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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On May 6th 2010 the livestock of United Kingdom Plc is invited to select a new farmer. You are not obliged to accept this invitation and if you decline a new farmer will be nominated on your behalf by the rest of the herd. You will receive notification of the new farming rules and regulations from May 7th onwards. Welcome to your democracy. This is the story of your enslavement.
What's Nick Clegg got up his sleeve?
Is there anything less liberal, less fair minded, more naive, less opportunistic or more class focused than a Liberal Democrat? If there is I haven’t experienced it and I pray I never will.
It remains an urgent priority for the “Liberal” Democrats to discover what liberalism really is before they go throwing that term around, let alone using it on their letter headed paper.
Liberal does not mean cuddly, gushing, over the top insincerity and irresponsible ignorance culminating in an ultra-Nanny, interfering and wickedly authoritarian state. Honestly, it doesn’t. At least it didn’t used to.
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Debates were better in those days!
Why is he going on about Ron Paul – again?
Let me explain. Having watched that travesty last night, the merciless rape and torture of the once noble art of debate – I have come to the rapid conclusion it will be a while before the British people are ready to engage in meaningful politics.
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