Thanks trisher, you’ve answered my question.
It’s no secret I left the LP a year after jC was elected. I didn’t vote for him because I feared he’d never win an election. I don’t dispute much of our press is right wing and I wish the DF wasn’t as popular as it is. However no one makes people read that paper yet many do.
I don’t share your belief that only the right wing press will stop the LP winning the next election. He isn’t popular on the doorstep, either in the deprived former mill town, or the traditionally left leaning south manchester suburbs. He’s very unpopular amongst the Jewish community in north manchester, another group of traditionally labour voters.
What distresses me most is that either JC and his advisors don’t see this, or they don’t care. Meanwhile our public services are being decimated. I know Blair is despised by JCs supporters, I know about Pfi etc but - all those years of Tory misrule left his government having to invest heavily, that’s inevitably going to be the case if the LP ever wins power again