This is what you get when you follow the rantings of a billionaire owned rag that is trying to preserve their owners vested interests and prejudices. They are shameless liars, by thoughtlessly parroting their agenda their readers become shameless liars as well.
You're right, the only tools they have to frame their argument are tabloid sound bites.
They are genuinely perplexed why those who don't agree with them refuse to comply. They point to the ballot box and say that those who are at the receiving end of austerity, wage stagnation, inflationary food prices, lack of housing and social provision, healthcare cuts, student debt, zero hours contracts, insecurity, must suck it up, because our first past the post system has managed to produce a minority government that just about managed to cobble together enough voters, not at the sharp end of these measures, to support it.
Fuck that for a game of soldiers! The ballot box is a means to an end, not an end in itself. In the past the result at the ballot box was accepted by all, regardless of the outcome, because a social consensus existed, a glue that bound us together as citizens. Inbetween is too young to remember that. Now the ballot box is used for narrow class based interests, if the Tories shore up their base with sufficient goodies they can secure a writ countrywide to fuck over vast numbers of people, but "it doesn't matter because they don’t vote for us"...Duncan Smith.
This is where we are now, decades of Thatcherism and its pale echoes in Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron and May, where the only thing that defines us are our divisions.
