Since Ed Miliband became leader of the labour party the problem seems to be getting worse.
I can't switch on the Radio or TV without hearing 'unbiased'publicly funded broadcasters repeating endlessly 'And of course the press are already calling him 'Red Ed'' (Really? Well as i don't read the tabloids I would have been blissfully unaware of the fact if you hadn't just repeated it eight times during the Today programme!)
and 'Of course what he can't start doing is just opposing the spending cuts' or 'Is Ed Miliband going to lead Labour on a Lurch to the Left?' 'Is he in danger of driving away mainstream voters?' John Humphreys, i'm looking at you in particular.
I feel like yelling 'I'm a mainstream voter and i'd gladly vote for him, if only he'd promise to sell off the publicly owned banks now, while there's a profit to be made for us, and cover the bulk of the budget deficit that way, instead of selling off my dc's education to the highest bidder as the coalition insists!'
Last night took the biscuit, I couldn't even sit through 5 minutes of 'What's The Point of the Unions?' on Channel 4 - all grainy hidden cameras and 'Bob Crow and the unions have the power to hold the country to ransom through strikes, this is utterly undemocratic etc' Yes, like the utterly undemocratic banks held our country to ransom, and they weren't even doing it to demand fair pay, or rights for workers or anything remotely principled, why aren't you piping the scary music in their direction?
We may as well let Rupert Murdoch and his son get their way and force the BBC and C4 to be sold off because as far as I can see they're already setting the entire agenda.
Socialist principles are now publicly derided from every corner, whether or not the organisation deriding them was set up under those very socialist priniciples or not. Any debate about economic ideas must be conducted within such narrow principles in order to avoid being laughed off the airwaves it's almost not worth having.