Right wing politics is legit, to be indulged, pandered to and hopefully corralled into more Thatcherism. Left wing politics is the enemy to be resisted to the fucking death.

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The lesson these people learned from deliberately inflicting Johnson and diamond hard Brexit on everyone was not: Oh shit, everything is terrible now, we may have gone too far. They instead learned they can do whatever they want, and they will be just fine.

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There’s a really unpleasant 2018 feeling to all this: very serious problems incoming imminently, very nasty far right wing figures waiting to profit when the government fucks up, and it looks like our political/media class is back in full Fuck it, my hate for these Commies is all that matters mode.

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I do think one of the guests has a good point about being lectured on racism against her own religion. I think that point would be considerably stronger if the entire media class had not just spent two weeks doing exactly the same shit to the Green Party leader and others, in a much nastier manner.

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And yes, the BBC are fully aware that LGBTQ ppl consider their wording a slur. They choose to be offensive. They could use the ‘assigned male at birth’ if they feel they need to. It’s clear & it’s factual. It’s not a slur. One might hope that the BBC would promote science, but here we are.

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