> > > Source: http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> > > (not exactly a communist news network, I think)
> > Currently a socialist one, as Labour are in power. An anti-American one,
> > too.
> Tony B's "New" Labour are most definately NOT socialist, their change
> heavily to the right was the only way they could get in power ;)
'New' Labour's swing to the right indeed was the only way to get in power,
but once the achieved it, they returned (slowly) to their usual stance. They
remain the only political party that has had a really bad influence on my
life, with their ignorant and unbelievable education policies, and
centralisation issues. Oh, and transport, where hiking fuel tax brought the
entire country to a halt, because they forgot that the part of England
outside the M25 doesn't have any park-and-ride facilities, especially down
here in the South West. Last time the government of England tried to
selectively tax to that extent, it resulted in the creation of the United
States of America as an independant country from the British Empire. But
still motorists are being taxed more and more, if not from fuel tax at the
moment, then from 'speed-tax', thanks to GATSO. The fact that all income
from speeding fines goes straight to the police force does not cover that it
is a tax. Why do we see more police on the roads with radar guns at the end
of the month? To get their budget up. Need I mention that the price of
petrol per litre in Gibraltar is around 54p? Over here it was hitting 90p
before we blockaded all the distributors and brought the country to a
complete standstill. Oh, and now they are refusing to raise the pay for
firefighters from a measly 21k to around 30k a year (still vastly lower
than they should get for risking their lives on a daily basis for people
they don't know), because they don't have the money. Why not steal some more
education budget? Who cares about the Non-Urgent Critical issues (like the
state of the country when the people suffering from these education
screw-ups become leaders of political parties and CEOs of major
corporations), when there are Urgent Critical issues to attend to, like the
lack of a Fire Service over the next 8 days.
Okay, hit a tangent there, but Labour have been slowly swinging back left
ever since they arrived... There is nothing stopping them, because the
Conservatives are in a mess which is just getting worse (now they have
people abstaining from Three Line Whips, which is politi-speak for mutiny),
and the Liberal Democrats don't lie enough about lowering taxes to ever get
enough votes.
Most of the population of England are fundamentally anti-American. I don't
know why. Maybe it is a thing passed on from generation to generation since
1776, maybe it is our traitorous shift in policy over Israel which the US
didn't reflect, maybe it is the fall of the British Empire, started by the
American War of Independence, to be replaced by America (the ultimate
kick-while-your down), maybe it is a whole bunch of things. But it is
impossible to get any independent reporting of American news in the UK,
because all news reports are tinged with anti-Americanisms. You don't really
notice them until you start watching American news shows. I'm not saying
that American news services are not biased, but when you have seen news
reports from an American (or even better, an independent) viewpoint, then
you watch the BBC reports, you can see the subtle twisting of context away
from the American side of things.
For example, that incident where the Americans accidentally bombed
friendlies in Afghanistan, left everybody I know saying how stupid Americans
are, etc etc. Like when they changed the name of the Harry Potter film from
The Philosophers Stone to The Sorcerers Stone for the American audience, it
prompted comments of 'Americans are so stupid, they can't understand words
with 4 syllables', etc.
The only things that can influence a ***agers' outlook on certain issues
(before they learn, if ever, to find out for themselves) are parental
influences and media influences. Influences from friends are pretty
non-existant on things like this, because nobody this age is knowledgable
enough to sway everybody else. Parental influences are different for each
individual, but everybody sees the same thing on TV, and so TV conditions
each individual (mostly in a partially subliminal way over many years) by
adding certain leanings to reports in order to sway the masses.
Having close connections to the education system, especially the A-Level
fiasco perpetrated by Labour trying to fix things which simply weren't
broken, and seeing exactly how far off the mark all the reporting was on the
subject by all the news services, I have finally come to realise that if
they can be that wrong on something as widespread and fundamental as that,
then what evidence is there that any other reporting has more basis in fact
or neutral comment? Everytime somebody asked me about the A-Level problem, I
ended up in arguments, because I was telling these people what was actually
happening, and what the situation was, and they were telling me I was wrong
because that's not what they heard on BBC. It is so infuriating.
It's something we have to live with. All news reporting is biased, you just
need to read/see enough and pick out the common facts to form your own
conclusions - something which is a lot harder to do than it is to say.
