Blaming the electorate for something that's fooled "the people" throughout history time after time is missing the point in my opinion. The use of propaganda and shutting down of our democracy while the media sit cheerleading on the sidelines is the bit that should be shameful. And yet even when everyone seems to hate the government, the attempted destruction of the Human Rights Act still gets no coverage.
The media are more upset about not being invited to the Tory Christmas parties than they are about £37bn wasted on a test and trace system that doesn't work, billions wasted propping up failing privatised health, energy and transport systems, the human rights violations happening every day to asylum seekers, the criminalisation of protest, the sabotage of British industries and agriculture, and the corruption of the Human Rights Act. That's where we need your damning indictment.
Not really,
if the electorate keeps 'getting fooled' (
at least according to you) time after time, then the quote about those 'who do not learn from the mistakes in their history are condemned to repeating them', should be acknowledged as the 'free' workings of democracy, and not a case of shutting it down.
The wide range of media that now exists, does so to
sell, goods, services, etc. and ideas.... everyone is free (
at the moment) to accept or reject these ideas; although recently attempts at 'shutting down' those ideas we don't like seems to be gathering pace, especially through the workings of social media.
Real news or honest news, or if preferred,
'not fake News' becomes a casualty of the 24/7 news coverage (
which it appears we all crave for) and with it therefore the rise of the 'almighty' news editors. Such professionals, (
so I am told) are only primarily interested in those stories which ' have legs' and can be redone, rehashed, re-angled many times over; the Tory Christmas Party debacle was one such story, a God send for some, whereas the money wasted on test and trace was a one off!
Unfortunately one of the things all Governments do
(of what every persuasion) is 'waste money' the tax payers money, my memory goes back as far as things like the 'Blue Streak' missile debacle and continued right through to the PFI contracts, handed out by the last Labour Government... I lost interest after that!.
This Government and its PM having been getting 'cocky lately'; especially with their 80+ majority, as all political parties do when they think nothing can touch them... its up to the electorate
not to give them another go at the next GE, but who would we elect instead?