| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Progression | |
| Posted by: | Alan Clark | |
| Date/Time: | 30/10/20 13:51:00 |
| You are right to highlight inaccurate predictions. Back a couple of years ago I also saw the possibility of Brexit not being able to be completed - it was so difficult to square the issues. I also thought the claims that a no deal Brexit would be acceptable to the UK as empty bluster. If no deal was not going to happen and if would be impossible to find a way to make so many conflicting factors align then the Brexit game looked over. What I, and others, failed to recognise was the possibility that even someone as cavalier as Johnson (and I did expect him to become a PM after May) would be willing to make such crazy sacrifices. And I certainly did not believe the British people would, in the majority, callous and unthinking enough to allow them to happen. So there is a lesson here - always under-estimate both politicians and voters. Having said all that, such optimistic predictions about brexit not happening are more than balanced by optimistic predictions that "they need us more than we need them so a great deal will be easy" and similar. There has been many a foolish set of guess work from the leave camp. So I'd recommend not gloating over the failed predictions of others. |