billwill
Tuesday 25th October 2022 4:46pm
North London
6,162 posts
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 25th October 2022, 9:45 AM
The problem is that, like David Cameron which led to his badly mis-judging the outcome of the EU referendum, many people of strong political opinions tend to mix only with those of the same mind and to work in environments that do not attract a cross-section of different views. Therefore they have no idea how other people think and mistakenly believe that the vast majority of people have the same outlook as themselves. That's how we ended up with Brexit to the great surprise of the political classes.
You are making a complicated political issue about a simple matter, which isn't political at all.
I simply request that member of this forum THINK before posting ANY message in which they claim to speak for others, unless they really, really do. All it takes is the addition of a few simple words such as: In my opinion or It seems that or The opinion polls say.
Claiming to speak for those whose opinions the poster cannot possibly know, just makes the poster look stupid; the kind of stupidity that many journalists seem to extrude.
IMO such 'claims' detract from the validity of the posting; anything else in the posting can be ignored.