My latest musing on Lib Dem Voice...
"I’m hearing the
same argument uttered over and over again
- ironically by both sides - in
the #Brexit debate.
Remain supporters
keep saying ‘no-one in Britain voted to be worse off in the referendum
campaign’, on the presumption that folk don’t vote against what they believe is
in their economic interest.
Leavers, for the
same reason, believe that they’ll get a great deal in their Brexit negotiations
because ‘its in the remaining EU member countries economic interests to do so’
Both sides are of
course wrong. People make quite deliberate decisions against their economic
interest every day. The reason why political folk don’t realise this is because
they are brought up in a culture of Fiscal and Monetary economics. The real
world works rather more like Behavioural Economics...."
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