Or when Labour briefly threatened to be slightly left-wing, the right-wing establishment didn't use violence as such, but they really had to pull out all the stops with the character assassination propaganda. www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-co... - ThreadSky

alltingsconsidered.bsky.social • 11 days ago

Or when Labour briefly threatened to be slightly left-wing, the right-wing establishment didn't use violence as such, but they really had to pull out all the stops with the character assassination propaganda.

https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/research/research-projects/representations-of-jeremy-corbyn

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zilladevil.bsky.social•11 days ago

Corbyn: The media is mostly owned by tax dodging billionaires, this is bad for a democratic society and should change

Outlets owned by those billionaires: Corbyn eats a whole kitten for breakfast every morning and hates babies

British public: Better vote Tory to stop that Corbyn guy!

I despair

flypie.bsky.social•11 days ago

Not enough to actually think of a new plan or adapt. Your purity is more important than actually helping the poor. You are a sad joke at the expense of the working class.

zilladevil.bsky.social•11 days ago

alltingsconsidered.bsky.social•11 days ago

Corbyn: Apartheid and oppression are wrong and Palestinians have rights the same as anyone. We need to work with all parties in the region to achieve peace.

Media: Corbyn is a vicious anti-semite who loves terrorists!

alltingsconsidered.bsky.social•11 days ago

Media to Corbyn: Why are you such an anti-semite and why do you want to destroy the UK?

Media to Boris: What's it like working in No 10 and what is your favourite colour?

lilithhawthorne.bsky.social•11 days ago

Like I need people to understand that the main reason he lost was Keith's wing of the same party actively backstabbing him at every turn because they knew it would be harder to return to mediocrity from a country that actually worked than one Boris spent another 5 years sinking

alltingsconsidered.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yeah it's difficult to win an election when you're being actively stabbed in the back *by your own party* and the media has dropped all pretense of neutrality to relentlessly attack you while asking not one question of your coasting buffoon of an opponent who lies constantly but is never challenged.

alltingsconsidered.bsky.social•11 days ago

Was Corbyn a perfect leader who made no mistakes strategically or in terms of proposed policy? Of course not, but he was never allowed a real chance.

sasooli.bsky.social•11 days ago

He also did a better job than Starmer, because failing to get elected is miles better than getting elected and then doing a bunch of evil right-wing shit.

If getting elected were the most important consideration I'd just be a Tory.

flypie.bsky.social•11 days ago

This is why no one outside you echo chamber takes people like you seriously and you can't get elected. You just children playing at politics and happy to patronise and let down the working class, rather than get your hands dirty.

sasooli.bsky.social•11 days ago

How is believing "forming a government that enacts right-wing policies is worse than not doing that" letting down the working class?

alltingsconsidered.bsky.social•11 days ago

Indeed, coming back to the original post: what is the point of being in power if you're just going to implement far right ideas?

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