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ONLY 12% OF UK PUBLIC FEEL ECONOMICS IS TALKED ABOUT IN AN ACCESSIBLE WAY |
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29 June 2016
“Most of it is totally confusing, I just wish they’d speak proper English so we could understand.”
Following last week’s EU referendum, Economy, the campaign for understandable economics, reveals a YouGov poll carried out by the charity shows that only 12% of the UK public feel “politicians and the media talk about economics in an accessible way that makes it easy to understand”.
Last Friday Economy asked members of the public about their vote and found Brits calling for plain English and less confusion on both sides of the campaign.
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Economy’s Victoria Waldersee says, “Politicians, the media, and economists have a responsibility to make themselves understood when it comes to economic decisions as big as this one. Our poll suggests that only a small minority felt confident that they understood the economics of the campaigns well enough to make a fully informed decision. Economics is too often presented as fact, and people don't feel they have the tools or the time to get to the bottom of which arguments are true and which are pure scare-mongering – so they end up going with their gut.”
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