Tory supporting media commentators across many papers all seem to have the same problem.
They are like someone joining the dots in one of those puzzle magazines. They successfully join them all up and the picture emerges of a giant elephant in a room, and then they all look at it in a bewildered fashion, unable to see the picture.
So, we are now getting endless pieces about how something is “rotten in the state of Denmark”, the country is “coming apart at the seams”, the “country is going to the dogs” and so on. Then just when you think they have worked out what is wrong they make a sharp hand brake turn and blame the woke, remainer blob, treasonous civil servants or trade union radicalism or green protests.
Come on you can do it, look again, what do you see?
13 years of the worst government in modern British history? Austerity? Incompetence? Brexit? Economically suicidal policies? Lies? Law breaking?
No, nothing? What a mystery it all is.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
It happens so frequently and predictably, a cynic might think it's a strategy.
One is supposed to not attribute to malevolence that which could as likely be attributed to incompetence. But the proprietors of the publications and outlets for whom the media commentators work all seem to be disciples of the ideas set out in William Rees Mogg's "Sovereign Individual". Those ideas include the instability (chaos) brought about (as if by magic) by the digital age. And how profits can be maintained and increased in times of economic chaos.
How likely is it that these particular commentators are really bewildered and unable to see the big picture? Are they incompetent but useful idiots? Or do the proprietors and the commentators they employ have a vested interest in promoting and maintaining the economic chaos created by Brexit?