It's hard to explain the parallels with 1930s Europe if you discount the economic context.

Absolutely agree. I'm not defending tabloids, I'm just pointing out that the graph isn't cast iron evidence of tabloids setting the agenda.

I believe that you're correct, but doesn't the graph also support the tabloid assertion that they mirror voter concerns?

We all must admit, this is the best of all possible worlds. No-one could have done anything better or differently.

I'm impressed you can tolerate regularly seeing tweets from that arsewipe. The man who left Labour to escape an investigation of sexual misconduct and then screwed over his old party for a peerage.

Put it in the filing cabinet with Hillsborough, Grenfell, Orgreave, where the powerful destroy the lives of the working class with zero consequences.

Indeed.

Voting would be unpredictable, inconvenient, and would create the erroneous impression that anyone other than our clever leaders should have a say in such an important matter.

That's the biggest problem with the government obsession with growth. It won't make the working class any richer.

If Elgin had purely artistic and philanthropic motives, why did he sell them to the British Museum and not just donate them?

So if it costs c £100 billion to nationalise them (Water Companies figure), we would get more than 10% ROI. The interest on that loan would be way less.