The Experts 

’The experts say you will be X amount worse off if you choose to leave the EU’ was a line repeatedly spread by the Chancellor, George Osborne at the time of the EU referendum.

(See BBC’s eight reasons why leave won : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36574526) Polls and statistics showed that support for remain in declined due to the repeated use of these so-called experts. In a way it’s implying that the experts know what’s best for us and we should listen to them. But aren’t we capable ourselves as rational human beings? 

This brings into question of the experts v us. Therefore Brexit can be viewed as a revolt against the establishment or the ‘1%’.  However do the experts know better?  For example certain professions require experts i.e. medicine requires professionals as doctors follow procedures and for that one must be educated however many politicians follow the same path from being educated and going into politics (rise of the career politician) therefore does this mean they too are experts? 

I think not as many politicians are just working on behalf of the elite and they no longer serve our interests as Fischer explains in his book democracy and expertise, us , the public no longer think these so-called experts work in order to benefit us in other words it is a tyranny of expertise. 

Therefore, expertise and elite are intermixed with one another. Both are now perceived as being one rather than two separate entities i.e. the experts are the tool of the elite. The image of experts is now tarnished from the financial crisis through to scandals creating more and more scepticism.