Let’s look at the current party line following Anne McElvoy’s bizarre defending of 42 day detention on Newsnight last night and Dacre’s decision to be Gordon Brown’s latest buddy. This is really where this country is going and it is becoming more disturbing by the day, the edge must be reached when the Evening Standard are defending the governments right to lock people up for nearly two months without a shred of evidence. Some examples:
People restricted from expressing views against the state line in any form (Lyrical terrorist).
People to be locked up on a whim of the state for months with no evidence.
The state to dictate sentences to the judiciary.
Individual choice to be replaced with a strict moral framework decided by the state because the choices people make are not considered acceptable (the constant Assoc. Press line)
Consistent pandering to the EU instead of standing firm and attempting serious reform.
And the constant, recurring theme of a total and utter refusal to resign under even the most extreme pressure, even when a law has clearly been broken. No no no, says Gordon, the law must be changed, it isn’t the persons fault he says, they didn’t know. Disgusting.
But the media would rather talk about some bloke who was in a canoe. The apathy in this country is being thrust upon us by a media that simply don’t care and don’t push the issues. Why are they letting the whole HMRC issue float into the distance? The Abrahams episode slowly wander off? The EU ‘constitution’ has long ago been forgotten.
How do you expect people in this country to care about what happens if every few hours they are sidelined by the latest story the press want to push?
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