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Leave Has More Clout in Social Media than Remain

"We've reached the point where there is no good conclusion to Brexit and Britain faces a choice: take one for the team or be willing participants in the fall of Europe. And no, you are not going to like this." – @J_amesp #Brexit #NoDealBrexithttps://t.co/TtY4OZv6Bs

— Byline (@Byline_Media) February 25, 2019

Putin’s project works well for Putin.
https://www.byline.com/column/67/article/2428:

[…] Brexit is a disease and Britain is a contagion risk which could unpick the fabric of the whole of Europe and leave millions more people facing much worse than even no deal. […]

I Am Not Alone

We live in times where proposing to use a 2nd Brexit referendum as a step in a Deming Cycle (applied to the Brexit decision making process) seems to be a very strange idea to politicians. But today I discovered that I am not alone:

What data is this claim based on? I think it’s a hypothesis that needs to be tested by a #PeoplesVote on the specific terms of #Brexit now that we know what they are. In god we trust, all others bring data (attrib. #Deming) https://t.co/KvMeWSEdCj

— Chris Young (@worldofchris) November 23, 2018

I despair at how little it is known, and applied, in business. Management orthodoxy of command and control, and shouting, seems to go unquestioned.

— Chris Young (@worldofchris) February 25, 2019

What Kind of Second Referendum?

Labour’s move on second EU referendum seems, on face of it, v positive. But instinct says we should wait for detail. A referendum with no remain option would be ludicrous – so hopefully that’s not the proposal. https://t.co/w5e2wHa6BJ

— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) February 25, 2019

Please take care that a 2nd referendum is used to apply https://t.co/P1r9mHxoTV to the Brexit decision making process.

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) February 25, 2019

Let’s get some OODA loop in there too https://t.co/9wDlJxCl6A

— Chris Young (@worldofchris) February 25, 2019


 

"According to Owen Smith, Corbyn was asked 23 times if in a future referendum he would want Remain to be an option on the ballot paper. Corbyn declined to answer." Short version, it's a con. See @katyballs https://t.co/PouZ1Gk51B

— Sarah Baxter (@SarahbaxterSTM) February 25, 2019


 

Dear conservatives, please don't be stupid. Applying https://t.co/P1r9mHxoTV to the Brexit decision making process of course does not betray the will of the British people. In contrary, it helps the British people to come to reason. Seemingly you are afraid of that.

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) February 25, 2019

Why Trump Is Useful

The only reason we still have a dangerously incompetent and wildly corrupt president is because the most powerful people in the country are benefiting from having a dangerously incompetent and wildly corrupt president. 1/

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 23, 2019

Politicians on both sides benefit from Trump. The Republicans gain power to pass their agenda and Democrats can use him as a foil. Both parties? Raising money like gangbusters. Every time he opens his mouth there’s a new and lucrative call for money. 2/

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 23, 2019

The extremely wealthy are making tons of money as the GOP passes their rich-friendly tax bills and deregulate everything. But they’re also winning because Trump means people are losing even more faith in government, meaning less regulation and more privatization. 3/

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 23, 2019

The corporations are having a field day. They’re using the sectionalism of politics as a means to sell people products that supplement their political identities and political anger. 4/

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 23, 2019

And corporate media? And the journalism industry? The mechanisms that are supposed to serve as watchdogs are enjoying record traffic and attention as a culture of terror, anger, and abject anxiety are being sold because there’s an unstable and criminal president. 5/

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 23, 2019

Despite the appearance that everyone wants him gone, those in power in this country have more incentive to rise out the Trump Presidency until it collapses. It’s like a stock. You wait until the last minute to jump off. 6/

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 23, 2019

There’s too much here that could have taken Trump down for it not to have coalesced. This is a bubble like any other. People want to get in and make money and gain power while they can. 7/

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 23, 2019

But people can affect this. If people overturn the spectacle nature of our politics and let those benefiting from Trump know that they’re going to lose money and power it could pop this bubble and actually start the process of healing. 9/

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 23, 2019

It can end and it should end. People need to assert their right to protest this debacle and reclaim their control over the government and country. If that starts, if it coalesces, this thing could come to a merciful and necessary end. 10/10

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 23, 2019

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