bias in the media: far left extremists and communists trash london.....again

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You really do not have to be particularly left wing to consider Tories "scum". Just possess any character trait other than greed.

And to answer your wider point, because that is not what the demonstrations were about. Some of the people on them may have been sporting communist regalia, but the march was not about them, it was about unnecessary cuts to our most valued services for ideological reasons by a government without a mandate to implement them.

Please explain the basis upon which you claim the cuts are "unnecessary". Are ALL cuts unnecessary? Just cuts to education and health?

Do you genuinely support the huge, HUGE growth in the public sector during the last decade, even though there was no real concurrent improvement in public services?

Reply 21

Mr Disco

Original post by HistoryRepeating

Cuts to education, health and the police forces are all entirely unnecessary.

Yes I do. Now you need to explain why you think "there was no real concurrent improvement in public services" when all evidence tells us there was.

Reply 22

HistoryRepeating

Original post by Mr Disco

cite said evidence please?

Reply 23

imperial maniac

Original post by garethDT

The elite undermine all opposition by getting the people to fight amongst themselves.

What elite? What are you on about.

Reply 24

JacobW

Original post by imperial maniac

What elite? What are you on about.

The billionaires who cheat on their taxes and own half the government and almost all the media. Just because we don't have to bow and address them as 'sir' doesn't mean they aren't still an elite.

Reply 25

imperial maniac

Original post by JacobW

The billionaires who cheat on their taxes and own half the government and almost all the media. Just because we don't have to bow and address them as 'sir' doesn't mean they aren't still an elite.

Well, that's capitalism for ya.

Reply 26

Swell

Everything the media does just bigs up right wing and capitalism, so don't bloody complain!

Reply 27

ForeverIsMyName

The BBC were all over the far left/anarchist aspect of the protest from all the coverage I was watching. Not really sure what you're on about.

Reply 28

No Future

Original post by humanrights

so why no mention of the 'far left' or 'communism' in the mainstream media?

the communist flags were flying everywhere during the recent protests in london.....

the violent rioters sprayed far left slogans like 'tory scum' on buildings.......

so, why is the british media so partisan?

You don't have to be a commie or far left to think the tories are scum, just fyi.

Reply 29

Mr Disco

Original post by HistoryRepeating

cite said evidence please?

The original assertion was yours. So you show me the statistics to say that there hasn't been any improvements in public services.

Because your assertion, if it isn't based in statistics, is meaningless.

Reply 30

L i b

Original post by ikoghoo

The march was in protest to cuts, organised by the unions and public sector workers. These people aren't lazy, lay-about lefties, hard working people, feeling hard done by.
These so called communists just tagged along because it's an excuse to behave like an animal.

A lot of trade unionists are workshy, lay-about lefties. Particularly in the public service unions, where these people are generally expecting a job not because they're particularly useful to the country, but because the feel the state owes them a living.

Anyway, regardless of who organises these things, they can generally expect the same rag-tag bunch of perennially "concerned" far-left types to appear. Half the time, I suspect they barely know what they're protesting about - and simply oppose for opposition's sake.

Reply 31

L i b

Original post by Mr Disco

I think we've found a far-left type!

Either that or you're just generally irrational. I'm not sure which.

Reply 32

Fusilero

Original post by ForeverIsMyName

The BBC were all over the far left/anarchist aspect of the protest from all the coverage I was watching. Not really sure what you're on about.

Wonder why Anarchists were there. Surely they'd support the cutting back of the state?

Reply 33

Mr Disco

Original post by L i b

I think we've found a far-left type!

Either that or you're just generally irrational. I'm not sure which.

If being a paying member of the Labour party makes me "far-left", then yes

(It doesn't, but you don't strike me as the type to let facts influence your judgement)

Which bit of my statement makes me irrational?

My dislike of a Conservative government?

The fact that I do not consider them to have a mandate to implement ideological cuts?

Or that my political views are not identical to your own?

Reply 34

Aj12

Original post by Mr Disco

Well they were voted for. The Lib Dems were voted for. They came together so they have a mandate and much more than a Lib/Lab coalition would.

Reply 35

Mr Disco

Original post by Aj12

Well they were voted for. The Lib Dems were voted for. They came together so they have a mandate and much more than a Lib/Lab coalition would.

That, is a non sequitur.

Just because a Lib/Lab coalition would have lacked a mandate (and in fact a serviceable parliamentary majority) doesn't necessarily mean that a Lib/Con coalition possess one.

Had the Lib manifesto and Tory manifesto converged even slightly on the issue of large scale cuts to public services then there might have been an argument to be made.

But they didn't and there isn't.

Reply 36

L i b

Original post by Mr Disco

If being a paying member of the Labour party makes me "far-left", then yes

(It doesn't, but you don't strike me as the type to let facts influence your judgement)

Nope, being far-left makes you far-left. There are plenty of moderates in the Labour Party.

The fact that I do not consider them to have a mandate to implement ideological cuts?

Yes, this.

Reply 37

lawbot

Original post by humanrights

Because unfortunately, us moderates are in the minority.
Being a moderate pragmatist they would consider me to be a far right extremist.

Them - are the majority. Them are chavs, and sons and daughter of chavs. Them are left wing communist ****ers.