brexit campaign was massively deceitful on a scale
not often seen. It often didn't even attempt honesty. If Leave had
been correctly seen as having as real chance of winning then I
suspect election commissioners could have got called it.

I'm astonished if you see deceit in the Leave campaign but not the
Remain camp.


Saying a campaign on both sides is, after all, deceitful because
politicians are involved is simply playing to stereotypes.

Not "because".


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James Harris