The politics of envy from the media class is bound to wind up the disaffected - and that seems to be the somewhat distasteful objective.
To your wider point - as someone who came to politics very late in life, I find the lack of quality among those who say they wish to serve deeply disturbing.
And unless I’ve been very unlucky, the SpAds I’ve met would struggle to get past the reception desk at any firm I worked at in my past life. As to the quality of communication - appalling doesn’t come close. A fresh faced intern at my last business would make fewer unforced errors than this shower of numb nuts.
What makes all of this worse is my sneaking feeling that senior folk know this but are incapable of firing the right asswipes.
The media is corrupt. Conservatives couldn’t have done the damage they did without them. Now corrupt journalists want to decide the fate of this government. I go into my local Waitrose and all the right wing papers are at eye level. Others are below. The headlines are all predictably attacking Labour. Mainstream news channels all pretending to hold politicians to account. Theres no attempt at honest or nuanced debate. I honestly don’t know how Keir Starmer stands it. I don’t think he should take freebies. He can’t afford to anyway. The system is much more biased against him. Donations from hedge funds should be illegal IMO. Politicians are supposed to represent us not donors. I know! Naive right? But maybe KS feels that donations are the key to staying in office. Conservatives have usually always had a huge pool of money from donors giving them a significant political advantage. I think accepting the donations is a mistake. I would pay MPs double and make large donations illegal as well as second jobs. It’s attracting the wrong sort of politician. Anyway it doesn’t matter what nonsense corrupt journalists print in the future the next generation will not be a nation of Daily Mail loving Tories that’s for sure. What are they going to print then?
Most of what Adam says in this piece seems to me to be accurate, largely a fair assessment of recent events, but unfortunately, facts and truth are often missing from media reporting these days. This shouldn't really be a surprise given that the right wing press has been in control of what most people see and read for as far back as I can remember - with most of it untruthfully presented as factual 'news' when in reality they just relentlessly smear any opposition. It is largely due to their political bias, influence and lies that it took 14 years to finally be rid of the Conservatives and it has taken only 100 days for virtually all of the media, including some outlets who should know better, to turn on the new Labour government with dishonest comparisons and accusations that all politicians are the same. Even worse than this, the people who brought such misery to this country are allowed to offer a running commentary on these so called scandals. Robert Jenrick, Nigel Farage in particular have recently been given a lot of media coverage and endless opportunities to disgracefully pretend that the mess the nation is in is nothing to do with them. There are far too few left leaning or independent outlets where facts and truth are reported - and even when some honest accounts do appear, the right wing noise will drown them out.
Tony Blair is godfather to one of Rupert Murdoch's many children. Blair knew that he needed Murdoch support to help Labour win in 1997 - but his Labour government did manage to help a lot of working class people. For example, university and further education opportunities for people regardless of age and background and Sure Start was brilliant and the public (generally) were satisfied with the performance from the NHS. Home ownership wasn't a pipe dream and private property rental was affordable. The quality of life was better for most 'ordinary' people during those years but now public services are broken, a total mess, with most, if not all privately owned - a lot of them by overseas businesses. Tories privatise anything and everything. They really do only know how to self serve themselves and their cronies. Perhaps we need to be realistic. It took years to break Britain, it will take more than a few to put it back together.
The politics of envy from the media class is bound to wind up the disaffected - and that seems to be the somewhat distasteful objective.
To your wider point - as someone who came to politics very late in life, I find the lack of quality among those who say they wish to serve deeply disturbing.
And unless I’ve been very unlucky, the SpAds I’ve met would struggle to get past the reception desk at any firm I worked at in my past life. As to the quality of communication - appalling doesn’t come close. A fresh faced intern at my last business would make fewer unforced errors than this shower of numb nuts.
What makes all of this worse is my sneaking feeling that senior folk know this but are incapable of firing the right asswipes.
The media is corrupt. Conservatives couldn’t have done the damage they did without them. Now corrupt journalists want to decide the fate of this government. I go into my local Waitrose and all the right wing papers are at eye level. Others are below. The headlines are all predictably attacking Labour. Mainstream news channels all pretending to hold politicians to account. Theres no attempt at honest or nuanced debate. I honestly don’t know how Keir Starmer stands it. I don’t think he should take freebies. He can’t afford to anyway. The system is much more biased against him. Donations from hedge funds should be illegal IMO. Politicians are supposed to represent us not donors. I know! Naive right? But maybe KS feels that donations are the key to staying in office. Conservatives have usually always had a huge pool of money from donors giving them a significant political advantage. I think accepting the donations is a mistake. I would pay MPs double and make large donations illegal as well as second jobs. It’s attracting the wrong sort of politician. Anyway it doesn’t matter what nonsense corrupt journalists print in the future the next generation will not be a nation of Daily Mail loving Tories that’s for sure. What are they going to print then?
Most of what Adam says in this piece seems to me to be accurate, largely a fair assessment of recent events, but unfortunately, facts and truth are often missing from media reporting these days. This shouldn't really be a surprise given that the right wing press has been in control of what most people see and read for as far back as I can remember - with most of it untruthfully presented as factual 'news' when in reality they just relentlessly smear any opposition. It is largely due to their political bias, influence and lies that it took 14 years to finally be rid of the Conservatives and it has taken only 100 days for virtually all of the media, including some outlets who should know better, to turn on the new Labour government with dishonest comparisons and accusations that all politicians are the same. Even worse than this, the people who brought such misery to this country are allowed to offer a running commentary on these so called scandals. Robert Jenrick, Nigel Farage in particular have recently been given a lot of media coverage and endless opportunities to disgracefully pretend that the mess the nation is in is nothing to do with them. There are far too few left leaning or independent outlets where facts and truth are reported - and even when some honest accounts do appear, the right wing noise will drown them out.
Tony Blair is godfather to one of Rupert Murdoch's many children. Blair knew that he needed Murdoch support to help Labour win in 1997 - but his Labour government did manage to help a lot of working class people. For example, university and further education opportunities for people regardless of age and background and Sure Start was brilliant and the public (generally) were satisfied with the performance from the NHS. Home ownership wasn't a pipe dream and private property rental was affordable. The quality of life was better for most 'ordinary' people during those years but now public services are broken, a total mess, with most, if not all privately owned - a lot of them by overseas businesses. Tories privatise anything and everything. They really do only know how to self serve themselves and their cronies. Perhaps we need to be realistic. It took years to break Britain, it will take more than a few to put it back together.