Do voters need therapy?

Analysis

BBC

News, Politics

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In a poll last year, two thirds of people suggested that Britain’s exit from the EU was negatively affecting the nation’s mental health. But is that really about customs unions and widget regulations, or is it a more a product of how we think about politics? James Tilley, a professor of politics at Oxford, finds out how our distorted ways of thinking create emotional reactions to politics and how those emotions affect what we do politically.

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0:41.0	Hello, thanks for downloading this edition of Analysis. podcasts. the presenter of this edition. Over the next half hour I'm going to be exploring
0:53.9	whether voters need therapy.
0:55.7	Do we want to run our own policies, have our own country,
1:01.7	as we have gone.
1:02.5	And by the way, reach out to a bigger world than Europe.
1:05.0	Global Britain.
1:06.0	That is what is so exciting about Brexit.
1:09.6	Emotions have been running high in the political world
1:12.2	over the last few years.
1:13.5	50 years of lies.
1:15.0	50 years of lies.
1:17.8	Even seasoned political observers like Yasmin alibari Brown
1:21.5	have found it a bit much at times.
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