Beej, can you explain to me how so many moonbats, Like Livingstone, get elected in England? I read Brit papers all the time. Hell, Drudge links to them all the time. From what one would see on the MSM, you'd think the entire country was f'ed up, but from reading TONS of comments by Brits, on MANY stories, hell, it seems they're just like me. Then again, if you didn't have CC or CU, how would you view the states? Especially given current events?
I guess it's kinda like the analogy of the sqeaky tire getting the grease. Conservatives, being individualistic, don't protest. We're more prone to spend time with our families. Liberals are collectivists. They get their identity from a special interest group. So, that's what the MSM sees.
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Ken Livingstone was mostly a local politician, although based in London he had a higher profile than most. He had been the leader of the Greater London Council, which was the local government for the whole of London until it was abolished by Margaret Thatcher. After which he got elected to a seat in Parliament and then got elected as Mayor for London. London is a large city, and like large cities in the US trends away from the right so it was no surprise that Livingstone who had long positioned himself as 'Mr London' won the first couple of elections. Interestingly for the second election he left the Labour party and some of his support was by was of a protest against Labour. Thankfully the city came to its senses and elected the Conservative Boris Johnson as Mayor this time.
The UK political parties are of course more to the left of their natural US counterparts (with the exception of the Blessed Margaret Thatcher). Labour got in in 1997 following the conservative government of 1979-1997. They campaigned with a shiny new young leader promising change and empty platitudes and because many people were fed up of an admittedly somewhat tired Conservative administration they flocked to vote Labour into parliament in sufficient numbers that the Conservatives took quite some time to recover. Though they have and are currently well ahead in the polls.
As to how I would view the US if I only had the MSM to go by? Possibly not much differently overall. Our newspapers tend to have pretty upfront political leanings and the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail for example can be relied on for a more conservative leaning view so as hard as the BBC tries actual information does come through. Have we all fallen under the 'Obama spell'? Take a look ....
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