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Ivor Allchurch
waynekerr55 said:Aided and abetted by the client journalists. Has this class of client journalist always existed or is it now worse, Clase?
It's probably always been there to some extent. During my lifetime, I've always seen the Tories as a party trying to maintain and increase the rich/poor divide and that has been their ethos for over 200 years when the party started and mainly consisted of wealthy landowners and high up royalists and religious figures. Since WW2, they have continued this but have had to be a little more discrete about it as Labour had become more of a major political force but all that ended during the last decade, particularly under Johnson, when they became shamelessly more brazen, made no secret of their aims and have engineered things like, amongst others, the multi-billion pound PPE scandal in broad daylight with little very attempt to conceal it. This has emboldened the client journalists who were always there but who now probably feel that sucking up to these demagogues is acceptable as being completely shameless is now more widespread than I can ever remember it.