Her words went viral and got people talking. That means it was worthwhile. Will it have much impact? Who knows. In itself it’s a small gesture but if it influences others to do the same thing then good on the woman. Our politics are fucking poison. Our county is a laughing stock. She did the right thing, the decent thing, and that’s enough.
But who did it go viral with Dave? It went viral with people that a) already think Boris is a **** and b) know he’s a liar.
It’s the people with an IQ of less than 90 who vote for him because he seems like a nice chap who need all the help they can get to work out he’s not got their interests at heart.
Don’t think the IQ bell curve has that many under 90 on it Dids but I get your point. But you’re also saying that rural England is thick…
It made all the TV news channels actually. That means it went to people of all political persuasions. It won’t affect my sleep in any way but it looks like it’s pissed you off.
I used 90 because it was the number you mentioned but I think the general point is that the less educated (or intelligent) are more likely to vote based more on what they see superficially rather than what they find out by looking into things in more detail, and any help they can get to find out a bit more has to be a good thing even if they still end up supporting him in spite of his uselessness.
Of course, biased press is not a new thing; I have just completed a read of a book and I quote ‘Weekly news books, often controlled by the royalist or parliamentarian leaders or factions among them, gave slanted reports of the war and its attendant controversies.’ This was said about the Civil War in 1642 and the very early stages of the printing press. Anyone who has read Dickens’ Pickwick Papers, his narrative of life in Victorian England, will have read about his view of the hustings and the allegiance to separate newspapers of particular political parties.