The biggest obstacle to change in the UK is the 4th estate. Despite the vice like grip exercised by the media you do however (thankfully) get a sense that opinion is shifting. Still, I read it in .... I saw it on remains a massive obstacle when the media really is a self serving, right wing, elite. Even the Guardian, since Russbridger moved on, has shifted in the wrong direction.
It's a shame about the BBC, definitely dumbing down/shifting to the right. Given the endless battering they take from the right it's hardly surprising I guess.
The finest piece of marketing though, without exception, is the Tory's who convince those they hurt the most that they are the best option. Turkey's, Christmas, orchestrated by Murdoch and others.
