In the spirit of Rule 1, I’m posting the news story, rather than the screen shot of a headline that was posted earlier.
I’m American, not British, but every single item mentioned that public perception is wrong about sounds like it skews toward what would be rightwing propaganda here. If the British right is anything like the American right, then appealing to the politicians misrepresenting the numbers to do a better job stating the facts is a fool’s errand. The misinformation is on purpose.
British here. You’re right. It’s the culmination of decades of intentional misinformation and stoking the fears of the racist and stupid. Appealing to the politicians spreading this (e.g. Farage) is useless. Appealing to the public is useless.
I heard a story about a friend of a friend who thought that one million immigrants entered Britain every day. As in, the population would literally double in two months if this was true. But not only did he not realise that, he repeated the “fact” to other people.
Obviously a lot of us are fine. But Reform is leading in the polls and people believe shit like that so the reality is most of us are not.
Which country are you from?
This is incorrect. I’m British and us Brits have been wrong about everything for decades now. It started around the time that Murdoch bought his way into the British press and maggie thatcher thatcher (fucking milk snatcher) took control of the government.
You’re wrong.
No, I’m…no, wait. Yes, I a…no. oh, oh no!!
Imagine how insufferable we’d be if we were right about nearly everything
Official estimates are that just 70 pence in every £100 is fraudulent
Can someone explain this in International English, please?
Official estimates are that just
70 pence£0.70 in every £100 is fraudulent.The British government estimates that Less than 1% of every 100 British pounds is fraudulent.
over 5% in USA.
it’s 16 and 21/724th thruppence, Sterling. On Wednesday, of course. It’s an easy system once you get used to it, drinking helps.
Not just the British. Many Americans have no idea what percent of the budget is for forgien aid, wjat the crime rate is doing, etc etc
OK, they did a brilliant own-goal with Brexit, but to be fair, most of the country is drunk at any given time.
I wasn’t old enough to drink when this survey was conducted
Wrong or right the government should work for the people, so the government should do their job which is the will of the people. If the people are truly wrong maybe the media or something is misinforming them and the authorities should prove the culprit is lying to them. But gaslighting seems like mission of the day.
