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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
So, I don't really agree that our present situation is all down to choices we made in the past.
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After Thatcher came to power in '79, the country rejected the Labour party of Foot and Kinnock, time after time.
The majority of the British people made their choices.
Hence Labour ditched anything vaguely socialist, and were reborn as something new. New Labour.
The same thing happened to the Tories, when people chose not to elect them, thrice consecutively, and thought they'd become unelectable.
They weren't the choice of the majority, so they aped New Labour, dropped 'hang 'em and flog 'em', in favour of the caring and sharing, and not forgetting hoodie hugging.
Through our choices we have been left with near identical mainstream poltical parties, peopled by careerist politicans, nearly all from a few public schools, and with similar degrees from Oxbridge.
We do get what we demand.
It's supply and demand.
Same as printed media.
Yes we have a few serious publicatons, but our biggest selling magazine's big news story this week is that the girls from The Only Way is Essex are on a diet, and our newspaper with the highest circulation is full of tits, telly, and tedious titillation.
We do make choices, and therefore are supplied with what others think will satisfy those choices.