Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
At best political sloganeering tends to tap into and validate people's pre-existing feelings. It rarely if ever changes minds. People don't actually believe politicians or their promises (not that this was a promise, of course). After all, if they did and if people are really so easily led, how come the rampant and demonstrably mendacious scaremongering of the Remain side didn't work?
These pre-existing feelings were seeded years ago because of slogans just like these. Boris admitted that he made up stories about barmy bendy banana laws in the Telegraph because people lapped it up and started believing it.

Take a look closer to home. Facts and common sense tell you that Arsenal had to cut their spending for 10+ years in order to pay off the stadium loan. During that time, we have had swathes of people convinced by loudmouths on social media, Arsenal Fan TV that the money is all going to Kroenke, or Wenger is arogant, tight and personally profitting, or that Wenger isn't tactically astute enough to realise that selling our best players and replacing them with teenage seedlings is a bad idea. The momentum continues following every defeat to the extent that he gets booed at games and people hold up placards begging him to spend. No amount of sane, reasoned arguments could stop this sentiment from spreading. It would be just as reckless to ask the fans in the stadium to vote on how our finances should be managed.

There was some silly scaremongering going on, but a lot of the other stuff labelled as scaremongering is still vert likely in my eyes