Does the Mail have an anti-donkey agenda? #donkeygate
The Mail is Britain's most cynical and right-wing tabloid newspaper (beating stiff competition). Today, their Sunday edition 'exposed' that the leader of the Labour Party owned an expensive property, though they also owned themselves:
This paper has form in doing this kind of hit piece. Any left-leaning British politician not living in a cardboard box has had their face splashed across these pages with screams of 'hypocrisy!' and 'liberal elitism!' That Keir Starmer is a self-made man makes no difference and obviously Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson would never get such treatment.
Unfortunately for the Mail, they didn't do their research properly and it turns out that Starmer bought this land for his disabled mother to use a donkey sanctuary.
So on British Twitter, #donkeygate is a now thing and it has been trending:
burnley123 he owns land worth ten million really so what big deal it is not about your personal wealth your political belief are base on your passion principles and political believes the labour party will have rich donors as the tory party certainly has they may donate to the party but what more would you expect as you say from the tory backing gutter press
@Burnley123 yes the left wing ideals of corbyn are acceptable to some i am a bit that left wing socialist but alas it has old social ideals have no place into today modern politics it is a shame but all it becomes is ammo for the right wing tory press to use as a stick to boot in them loo i mean look how the tory right wing treated michael foot
@smiler2012 We did almost win in 2017 and I think we need a better figurehead than Corbyn. I don't think the centre has the answers and I think socialist ideas are more relevant now than in a long time. Certainly, more than any time in my adult life. The younger generation is turning left in unprecedented numbers.
But yes, we have had a bad defeat. I'm staying as a Labour party member and I will campaign for Starmer as long as he looks half decent.
@Burnley123 as you say we may need more leftist ideal i cannot total agree the tories and there friends in the gutter press used against corbyn suggesting he was a communist wanting to give up the trident nuclear deterrent and alas like the american people with trump and swallowed this character assassination of corbyn and deserted the labour party in droves at the last election i again cannot agree it was a bloody election disaster in the size of the defeat and parlimentary seat lost to the tories and has condemned us to four more years the blonde bombsite and his croonies all we can hope under starmer we can use blairs labour party song things can only get better
Does it matter, most if not all, politicians are wealthy....footballers are wealthy...that's life, however people get their money is not my business, but I don't like it if they get it too easy....
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Conservatives can't be consistent with basically any opinion they hold.
@SW-User tbh, if you say you vote for either party you get abuse.
During the last election, when I said I was going to vote green I had friends tell me that is as good as voting for labour, or Tory or it was a wasted vote.
Only one friend could see my point and understood.
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@BabyLonia I wish we had proportional representation then everybody'd vote would matter. Like we did in the European Parliament elections... Oh...
One thing we need to remember is that the young are heavily pro labour and more so than ever. Even those from upper middle class backgrounds lean left. Even in an awful election result, we won under forties and dominated with the under thirties. Yes, that doesnt solve the short term problems but long term....
The government os polling high but this is soft. On an issue by issue basis (ppe, ventilators etc) the government is not polling well. I think people will come to blame the tories for this crisis but it will take time.
Did you see the Mail use a clip of Sir Keir clapping for the nhs and asking the journalist if they had got what the wanted...they cut the clip there, the reason he asked that was because his daughter was waiting to join them and he was calling her over.
Sadly the british public get their opinion on people from such tabloids, look at what they did to Meghan
