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:
@SW-User I literally cant remember the last time someone made an explicit argument for free market economics. Its all culture war stuff and faux populism.
@Platinum Labour has done, sure. Socialists have a consistent ideology and analysis. Conservatism, as a practiced ideology has changed a lot.
I remember when Conservatives were slagging off 'nanny state' and 'welfare scroungers'. When they argued that rising tide raises all boats. Now, they talk more about immigrants, trans people etc. A lot of them disown neo-liberal theory and call it globalism. It's changed from being more capitalist to more nationalist.
I'm not so much speaking of you here and know you are not an outright Conservative but this is what I have seen as a trend on the right.
@Platinum Its fair enough but I'm the opposite. I vote (and campaign) for ideologies first, policies second, parties third and leaders fourth. I never thought Corbyn was an effective leader but that didn't matter much to me.
