A is for Alliance. All across the country voting pacts and tactical deals are being fixed. These arrangements are helpful to cash-strapped smaller parties who can save money and present their thrift as a statesmanlike decision to ‘withdraw for the good of the country.’ For activists, voting pacts may be problematic. The deals rely heavily on opinion polls. And opinion polls are heavily influenced by false answers given by the kind of activists who arrange voting pacts.
B is for Balance or ‘fair reporting’. The Beeb gets it right every time by interviewing a fixed number of Remainers and an identical number of Leavers who have switched to Remain.
C is for Climate crisis. Green politician Caroline Lucas recently announced that she’s been helping to deepen the emergency by flying to America on the oil-quaffing jets she wants banned. Couldn’t she get a few tips from international yachtswoman Greta Thunberg and learn to sail?
D is for Disconnect.
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