First They Ignore You, Then They Laugh at You, Then They Fight You, Then You Win

[miss_s_b]

This applies just as much to the Dead Tree Press as it does to the other political parties. This morning's headlines show that everybody is now at stage 3. I don't propose to link to any of the horrendous slurs, half-truths and outright lies that the papers have in them this morning; as Cicero says, the Dead Tree press is increasingly irrelevant, and they are only hammering nails into their own coffins.

What I will do is this: I will make suggestions of what you can do if you think this level of sustained ad hominem attack on one man is unacceptable.

1. Read this post by Steph Ashley. It's powerful, personal, and inspiring. This is how a lot of us in the party feel. You voters? You represent hope for us, and for yourselves. Don't let the self-interested negativity of the Dead Tree Press, who have suddenly noticed their power to mould your minds is crumbling, infect your thought processes. Instead think about what you want and how you can get it. If our policies are what you want (and research suggests that for 49% of you, our policies ARE what you want) then vote for us. If we're not what you want, vote for someone else. Simples.


2. Don't buy any more newspapaers. Hit them in the pocket for their behaviour.


3. Complain to their advertisers, like we all did when Jan Moir was so disgusting about Stephen Gately. This also hits them in the pocket.


4. Show them by positive action that this kind of smear campaign only drives people into the arms of the Lib Dems - Volunteer to help us, join the many facebook groups (one, two, three, four, and there are lots more. I reckon the first is the most important, though), wear your colours on your sleeve (or chest, or car)

The old media and the old politicians can see their cosy little world where they give each other positive press in exchange for knighthoods and influence and mutual money-making slipping away. This terrifies them. They will lose power and they will lose money, and they will lose it to YOU. All you have to do is put a cross in a box in a couple of weeks, and you take power from the elites and back to the streets. The choice is yours.

Comments

[doccy]

I'm just finding it hilarious that this bit of non-news (Donations went through his account! But, uh, didn't stay there. No.) is cropping up everywhere, even in passing For instance, I read a something earlier that basically said "Tonight's debate, with Brown, Cameron, and Nick-Clegg-who-is-accused-of-accepting-donations-into-his-personal-ban-account". Yeah, I never knew his surname was that long, either...

It's interesting to see how scared they've become.

[stephmog.livejournal.com]

Thank you, again! The timing of my post, and the fact it ends with that note about the right-wing press is not an accident. One of the many subtexts written into it for different people. Another is the pride and encouragement I want to show to my friends in the party who ARE able to get out campaigning more than I can.

[moriarty]

I-is it bad that when you typed "as Cicero said" I thought "wow I didn't know they had newspapers in Rome!" *glances guiltily at her copy of his Selected Works* >:

Our local MP, Mike Evemy, has really stepped up his presence in Bassett. He met Nick Clegg two days ago in...somewhere in Wiltshire (my geography skills, let me show you the lack of them) and now we have these neon orange triangles everywhere saying "Vote Mike EVEMY!" which are highly visible and awesome. Our Tory MP (James Gray, I think his name is. Every time he puts a flier through the door I carry it straight to the bin, so I don't know), who ran off with someone else whilst his wife recovered from cancer (true story) only has this really dull badly-coloured billboard next to the road to the M4, and it blends so perfectly with the hedges behind it that nobody actually looks at it twice. :3

I am so looking forward to the debate tonight. I think Clegg's intelligent enough to know that the pressure is going to be on him (thanks to the asshattery of the Daily Mail, he couldn't pull a Cam and fail to miss it) and he's good enough to know himself that that means he has to be stellar. Even if by some bizarre turn he completely didn't know any of this, I think Vince would have pointed it out by now ;-)

[gominokouhai]

The problem is that now, if the Lib Dems don't get in, the right-wing press is going to sit back with a smug smile and assume that they did it, and that now they get to tell everyone else how to vote for the entire future. And then all of this stupid crap about Yellow Peril (today's Times) and Cleggicide will only get worse. So now we have to win.

Blimey. Did I just say we? That just slipped out. I may have just learned something about my voting preferences.