Simplistic solutions to complex questions is the key to populism.
The sign on the bus told us we gave £350m a week to the EU, so we must be better off if we left. (no consideration of the huge range of benefits from EU membership)
There's a housing shortage so let's stop immigration (including all the builders)
Let's bring back hanging (never mind the miscarraiges of justice)
Let's bring back grammar schools (no-one ever wants to bring back secondary moderns so their children can have a second class status)
Let's build more prisons (don't bother looking at the research which shows that non-custodial sentences are often far more effective at preventing re-offending)
Etc, etc, etc.
It's even worse in America where there are proposals to arm teachers to prevent mass shootings in schools (no gun control can possibly be allowed- third amendment)
Army horses loose on London streets
Badly Faded Red Composite Door
Angela Rayner lashes out and calls Sunak “pint sized loser”.
