The Sun Newspaper and how it decides UK elections

[Otto Lidenbrock]

That abhorrent, vile rag hasn't lost an election in the UK since 1974. Every party they have backed --- with the exception of Tony Blair's Labour --- has been the Conservatives. And every party they have backed has won.

The most read paper in the UK with the exception of the City of Liverpool where it is boycotted for blaming the victims of the Hillsborough disaster.



Tony Blair only got their backing because he was to some extent seen as agreeable by Murdoch since Blair shifted Labour to the middle and the Conservatives had 18 years of uninterrupted power. Jeremy Corbyn ironically was elected leader to reverse the "neo-liberalism" of Blair but look what happened. The conservative party will probably get to 2029 with their big majority with the only Labour leader to win a general election in half a century being despised by progressives and endorsed by The Sun. Blair won three elections on the trot very easily. No one else who has led Labour could win one.

[johnp3907]

1. Never buy the Sun.

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[uponit7771]

2. Does Murdoch still run the Sun in the UK? Murdoch is 88 years old ... sigh

[BannonsLiver]

3. It's a shitty, right wing down market newspaper

In an era where newspapers are increasingly irrelevant. It does not decide elections. If that’s the takeaway Labour should just dissolve itself as a party because the problems are a helluva lot deeper than the Sun.