October / November’s Tel’s Tales…

Comment on the £20 a Week Universal Credit Reduction

 “The assumption seems to be that such is the weakness of the opposition, the government can get away with anything.” – Larry Elliot (Guardian)

Afghanistan – Insight into the Mainstream Media (MSM)

“The MSM seeks to retrofit justification to the decision to go to war, chief among them securing the rights of women. But this issues did no feature among the original war aims… Those who make their arguments with bombs and missiles are ‘moderates’ and ‘centrists’; those who oppose them with words are ‘extremists’. The inconvenient fact that the ‘extremists’ were right and the ‘centrists’ were wrong, is today being strenuously forgotten.” – George Monbiot

Tory Hypocrisy – Nadine Does the Double

Nadine Dorries says the BBC should not be run mainly by the privately educated, who are unrepresentative of licence payers [But it is ok that the Tory Party is run mainly by the privately educated, who are unrepresentative of the taxpayers]

Nadine claims the BBC is stuffed by those “whose mum and dad worked there” [But Dorries employers two of her daughters in her parliamentary office funded by the taxpayer]

Even the ‘centrist’ Guardian can be Critical of Sir Keir

“A necklace of platitudes strung together with banalities, fastened with cliché.” – Guardian columnist commenting on Sir Keir’s 14,000 words essay in the Sunday Times