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Originally Posted by passingbat
That's good Andrew (I did have to do a double take to check that it actually was you  )
But to be fair, I think you've posted one positive article against goodness knows how many negative articles. |
Ha ha, I was expecting you to report to the mods that may account had been hacked
But in all seriousness, I would honestly state that I don't pick bad news stories and that the stories I select are representative of the state of play of Brexit at the moment. Even the keenest Brexiteers have stated that we're in for a rough ride for the next five years or so. So even they should expect a high proportion of negative news.
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Originally Posted by passingbat
But it's important to look at the publishing source of these articles.
Expect the Mail and the Express to publish pro Brexit articles and organisations such as FT and the BBC to feature anti Brexit articles. Multinational organisations such as Google and Facebook, will, pretty much always, have an anti Brexit stance; it's not a coincidence, that they are also anti Trump
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The Mail, The Express and The Sun are discredited sources so caution should be used when reading their articles.
The Mail is no longer trusted by Wikipedia
The Express was found to be wrong when it said house prices had risen after the Brexit vote when the data it used covered the month before the vote.
The Sun was censured for incorrectly stating that 1 in 5 British Muslims have sympathy for Jihadis
With regard to Google and Facebook, they're more platforms than news sources themselves.
I look at a wide variety of sources and post articles from reputable sources like The Daily Telegraph, Reuters, Sky News, Financial Times, BBC and The Guardian. I won't venture my opinions of these sources as I think we'll go off on a big tangent.
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Originally Posted by pip08456
So the FT puts forward it will take longer than 2 years to reach a deal. Article 50 says otherwise.
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My reading of the article was that 2017 is reserved for negotiating the leaving element then after that a trade deal can be considered. Where does the FT talk about two years? I'm not saying it's not there, but I can't find it.
The €60bn is also an issue that has not been given much prominence by the media but is a figure we'll be hearing more of this year.