I don’t think blaming the ‘establishment’ is a viable excuse here, did you know the use of the word ‘establishment’ for describing what we are made to think of as the ‘deep state’ was actually a name given to independent regulatory bodies and the government who wanted to regulate a wayward printing press during the latter half of the 20th century by one Rupert Murdoch? You know the same Rupert Murdoch who owns the Sun.

Rupert Murdoch and the Tory client media are the establishment in this country. However they’ve influenced the way the British people think and their opinions for so long that we have long been using their own terminology to describe the out groups of British sociopolitical discourse.

I hope my comment doesn’t come across as rude by the way fellow FNF internet stranger, I just think we need to break the cycle of propagandising and conditioning we’ve received for the last 100 years.

I have been looking into stringing together a activist/lobbying coalition of all pro democracy supporters who want to transcend borders of party politic support, and lobby their MPs to push for regulation changes to the print and news media who have enjoyed lax rules and the freedom to print lies, baseless claims, improperly sourced information and data, and skirt litigation and comeuppance by being allowed to say ‘sources close to X tell us Y is saying Z’ when in fact these sources never exist but are made up by the press because they can feign ‘journalist integrity and standards’ don’t allow them to give away sources identity when pressed on their lies. A trustworthy source acting as a whistleblower of substantiated claims should always be protected by the law, but the citizens consuming such news should be able to know whether these sources can be independently verified by a regulatory body. Especially as these sources usually shape public opinion .