"Well I see it like this. Over the last few weeks I've read in public forum that the "Tories" are "racist", "homophobic", "nazis", "c-----" , "rich bastards", "scum", Now of course during an election the heat of the debate rises but generally I don't see that type of rhetoric coming the other way. "
Strat, in my experience that has always been the case, bizarre but there you go.
As for the press, well The Guardian particularly over recent times as become even more the arbiter of playground politics. I still read it because they are right about some things IMO (as are the right wing press) and a little bit of left wing hysteria keeps everyone's feet on the ground by blimey they have been getting very much more silly over recent years. OTH I couldn't read much of The Mail or Express without laughing either.
What I have detected this time is something that does disturb me a little. And that's the relative hard time given to some Government MP's in comparison to some MP's not in Government on mainstream TV. Don't get me wrong, I understand that if you're in Government and failing on an issue then you need to be accountable and subject to 'difficult' questions but it seems, to have gone a bit OTT sometimes.
For example BBC Breakfast just now repeatedly tried to get Damian Green to explain how the third London Bridge attacker was allowed to be in the U.K., only the day after he had been identified publicly. He was not flustered but repeatedly said something along the lines he didn't know yet but everyone's trying to find out in an ongoing investigation which he wans't going to comment on, but the BBC journo wouldn't let it lie and just kept poking until the OSB went down. A little later and Jeremy Corbyn is on, he's just given the opportunity to say all the right things again (as any opposition leader of any party would), without even begining to account for how to actually do all these wonderful things and how the costs are going to be met. And then they ask him how is allotment is doing!
I think if you're going to show balance within two interview half an hour apart, then be balanced. Either do the anodyne One Show stuff for both, or kick 'em both in the nuts.
