"This week saw the best crime figures ever and Ed Balls's enlightened £100m youth crime plan..." Boom boom
"News skitters out of control over small slips when a government loses grip, while gaffes bounce off the Teflon Tories..." Oh, that's a good one, very funny!
Do the read the rest at the Toynbee's article and take a look at the Comments as well, here's a few:
"Donut -
For what its worth.........
Unlike you Polly the public had their Damacene moment ages ago.Most people have for some time seen this govt not as a serious problem but a serious joke .
Two more years of this Polly and not only will people not be listening, the lights will be out and we'll have gone to bed"
"Wasson - For what its worth.........
Unlike you Polly the public had their Damacene moment ages ago.Most people have for some time seen this govt not as a serious problem but a serious joke .
Two more years of this Polly and not only will people not be listening, the lights will be out and we'll have gone to bed"
"Roas - A teenager dying of stab wounds every single day.
Let's not forget gas prices doubling, inflation rocketing, unions striking, policemen getting savaged by 30 delinquents in broad daylight for asking a girl to pick up a piece of litter, the mooting of a Mother of All Databases to finally record every text, e-mail, and phone call in Britain.
Can't imagine why Labour would want to bury any of that!"
"Jellybrain -
Polly,
I've got to laugh.
What good news?
Stabbings up
Dead in Afghanistan/Iraq up
Inflation up
Food prices up
fuel up
utilities prices up
consumer confidence down
quality SATS marking down
University/employer confidence in public exams down
Election manifesto promises on Europe betrayed
Public sector strikes up
NHS drugs denied to Englanders, but provided in Scotland
Tax on rich people down
Civil liberties betrayed
Fiscal prudence rules rewritten
Tax receipts declining
etc etc etc etc etc etc
Polly, you seem mystified that Labour are 25% in the polls. Its rather patronising of you to berateus for failing to notice the marvellous step change that Nu Lab have wrought in our country. THERE IS NO BLOODY GOOD NEWS. LABOUR ARE A TOTAL MESS. Trust me, that is the word out here in the real world."
And that's just on page 1, do read the rest it gave me a good laugh.
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Oh, I've read Polly in the past. I don't think I'll waste time repeating the exercise.
Much of the British mainstream media must be being laughed at all over the world.
The hugely variable standard, accuracy and slanting of reporting, quite apart from some of the opinion columns (which are fair enough, I suppose, provided they are at least credible) often makes us look really bad at the job. I find it acutely embarrassing.
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