Gove: Britons "Have Had Enough of Experts"
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used to check the quote in context, since the full sentence referred to experts who are consistently wrong, and as a jibe in Brexit threads.
What it is
A five-minute Sky News interview clip from June 2016 in which Michael Gove says Britons have had enough of experts. It was archived for use in a news report.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2016 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Cites mattmanser · 2016-07 · on “Britain’s scientists are freaking out over Brexit”
I voted remain. You watch the clip: [this video] The actual quote is: "People have had enough of experts from organisations with acronymns saying they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong". By implication, those "experts" aren't actually experts because they get it consistently wrong. But sure, it's easy to mis-quote him and cut the rest of the statement to make the leave voters sound like knuckle draggers because that's the agenda a certain set of the remain voters wanted to push. Leave voters are stoooopppppidddddddd. That tactic didn't work well. Gove was talking about experts who get it consistently wrong. So many of these "experts" have suddenly gone "oh, we wrong, X won't hap
Cites Vinnl · 2019-07 · on “How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals”
I really dislike people bringing that quote up, because the full sentence was "People have had enough of experts (...) who are consistently getting it wrong". [1] It's still not necessarily true, but by taking just part of that quote is misrepresenting what he said. Just thought that'd be good to keep in mind next time you might consider digging it up. [1] [this video]
Critical orf · 2017-11 · on “Britain has abandoned its claim to be the world's fifth largest economy”
All those experts we've "had enough of"[1], of course. If you think we've got enough faded glory already wait until we set sail on a Brexit low tide and immediately sink. Rule Britannia! 1. [this video]