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Rhiannon May 4, 2017 15:46:54
Replying to nigelswift

Thank you, very interesting. It's strange how she's got so stroppy so quick, as though slagging off nameless eurocrats is going to help.
All this risible parroting of "strong and stable" reminds me of the programme I heard the other day,
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=76021
that if you "frame the discussion" by repeating particular words, then you control how people think.

more that come to mind include calling tax cuts for the wealthy "tax relief"
and social security "benefits"
and suddenly i notice the minimum wage keeps getting beneficially confused with "the living wage", quite a different matter
etc

and then the opposition start using the same words, if only to refute them, and then they're bloody everywhere and everyone's caught up in them even if they don't believe in the concepts.

N nigelswift
nigelswift May 4, 2017 16:07:52
Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:
It's strange how she's got so stroppy so quick, as though slagging off nameless eurocrats is going to help.
I think there's two things - creating an external enemy is the oldest vote catching tactic in the book, plus, everything bad that's going to come from Brexit is going to be blamed on perfidious Europe, not Brexit or those who told the 52% things would be fine."

The worst thing is that if my explanation is right it means our wonderful lady Prime Minister is fully anticipating it's going to be a shambles.