In his comments regarding the BBC debate I think Boris Johnson is confusing left-wing with fair, sensitive and
relatively intelligent. This whole election to me, indeed the whole of politics
and society, isn't about being left-wing or right-wing; these terms can be
useful but they are all too often abstract. But that's Boris for you; never
mind that BBC bias against Jeremy Corbyn and in favour of the Conservatives has
been demonstrated on a number of occasions (see links below for just some of many).
If there's one thing
this election has starkly outlined its that the Conservatives provide us with
fertile ground for justified criticism; it seems they're asking for it. Maybe
this is their one positive contribution, they encourage like-minded people to
come together and collectively criticise their incompetence. I won't go through
the long list of Conservative blunders and misadventures now, it's been done a
lot already (see Another Angry Voice, The Canary and Evolve Politics). But an
important and glaringly obvious one is that Theresa May has called a snap
election, expecting a landslide, and won't even debate her opposition; this is
remarkable! After all her disingenuous posturing and actually succeeding (with
a lot of help from the establishment press) to convince much of the public she was
a "strong leader" (what does that even mean?), she can't even discuss
her policies and views with her opponents. This is not the sign of a secure
politician, it's the sign of a scared one who realises she can't intelligently
defend her position in a partly unstructured Q&A session. Also,
regarding what the Conservative PR wizards have deemed the all-important sacred
issue - the Brexit negotiations - it is May who postponed these negotiations by
calling a snap election, which she emphatically said she wasn't going to do;
this is dithering and inconsistency if I ever saw it. If you prefer your political parties to be consistent, trustworthy and principled, don't vote for the Conservatives.
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