Who buys a newspaper?

David49

Newspapers like the Telegraph are fueling the rise of Reform with the constant belittling of moderate politics, do you really think that is a good thing. The more exaggerated and salacious the more buy the newspaper, they are not reporting news they are influencing opinion.

And why shuldn't Refpom continue to rise and possibly form a government? I do not support the party in any way, anymore than you do, but we live in a demeocracy and that means learnng to live with governments we, personally, find abhorrent, but which the majority of people approve of.

M0nica

David49

Newspapers like the Telegraph are fueling the rise of Reform with the constant belittling of moderate politics, do you really think that is a good thing. The more exaggerated and salacious the more buy the newspaper, they are not reporting news they are influencing opinion.

And why shuldn't Refpom continue to rise and possibly form a government? I do not support the party in any way, anymore than you do, but we live in a demeocracy and that means learnng to live with governments we, personally, find abhorrent, but which the majority of people approve of.

Unless the Government can work out why people are voting for Reform and seek the answers and remedies, we could well be seeing Farage in Number 10.
They have to get a grip on this before it's too late.

They are voting for Reform in the same way that they voted for Brexit, because they are gullible and believe the editorial line. Repeat it often enough and it becomes the truth, can democracy survive manipulation in this way?

David49

They are voting for Reform in the same way that they voted for Brexit, because they are gullible and believe the editorial line. Repeat it often enough and it becomes the truth, can democracy survive manipulation in this way?

How arrogant you sound. How do you know that they are gullible and can be manipulated to doing what Reform want?

Have you ever considered that you are the one being manipulated believing everything in the news that supports your mindset, rather than investigating both sides throughly befor making a decision that could go against you previously embedded beliefs.

To be fair, David49 may not live where some people live who encounter daily problems and feel such helplessness that they feel Reform may bring the answers they need.

Unless people have insight and empathy, it is easy to dismiss their concerns.

Allira

To be fair, David49 may not live where some people live who encounter daily problems and feel such helplessness that they feel Reform may bring the answers they need.

Unless people have insight and empathy, it is easy to dismiss their concerns.

We have a County Council dominated by Reform, at the last GE the Reform vote was substantial together with LD overturned a 20000 Tory majority. Im only too aware of the Reform threat, voters were proved gullible voting for Brexit on the lies and half truths that were spread during that campaign. I see that happening again

I try to be politically neutral, the crazy right wing bias of the Johnson era was bound to result in a change to Labour, Starmer had a moderate agenda but his MPs dont support it, wanting more social spending. In my opinion that will result in more difficult economic problems, whoever is leader. Economic stability being more important than just more social spending

At the next GE the very last result I want is a Tory/Reform government.

My goodness! I actually agree with David! Apart from the bit about Brexit.

From afar and if I am allowed to comment it seems the Farage followers are really protesting against the current PM and his policies . How else do you do that ? I think they could put a dog up and people would follow it just to get rid of them. They really, really should seek to change and not just condemn the opposition without doing anything positive. Or ,at the very least, let people know what good things they have actually done but not via Mr. Wooden top, use another minister with more charisma. Now you can ignore my foreign input if you like.

I stopped buying newspapers a few years ago. What with the internet etc., found I wasn’t keeping up with them. Also the news also depresses me somewhat.

However, I miss them for lining the cat’s litter tray and other practical things😁

Of course you’re allowed to comment, nanna8, just the same as any other member. I’d be interested to know why you have such an extreme dislike of our PM. Granted he’s not charismatic, but what else has he done to annoy you so very much?

Btw, we have several alternatives to the Reform party that voters could opt for if they just wanted to make a protest vote. We had an excellent Independent standing in our local election, for instance, someone who’s already done a lot for the area. For some reason our quite well to do leafy suburb voted in three Reform candidates from a choice of 16. It puzzles me as to why, especially as they haven’t even introduced themselves on our local social media sites or by any other means before or since the election, nor have they said what they hope to do for the locality. The ward until then had been solidly Conservative. Not my party of choice, but at least we’ve always known what they stand for locally.

"For some reason our quite well to do leafy suburb voted in three Reform candidates from a choice of 16. It puzzles me as to why, especially as they haven’t even introduced themselves on our local social media sites or by any other means before or since the election"

They don't need to most believe the publicity Farage gets in the Torygraph and other newspapers.

The reason I read a newspaper, regardless of its political stance was illustrated today when I ended up reading several articles in the sports section.

My interest in sport is nil, but a football club that a very dear uncle supported all his life won a cup or league or something last night, as I uickly leafed through the sports pages at the back of the paper, an article about the club caught my eye and I then read a very interesting article about the manager and how he put his team together and incentivised their playing and training. Nowadays sport, any sport, is as much mind games and psychology as sporting skill.

The chances of that article or any similar article turning up on my news feed online is nil because I never read sports stories or show any interst in football of all games, but newspapers are the same for everybody and so often, an odd headline or something like this will entice you into reading an interesting article on a subject that you normally have no interest in.