{"id":2540,"date":"2017-12-26T15:55:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T14:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2018-10-11T19:01:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T18:01:04","slug":"experts-bah-humbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/?p=2540","title":{"rendered":"Experts? Bah Humbug!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Michael Gove is famously quoted as saying – during a Brexit campaign interview with Sky News on 3 June 2016 – that “the people of this country have had enough of experts”. In fact that was the first half of a sentence which the interviewer interupted. The whole sentence was :<\/p>\n

“I think that the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying – from organisations with acronyms – saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong, because these people – these people – are the same ones who got consistently wrong.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Gove got handsome applause from the audience for this statement. But then I don’t suppose many of them were experts… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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But least one of those “organisations with acronyms”  – the ones at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)  – have turned out to be pretty much on the ball as regards the UK economic performance. See their recent report : Macroeconomic Implications of the UK Leaving the European Union<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s Christine Largarde speaking in London<\/a> this week at the launch of the fund\u2019s annual assessment of the UK economy, Ms Lagarde insisted the IMF\u2019s pre-referendum warnings and forecasts had been broadly vindicated.  She has a sideways swipe at people who don’t trust experts, \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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