tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post4566997282504460287..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Vote Remain - The Media PayoffTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-41846873293262484232016-06-29T12:39:20.175+01:002016-06-29T12:39:20.175+01:00Any chance the BBC will now cease featuring rent-a...Any chance the BBC will now cease featuring rent-an-opinion "experts" from the Taxpayers' Alliance on virtually other edition of QT/Newsnight? On the other hand, said group and its supporters seem aggressively anti-BBC, so if HMG lurches further to the right with potentially more policy influence from the TPA (I half expect to see a bit of "revolving door" door activity from Tufton Street in the Susie Squire mould under a Johnson administration) and similar Thatcherite think tanks, maybe the Beeb is keeping them sweet to avoid making too many enemies?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-90567305268264245742016-06-23T23:12:05.087+01:002016-06-23T23:12:05.087+01:00I often agree with you, but not this time. Maybe I...I often agree with you, but not this time. Maybe I'm just being pessimistic. Farage will continue to peddle his bullshit, as will Hopkins et al because they sell papers and get page views and so on. A few minor players might sink back into obscurity but the big guns will never go quietly.<br /><br />My only hope is that maybe, just maybe, more people will actually pay attention to what goes on in Europe and actually pay more attention to who they're voting for in the EU electionsRivohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12862803953863889027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-45120011062252987132016-06-23T21:53:28.192+01:002016-06-23T21:53:28.192+01:00In some ways I would rather have Gove as Chancello...In some ways I would rather have Gove as Chancellor. For me, the last straw in voting for Remain was when Osborne issued his warnings of a 'punishment budget' in the event of a vote to leave the EU.<br />Incidentally, 1997's general election was one occasion when the Daily Mail, under the newly appointed Dacre, declined to support the Tories - although there was a tortuous editorial full of the barely repressed hatred for politicians that was to become the hallmark of his editorship. Sean Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11787118869524521962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-6282290022794375722016-06-23T19:39:18.538+01:002016-06-23T19:39:18.538+01:00Dacre I don't care about, but a Remain vote wo...Dacre I don't care about, but a Remain vote would (hopefully) do for editor of <i>Der Stuerm</i>^D^D^D the <i>Daily Express</i> and pornographer in chief Dirty Dickie Desmond.<br /><br />We can dream...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-51267732345736063922016-06-23T18:34:11.830+01:002016-06-23T18:34:11.830+01:00They wouldn't though, they'd come back str...They wouldn't though, they'd come back stronger than ever, blaming an establishment stitchup, etc. etc. I'm buying Matthew Goodwin's books about UKIP, sadly they'll be a force to be reckoned with whatever happens.asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-66183127805933797162016-06-23T17:51:04.058+01:002016-06-23T17:51:04.058+01:00Yes.
What about an emergency budget from Osbourn...Yes. <br /><br />What about an emergency budget from Osbourne?<br />Interesting. Very.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-50355277716121034052016-06-23T17:29:44.436+01:002016-06-23T17:29:44.436+01:00It would be great if you were right on this Tim, b...It would be great if you were right on this Tim, but given that some Tory MP's have already said they'll only abide by the vote if it's a 20 point margin, I don't think any of this will happen. It's going to be pretty close either way, and if as I hope Remain do win, then immediately all the usual suspects will start agitating for another go round, until they get the result they want. <br /><br />Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18149682014923789505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-50535340149490064382016-06-23T17:13:01.152+01:002016-06-23T17:13:01.152+01:00That would be some payoff, I've got my fingers...That would be some payoff, I've got my fingers crossed. Somehow I suspect they'll all try and reinvent themselves as secret doubters or some such bullshit.Lampyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447498546497984483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-78146501531148221382016-06-23T16:56:51.512+01:002016-06-23T16:56:51.512+01:00A vote to Remain won't be the end of far right...A vote to Remain won't be the end of far right crackpots.<br /><br />It might reduce their impact somewhat, but there'll always be that small knot of moronic Little Englanders waving flags, shouting "patriotic" bullshit, reading <i>the Scum</i> and <i>Daily Heil</i> and blaming everything on foreigners of any description. To say nothing of labelling any social spending as "A wysta pablic manny" - as long as it doesn't halt spending in London.<br /><br />It's a cliche, but only because it's true, that freedom requires eternal vigilance.<br /><br />If the vote is Leave it scarcely bears thinking what kind of a divided society we'll end up with. I think of this every time I have the misfortune to encounter a visage of, for instance, Boris Johnson or Michael Gove or Nigel Farage. <br /><br />They're bad enough, but hovering in the background are utter nutjobs like Mathew Hancock, Soubry, McVey and Redwood. You think the others are bad? Just watch that lot......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-54632475697915603012016-06-23T16:31:01.293+01:002016-06-23T16:31:01.293+01:00Whatever the result, I'd like to think that Ca...Whatever the result, I'd like to think that Cameron decides to take action against the supposed Press allies who have got increasingly personal with him, and implement Leveson in full as a final 'fuck you'.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15878421641177302569noreply@blogger.com