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The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union has literally dominated the mainstream news cycles for well over three years now. You’ll hear the word “ Brexit” likely within a few minutes of switching on virtually any news show.  The divisions within the country that led to Brexit (opposition to immigration, parliamentary sovereignty/opposition to globalisation) were the main reasons given to polling agencies and survey takers, which in turn led to the flourishing of another division surrounding Brexit: anyone who voted “Leave” is a far-right racist who hates immigrants and has no idea how an economy functions, and are poorer, less educated members of society.  But, with most insane hot takes, it has to go a step further. As you can see pictured above, our friend Laurence here is casually advocating for the genocide of any and all “Leave” voters. Quite how you can propose a genocide of any political dissidents and suggest that you’re morally correct is qu...

Loughborough University's Centre for Research in Communication and Culture have conducted Reports that break down the media's attitude towards all major politicians and parties who are hoping to win tomorrow's U.K. Election. The Reports are titled "Media Analysis of the 2017 General Election campaign" and it allows us to see if the major nighttime news shows and newspapers are really as neutral as they want us to think they are. The news programmes include: Channel 4 News at 7pm, Channel 5 News at 6:30pm, BBC1 News at 10, ITV1 News at 10 and Sky News at 8. The Newspapers include: The Guardian, Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Financial Times, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Mirror, The Sun and The Star. In this piece we will be looking at Reports 2 and 3 - as these are the reports that matter the most because of how they can influence peoples vote close to an election. Report 2 is dated from the 5th of May to the 17th of May and sho...

In only two days time the people of the U.K. will go to the polling stations and vote for their parliamentary representatives and a Prime Minister will be elected. The Labour party have a manifesto over 120 economists agree with, while the Conservatives spend more time saying "strong and stable leadership" and spreading defamatory comments about Jeremy Corbyn rather than than tell the nation about their policies, let's go through the defamatory comments and see if they hold any weight. Jeremy Corbyn is a supporter of the IRA. This is false. Sure you can find pictures of Gerry Adams and Corbyn together, however this was only after he became an elected MP in 1983 - political visit as opposed to a personal visit. The Times newspaper apologised for trying to smear Corbyn in 1987, claiming he paid an IRA member £45 who was fleeing British police, Jeremy Corbyn also reported the incident to the police as soon as he was made aware of the situation. Corbyn has also met North...