Businessmen Richard Tice (left) and William Campbell
The ‘Here’s How’ podcast
Brexit special.
Host William Campbell writes:
The Here’s How podcast is back with an in-depth questioning of the ‘Bad Boy of Brexit’,
Broadsheet commenter ‘Ollie Cromwell’British Businessman Richard Tice.Is he making realistic promises or waiting for a herd of unicorns to arrive? Listen and decide…
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Readers interested in a grown-up debate on Brexit might also light to have a sonce at this.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/12/ten-myths-from-the-no-deal-project-fear/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
And while we’re with the Speccie an absolutely cracking piece from Jonathan Miller on Macron’s troubles.
And they are many.
” …. his hubris, arrogance and almost autistic detachment from the French in the street is in a class with Marie Antoinette. Except that this time around, the courtier whispers, “Mr President, the people cannot afford diesel.” To which the cloth-eared Macron has, in effect replied: “Let them buy Teslas.” ”
“Macron may have won the presidency, albeit in curious circumstances, but he is politically tone deaf. His obsession with the environment and keeping his green allies on board has led him to ignite a wildfire in France that threatens to consume his entire ambitious reform program while diminishing him on the world stage. A comparison with Nero is not inapt. He is fiddling with carbon reduction targets while Paris burns. ”
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/12/emmanuel-macron-has-united-france-against-him/
And meanwhile the Far Right are on the move in Andalusia.
Thank goodness Blighty is departing the EU on March 29th 2019.
https://interactive.news.sky.com/2017/brexit-countdown/
Yer man is the spit of Aaron Eckhart.
Well the Spectator are great at pointing out the mote in French eyes, but that Brexit article should be in rhetoric textbooks to teach students about false precision and straw man arguments.
Such as ?
False precision:
>Myth 1. The UK economy could shrink by eight per cent in a single year under no deal.
The case against Brexit does not rest on the economic damage being _exactly_ eight per cent. If it were nine per cent or seven per cent, it doesn’t affect the argument much.
Strawman:
>>Myth 9. No deal will see border trade grind to a halt.
Nobody has seriously claimed that UK trade would reduce to zero. It is certainly true that it would face serious logistical problems, and denying the strawman exaggeration of this is childish.
Nitpicking:
>>Myth 5. In a no-deal Brexit, WTO rules would require the enforcement of a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
The WTO requires all third countries to be treated equally. It is true that the UK could leave its NI border open with no checks or duties on trade from RoI, as long as it did the same for all other countries, but that’s hardly credible, in particular given the ‘secure our borders’ promise.
You could include Strawman:
>>Myth 10. A no-deal Brexit would mean families having to do without Christmas trees*
*feel free to substitute food, water, medicines, Mars bars or whatever is the next item in the Project Fear crosshairs.
Medicine shortages and stockpiling are already happening. This reality can’t be dismissed by arguing it’s no different than buying Christmas trees from Norway.
Thin gruel as a counter-argument to the TEN myths being shot down in the article.