The antisemitic cartoons in 4 newspapers have been appalling. The press has been an absolute disgrace in this election.
The media smear campaign against Zack Polanski is working wonders
Submitted 5 days ago by IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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BrightCandle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
hellothere@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Exactly as we saw with Corbyn.
Yes, the media is biased and serving the interests of their owners.
As a political group we bang on and on about material conditions, but we sure do love to pretend that we’re operating on a fair and level playing field, and then feign surprise and outrage.
Is it fair that anyone to the left of Ghenis Khan is pilloried? No, of course it isn’t. But it frustrates me beyond belief is that we refuse to learn that lesson.
We need to get past this idea that any individual is bigger than the movement. Like Corbyn before him, Polanski is both being unfairly targeted, and also giving easy hits by having said demonstrably dumb and/or false stuff.
Remember, this is the same media who crucified Ed Miliband, the atheist son of Jewish parents, over looking weird in a single photo while eating a bacon sandwich. And the same media who were beside themselves at Starmer (foolishly) accepting clothes and glasses, and yet are very quiet about Farage’s £5m bung.
The deck is stacked against us. We have to stop pretending it isn’t, and a big part of that is ruthlessly binning prominent people who make dumb mistakes. That’s sure as fuck unreasonable and unfair, but the alternative is continuing to damage progress.
atro_city@fedia.io 5 days ago
Vote's today, isn't it? The Epstein class is scared. They don't want to distribute their wealth.
moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 4 days ago
I think I prefer the Lib Dems and Labour (when they can get their act together) to the Greens. One thing I dislike about the Greens is this policy:
I think the UK should keep its nukes for now, given that we are threatened by Russia. In the future we could be threatened by China and even the US.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Giving up nukes sounds bad but is that single policy why you would rather vote for all other Labour policies?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Its an existential issue however.
Piatro@programming.dev 4 days ago
You mean the nukes that we aren’t allowed to fire without US approval? That we have to send something like a billion per year to the US to get serviced and as a result aren’t even available to fire sometimes? Sorry but it seems very unlikely that trident is offering any kind of protection for us.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 days ago
None of that is accurate. Britain retains unilateral ability to launch. The only items sent to the US are the unarmed missiles.
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Each missile costs up to £5 million to maintain per year. Think of all those arm manufacturers bonuses at risk if everyone had your attitude.
moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I think we can fire them without US approval. Sure it’s a problem that the UK is reliant on US missiles to deliver British nukes. France is in a better situation because they have French missiles for their nukes - they’re not dependent on foreign missiles.
Maybe the solution then is to develop British or European missiles and bombs for British nukes, rather than scrap Britain’s nukes altogether.
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I wonder how all the other countries without nuclear weapons of mass destruction cope? Glad to live in the UK where we can kill millions at the push of a button.
moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I think the sad reality is that countries without nuclear weapons are at the mercy of nations with nuclear weapons. What would be gained if the UK and France, for example, were to get rid of their nukes? There’s absolutely no chance that the US/Russia/China will get rid of theirs. So then those countries would have a massive amount of leverage over Europe.
kill millions at the push of a button
I definitely hope nukes are not used. But the threat of vast destruction might be the only threat that the world’s authoritarian leaders are afraid of. If those leaders are afraid of nothing then they could launch their own terrible weapons at civilians across the world.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Im certainly happier voting for them in local council elections
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Those billionaire owned media companies are quite powerful at social engineering.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 days ago
We’ll see if it is once the election results are in. If the Green vote collapses, it is. If the Greens end up taking councils from Labour, maybe not.
mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Average british people will be the loser
stsquad@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
He’s making it easy by saying or doing stupid things.
mrdown@lemmy.world 4 days ago
He did not say anything stupid. You have labors and reforms people apologizing for racist far right marches where some talk about banning Islam, burning mosques and kicking all immigrants from the UK.
stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
I think Labour and Reform are also being crap here. However Zack has been riding the protest vote wave and as he gains popularity he gets more scrutiny. You might say it’s all the biased media’s fault but a politician complaining about scrutiny is a poor look.
He certainly spends a lot of time on social media happily clicking away. He should spend more time learning the basics of economics so he doesn’t complain about being ambushed on understanding the debt and the deficit.
mrdown@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Two good videos about the smearing campaign against the greens and anti occupation protesters
Piatro@programming.dev 5 days ago
Man criticises someone for kicking a guy in the head while he’s on the ground and restrained. People don’t like this. What? Genuinely don’t know what all the fuss is about but then I’m not following mainstream news much anymore so I must be missing something.