This week in Russia Putin is standing for re-election as a demonstration of Russian democracy although the BBC was quick to point out all of his major rivals are in prison or dead. Meanwhile suicidally brave Russian citizens are being arrested for acts of vandalism at polling stations. None of this should come as much surprise because its what we’ve been told to believe about Russia for most of our lives.
On the other side of
the world in the land of the free, their upcoming election will be contested
between two men who you’d barely trust to drive down the dual carriageway and it’s
becoming harder to ignore the fact that Trump is likely to get the top
again. But what Trump probably wants us
to ignore is that he’s currently on trial for, wait for it, “election interference”.
And in our own
thriving democracy the Tory party thinks it is okay to accept donations from
someone called Frank Hester who in turn thinks it is okay to make foul racist
statements about Diane Abbott. When this
subject came up in parliament Abbott herself was not allowed to ask a question
despite standing over forty times.
This is democracy?
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