"You have to question whether that way of funding media still makes sense... how long can you justify a system where everyone who has a TV has to pay?”
:hehe: That should put the frighteners on the lefty ****s. :hehe:
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"You have to question whether that way of funding media still makes sense... how long can you justify a system where everyone who has a TV has to pay?”
:hehe: That should put the frighteners on the lefty ****s. :hehe:
I agree. The boundaries thing yet another one of the negative consequences of May píssing away Cameron's majority.
What’s potentially really exciting is that if Labour lose this election, they’ll have parachuted enough hard left candidates into safe seats that they’ll have a complete stranglehold over the party as a whole. Previously, the PLP has been the last bastion of moderation, but that change will make it well-nigh impossible for even vaguely moderate MPs to stay in the party and will ensure that Corbynism outlives Corbyn.
We could finally be looking at the end of the road for Labour as a governing party. :cloud9:
I think Sir C may have been referring to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War and the ultimate defeat of the murderous and evil Communist regime that liberated hundreds of millions of people from misery and inhuman bondage.
But yeah, high interest rates. That's obviously more important.
Because they were - by their nature - hidden, I suppose. We didn't see emaciated bodies being bulldozed into mass graves and never had to experience the day-to-day misery and paranoia of living in police states, so it's all a bit theoretical to most westerners. Add in the fact that its iconography and a watered-down version of its politics were rendered respectable by leftist parties in the west and you have a recipe for indifference.
There's knowing and knowing, though, isn't there? Most Americans and Brits 'knew' that the Germans were probably doing terrible things in the camps, but it wasn't until the footage came through that the true horror began to sink in. The sad truth is that it is a case of 'out of sight, out of mind' when it comes to evil.
Yes. And there was Le Carré (who, whatever his faults, never wavered in his loathing of communism).
But these are a/ relatively niche and b/ non-visual. Never underestimate the impact of images. In emotional terms, everything's just theoretical until we see it. The soviets learned from the Holomodor to keep the optics out of sight and, as a result, communism never had the visceral impact on people that the realities of Nazism did.
The bbc like most organisations doesn’t bite the hand that feeds it. I remember how they treated Kinniock, Smith, Foot et al. Even Blair got it in the neck until he became the pay master. All of a sudden the tone changed when he was elected. If Labour want the beebs balance to change they need to win an election.