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This article made one thing clear to me. The old Trust that ran the Guardian is long-since gone. I used to be an avid reader of the Guardian, but that was in the 1990's and mostly before 9/11.
Now the Guardian is a right-wing newspaper and one of the mainstays of Empire.
The
Guardian has morphed into The Daily Mail (so elect Corbyn and ignore
them)
26
July, 2015
The
Guardian has become a liberal frosted version of The Daily Mail. You
think not? Read on…
Like
the BBC – The Guardian is not independent, the old Scott Trust
was wound up in 2008 and replaced by a limited company of
which venture capital firm Apax Partners is the sole
shareholder.
Apax
Partners appoints
a board to run the show – the composition of which might startle
those who still regard The Guardian as a left leaning
newspaper.
Neil Berkitt – a former banker (Lloyds, St George Bank) who then helped vulture capitalist Richard Branson with Virgin Media.
David Pemsel – Former head of marketing at ITV.
Nick Backhouse – On the board of the bank of Queensland, formerly with Barings Bank.
Ronan Dunne - On the Telefónica Europe plc board, Chairman of Tesco Mobile. He has also worked at Banque Nationale de Paris plc.
Judy Gibbons - Judy is currently a non-executive director of retail property kings Hammerson, previously with O2, Microsoft, Accel Partners (venture capital), Apple and Hewlett Packard.
Jennifer Duvalier – Previously in management consultancy and banking.
Brent Hoberman – Old Etonian with fingers in various venture capital pies including car rental firm EasyCar.
Nigel Morris – chairman of network digital marketing giants Aegis Media.
John Paton – CEO of Digital First Media – a very large media conglomerate which was sued successfully in the U.S. for rigging advertising rates.
Katherine Viner – Startlingly not a banker, in marketing or venture capital. She is I gather (gulp) a journalist.
Darren Singer – formerly with BSkyB, the BBC and Price Waterhouse Coopers.
the
only remaining guy is the secretary Philip Tranter – but don’t
worry, he is a proper sort from some posh law firms in London.
If
any of the members of the Guardian Media Group get bored they can
surely get a slot with the BBC Trust which
is also stuffed full of bankers and establishment big wigs.
Note
the total absence of any trade unionists, social workers,
activists or erm journalists (save for Editor in chief Ms Vine).
The
Guardian is owned by a venture capital firm and run by people
predominantly from banking, venture capital and marketing – with
all manner of connections to companies like Virgin Media, Tesco, O2,
Microsoft, HP etc.
Perhaps this explains its well documented expertise in off shore tax avoidance schemes…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/06/28/the-insufferable-hypocrisy-of-the-guardian-on-corporation-tax/
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/05/16/has-the-guardian-exploited-tax-loopholes-to-save-millions/
…the abrupt dismissal of dissenting voices,
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2014/782-grievous-censorship-by-the-guardian-israel-gaza-and-the-termination-of-nafeez-ahmed-s-blog.html
its hysterical reaction to the notion of Scottish Independence…
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2014/774-dark-omens-and-horror-shows-scottish-independence-power-and-propaganda.html
(I
could post hundreds of other links on this topic!)
and the patronising smear campaign now being waged 24/7 against Jeremy Corbyn.
.
Since
it has emerged that Jeremy is popular with the kind of ordinary
people whose concerns are beneath the lofty machinations of the
Guardian Media Group - their determination to rubbish the
Corbyn campaign for leadership of The Labour Party and
support his rivals has reached a farcical fever pitch.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/19/observer-view-labour-leadership-election-jeremy-corbyn
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/jul/26/labour-fiddles-while-rome-burns
and
this is but a FRACTION of the smug patronising abuse that Corbyn and
his supporters have been treated to over the last few days.
The
intention is to create a climate of opinion in which any deviation
from the terms and conditions The Guardian has placed on political
debate remain unchallenged.
The
Guardian has spent years defining the ‘centre ground’ so
that it takes place within a neoliberal fantasy land, one which
facilitates a cosy relationship with wealth and power.
The Guardian is a right wing newspaper now.
.
The
few dissenting voices it allows space for are merely fig
leaves for a right wing bias disguised as ‘balanced’
journalism.
The heavy
lifting of foisting its fictional credibility onto the
public is left to its churnalist live blogs, stories fed to
them by PR agencies and political spin doctors , stories copied
straight from the wire agencies like AP and worst of all, its
tiresome clutch of factory hen hacks like Andrew Rawnsley &
Martin Kettle <shudder>
.
and shall we mention its commitment to…
.
to
name but a few…
.
and best of all, just what has The Guardian done about Climate Change?
.
Eagle
eyed readers might have already spotted that with The Guardian
running full steam ahead on expensive consumerism, foreign travel
and reviews
of expensive new motors a
position on climate change might prove difficult.
The
Guardian could never put forward alternatives to consumerism,
endless growth or advocate banking reform or strong state
intervention, so instead they wrote to a billionaire friend (Bill
Gates) and asked if he wouldn’t mind rearranging the investment
portfolio of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (and drop its
shares in Shell etc)
Sadly
Bill was not minded to listen to pious waffle from The Guardian on
climate change and so that was pretty much the end of the campaign
which has softly faded from view…
.
What can do we about this?
.
We
can accept the truth – and this is very important – there is no
liberal media in this country anymore, capital has bought it all.
Since
no one in the media and very few in the political establishment will
support any progressive change whatsoever, we shall have to simply
ignore the media and the political establishment and force
their hand anyway.
Politicians
will always gracefully accept what they cannot prevent – any
change will have to come from grassroots activism supporting the
concerns of ordinary people.
and
we can tell The Guardian to fuck off – that we’re tired of being
patronised, insulted, stereotyped and demeaned.
#fuckoffguardian
and
we can ignore the panic of the corporate media and elect Jeremy
Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party.
They
are frightened of Jeremy and they are frightened of us – its time
to realise their worst nightmares and reclaim the space for
political debate and action for ourselves
.
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Why
Jeremy Corbyn is terrifying the London elite
by
Craig Murray
28
July, 2015
For
a decade, I have argued that democracy in the UK is dysfunctional
because an entrenched party system offers no real choice. The major
parties offer political programmes which are virtually
indistinguishable. As I put it in lectures, if the range of possible
political programmes were placed on a linear scale from 1 to 100, the
Labour and Conservative parties offer you the choice between 81 and
84.
This
exclusion of political possibility is reinforced by a corporate media
structure, led by the BBC, in which ideas outside the narrow band of
establishment consensus are ridiculed and denigrated. Therefore even
political ideas which have the consistent support of the majority of
the population, such as nationalisation of railways and other natural
monopolies including utilities, simply cannot get an airing. Of all
the broadcast coverage of the Iraq War, less than 3% gave time to
anti-war voices, despite a majority opinion against the war.
This
phenomenon explains why a large majority of both Conservative and
Labour MPs are members of the Friends of Israel when public opinion
consistently sympathises more with Palestine. It also explains the
quite extraordinary media onslaught against Scottish independence.
I
pointed out that Nicola Sturgeon’s appearance in the TV leadership
debates was the first major airing of an anti-Trident argument on
broadcast media in England for a decade. Actually hearing
anti-austerity arguments led to a huge surge in support for the SNP
in England as well as Scotland.
Now
Jeremy Corbyn, having obtained a platform where on occasion he has
been able to have his views broadcast direct without media mediation,
is experiencing a massive surge of support. Ed Miliband’s lasting
achievement is that he managed to put the ordinary people who marched
against the Iraq War in charge of the Labour Party, not the careerist
Blairite committee manipulators. The result is stunning.
The
sheer panic gripping the London elite now is hilarious to behold.
Those on the favoured side of Britain’s enormous wealth gap are
terrified by the idea that there may be a genuine electoral challenge
to neo-liberalism, embodied in one of the main party structures. This
is especially terrifying to those who became wealthy by hijacking the
representation of the working class to the neo-liberal cause. The
fundamental anti-democracy of the Blairites is plainly exposed, and
the panic-driven hysterical hate-fest campaign against Corbyn by the
Guardian would be unbelievable, if we hadn’t just seen exactly the
same campaign by the same paper against the rejection of
neo-liberalism in Scotland.
I
think I am entitled to say I told you so. Many people appear shocked
to have discovered the Guardian is so anti-left wing. I have been
explaining this in detail for years. It is good to feel vindicated,
and even better that the people I have repeatedly shared platforms
with, like Jeremy and Mhairi, are suddenly able to have the genuinely
popular case they make listened to. Do I feel a little left behind,
personally? Probably, but I would claim to have contributed a little
to the mood, and particularly my article on the manufactured myth
that the left is unelectable has been extremely widely shared – by
hundreds of thousands – in the social media storm that is
propelling the Corbyn campaign.
There
has been very little comment on the impact a Corbyn victory would
have on the SNP. Indeed, despite being unbendingly unionist, the
Scottish media have been unable to avoid representing by omission the
fact that the Labour leadership contest is taking place almost
entirely in another country with another political culture. But there
is no doubt that a Corbyn-led Labour Party would be more attractive
in Scotland than the Tory lite version, although the paucity of
Labour’s Scottish leadership would be a constant factor. Much would
depend on the wider question of how the careerists who make up most
Labour MPs and MSPs would react to a Corbyn victory.
At
Westminster, I can see no reason at all why Liz Kendall, Chuka Umunna
and their like cannot simply cross the floor and become Tories.
Cameron is astute enough to find junior ministerial positions for
them and the Tory ranks would be elated enough to swallow it. But
most of the careerists will look at their new constituency members
and suddenly discover left wing principles. It will be less bloody
than people expect.
In
Scotland, a Corbyn victory will bring some swing back to Labour from
the SNP, but most of the old Labour demographic have now set their
hearts on independence. Should Corbyn actually look set to win a UK
general election in 2020, that would very possibly dent the
enthusiasm for independence at the margins. It would in no sense
reduce my own desire for independence, but even I would feel it less
urgent. A Corbyn led UK would not cause the same feeling of moral
revulsion. All of which is a good argument for having the next
referendum early.
Should
Corbyn not win the Labour leadership, the effect will be opposite.
The SNP will be boosted by the death of the last hope that the Labour
Party might actually mean something again, rather than be a vehicle
for soulless careerists spouting management-manual jargon. If Corbyn
loses, the Labour Party in Scotland really might as well wind up. The
cause of independence will be furthered.
So
what do I want to happen? I want Jeremy to win, of course, deeply and
sincerely. I am an internationalist and not a Machiavellian. I want
the chance of a just society and an ethical foreign policy for
England and Wales. Like me, Jeremy wants to see Ireland eventually
united. I have never discussed Scottish independence with him, but I
am quite sure his opposition is not of the Britnat imperialist
variety.
You
can be sure that the security services are heavily targeted on the
Corbyn campaign. Allow me one last “I told you so”. I came in for
much ridicule when I stated, from certain knowledge, that MI5 were
targeted on Scottish Nationalists (I had actually been shown the
tasking). This comes into the category of obvious truths which the
media and political consensus seeks to deny. The ridicule even came
from some within the SNP – which, like any other organisation
deemed a threat to the UK, is itself penetrated by the security
services. Well, now that truth has become mainstream too. I do not
anticipate any apologies.
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