Exactly HOW Many Brexit U-Turns Have Happened?
My buddies and I are out for a drink in posh Kuningan, or Menteng.
My round.
“What’s it to be, guys, Heineken or Bintang?”
Having decided, like all the rest, to order Bintang, I advise the bar-maid of our order. As she starts pouring, I change my mind.
“Make that four Bintang and one Heineken, love!”
Will the local newspaper report this development the next day as
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Market Share Shock – Expats in Jakarta change to Heineken!
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Obviously not!
If a tiny minority of a group change their minds about something, can ANY – even the most partisan – media be justified in constructing a headline that makes it seem like a massive U-turn? –
Brexit-backing British nationals living in Spain told Channel 4 News they feel remorse for their decision as they face an uncertain future…
Leave-backing expats in Spain regret their decision as Brexit looms …inews.co.uk–Feb 11, 2019
Now that headline is grotesquely, and probably deliberately, misleading…
…suggesting that all the patriots who have retired from their UK jobs and decided, like me, that life in a hot sunny climate is a pleasant prospect, me in Jakarta, they to Spanish shores…
…have u-turned on their patriotic Leave decision and have now joined the Grovel Gang!
But when you read the story below the headline, you quickly learn that the hacks have spoken to a mere handful of that expat community.
No attempt was made to conduct any serious survey of expat opinion.
It is highly unlikely that there has been any major shift in expat opinion.
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Of course when you read the whole ‘i-news’ piece and see that it wasn’t them that created this archetypal ‘Fake News’ but another, notoriously unsound, segment of the UK media…
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…you will NOT be surprised.
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Speaking of people changing, or not changing, their minds….
…..whatever can we say about a man who year after year would not be pressured into abandoning his enthusiasm for Blood-Beast Adams the Sinn Fein/IRA terror boss…
….but, this month, this week, today, almost within a twinkling of an eye, threw overboard his public pledge to implement the decision of the British people on taking back their sovereignty from the Brussels Empire.
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Mack the Knife and 
Luke Chalson are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Luke Chalson 16:04 on February 26, 2019 Permalink |
Your prologue gives us an insight or two into your Jakarta life-style, sounds like you enjoy life, but the point you are making is loud and clear.
Did Channel 4 bump into any expats there in Spain who have not changed their minds?
Surely they must have, but they quote not a word from any Brit who has stayed true to the cause of independence.
So biased reporting, but what else can we expact fom Channel 4?
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Mack the Knife 14:20 on March 13, 2019 Permalink |
By the way, Ross, we just saw on BBC, their Spain reporter saying that he was in a Benidorm expat bar last night, where 6 out of 10 were Leave voters and wanted out – no deal or not.
Must have been a different bar from Channel Four, yes?
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