Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
Originally Posted by Carnelian:
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
Obviously there are many opinions and I go for the ones which fit in with my own ideology. News Corp are on the run and some of their former employees are in the dock accused of criminal acts. They are lashing out at all of their enemies and hoping a bit of mud sticks.
Are the royals really the enemies of Murdoch?
They're not like the BBC, who are a brick wall in the way of his total control of British media. They're not like the Labour Party, who potentially, could elect a left wing leader to mess up his plans.
I know he's a stated republican, but the Royals are a showbiz circus that helps sell his newspapers.
The royals are utterly self-serving and will never speak out against the excesses of the right-wing policies or dogma. As long as the free money and the figurehead status is maintained, we could elect a clone of Adolf for all they care.
I know that you are being devil's advocate here Carnelian, however now that I have managed to get a seat in front of a proper PC..........
I'm not concerned too much about the Royal Family, they do fall in with the Marxist idea of Bread and Circuses, but are inoffensive and cheap. Are they the enemies of Murdoch? You bet they are! He declared war on them years ago. Neither does he like our democratic system or intellectuals. He also has zero tolerance for Europe.
Imagine a total market based system of large trans-national companies in a world of token arsehole politicians such as Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Todd Atkin and so on.
Recently Murdoch decided that he had had enough of Cameron and that Boris would make a better PM. We now have arrived at a situation where he decides who rules (Actually a few decades ago)
Why won't anyone take a stand against him? Why doesn't Cameron tell him to take a running jump?
I do hope that our future isn't going to be a MacWorld with decisions made by Murdoch and everything owned by Russian criminals. No doubt the royal family will be a convenient Aunt Sally though.
I can't disagree with your assessment of Murdoch and his motivations. I think the right wing proprietors and their pet opinion formers have had enough of Cameron. The Express and Mail are doing the same as Murdoch. Our right wing media is almost uncannily unified in singing from the same hymn-sheet. Makes me wonder if they know something we don't!
As for the Royals, I'm sure you're right that the Royals would be considered by Murdoch as the last bastion of welfarism once the BBC's been bought out by Sky, stuffed with costume dramas and re-branded a Sky heritage channel.
However, the Royals are no opposition to the hard right's end game of turning the nation into a tax haven for oligarchs, oil barons, arms dealers and playboys. They would be more than happy to cash in on the investment opportunities that such a nation would give them. They would emulate the roles of royal families in nations such as Liechtenstein and Monaco.
The right wing and its media is a little put out that austerity it isn't hurting the poor as much as they'd hoped, so by their thinking, it's not working enough.
Cameron isn't throwing enough class hate red meat for the right wing's liking.
You only have to read some of the lunatic opinions in the DM where Cameron is described (with no hint of sarcasm) as a left winger. Not enough unemployed, not enough repossessions, not enough homeless for their liking. The useful idiot Tory working class don't understand that the hard right actually gets off on seeing people like them ground into the dirt.