With support for left-wing ideas like This Site has suggested in today’s articles still high, Another Angry Voice has explained why it’s so hard to read Vox Political now.

I don’t mean it’s hard to read the actual words on the screen when you open the site; I mean it has become almost impossible even to make you aware that I’ve written any articles for you to read.

The reason is simple: right-wing rich kids have been spending money like water to stop you from being able to see these pieces because they know you will support the ideas they embody.

Take two stories today – the nationalisation of three rail companies and the debt crisis faced by a heavily-offending water firm.

I’ve written about them but very few people have seen them – hundreds rather than the hundreds of thousands who would have been seeing them a few years ago.

The reason:

A June 2024 YouGov poll found that support for public ownership has increased dramatically since 2017, with overwhelming majorities in favour of public ownership of schools, water, energy, public transport, mail, and the NHS.

Keir Starmer has turned the Labour Party into a right-wing party that vehemently resists it, with even its plan to “renationalise” the railways a deceptive sham to protect the interests of private rail freight companies and the obscene profiteering train leasing companies.

Even when the case for renationalisation is absolutely compelling, as with England’s privatised water companies that have extracted £70billion+ in profits whilst loading the companies up with unpayable debts, and pumping raw sewage into our rivers and coastal waters to save themselves the cost of treating it, Starmer’s Labour are implacably opposed to giving the British public what they want, and taking them back into public ownership.

Starmer, and Labour, take this position because they have been told to. You can say they get their advice from their funders, from think tanks, from the press, or from whoever; it coincides with what Big Money wants.

So Labour does nothing about this:

Pages that used to get hundreds of thousands of shares and literally millions of engagements have had their reach throttled so dramatically that they can no longer even reach most of the people who actually follow their pages, let alone millions of others.

The problem isn’t that traditional left-wing ideas like public ownership, decent pay, workers’ rights, quality education, investment economics, affordable housing, and a functional social safety net have become unpopular, it’s that proponents of these views have been systematically marginalised from the political system and across conventional media and social media alike.

And it’s not about to get better, because the media – both legacy and social – are dominated by Big Money; the businesses that want to keep sites like AAV and VP silent.

AAV says

As long as the British left remains entirely reliant upon capitalist means of communication to spread their message, they’ll remain susceptible to content suppression, marginalisation, and gross misrepresentation.

But there are no other means of getting the message across!

So what’s the answer? We know from experience that most people aren’t going to actively look for us, and I know from experience that the government won’t legislate to stop us being persecuted (I’ve been asking – and I’ve been ignored – since the election in July).

And you UK residents thought you lived in a country that holds free speech to be sacred!

It seems that, in this country, only money talks.

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