You have to hand it to the mainstream media. The control it has exerted over the general election coverage these past few weeks is a wonder to behold. A beautifully executed con job that has left nothing to chance.
Certainly what the TV presenters, interviewers, commentators and news anchors have achieved, along with their counterparts in the press, is unethical, immoral, corrosive to democracy and the idea of liberty and wholly harmful to the people of this nation. But it can’t be denied they have managed to massage an angry and vengeful electorate into a compliant and misdirected mass, on the TV screens at least.
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Vote as you will, but he gets the money.
The third general election debate between the mainstream party leaders has ended and history has been made. For the first time the electorate has had a chance to properly assess the candidates and their policies, politics has been energised and democracy is the winner, we are assured.
David Cameron won the latest debate, according to the polls. Nick Clegg ran in a fairly distant second and the hapless Gordon Brown trailed in last again. None of them fully explained how the deficit will be cut, all of them agreed immigration should be controlled but won’t admit they have no means to control it and all three warned the coming years will be “tough”.
Cameron blasted Brown about his tax on jobs, Brown warned Cameron’s policies were a danger to the alleged recovery and Clegg wondered why everyone couldn’t just get together and work things out.
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Peppa Pig! Come out to Play-eee!
Greedy pigs gouging and gorging on an avalanche of offal ’til they collapse on their backs spewing vomit in volcanic belches. You might still be polite enough to call them bankers.
Little pigs lapping at the puke, squealing, biting, offering their haunches up for higher favour, oblivious as the noise and the stench and the depravity begins to draw the farmer’s attention. You must be a saint if you still refer to them as politicians.
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