The Conservatives have conducted their election campaign with sneering contempt, meaningless soundbites, trivial glittering generalities and barely a veneer of democratic engagement.
The misleading comments, half truths and misquotes that have dominated the Conservatives’ typically authoritarian approach are a disgrace to politics, and the media that has accommodated these deplorable tactics and vapid crib sheet insults without holding the government to account. Any question the Tories are asked that they would prefer not to answer is met with gossipmongering about Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott. It’s vile. No discussion about the details of Conservative policies whatsoever. Even worse, the Conservatives are so arrogant, they don’t feel they have to discuss their policy intentions or behave in an accountable and transparent manner at all.
A strategy of tension and perpetuated myths
Despite what the Conservatives have been saying to the public, Jeremy Corbyn signed a motion in the House of Commons…
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