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The truth is out there

It was a funny old General Election.

We witnessed the worst Conservative manifesto in history and watched as the Prime Minister went, in the public eye, from “strong and stable” to “weak and wobbly” in a few short weeks. The Conservative share of the vote duly increased by 5.5% compared to the brilliant and ruthless campaign run by David Cameron at the last election.

A highly efficient Labour campaign saw the all-conquering Jeremy Corbyn fall a mere 55 seats behind the disastrous Conservative campaign and achieve a massive 4 seats more than the terrible Labour campaign of Gordon Brown in 2010.

The Liberal Democrats ran a no-brainer of a campaign to appeal to the 48% of the population who voted Remain, and duly saw their share of the vote decline by 0.5% compared to their train-crash result in 2015.

At a more granular level, Diane Abbott had, what was widely regarded as being, the worst election campaign of an individual British politician in living memory. She was duly returned with a 12.2% increase in support and a massive 75.1% share of the vote in her constituency. (This was before any proper medical explanation was advanced for her shockingly poor media performance.)

In politics, perception may well be all. Nevertheless, one does begin to wonder whether voters were partaking in a parallel election to that being observed by most political commentators.

Meanwhile, back in the world of law and cold hard facts, Access to Justice tweeted: “We definitively prove that #PIReforms are a huge mistake!” on the basis that research they commissioned apparently shows the government’s personal injury reforms will boost insurers’ profits by up to £700m a year. Virtually simultaneously, the Law Society Gazette published an article highlighting that motor insurers suffered combined losses of £3.5bn last year as a consequence of the changes to the Ogden rate change.

In a post-truth world, there is a “fact” out there to satisfy any point of view.

1 thought on “The truth is out there”

  1. If the insurers suffered a £3.5bn loss last year due to the Ogden rate change, does that mean they under-compensated the injured by that sum every year for the last 10 years or so?
    Just curious.

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