The Truth about the News

What is particularly worrying about the disclosures that the Government have repeatedly used inaccurate figures regarding the number of students staying behind in the country after the end of their courses raised several very significant issues. It appears that Theresa May, as Home Secretary was made aware that the statistics were dubious but decided that it was better to use fake figures if they best served her purposes. Such an arrogant approach to the truth is indicative of an individual and government not disposed to listen to the people but to do whatever it takes to persuade the electorate that they should accept what they are told. If the fake facts reinforce the prejudicial views of the electorate, then it seems all the more reason to feed this stream of falsehood.

There are new figures out showing that there was very little correlation between the number of migrants in an area and the voting preferences of the population. The overriding correlation to be found was between the percentage of the population that had received higher education, with those area with a higher proportion tending to vote 'remain'. It is possible to postulate all manner of things from this, it has long been my contention that passive racism was a major factor in the referendum vote. What I mean by by this is that many people expressed the view that they were voting Brexit because of migration. As 'prejudice' is defined as: holding a view based on ignorance; this justifies my view that is was prejudice against immigrants that led to the result we had. You can argue that when people have received higher education, they will tend to be less prejudiced and therefore less likely to vote for Brexit because of the issue of migration. The question of whether imm...