Do the left hate the right more than the right hate the left?

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Comment I came across..on twitter I think somewhere.

I thought there was a large element of truth in it?

Views?

Are you ascribing the belief of moral superiority to all left wingers there Humphrey?

Sorry StraitsofWTF - can't help myself. You're right of course...

Sorry, but the Daily Mail is foul.

Have you read that book called Flat Earth News? If you buy the DM you should really read it, it will make you think again.

no no

just a few

Attending a public school doesn't give anyone the right to behave badly.

also see it as the logical follow on from that position. If you truly believe that all right winger are racist homophobic blah blah then you WOULD feel justified in hating them.

I just refute the basic position.

I was joking about hte public school....

You appear to be extrapolating wildly from no basis there. Are you an economist?

sorry?

HumphreyCobbler, TheHeathenofSuburbia recommended it to me. I saw it in Smiths the other day but didn't buy it, haven't got time to read it. But you do know that it is written by Nick Davies, a Guardian journalist? What does he say about the Mail?

claig - that is a formality, he has to

Lots of grim stuff.

There are chapters about all the papers, including the Guardian and The Times.

But the Daily Mail really stands out, both by imposing a nasty agenda on its news and by the appalling way in which it treats those who it writes wildly inaccurate and nasty stuff about.

I'm not massively informed about any of this, but the way I see it, left wing is more caring, right wing is more 'each to their own, everyone look after themselves'. So morally, I do think the left is superior.

PfftThePinkoLeftyDragon, yes you are probably right. But I think Cameron is genuine and meant it. He knows that Brown did his best to represent the country. He doesn't agree with all of Brown's policies but he knows that Brown believed that he was acting in the interests of the country.

HumphreyCobbler, I'm sure the Mail is no angel and has an agenda. I disbelieve a lot of what they say, but I read other papers as well and over the years I have noticed that the Mail lets the public know some very important things that the so-called high-brow papers don't discuss. I will look at the book, as I now have 2 recommendations.

The Mail criticises anything and everything. All I read inside it is scaremongering.

After reading it I lost any faith in any media!

For a while. I am hooked again now.

I don't know how I manage to think it is all rubbish and be so keen to read it, all at the same time.

belle read it on swine flu, read it on Climategate, read it on certain political stories and you will see how good it is and how no other paper will tell you those stories. Ignore the obvious scaremongering stories.

claig, I think other papers have higher standards of proof than the dm, that's why they don't touch half their stories.

Just to clarify, I don't read the Mail.

I honestly think it is pernicious.

"2 million more people want them in than Labour, end of."

I think this election has shown that there is more to British politics than just Labour vs Conservative.

You've just totally dismissed the considerable number of people who voted for other parties which means that more people in the British electorate didn't want the Tories in than did.

Smashing.

claig - read it on health, and you'll see most almighty guff spouted. I wouldn't trust anything they have to say on anything remotely scientific.

That is politics for you though WinkyWinkola.

They got a bigger share of the vote than Blair did in 2005.

But they still didn't win.

Oh, I've seen the swine flu stories. Affected alot of people in the UK did it? Nope.

No.