Lynton Crosby isn't a genius – and five other lessons the election taught us | Hannah Jane Parkinson
Immutable truths about British political culture have been breezily overturned by the electorate, confusing pundits and politicians alike. What next?
Well then. Nobody knows anything any more, do they? Michael Gove was mocked for saying that everyone was sick of experts (or thereabouts), and I've always been sympathetic to that mocking, but it is starting to seem as though - in political predictions at least - he has a point. There's so much received wisdom about how to win a key marginal, and what will alienate the middle ground, and why you ignore this demographic or that at your peril. And yet, after the shock of Thursday, none of that received wisdom seems to be so wise any more.
"This is the election young people started voting." ai And wouldn't this be wonderful? -> #BBCelection #Election2017 pic.twitter.com/ycfr2wC6zH
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