McGentrix wrote:Walter, when I speak of "liberals", I speak of people who follow the same type of political path as American liberals. The people that hate Bush, vote democrat, float towards socialism, etc... I can not be bothered by your tiresome comparison of eurocentric liberals or trying to be as specific as possible in every post. So from now on when I say "liberal" I am referring to people like Franken, Fisk, Gore, Moore, Kerry, Kennedy and people that are like minded to them.
Is that ok?
Ah, well, there's your problem then.
Our political system is shifted more to the left than your political system, so our equivalent of your Democratic Party would be something centre.
Your Republicans have no real equivalent in our country, as far as I can tell. All Parties here support things that Republicans would never do, regardless of their location on the political spectrum.
The real Liberals in our country have no real political party that represents them and the ones that do are in such a minority they can never get into power.
The American concept of Liberal and Conservative are more skewed than the British ones.
The likes of Franken and Gore (I refuse to class Moore, because even I think he's a jerk) are pretty much representative of the majority of the UK, regardless of whether they see themselves as Conservative or Liberal.
And when you say, Kennedy, who do you mean?
I take it you don't mean Charles Kennedy, the Leader of our Liberal Democrat Party. You don't mean JFK, do you, the man that was a failure at politics but at least championed the rights of the blacks?
And as for newspapers, LE got it spot on. The majority of them, with the exception of the Observer and the Guardian are all right-wing.
And Lord Ellpus, apparently according to a publication I read, our press is no more free than America, less free than that of Hong Kong and even that of Canada. Not that it isn't free, of course. It's quite good compared to China and all the dictatorships around there, but it's still not the best.
(I think that's only because the press in the US is owned by a mere handful of companies, which helped to lower the US's score).
Our political spectrum is not comparable to yours, because unlike America, we never had Communist witch hunts in the 1950s that purged out anything that looked even remotely left-wing, and polarised the country to the right-wing of politics.
