Looks like Ed Miliband’s Labour isn’t much different
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November 1, 2013 at 4:06pm
Fake interviewees – party donors and millionaires – in a UK Labour political broadcast, pretending to be ordinary people and saying that they can’t afford their fuel bills: shades of the Muscat party and his starving, oppressed hordes.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2480664/The-phoney-ordinary-folk-Labours-TV-broadcast-Millionaire-restaurateur-Guardian-journalist-interviewees-saying-afford-fuel-bills.html
Well yeah, but Malta’s Labour is even worse. Here the poor starving whiners are celebrities, with known name, surname, address and occupation. And still we believe their lies.
Those were exactly my thoughts when I heard Ed Milliband being interviewed on Sky News a few weeks back. The similarities were not restricted to the arguments only either.
this sounds familiar doesn’t it??
What did Mangion say about the DNA?
The left are dirt bags EVERYWHERE.
One of those people is not a fake at all. I have been following her blog for a while now. She was an unemployed single mother and now has a column in the Guardian where she writes about cooking on a budget.She is also an activist and campaigner. Her blog is here: http://agirlcalledjack.com/
The other person I don’t know.
But I would be careful about taking what the Daily Mail says seriously. They have a tendency to twist things to suit themselves, as I am sure you are perfectly aware.
Also, perhaps there are nuances to living in Britain which don’t compare well to Malta. Fuel poverty is a serious problem here for many, many people.
Don’t cheapen these issues just to get what you think is a dig at MLP. You don’t even live in the UK (visiting doesn’t compare). How would you possibly know the ins and outs of it? And perhaps, not knowing the ins and outs of it, you should at least refrain from making such self-assured comments.
[Daphne – This isn’t about the cost of fuel, Catherine, but about false ‘testimonials’ in political propaganda. No, I don’t live in Britain, but two of my sons did so for some years and one of them still does.]
Fair enough. What I meant was that there are actually oppressed hordes, that at least is not something that is invented for political mileage.
Although granted, it is used for political mileage – but it is a different situation in the UK where the current government’s cut-backs always hit the most disadvantaged hardest. So it’s not only being done for political mileage, there is actually a point to it.
I do wish you wouldn’t quote the Daily Mail though, like it’s hard fact, just because they said so.
[Daphne – I agree with you. In fact I have often used the argument myself that the moaners here don’t know they’re born, and perhaps they should take a look at some real fuel bills where the difference between paying them and not paying them is literally life or death.]
That’s absolutely right. The coaltion’s cuts really do bite here in the UK and people really do think long and hard about turning the heating on. Also, the energy companies have made an absolute killing over the past years while increasing bills.
This isn’t a free market. It is abuse of a dominant position. The Daily Mail (anti-EU, anti-foreigner, pro-business substitute for andrex with a capacity for dishonesty of One news proportions) doesn’t like this argument or anything Labour.
And the Guardian doesn’t?
Well, Malta had a kitten with two houseboys, travel galore, cushy life, and yet could not afford his electricity bill.
The XX and the XXI centuries will be known in the future for the perverse use, and distortion of, language to create “truth” to accommodate false ideologies.
We also had a millionaire hotelier, Philip Rizzo, who during the election campaign claimed that he is worried about his disabled daughter’s future. Presumably he has never heard the words ‘trust fund’.
Do you honestly expect us to take Daily Mail articles seriously?
[Daphne – I live in a country where 166,000 people took Joseph Muscat seriously and made him prime minister, Fyodor.]
Quite right, it is the Guardian of the “right wing” . The question is whether there is any major newspaper out there that can be read without the proverbial pinch of salt.
You mean Far-Right
UK Labour may well be doing what the article is saying, but the fact that the article appeared in the Daily Mail is actually an argument in favour of the theory that its false.
The internet is full of hoaxes and apart from checking sites like snopes.com and hoaxslayer.com, a good indicator of a false story is whether it was reported on the Daily Mail or not.
Pretty much like ONE TV really……
The Daily Mail is to journalism what Joseph Muscat is to democracy.
The Daily Mail, a far-right paper, is the UK’s worst and most vile paper founded by a Nazi symathizer.
http://freestater.blogspot.co.uk/2006/06/daily-mail-daily-nazi.html
Examples of its reporting:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303120/Mick-Philpott-vile-product-Welfare-UK-Derby-man-bred-17-babies-milk-benefits-GUILTY-killing-six.html