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« Reply #11715 on: Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 09:25:26 » |
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So what newspaper would be your reliable central midfielder, one that you could trust with a balanced view/perspective and would feed the left and right wing fairly😀
That's a pretty good question. Clearly the Guardian and Mirror are very left and the Telegraph, Mail and Express right. I mentioned in a thread a while back that the Daily Mail ended up in our house (bought by a visitor, presumably covered by a porno mag) and I had a read through it. It was basically 60 pages or so of opinion pieces moaning about 'Woke culture' and how the world has gone mad, ad infinitum. For balance I assume the Guardian and Mirror are similar with their writers' views. My opinion is that I think the BBC attempts middle of the road reporting as AMayesIng states, but I am no expert on this so probably miles off the mark. |
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« Reply #11716 on: Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 15:21:59 » |
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That's the point the press/media will never keep everyone happy with their views & opinions
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« Reply #11717 on: Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 15:24:41 » |
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The print media is always more likely to lean one way or another as the headlines grab the purchasers and the reader counts create the Ad revenue.
I think the Times was more centrist, not sure these days.
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« Reply #11718 on: Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 15:32:41 » |
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Just found out that my auntie (my Mum’s sister) wrote Boris’s speech on Sunday
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« Reply #11719 on: Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 15:34:06 » |
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Did you agree with it😀
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« Reply #11720 on: Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 15:34:35 » |
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Did you agree with it😀
I didn’t listen to it |
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« Reply #11721 on: Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 16:54:39 » |
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I’d say the Guardian is (or at least used to be) a liberal paper, with the mirror clearly the only left wing main stream paper.
The rest are different versions of right wing, with the mail being slightly to the left of Hitler.
To be honest I don’t read any of them now, and haven’t for years
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« Reply #11722 on: Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 18:53:08 » |
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I didn’t listen to it
I'm disappointed now as I thought it was from the bottom of Borris's heart! |
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« Reply #11723 on: Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 19:07:27 » |
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I'm disappointed now as I thought it was from the bottom of Borris's heart!
Or the heart of Boris' bottom. |
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« Reply #11724 on: Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 19:09:30 » |
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« Reply #11725 on: Friday, December 17, 2021, 08:30:12 » |
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Off you f***, Spaffer.
Time's up now, surely. As an ex-resident of North Shropshire (very long time ago), I'm feeling rather proud this morning. Enough of your bollocks, bluster and bullshit.
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« Reply #11726 on: Friday, December 17, 2021, 09:09:57 » |
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Boris' number 10 jacket is surely on a loose peg now. Should it happen, who is likely to be the new PM? Rishi Sunak?
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« Reply #11727 on: Friday, December 17, 2021, 09:11:37 » |
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Time for a new centre party, can't standard any of the 3 "main" parties. I see the tories had a 23k majority in North Shrops turned over, and the LD won on 17k (total votes of 35k ish) more like voters apathy*.
* yep, 57k turned out in 2019.
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« Reply #11728 on: Friday, December 17, 2021, 09:29:48 » |
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By-election turnouts are always super low, it wasn't especially unusual. Funny for the Tories to lose a seat they've held since 1832 but I wouldn't hold my breath to it translating to a landslide at a general (not that we'll get one any time soon).
Our system doesn't allow for new parties. Best hope is some sort of progressive alliance but there's far too many egos involved for that.
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« Reply #11729 on: Friday, December 17, 2021, 09:37:38 » |
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Time for a new centre party, can't standard any of the 3 "main" parties. I see the tories had a 23k majority in North Shrops turned over, and the LD won on 17k (total votes of 35k ish) more like voters apathy*.
* yep, 57k turned out in 2019.
It's already been tried. ChangeUK was born and died pretty much the same week. One of the many failings of FPTP is that it actively discourages new political groupings from emerging and gaining traction. UKIP attracting 3.8m votes in 2015 and getting just one MP is another. The system's fucked. The old duopoly will plod on, with the Lib Dems trailing in 3rd, ad infinitum. Until we can do something about FPTP. Three European countries use FPTP - the UK, Poland and Belarus. |
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