Eight reasons Conservative MPs keep getting it wrong

[T_i_B]

https://www.ft.com/content/8d7d7e0e-8719-11e9-a028-86cea8523dc2?segmentId=5b3cb929-a23e-88ae-662f-4cae036b0dee

Conservative MPs, the people choosing the shortlist of two candidates, keep making basic factual errors about Brexit. What explains the poor cognition of Britain’s governing class, which, unlike voters, is supposed to grapple with policy detail? Here are some possible explanations:

• Many Tories are cynics faking it.
• The corollary: there is no political advantage in grasping reality if your voters don’t.
• Widmerpoolism.
• An inability to admit past error
• If your genuine beliefs contradict reality, deny reality.
• Denying reality proves your fanaticism to other fanatics.
• Laziness.
• Stupidity and ignorance

[comradebillyboy]

1. If Labour's Jeremy Corbyn was a competent leader

perhaps the Tories would be voted out. But Corbyn doesn't appear to be the one to lead Labour out of the wilderness and save Britain. Maybe Marxism and antisemitism aren't the keys to electoral success after all.

[T_i_B]

2. Corbyn is just as guilty of this stuff when it comes to leaving the EU

And Corbyn's failure to hold the Tories to account for the disastrous project to leave the EU has only exacerbated matters.

[comradebillyboy]

3. Yes Corbyn's opposition to Brexit has been half hearted at best.