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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Remember me?
Gordon Brown this and Gordon Brown that, but isn’t the mainstream media forgetting something? When New Labour ushered in a tragically false dawn in 1997 it wasn’t Gordon Brown at the helm. It was the vicious and self-serving, soon to be International gangster and
war criminal Tony Blair. And the rest is bitter and bloodstained history.
It would seem logical, considering we’re on the verge of the next election, to review all thirteen catastrophic years under this authoritarian and warmongering government. But even the opposition parties can’t seem to bring themselves to look in Blair’s direction.
You can understand why the Tories want to look the other way, they happily played along with Blair’s horrendous invasion and sat on their hands as the dire consequences unfolded.
But what of the Liberal Democrats? They’ll tell you all day long they didn’t officially vote for the war but what action did they take to try to prevent it? What did they do after the bombs started falling to put an end to the carnage? The answer is nothing at all.
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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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