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Looks to me like the Daily mail et all.'s efforts to incite indignation and contempt from
the uninformed masses once again.
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can the DM be blamed for echoeing the level of debate we see directly from the house of commons it self? via occasions such as PM's question time etc?
it beggars belief to have to state that the intellectual level and depth of argument given in a DM article no matter how biased (either way..there are other newspapers with other biases) is actualy given with greater depth than that on public display from the Politicians them selves..ie what the politicians accuse each other of in 20 words..the newspaper at least stretch out to a column or two ..one wonders what might occur if the politicians were given a new accord to rule their debates...in that they remain speaking for no less than 5 minutes before interruption is allowed
with the caveat as a balance ..that if they cannot speak about the subject for the full 5 minutes they shall not be allowed the opportunity to speak in the first place...
why?
because if they cannot speak for that length of time on a subject of professional interest then they should be sacked immediately anyway....and again the caveat that if the opposition cannot remain silent for that length of time and listen then they haven't truly considered what was being said in any manner other than to claim indifference or contempt for what was being said..this goes either way...
we do expect our politicians to have thought about their political decisions...and if they have thought about them then they must be able to string a half decent sentence or two about why and how those decisions were arrived at..(without resorting to the assistance of spin doctors)
this myth that any one party is better than another with no middle ground is mere propoganda propogated (ahem) in order to elicit said emotional response from the public...other wise no one would have any reason to vote one way or another...
sadly this cr*p is what passes for politics ..us and them either or...black white "for or against" and it is wholy useless in the real world..in fact it is worse than useless ..it's an insult and should be treated with the contempt it deserve no matter where it eminates from..before we end up voting for our government on some insane version of "big brother" or the "X-Factor"
what i mean here is that it is what happens in the House of Commons itself that sets the tome to be repeated by the rest of the media..and sadly slowly over time the reverse has also become true...creating a whirlpool of meaningless soap opera nonsense where there should be genuine intelligent debate..whew what a scorcher...