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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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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OINK! Nothing to see, hear!
Whilst trawling around the search engines looking for informed comment about one of my hot topics right now, merchant bankers and their insatiable greed, I accidentally stepped in an article from the Guardian (as in gatekeeper). Yuk!
Titled, “Why aren’t bankers an election issue?“, I had first thought it was a satirical piece lampooning the content of the non-debates we’ve been suffering over the past two weeks.
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