How many readers of The Times, never mind of The Economist or The Financial Times, ever had the faintest idea that they were not buying a Tory paper? Most Times readers would have switched to the Telegraph if they had ever suspected a Labour allegiance.
Nor would almost anyone in the Labour Movement have believed you if you had told them that The Times, never mind The Economist, or The Financial Times, or The Sun, was pro-Labour.
For the Tories to have won back such support calls to mind their jubilation at having won back places like Guildford, or Wimbledon, or Norwich North (much of which is not in Norwich, but in Broadlands). Instead of crowing, they need to explain how they ever lost such such seats or such media backing in the first place.
Neither The Daily Telegraph nor The Daily Mail has yet declared. UKIP? Probably not. But you never know. And just imagine if even one of them, never mind both, did.
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Years on end I've been trying to tell my dad that The Times was a Labour paper, but he wouldn't consider the possibility. Now it doesn't even pretend to be.
ReplyDeleteWhen did it ever, really? This was only ever about securing access to whoever happened to be in office at the given time. You don't have to do very much just for that. And The Times certainly didn't do very much.
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