Anti-Starmer/Anti-Labour cacophony!

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The media cacophony roars! It’s all very negative – but what did we expect??

The Tories were corrupt and devious!

They destroyed the NHS, Schools and Councils by incessant cuts!!

They ran down everybody’s pay while giving tax breaks to the wealthy!

There were a series of major strikes crippling the NHS, rail and schools.

Pay had declined, inflation roared and the cost of living went through the roof.

They knew they were going to lose and so promised the earth and lied.

Whoever got in was inheriting a poisoned chalice! Inflation, collapsing public services, stagnant economy, gross inequality, mass strikes, pay stagnant and a cost of living crisis. Do people really believe that can be addressed in weeks? Britain was broken.

Labour inherited a black hole!

They had to raise taxes in order to start fixing the problem!

They came in an ended the strikes!

They fixed inflation!

They poured money into Schools, the NHS and councils to repair some of the damage done by the Tories.

They addressed the cost of living crisis.

They raised pay for workers.

The wealthy pensioners do not need the £300 and the poorer ones were protected. The keeping of the triple lock alone more than covered the £300. The hysteria was media generated!

The strikers had been suffering wage restraint for years under the Tories. They had justified claims. Their wages needed to be addressed. Tories hate the public sector and resent money that they think should go to the rich being wasted on schools and hospitals, potholes and youth services! Those workers deserved pay rises.

The WASPI women were the product of a botched Tory policy. Some of them have a case – others don’t. Given the terrible state of the country created by 14 years of Tory misrule tough decisions have to be made. The country can’t afford it.

Labour inherited a huge black hole and immense problems. They’ll need years to put it right! I’m not happy that certain groups are suffering but the whole country has been suffering under Tory cuts and austerity. I think that the markets are withholding investment to ensure Labour fail and I think the Tory media are drumming up discontent!

I just hope that people aren’t gullible enough to fall for it!!

I’m generally happy with what they are doing!

The Worst of the Gutter Press!! A Tory Rag in full battle mode churning out lies and Tory Propaganda!!

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I know!!! How on Earth did we allow these Extreme Zealots to run the Country????

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Thirteen years of rule by a bunch of extreme right-wing, self-serving, corrupt, sleazy, greedy liars!!

Freedom

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Freedom

Freedom of speech;

                Controlled or a right?

Impartiality

                Darkness in the light.

Expressing one’s views,

                Or muzzled and chained?

Free to speak out,

                Or heavily constrained?

Mustn’t show bias

                While delivering a show,

But in your own time

                Can you let it all go?

Opher 11.3.2023

The Gary Lineker outrage has really opened up a can of worms, hasn’t it?

I can see that it might be considered wrong for political broadcasters to display bias (like Fiona Bruce’s pro-Tory hosting of Question Time) but surely bias from others is questionable. Where would satire be? Monty Python, Spitting Image, The News Quiz?

It seems that is OK to express right-wing views but if you say anything anti-government then you are jumped on.

There must also be a difference between what is expressed in a programme or what is expressed outside of work.

Can presenters of any type be expected not to express their feelings on all manner of political subjects in their own time? Or should they be permanently muzzled?

We have had numerous ex-Tory Ministers going through that revolving door into broadcasting. We know what their views are and what they stand for. As long as they don’t express them on air then surely it’s alright?

Then we have the case of Emily Maitlass. She was ousted for expressing a view on Dominic Cummings that was shared by all but the most rabid Tories.

The BBC has been stuffed with Tories. Is it now moving overtly to be nothing more than a propaganda wing of the Tory Party?

How the spin works.

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Yesterday the Privileges Committee released a damning report on Boris Johnson outlining how he had mislead parliament numerous times.

The Guardian reported:

Boris Johnson faces a battle for his future in parliament after a cross-party committee found there was significant evidence he misled MPs over lockdown parties, and that he and aides almost certainly knew at the time they were breaking rules.

The damning report includes one witness saying the then prime minister told a packed No 10 gathering in November 2020, when strict Covid restrictions were in force, that “this is probably the most unsocially distanced gathering in the UK right now.

The loathsome Tory rag The Daily Mail poured out a headline designed to make you think poor Johnson had been picked on and was completely innocent – spinning the truth 180 degrees! This is nothing short of lies and propaganda.

The equally obnoxious Tory Daily Express was even worse. Instead of GUILTY AS CHARGED they went with CYNICAL STITCH-UP. You wouldn’t think that the liar had been caught with his trousers down at all!!

The Mirror at least provided a more accurate view:

And the Daily Star told it like it was:

Unfortunately the lying Mail and Express are the preferred reading of the masses. They are being brainwashed with lying Tory propaganda.

Boris Johnson was a lying conman who got caught. Now he’s using his influence with the Tory media to wriggle on the hook. I hope they lock the lying cheat out. He has cost this country billions with his lies!

Propaganda

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Propaganda is all we get;

                An endless stream of bias.

With calculation and intent

                Out of the mouths of liars.

Targeted spin and lies

                Aimed at the gullible.

Callous disregard

                For all the vulnerable.

The arrogant entitled

                Take us for fools.

Reciting the lessons

                They learnt in their schools.

Manipulate us like cattle

                In their lust for wealth and power

Voting them out

                Would be our finest hour.

Opher – 23.6.2022

The truth has always been the first victim in this endless war. Nothing has changed down the ages. It’s all a front.

The wealthy establishment still rule. Where once they used force to subjugate the masses and treated them with utter disdain, now they use propaganda.

The same people who ordered the troops to kill at Peterloo now use the media to keep the masses in their place, working for the prosperity of the minority.

Where it used to be mansions, carriages and a host of servants it is now superyachts, penthouses and supercars.

They give us as little as they can get away with and blind us with stark warnings, smoke and mirrors.

They appear reasonable, plausible and understanding but they are really cynical exploiters and profiteers.

Every now a revelation leaks out about their scummy workings – Greenswill or lobbying, Russian connections and cash for peerages, but it’s all soon glossed over.

They get away with deception, spin and murder.

I Don’t Read the Sun, the Mail or the Express – toilet paper that comes with the shit already on it!

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Tory Propaganda!!

The Sun, Express and Mail: the only bog rolls that come with the crap already on them.

Mick Lynch Destroys Piers Morgan

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Mick Lynch always talks so much sense. He tells it like it is.

Today’s Music to keep me IIiiNnnnSSssaaaanNNneE in an insane world – Billy Bragg – It Says Here!

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It says here that the unions will never learn!

I shall watch with interest over the next two years as the British Press propaganda machine gets into gear and tries to do to Starmer what they successfully did to Corbyn.

Run by the rich for the rich. Your paper is Tory.

There are two sides to every story.

The Tory Goebbels Propaganda Machine. Keep telling a lie often enough and people will begin to believe it’s true.

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This is a classic bit of Right-wing propaganda!

Gave who freedom??

In actual fact the only people who got more freedom out of Brexit were the corporations and wealthy magnates. They got leave to exploit us. They avoided the EU clampdown on stashing money in tax havens. They had markets open to exploit.

As for us:

We lost the right to travel freely through Europe

We gained the right to pay more for our goods

We gained the right to wait longer

We gained the right to fill in more red tape

We lost the right to work in Europe

We lost the right to study in Europe

We lost the right to have cheaper labour for restaurants, vegetable picking, lorry driving, nursing, caring etc etc – so all our prices go up.

We gained the right to have cheaper labour coming in from Africa and India rather than Europe.

We lost the right to decent environmental protection

We lost the right to our workers’ rights – protecting holiday pay, work conditions, pay, sickness etc.

The reality is that Brexit has already cost us £130 billion (more than we ever paid into the EU), it has ruined our trade – exports and imports are well down, is currently costing us a staggering 4% of our GDP, is strangling us in red tape and threatening to break up the United Kingdom.

We are now in a cost of living crisis with a diving economy.

Thanks Boris – you complete div!

If this is what you call FREEDOM!!!! To allow a bunch of selfish, greedy Bullingdon boys to rip us off!!