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Yet I regularly encounter older voters who say "I remember when Labour was in government back in the 1970s and the state the country was in ... I could never vote for them because of that."

But many voters wouldn't simply 'shrug' if it was Starmer, because the Tory press would tell them that this reflected his arrogance or carelessness, and that it was therefore a reason why he would not be a good Prime Minster. Senior Tories regularly get away with things that Labour politicians...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/19/tory-seats-gain-more-4bn-levelling-up-fund-finds-analysis

Humanity appears to be becoming dumber and more depraved, and de-evolving I hate myself for it, but I sometimes think that the extinction of the human race due to climate change might not be such a bad thing after all.

Me too!

Given that most of our press is rabidly Tory, I'd say this was less a 'fail' by the media than a deliberate tactic to keep the public unaware of this latest Tory wheeze to rig general elections in their favour

Yes, another distract and divide tactic, another dead cat thrown on the table, and another weapon in their Culture Wars - this, and anti-strike/anti-trade-union legislation, is all they have left after 13 years.

As always, it's the sheer hypocrisy of the Tories which sickens me. When New Labour tried to introduce ID Cards (which I opposed), the Tories screamed about civil liberties and claimed that only totalitarian regimes (like the Soviet Union and North Korea) forced citizens to carry ID Cards. Yet...

The tragic irony being that the people and newspapers who are cheering these Tory attacks on human rights, civil liberties and peaceful protests are the same people and newspapers who, in every general election, scream that the election of a Labour government would herald the death of democracy...

LOL! I read that for A-Level Sociology at Boundstone 6th Form (Lancing)

Tories are always claiming that their free-speech has been taken away - wallowing in their paranoia and deluded sense of victimhood - yet somehow, they keep spouting their Right-wing nonsense, and insulting our intelligence in the process! Similarly, in spite of the rabidly pro-Tory and...

Not for much longer, as we have an authoritarian government which is contemptuous of human rights and civil liberties - even while it accuses "the fascist Left" of threatening free-speech and imposing 'cancel culture'. Moreover, many of our current Tories and their supporters look with...

LOL! Perhaps you should have a lie-down while you read your Daily Mail. Blair - leader of a Left-wing government!!! He was basically a One Nation Tory. The fact that you think he was somehow Left-wing simply shows just how much the current Conservative Party and many of its increasingly...

And in the 2019 general election, the Tories received donations of nearly £20 million from big business and wealthy individuals, while Labour's donations totalled about £6 million. Plus, of course, the Tories get 'free' support from the majority of Britain's billionaire-owned newspapers. The...

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It's also intended to embarrass Labour, because if Labour refuse to support it in the House of Commons, the Tories and their press propagandists will cite this as evidence that Starmer and Labour are "the strikers' friends" and subservient to their trade union paymasters. It's all sadly so...

Tories automatically condemn every strike by workers as 'militant' 'reckless', 'irresponsible', 'Communist-inspired', and 'greedy', and always respond by announcing more anti-strike or anti-union laws, which the Tory press cheer to the rafters. Yet I have never, in my whole life, heard the...

Yes, it almost beggars belief, but I've seen reports in serious newspapers that Johnson's supporters will be plotting to undermine Sunak this year in order to prepare for another Johnson premiership, which they are convinced will win them the 2024 general election by retaining the Red Wall...

In Britain, it is usually wetter the further west you go (y)