Do flags do the trick for the working class hero?Its all part of a culture war which is being purposely stoked by the right wing tories to keep the working classes on the their side.
“Here’s my flag you leftie snowflake tree hugging do gooder : I dare you to challenge it”. Like the hard right do with poppies.
The irony is that all of the people who have suddenly become all obsessed with displaying the Union flag are the exact same ones who have put the Union in the most precarious situation it’s been in centuries.
If you want to be a tub thumping nationalist moron, at least have the honesty to display the flag of St George, you simple minded, divisive pricks.
Done the job in Northern Ireland since the year dot.Do flags do the trick for the working class hero?
Would have made a good line for for JWL to pen back in 1970.
I see the home bully is on selected media outlets spreading her bile about immigration.
No coincidence the PM uses the washed up on our shores trope on national TV before she began her nasty foreigners tour this morning.
Sounds like you know what you are talking about to a novice on these issues.Done the job in Northern Ireland since the year dot.
We live in an era of PR and marketing bullshit. Making the flag more prominent will lead to increase in shagging it.
I've been looking at influences within Australian politics including Murdoch and find some of the issues/legislation being proposed there seems to end up here a few months later.Sounds like you know what you are talking about to a novice on these issues.
We in OZ are talking main line story about gay men wanking themselves in a ministers office talking film of it and giving it to someone in the press so it becomes the lead story and the PM is questioned about how he has lost control of his staff's behaviour meanwhile the murder , rape and false imprisonment of indigenous woman at 80 times per capita the rate of non-indigenous woman is yesterdays fodder with politicians and advocates with few exceptions having their sanctimonious head in the sand.
As you allude to politics gets wrapped up in PR and marketing while issues of substance and what to do about them becomes secondary.
for the last 5 weeks the PM has been on the back foot because he doesn't know how to punch through the " toxic culture in parliament" that belittles woman often as a result of having too many pressers to attempt to explain what he can do to eradicate it (LOL).
the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs was lauded today by the PM as a person who has hero status for advancing the cause and closing the gap FFS.
That bullshit might work in the Sydney and Melbourne where its not sexy to report on the plight of Aboriginal woman and more important for woman to moan to the press about men staring at them at work and in the halls of parliament but those in remote communities throughout Australia just have to worry about " trivial matters" like when they will get their next beating and often they don't have to wait long.
As you say mat more PR and spin and sideshow distractions from the main game because its too hard to prosecute the cases effectively particularly after you have left too many behind.I've been looking at influences within Australian politics including Murdoch and find some of the issues/legislation being proposed there seems to end up here a few months later.
For example the workers right bill that reduced rights significantly.
The Tory business secretary came up with an idea identical to the proposed bill in Australia. The minister backed away from it when there was even opposition bin his party...for now.
Government policies are being put into friendly media outlets to test the water and occasionally distract.
The Government are trying to avoid questions over the armed services cuts and Covid vaccination issues.
All of sudden the home secretary is out beating the drum about dirty foreigners to drown out their agenda and incompetence.
Its a fair point you make , the fourth estate and often if you push back because its a matter of shaping opinion then the truth gets swallowed.“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he’s a the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
This was never more true than it is today.