Boris Johnson on course for huge win in UK election, exit poll suggests

The Washington Post is
no longer the paramount of journalism
as it was in the Watergate era.

Why not reference some tabloid
for more fun and same standards.
Or was that your point?


Moi

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Humor. Funny stuff.

 

The trouble here is that Corbyn fought a Brexit election but campaigned on the NHS and austerity.
Boris stuck to the ''get Brexit done'' mantra and that's what people were voting on.
Even if Labour had a strong stand on Brexit I don't think they could have won. A hung Parliament would have been more likely.

The positives I'm clinging on to are that;
Corbyn is gone so we might get a decent leader of the opposition.
Labour will move towards the centre.
With the size of his majority, Boris will not have to pander to the far right of his party or the awful DUP. This means that the Tories have the chance to move to the centre and a hard Brexit is far less likely (what happens to Rees Mogg and other hardliners in the cabinet shuffle will be a good indicator of which direction Boris is going to go).
Farage is America's problem now.
The market will benefit from the end to ''uncertaincy'' although that is only going to be temporary.

 

I hope you're right here.

 

The British people have, most importantly, rejected Corbyn's economic policies.

 

That is funny. As a kid growing up in the DC area it was the hacks at The Washington Post who taught me to be skeptical of the media.

I can still remember reading articles in that "paramount of journalism" during the early '70s heralding the dawn of the new ice age. Now they're shrieking that the planet is going to melt.

 

They crushed it.

Glad for them.

 

How is Farage our problem?

 

They now have a Corbyn free environment.

I'd like to take credit for that, but alas 'tis not mine.

 

@Talon too. - Those Early 70's Watergate stories were real and some didn't like that.

You don't remember when the first paragraph of a News Story was
who
what
where
when
why
and how.

Today the choice of story and the first paragraph are "editorial".
Sadly that includes the Washington Post & New York Time.

Purpose driven, "news" aka propaganda paid for by the same folks.
Story selection is a means of censorship.
Notice no one has a different News story.
No investigative journalism. No First To Break A Story.

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In the O.C. we even lost our, Santa Ana Register / Orange County Register
to getting bought out by . . . .
The Register was had GREAT, journalistic standards and most Conservative leaning Newspapers in the nation. I believe they won awards too.
Its' absence is felt. The Register did not support NIXON re-election
because NIXON went to China. How Conservative?

I read the Register, watched RT & Al Jazeera conveniently
for a different view point.
Now all GWTW to factory, pablumized News of selected stories.




The Media Spin is obviously in "the people made a mistake, again",
mode with the mourning of this apparent rejection of "globalism".
Globalism benefits the international capitalist forcing workers to compete
against each other for the lowest standard of living.
How Did It Happen a Labour Party can be Globalist and claim to favor a nation's labor population?



Moi

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I like to call it The Washington (Com)Post.

 

Yes, it would seem voters saw it a choice between the Conservatives/Brexit and a hung parliament.

Reasonable assumptions about the likely future.

Boris has a lot of running room in almost any direction given his huge majority. I'd bet on him moving to the center given the difficult times ahead economically.

Not for long if Trump is defeated.

 

com ? no comprende


And please relate to my initial or subsequent comments on The Washington Post.
The WP and journalism have little in common today.
May as well quote a tabloid.
I do believe they did have journalistic standards in the early 70's.
I lived in D.C. that April & May when the Watergate hearings were happening with a distant relative who told me the stories coming out 2 days later.
Somehow he was D.C. connected. I do not know exactly.


Moi so very

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Compost - decayed organic material used as a plant fertilizer.

 

They spoke in 2016 also , yet!

 

I don't see how any American considers him RW, 1/2 of the democratic party is to the right of him. He is vowing to spend much more on medical care and other social programs. He may be right of Bernie but he is way left of the Republican party in the US

 

No one but Alexa believe Boris is right wing. He's center right at best, just like the Canadian conservative party. Beside that guy in the Philipine and the other one in Brazil, I don't know any far right democraticaly elected head of state presently.

 

The funny part is that he just lost soundly. He is a model for progressives.

 

We were talking about Boris, no?

 

The picture I posted is Corbyn.

 

How different things might be if Labour had a different leader through this Brexit business.

 

Yes but Observing quote both you and me in the same post.

 

He's heading over to be Trump's warm-up act at the election rallies.
He will disappear from British politics.

 

I'm certainly not as much up on the individual folks in labour as I could be, but from what I've seen of the people I do know, they're peas in a pod with Corbyn.