I know I am the only supporter on here

The model of the likes of the Mail and Express is very, very effective.

It goes like this:

1. Identify issues affecting those voters the right wants to target and the media can reach.

2. Identify a scapegoat for each or preferably a group of those issues. This has to be a) not the right wing political establishment (usually the actual root cause of the issues), and b) a minority demographic the media can characterise easily and preferably isn’t very well known or understood by the target audience.

3. Deliver a front page each and every day linking one of your identified issues with one of the scapegoats you’re going to demonise.

And you have a doubly effective solution: not only do people come to believe that the scapegoats, rather than the political establishment, are the root of all the problems in their lives, but even better, guess who is uniquely placed to sell them the solutions? Who is going to get the country back up and running by shipping asylum seekers to Rwanda, slashing the benefits of those who aren’t working and pulling the country out of international treaties?

They’ve done this smoke and mirrors job with the right’s abject failures on the economy (lazy couch surfers, the EU), public services (‘out of control’ immigration), policing (black kids and foreign organised crime gangs), healthcare (‘health tourists’ ), privatisation (union bigwigs), housing (bloody immigrants again)… and it has been very, very effective.

comment by rossobianchi (U17054)
posted 26 minutes ago
comment by Glazers Out (SE85) (U21241)
posted 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
Brexit bellènds 😂

Voted Tory en masse no doubt despite the fact the Tories don't give two rats about towns like Burnley.

They booed the BLM stuff too didn't they and even hired a plane saying White lives matter I seem to recall.

I'm sure the BNP often choose Burnley as their NW meeting place too for their rallies.

Oh and they are now managed by a Bertie with a MASSIVE head.

So yeah Burnley can get fecked. 😂

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Completely facked by Thatcher, largely ignored by New Labour, facked again by the socialisation of the failed experiments of bankers who thought they were a lot smarter than they turned out to be, copious salt rubbed into that particular wound by Osborne’s austerity, saw demographics they didn’t recognise scapegoated as the cause of stretched and failing services by just about all of the media they had access to for a generation, then were offered a chimera by the duplicitous, lying caaaaant Boris and his cabal of equally duplicitous lying caaaaants.

Did they make an horrific, horrific mistake? Yes. Were they alone in that? No. Was it entirely their fault? No.

They were lied to and lied to and lied to and lied to by the Leave campaign and by the media. And they’ve been facked over again by the result of the vote, the Tories pursuing a rock hard Brexit, and now once again by Hunt’s Austerity 2.0.

It’s beyond time we wound the clock back to listen to, digest and appreciate the life stories, hopes and demands of those provincial towns which were eviscerated by Thatcherism and subsequently ignored by the next two generations of those in Westminster.

Redistribute some of the nation’s (vast) wealth outside the M25. Invest in the regions, and move jobs to these towns. Pay the workers properly ffs. Improve their working conditions. Improve their public services. Stop absentee property bankers hoovering up all the property in these towns then renting them back to the community at exorbitant rates.
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Lots of big companies trying to move jobs outside of London, isn’t HSBC’s UK bank based in Birmingham? They can’t get the good staff for love nor money.

There’s a reason everybody flocks to London to work and live. It’s better.

comment by Boy F7-0m The South (U3979)
posted 8 seconds ago
comment by rossobianchi (U17054)
posted 26 minutes ago
comment by Glazers Out (SE85) (U21241)
posted 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
Brexit bellènds 😂

Voted Tory en masse no doubt despite the fact the Tories don't give two rats about towns like Burnley.

They booed the BLM stuff too didn't they and even hired a plane saying White lives matter I seem to recall.

I'm sure the BNP often choose Burnley as their NW meeting place too for their rallies.

Oh and they are now managed by a Bertie with a MASSIVE head.

So yeah Burnley can get fecked. 😂

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Completely facked by Thatcher, largely ignored by New Labour, facked again by the socialisation of the failed experiments of bankers who thought they were a lot smarter than they turned out to be, copious salt rubbed into that particular wound by Osborne’s austerity, saw demographics they didn’t recognise scapegoated as the cause of stretched and failing services by just about all of the media they had access to for a generation, then were offered a chimera by the duplicitous, lying caaaaant Boris and his cabal of equally duplicitous lying caaaaants.

Did they make an horrific, horrific mistake? Yes. Were they alone in that? No. Was it entirely their fault? No.

They were lied to and lied to and lied to and lied to by the Leave campaign and by the media. And they’ve been facked over again by the result of the vote, the Tories pursuing a rock hard Brexit, and now once again by Hunt’s Austerity 2.0.

It’s beyond time we wound the clock back to listen to, digest and appreciate the life stories, hopes and demands of those provincial towns which were eviscerated by Thatcherism and subsequently ignored by the next two generations of those in Westminster.

Redistribute some of the nation’s (vast) wealth outside the M25. Invest in the regions, and move jobs to these towns. Pay the workers properly ffs. Improve their working conditions. Improve their public services. Stop absentee property bankers hoovering up all the property in these towns then renting them back to the community at exorbitant rates.
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Lots of big companies trying to move jobs outside of London, isn’t HSBC’s UK bank based in Birmingham? They can’t get the good staff for love nor money.

There’s a reason everybody flocks to London to work and live. It’s better.
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Eh? You don't see the reason it's better?

*They aren’t prepared to invest in staff in the regions or in their communities, and aren’t incentivised to do so by Westminster.

Anyway, come on the Clarets, second in the league next season will do fine.

comment by Boy F7-0m The South (U3979)
posted 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
comment by rossobianchi (U17054)
posted 26 minutes ago
comment by Glazers Out (SE85) (U21241)
posted 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
Brexit bellènds 😂

Voted Tory en masse no doubt despite the fact the Tories don't give two rats about towns like Burnley.

They booed the BLM stuff too didn't they and even hired a plane saying White lives matter I seem to recall.

I'm sure the BNP often choose Burnley as their NW meeting place too for their rallies.

Oh and they are now managed by a Bertie with a MASSIVE head.

So yeah Burnley can get fecked. 😂

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Completely facked by Thatcher, largely ignored by New Labour, facked again by the socialisation of the failed experiments of bankers who thought they were a lot smarter than they turned out to be, copious salt rubbed into that particular wound by Osborne’s austerity, saw demographics they didn’t recognise scapegoated as the cause of stretched and failing services by just about all of the media they had access to for a generation, then were offered a chimera by the duplicitous, lying caaaaant Boris and his cabal of equally duplicitous lying caaaaants.

Did they make an horrific, horrific mistake? Yes. Were they alone in that? No. Was it entirely their fault? No.

They were lied to and lied to and lied to and lied to by the Leave campaign and by the media. And they’ve been facked over again by the result of the vote, the Tories pursuing a rock hard Brexit, and now once again by Hunt’s Austerity 2.0.

It’s beyond time we wound the clock back to listen to, digest and appreciate the life stories, hopes and demands of those provincial towns which were eviscerated by Thatcherism and subsequently ignored by the next two generations of those in Westminster.

Redistribute some of the nation’s (vast) wealth outside the M25. Invest in the regions, and move jobs to these towns. Pay the workers properly ffs. Improve their working conditions. Improve their public services. Stop absentee property bankers hoovering up all the property in these towns then renting them back to the community at exorbitant rates.
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Lots of big companies trying to move jobs outside of London, isn’t HSBC’s UK bank based in Birmingham? They can’t get the good staff for love nor money.

There’s a reason everybody flocks to London to work and live. It’s better.
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London's better than Burnley, I can agree with you there.

But on a plus side they do have the bank of Dave

Imagine buying into the narrative that London is better when £30k a year isn’t even a liveable wage

I like an occasional trip to London just to see how my taxes are being spent.

I often take a trip to Liverpool to visit my car radio