Ignorance is dangerous.
I have just been watching an interview in which the Leave supporting politician shows that he knows absolutely nothing about the Single Market and Customs Union.
The really worrying thing is that many journalists were and are just as ignorant. Do you think that politicians would get away with such ignorance about the NHS or politics?
“The NHS charges for treatment and the House of Lords is elected”
“Well, no minister that is a lie.” So why did this not happen in respect to the EU?
The fact is that very many British journalists knew and know very little about the EU. Even many British Brussels correspondents I met knew nothing, didn’t care and spent their time using Brussels airport to visit more “interesting” stories across Europe. It was boring apparently, no one cared, certainly not the London newsrooms, it didn’t matter.
The result, in the end, was that Leave could and did say anything they wanted to and get away with it. This is still very true, British journalism has let the country down, again.