Hardly surprising.
Remain voters pessimistic as UK will exit EU.
Leave voters pessimistic as in spite of winning referendum, UK has not left EU.
This is what setting the groundwork for a civil war or a great political realignment looks like. I would much prefer the latter but whatever.
It can’t just be Brexit — since almost all the “Democracies” seem to have majorities thinking their country is on the wrong path.
China being on the right path? Well, the Chinese people are seeing visible improvements in their lives year-on-year. And also it would probably not be a good idea for a resident of China to answer the question in the negative anyway. But it is astonishing that only 4 countries in the world have at least 50% of the polled saying “Right Track”.
The implication is that there is something wrong with the nature of “democracy” as it is currently implemented in most countries. Do the majority of the people really not like what they voted for? Or is it that the choices are not adequate, and democratic votes make no difference anyway to the bureaucratic cliques which run countries? Which I guess does bring us back to Brexit.
Measure of how much free market capitalism is maligned despite visible improvements in life for many people across the planet….
If the media does nothing but tell everyone they are gonna die of poverty, climate change, racism or insufficiently large government, some number of people with panic….
Apologies. Should have posted the link.
https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/what-worries-world-june-2019
Thanks for posting the link, John.
Looks like it was an internet survey (Strike One!), in which respondents were provided with a list of 17 topics to worry about (Strike Two!), and asked which 3 of the specified 17 topics were most of concern to them. No measure of how serious was that individual’s level of concern about any particular topic (Strike Three!). Actual results were then “adjusted” to fit the expected census-derived population — which sounds sort of the like the standard practice in the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming community.
Interestingly, only 12% of Brits selected “Financial/Political Corruption” as one of their Top 3 concerns — much less than most other countries. (World average 31%). Surprising, since this is where Brexit-driven concerns about the tossers in Parliament might have been expected to show up.
Astonishingly, only 11% of Brits listed Education as one of their Top 3 concerns (vs. 20% for the World average). What are these people thinking?
Maybe off-topic, but puzzling, China & Japan had over 30% of respondents selecting “Moral Decline” as one of their Top 3 concerns — twice as many as Brits.
Does the survey mean much? I really wonder.