Well said Jim - TRULY A WTF MOMENT THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS AND CERTAINLY CAUSED A STIR UP HERE RE THE CRASS NATURE OF SUCH A STATEMENT THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN UTTERED IN THE FIRST PLACE!! It just confirms where we stand in that regard anyway - no point them hiding such common bias any more esp with the likes of that quisling, Gordon Broon, openly colluding with the Tories on pro-Union activities!!
That was just a general comment re Blair's 1997 election factored in how he won it Theo. We all know the RW MS press plays a huge part in influencing election results and that fact has been randomly mentioned for a very long time on different OPs/threads down the years as well as some vg book publications and tv documentaries on the subject. The main point being made was Starmer won't be given that "luxury"!! Just look back at the number of elected Labour govts since the end of WWII until now! Very few! And how many actually had the backing of the press?? The Wilson Labour govt? Probably at that specific time in the 1960s!! The Callaghan govt? Again probable. Then after a period of public unrest, power cuts, disruptive strikes we moved on to a new era of RW press and media activity attached to RW governance that has been unprecedented in extreme activity to ensure their favourite candidate/poltical party has a huge advantage over the rest. Now it has morphed to an even worse form than before and coupled on to SM data streaming/online data bombardment/notifications of potential voters that has been questioned by many political analysts/observers re its legitimacy in a true democracy. CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA ANYONE??? Indeed, re the election of few Labour govts, reflect back to post WWI and how many Labour govts have been elected in the past 100 years - the trend is sadly glaring!! I could go on, but I'll just leave it at that and will obligingly miss out the "Scottish dimension" that has a huge "beef" re the election of Tory govts that continually "haunt us" up here esp after the horribly unacceptable events during the Thatcher years - NEVER FORGOTTEN!!
(29-09-2021, 21:49)theo_luddite Wrote: IMO Blair wouldn't have won the 1997 election so well without that agreement.
Fer crying out loud, no Tory government wins without it either.
That was just a general comment re Blair's 1997 election factored in how he won it Theo. We all know the RW MS press plays a huge part in influencing election results and that fact has been randomly mentioned for a very long time on different OPs/threads down the years as well as some vg book publications and tv documentaries on the subject. The main point being made was Starmer won't be given that "luxury"!! Just look back at the number of elected Labour govts since the end of WWII until now! Very few! And how many actually had the backing of the press?? The Wilson Labour govt? Probably at that specific time in the 1960s!! The Callaghan govt? Again probable. Then after a period of public unrest, power cuts, disruptive strikes we moved on to a new era of RW press and media activity attached to RW governance that has been unprecedented in extreme activity to ensure their favourite candidate/poltical party has a huge advantage over the rest. Now it has morphed to an even worse form than before and coupled on to SM data streaming/online data bombardment/notifications of potential voters that has been questioned by many political analysts/observers re its legitimacy in a true democracy. CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA ANYONE??? Indeed, re the election of few Labour govts, reflect back to post WWI and how many Labour govts have been elected in the past 100 years - the trend is sadly glaring!! I could go on, but I'll just leave it at that and will obligingly miss out the "Scottish dimension" that has a huge "beef" re the election of Tory govts that continually "haunt us" up here esp after the horribly unacceptable events during the Thatcher years - NEVER FORGOTTEN!!