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They should never have even ran the story. There's been some ropey stuff in the Guardian the past few days.

 

I think we're seeing the effect of their US editor in chief now being the overall editor in chief. The Guardian has abandoned the left and is headed off into the neo-liberal centre.

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Pinched off reddit.

 

Some relevant copypasta from Canadian politician Tommy Douglas circa 1944:

 

It's the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do.

 

They even had a Parliament. And every four years they had an election. Used to walk to the polls and cast their ballots. Some of them even got a ride to the polls. And got a ride for the next four years afterwards too. Just like you and me. And every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats.

 

Now if you think it strange that mice should elect a government made up of cats, you just look at the history of Canada for last 90 years and maybe you'll see that they weren't any stupider than we are.

 

Now I'm not saying anything against the cats. They were nice fellows. They conducted their government with dignity. They passed good laws--that is, laws that were good for cats. But the laws that were good for cats weren't very good for mice. One of the laws said that mouseholes had to be big enough so a cat could get his paw in. Another law said that mice could only travel at certain speeds--so that a cat could get his breakfast without too much effort.

 

All the laws were good laws. For cats. But, oh, they were hard on the mice. And life was getting harder and harder. And when the mice couldn't put up with it any more, they decided something had to be done about it. So they went en masse to the polls. They voted the black cats out. They put in the white cats.

 

Now the white cats had put up a terrific campaign. They said: "All that Mouseland needs is more vision." They said:"The trouble with Mouseland is those round mouseholes we got. If you put us in we'll establish square mouseholes." And they did. And the square mouseholes were twice as big as the round mouseholes, and now the cat could get both his paws in. And life was tougher than ever.

 

And when they couldn't take that anymore, they voted the white cats out and put the black ones in again. Then they went back to the white cats. Then to the black cats. They even tried half black cats and half white cats. And they called that coalition. They even got one government made up of cats with spots on them: they were cats that tried to make a noise like a mouse but ate like a cat.

 

You see, my friends, the trouble wasn't with the colour of the cat. The trouble was that they were cats. And because they were cats, they naturally looked after cats instead of mice.

 

Presently there came along one little mouse who had an idea. My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea. And he said to the other mice, "Look fellows, why do we keep on electing a government made up of cats? Why don't we elect a government made up of mice?" "Oh," they said, "he's a Bolshevik. Lock him up!" So they put him in jail.

 

tl;dr Many people are so blinded by the status-quo that they cannot understand how easy it is to change, the only thing required is the will to do so.

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Fantastic analogy... if you're a six year old child.

 

I'd say that's about the average mental age for most voters - when it comes to voting at least.

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I can see this being the end of him :lol:

 

BBC and Sky News have both ignored the Mail in their papers roundup ffs

 

Louise Mensch, who strung up Corbyn for not signing the nation anthem, reckons it's normal behaviour for lads at uni and doesn't know what the fuss is

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Is Corbyn too nice to make his first question at this week's PMQ "Did you have sexual relations with that pig?" - I hope not.

Aye unfortunately his new "no mudslinging" approach is gonna preclude him from starting with "Question number one for you, pig fucker...."

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