Who’s to blame for Brexit’s fantasy politics? The experts, of course | Aditya Chakrabortty
by Aditya Chakrabortty from Economics | The Guardian on (#358E3)
Magical thinking about the future is not confined to the cabinet. Just ask the Office for Budget Responsibility
Politics, runs the cliche, is the art of the possible. The compromise. The curbed expectation.
Not any more. Not in the age of Brexit and Trump. In 2017, politics is the art of the impossible. Of writing blank cheques and scattering them to the wind. Of peddling fantasies and promising the voters they will be made flesh by tomorrow.
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