"the whole narrative about Labour’s culpability for the economic crisis and the urgency of austerity is nonsense. But it is nonsense that was consistently reported by British media as fact. And all of Mr. Corbyn’s rivals for Labour leadership bought fully into that conventional nonsense, in effect accepting the Conservative case that their party did a terrible job of managing the economy, which simply isn’t true. So as I said, Mr. Corbyn’s triumph isn’t that surprising given the determination of moderate Labour politicians to accept false claims about past malfeasance." --
Paul Krugman
ReplyDeleteThere's a petition on Change.org, it's a request to the BBC, in the interest of fairness and un-biased reporting, to always refer to David Cameron as the "right-wing Prime Minister." Perhaps "hard right-wing Prime Minister" would work even better.
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