General Election June 2017

I think all of the newspapers are aware that there is a massive cliff coming up, and their readership is dropping off that cliff (or in the case of the Telegraph, their readership is at the bottom of the cliff in a pile of coffins marked 'not to be carried by brown people'). The Guardian would be doing a lot better if it hadn't spent the past ten years chasing the 'information wants to be free' dragon thanks to it's ex-editor, who spunked all their cash up the wall on hosting and that weird-ass paper size.

The Guardian sells 150,000 copies, which is basically fuck all. The "right-wing" press actually still sell a reasonable amount.

The Guardian website, on the other hand...

The Guardian website, on the other hand...

Can't stand on it's own, it doesn't make enough to pay for the journalists it employs...

I'd be interested to see how many hits the Mail Online gets on actual news stories and how many it gets on Chloe Sizzles on the Beach In A Barely There Bikini and Hasn't She Grown, Perv Over This Famous Person's Thirteen Year-Old Daughter which we're not allowed to print in the newspaper but we'll still show online stories.

Corbyn's last event will be at Union Chapel this evening.

CORBO!

RIP cobryn.

ps why r u talking like an australasian?

^ double-lol

CORBO!

P.S. you around? I'm going to go. Beer?

mmmm yers. what time?

The Daily Mail's readership is literally dying but its 'attitude' lives on through their following generations - a kind of comfort blanket - the 'paper' will always be there like mum and dad and my old bunk bed I had as a kid.

As is the Sun - comfort to be reassured that you are as dense as loads of others.

https://twitter.com/JeremyCorbyn4PM/status/872378090302910465

8:45pm. If rain holds off, I predict a street party.

CORBO!

(Fact: every time you type "CORBO!" you convert one Tory voter).

No beer at Union Chapel, the first gig I've been to where I've sat there with a cup of tea.

Does this work for copy and paste..?

Good, fuck em, if you don't sell enough product keep your company trading, you fold. Simple.

Which basically means the only papers left are the ones backed by people with money to burn. You know, people like Murdoch.

But it's so much easier to just wave your hands and say "well obviously something can be done" without actually making suggestions.

In other news, I'll just leave this here
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/magazine-post/labour-is-the-party-that-grasps-our-brave-new-world/#.WTfMvKnAOiV.twitter

There isn't any actual news stories on the website. They closest they get is the ones they just make up.

Sorry for not being an expert in the intricacies of press regulation, however I do believe it needs to be stricter. For one reducing the burden of proof for cases of libel against publications, meaning they would have to be more careful about making up stories and using quotes out of context. See also the press's unwillingness to join the Royal Charter that was set up after the Leveson Inquiry because it would have more power than the current IPSO.

A picture of Paul Nuttall next to an advert for potentially dating a younger version of Paul Nuttall.

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https://twitter.com/ian_a_jones/status/872450233187401728

"admire and trust"

fucking brillo pad headed dog shagger.

https://twitter.com/Lord_Sugar/status/872428328824827904

@h2o

That's weird, the links says Labour, the article is UKIP.... did someone have a change of heart...? Or just trolling to get labour voters to read it...?

i'd settle for the sun and the mail being legally required to no refer to themselves as 'news papers' in favour of the more accurate 'richpersonsopinion papers'

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Only 17% of benefits (need citation) are paid to people that are out of work. The rest are paid to people in work. Your hard earned money is actually subsidising big businesses, enabling them to pay such low wages that the tax payer has to top it up whilst they reap the profit and then manage to pay little or no tax.

This, this and then this again.

If Tesco/Sainsburys/Asda/etc don't want to pay their staff enough to live on, why should the tax payer pick up the tab when they are shifting shitloads of cash off to their shareholders?

My mate won £3k on Trump. He put a couple of hundred on around the first selection round for party leader.

This goes to the core of why the Tory version of capitalism is such a sham. It's more like a ponzi scheme where a large number of people are being continually ripped off and the banks just print more money for them to borrow.