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The fundamental problem is that our posh people are all either evil, or impossibly thick, and also that they have almost total control on our national flow of information. Also just consider - what if there wasn't a video to disprove these claims? Think about how easily they would have got away with this - nobody for a second was stopping to think about the veracity of these claims before they repeated them to their millions of Twitter followers. Look at how easily respectable "centrist" or "non-partisan" figures spread far-right disinformation. They either want to amplify it, or they lack the nous to realise that they're being repeatedly taken for a ride by compulsive proven liars. And so conveniently, they covered up Johnson's horror show today. A potential campaign-killing moment like Brown's "bigoted woman" moment. British democracy is fucked. I've had enough of this degenerate, rigged system. I'd take 10 years of smirking SNP wanks ruling me over any more of this.

Corbyn has to grovel about anti-semitism - has any Tory ever been asked to apologise for the dozens of black Britons deported or even killed by the Windrush scandal? The entire saga is just shameless politicking and blatant white supremacism in action, legitimised by complacent, sneering media "authority figures" at every step.

I understand your concerns, but in either case the digital sphere is going to be a stramash of different independent platforms spreading partisan messages in a head-to-head. That's going to be the case whether the traditional media exists or not. What the traditional media does is that it sort of acts as a referee in the contest between these hyper-partisan messages. But it's not a fair referee - it's systematically biased in favour of the right, and in bits and pieces it normalises and lends credibility to even it's extreme fringes. By using its enormous power of reputation and "normality" it can shape public thought dramatically. It sets a middle-ground, and it sets it as far to the right as possible. I would much rather have a chaotic free-for-all with no widely-accepted points of reference. Then, at least the information war would be somewhat fair. The fact that there are notions of credibility and impartiality still out there only works to the favour of the establishment. Traditional media has already rendered notions of impartiality, objectivity and public service entirely hollow - it's the lingering fantasy of those ideals that does so much harm.

People have been quick to blame new technologies and social media for fake news and the downturn in political discourse. But if the media class had even a modicum of competence or human decency they easily could have overcome it. As it turns out they're self-content, arrogant charlatans, and their conduct has led us directly into the current political hellscape we're in. The traditional media in this country can not die quickly enough.

I mean between Rees Mogg's Grenfell comments, Johnson's prior writings, and his dads statements, it only illustrates what is painfully obvious. The Tories look at the vast majority of the country as helpless, easily-led cattle. And election results down south tend to prove them right.

Tbh the only votes in Scotland that really matter are in the current Tory seats. Don't see them gaining any more up here, so it's a matter of how many the SNP can take from them. Labour are maybe 2nd in one of their seats, can't remember. If you live in Swinson's seat it would also be hilarious to chuck her out.

The Tories ignore the actual first female MP - Konstance Markievicz, noted socialist - in order to celebrate Nancy Astor, noted Nazi psychopath.

Setting up a fake uni to invite more people into America just so you can deport more people. 'Murica

After scheduling interviews with all other major party leaders to be savaged by Andrew Neil, and airing the opposition leader's, the BBC has just confirmed they haven't booked the Prime Minister for one. Scum.

If the Tories get a majority in December, I hope the left in this country does go all out for power. "They go low, we stay high" is potentially the most disastrous political idea of the decade. Sticking to fact-based, policy-driven politics has essentially amounted to the left bending over and spreading its cheeks, whilst rabid free-market psychopaths storm to power. The right-wing would never have apologised like Labour did for the anti-Semitism thing. Because politically, that would have been the smart thing. Once you apologise, you will be commanded to apologise relentlessly, to grovel more and more deeply, and you'll never escape it. The Tories never bent or broke ranks on Johnson's racism, or the constant evidence of racism throughout their party, and it worked perfectly for them. They weathered the storm, and now it's no longer front-page news. Anti-semitism still is.

The basic thing is that to most white Britons, the Jewish community is one which is held in high esteem, and if we have any stereotypes around them, they're mostly positive. Muslims - most likely South Asians and Arabs - on the other hand, and Afro Carribeans, are seen by a lot of white people as something truly "other" to themselves. So one party's antisemitism problem is an object of universal outrage, and the other's enormous islamophobic track record, and persecution (even to death) of black Britons, is seen as inconsequential.

https://www.ft.com/content/d6f56834-0f78-11ea-a225-db2f231cfeae Almost 200 economists including from the LSE, Oxford, and UCL, have had a piece published in the FT advocating Labour's economic plan. Blanchflower, the leader, has a track record of opposing Corbyn. Its important to stress - the Tories have nothing but Brexit and racial hysteria. Of course in England that is enough to win, but nonetheless it's important to realise there is no serious reason that the Tories should be winning.

I must admit this is the most demoralised I've ever felt about an election. Any real ambition has been replaced by the sole objective of preventing a Tory majority. That's the only realistic aim, and even then the odds seem impossibly stacked in the Tories favour. I've never been more convinced that the government needs to be removed urgently, and never so sure that they would win. In my own seat the Tories have basically no chance anyway. Obviously I would prefer Labour to stay rather than the SNP win it, but as I said the most important thing is that the Tories not get a majority. I can't really make a difference in that sense. If the Tories are denied a majority, some chance of resolving Brexit in a reasonable way remains. If they win a majority, we get No Deal, we're plunged into deeper economic chaos, and the possibilities of repairing the social and economic damage become slim to none.

There's plenty of photos of Corbyn out there. Even if you particularly want a photo of him holding a sign, there's loads. Picking one which specifically refers to a major racist force in history, and literally erasing it in order to put your own hysterical agenda centre stage, is an actively racist choice.

Private media dominated by pro-government interests. Public broadcaster systematically biased in favour of the government. And we're meant to act surprised when the relentless villification and disinformation results in public violence against Labour supporters. England is sleepwalking into becoming a one-party state.

A black Labour MP fudges a number - becomes a meme forever. Tory MPs like Truss, Gove and Morgan relentlessly fuck-up their random made-up numbers on air - nobody cares. What a coincidence.

Why can't Lib Dems just go back to their middle-management jobs and school parent councils and spare us this nonsense.

Editing out an anti-Apartheid message in order to score a cheap blow for the Tory party, who very actively supported Apartheid, is pretty racist. Edit: I'm also very annoyed that I took the time to re-read that rambling and economically illiterate screed of an analogy about beer and taxes by some no-name American mid-Western lecturer - who by the way actually denies he wrote it . I think I'll stick with the academic near-consensus forming that deflationary economics has persisted for far too long, and that it serves no purpose in either reducing national debt, or promoting economic growth. In fact, you don't even need to read the academic opinion - its common sense. There's a reason that interest rates are fucking rock-bottom - there are fucking piles of money lying around that people literally can't think of uses for. There are hoards of savings floating around looking for returns, but the investment opportunities literally don't exist, because overall economic activity is slowing and stuttering. It's basic supply and demand - interest is the cost of borrowing money. If there's lots of money lying around and not many people looking to borrow, interest rates will be low. One of the happy side-effects of this, is the massive financialisation of the housing market. Everyone with any savings realises that one of the easiest ways in the world to make money - since just keeping it in the bank isnt very profitable, and there's no actual productive activity to invest in - is to hoard housing, rent it at insane prices, and then vote Tory to make sure the housing supply never meaningfully increases. Lots of profit, very little real contribution economically - in fact in many ways it hampers growth. All the while, there are innumerable societal issues that actually desperately require money. So many communities, especially outwith the South-East, where a small injection of money could actually create a massive, productive, material economic benefit. But who wants to invest in Northumberland or Wales, potentially creating real value, when you can get guaranteed returns by investing in the London buy-to-let market, and essentially just playing economic hostage-taker? So it seems we have a bit of market failure here. Resources are evidently not being allocated effectively - some areas are over-invested to the point of ridiculousness, most are gasping for investment. Apart from a small lunatic fringe, economic theory has basically always had a role for the state stepping in to correct these kinds of market failures, and in fact the ability of the state to do so is the foundation of the modern capitalist welfare state which we all take for granted. The New Deal in America, Labour in 1945, the West-German Soziale Marktwirtschaft, the Scandinavian model. To pretend that somehow its illegitimate for the state to correct these kinds of inevitable blockages and quirks of the market, is to deny the very thing that has essentially made the West so socially and economically advanced.

I don't think it's anything to do with tone that most people who post on this site are sick of the Tories. It's probably more to do with most people on here being young-ish adults, with a bit of education, in the early stages of their career who've seen their career opportunities constrict, their wage prospects stagnate, their living costs increase, and their chances of owning a home basically evaporate in the last 10 years. I'm sure if there's a forum where most posters are middle-aged blokes with paid-off mortgages, it would be much more sympathetic to the Tories.

The complete moral and intellectual vacuum that the Lib-Dems have become is summed-up by them trying to fight a personality-driven campaign with Jo fucking Swinson as their leader.

The greatest secret of this election - that for differing reasons, neither the Tories or Labour want to be made totally obvious - is that Labour's position is essentially quite a run-of-the-mill, common-sense economic programme. But we've allowed our sensibilities to be warped so much that economically-illiterate austerity and wholesale impoverishment seems like the natural order of things. Labour are in an economic sense the least radical option.

The biggest argument against our economic system is that bird-brained cunts like that fella can earn £80k.

I'm almost looking forward to the day a few decades down the line when society finally collapses thanks to this lot, and at least we can watch some of them get dragged down along with the rest of us. At least that's assuming that Swinson hasn't somehow become PM in that time and turned us all into radioactive skidmarks burned into the side of a Ladbrokes/Vaping Parlour.

This man is angry because 1 - he thinks his £80k salary puts him in the bottom half of society, as opposed to the top 3% of taxpayers. 2 - Labours plans will cost him maybe a few pounds a week more than he currently contributes. This is British conservatism, a deadly blend of arrogance and raw stupidity.

Obviously on average their squad is much more talented now but the individual quality shown by the title-winning side was ridiculous at points. I think the thing that made them was the defensive solidity combined with several key creative players just having bewilderingly good seasons. Leicester now are better systematically in terms of manipulating the opposition and creating chances, but the title-winning side just consistently found a way of ripping open teams at crucial points with a moment of magic, and if not then Vardy would somehow grab a goal out of the slightest opening.