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They're still the opposition party, up against a massively corrupt and cronyistic government, and however much media bias there is, Labour should have been able to either state what their position is and/or show how abject and corrupt Johnson et al are. Can't lay the failure on the media alone.
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Can't lay the failure on the media alone.
I agree, I think it's down the party's media strategy too.
That there's so much active negative emotion towards Labour at the moment stinks to me. They're not doing anything, but is your man on the street usually angry with them for it? Or are they just ambivalent to politics usually. Maybe it's just symptomatic of being up against fucking boris
yoshy
I think the effect here is amplified by the urban/rural divide. Institutional and systemic racism, for example, are a lot less visible and apparent in the countryside and even in large towns, but those issues are front and centre for London, Manchester etc.
It seems to me the country, or maybe just the red wall, is angrier at Labour than they are at the Conservatives, and for me that has to lie at the feet of media strategy/media - what else could it be when L literally haven't been in power?