Insurgo FormicaWTF is going on with our media?
First sentence of this article, "Households could". In other words, pure speculation, but what a headline.
We're f@#ked
⌛️🧮 Bruce Carnwell (🐣 & 🌴)@InsurgoFormica it is the #AFR under the firm hand of the most economically conservative person I have ever heard speak on #Insiders, and even though he is leaving, he is clearly determined to knife the #ALP before heading out the door. And I thought Jason Greber was bad! I just remembered his name, Michael Sutchbury & Lenore Taylor and him used to argue constantly 😁
@BruceC01 yes, I understand, but it's not right. Regardless of your preferred party, it's a threat to our democracy which continues to be my theme.
@InsurgoFormica I’m sorry, but I see everything through my old and jaded prism of politics being game where you take no prisoners. I am hoping that the more independent Member of parliament we elect, things may improve 🤞🥂 Michael is very oldschool, and doesn’t care about subtlety or democracy, and he’s probably angling to get a post with some right wing consultancy firm or think tank.
@BruceC01 Ah, you're not old and jaded, the system is. That's what we need to rail against, the system! 😉
@InsurgoFormica let me know how that works out for you … 💐🥂
@BruceC01 I did laugh 😃
PaulWay@InsurgoFormica What's going wrong is that you're reading the Financial Times and expecting it to be in any way decent coverage of Labor policy.
The FT has basically been the conservative market economics mouthpiece for ages, and as such they are constitutionally incapable of giving Labor governments any kind of fair hearing AFAICS.
The sad thing is that, yes, those few people who think the FT is "legitimate news" (sadly I know some of these people) believe that guff. They love it. They want to hear that Labor policy is a Bad Thing and LNP policy is a Good Thing. And they're the people with five rental properties and negative gearing out the wazoo, so they're the ones benefiting from the shenanigans Howard instituted all those decades ago.
The good thing is that those people are old, white and they're dying off. And in many cases they're finding out that their dear FT is lying to them because their kids are now trapped with no savings, no decent income, and no housing.
@PaulWay I'm really just scanning all the headlines, but what I'm trying to emphasise is that media is an important part of our democracy, but it is being distorted to such an extent that democracy itself is threatened.