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The idea of the thoughtful and forward-thinking people being dictated to by old people, northerners, the uneducated and bigots is what appals me.
Perhaps if old people, northerners, those failed by the education system and undereducated people who hold outdated political opinions due to this very failing in education were not sytematically patronised by those who wrongly consider themselves to be of superior intelligence, then we wouldn't get such an extreme reaction from the disenfranchised electorate. These people trust the headlines. Everyone used to trust the headlines. If we end up sailing away from Europe, blame the headlines. But who wrote the headlines? The vast majority of journalists are young, educated, thoughtful Southerners.
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Like Owen Jones?
It's a failing of the mainstream political parties, but especially the Labour Party, that they can no longer engage certain sections of the working class. UKIP have successfully played on the fears of 'the other' with these people and 6 years of ideologically driven austerity has driven them into their arms.
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Meh - it was a twist on the old Naked Gun 'I hate two things: bigotry and the Dutch' joke.
andyp
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The idea of the thoughtful and forward-thinking people being dictated to by old people, northerners, the uneducated and bigots is what appals me.