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There is an unfortunate truth to this. You can try and conjure the ghost of the softboi neolib glory years, and Mandelson can flatter himself all he likes (the daft cunt), but it's hard to ignore a significant factor in Blair winning in 1997 because Murdoch for what ever reason wasn't on board Major's pro-Europe Tory party bus.
Was about to post something similar. We don't have an independent working mainstream media, as the Tory party give their owners what they want; or the state controlled media is too scared of what the Tories might do to them. The constant flow of journalists working in politics, or politicians working as journalists, needs to stop also.
As it is, Labour's best chance is 'Buggins Turn' as it was with Blair, if the Tories end up not servicing the needs of media barons anymore.
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We don't have an independent working mainstream media, as the Tory party give their owners what they want; or the state controlled media is too scared of what the Tories might do to them.
I believe that for the last 12 months the single greatest buyer of advertising space has been the Government, so there is a lot of truth to this. I also find this slightly scary: https://rsf.org/en/ranking#
RecoveryRide
There is an unfortunate truth to this. You can try and conjure the ghost of the softboi neolib glory years, and Mandelson can flatter himself all he likes (the daft cunt), but it's hard to ignore a significant factor in Blair winning in 1997 because Murdoch for what ever reason wasn't on board Major's pro-Europe Tory party bus.