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if the Labour left were still in control of the party today and a report as damning as the Forde report was released, do we think it would be off the front pages a mere handful of days after it had been published?
Yes, if at the time we were in the middle of a Tory leadership campaign / cost of living crisis. They clearly are gunning for Starmer (see beergate) so it isn't as if actually they're good with Starmer and so are giving him an easy ride
andyfallsoff
No it’s not.
Mentions of the Forde report on the front pages (web based) of the right wing press today
Daily Mail: 0
Telegraph: 0
Times: 0
Express: 0
Sun: 0
Because the British press
A) do not give one teeny tiny fuck about racism or otherwise reprehensible behaviour when it’s people they approve of doing it
B) don’t want to revisit that period when they were screeching and finger pointing and gnashing their teeth, because the Forde report indicates they should really go back and reconsider the work they did at that time, and that would be deeply inconvenient for them.
As a thought experiment: if the Labour left were still in control of the party today and a report as damning as the Forde report was released, do we think it would be off the front pages a mere handful of days after it had been published?