(16 Oct 2022, 7:50 am)Storx wrote It feels like I've stumbled onto the Daily Mail the past few days. Why anyone would support the current Tory party is a mystery to me when they're more bothered about reducing taxes for the rich than actually helping anyone not in the top 1%. They've literally just nearly crashed the economy if it wasn't for the Bank of England.

Totally agreed with supporting the drivers.

You could start by acknowledging the Daily Mail is the most popular newspaper in Britain, seen by the public as the most right wing too, so it clearly does a good job of reflecting the British people far more than the Mirror (can't tell the chancellor from a random black man) or The Guardian (prints Labour campaign talking points as if they had been the words of random British people).

And then accept that the sheer number of people who vote Tory is pretty hard to reconcile if garbage like they're only working for the 1% was even remotely true.

The market crashed precisely because reducing taxes for the rich atm isn't actually popular even among most Tory voters, members and MPs. So the policy has been dumped, and maybe even everyone involved in conceiving it. Anathema to Labour, who consistently need to have their asses kicked at the ballot box before they ever admit they were wrong (and often not even then).

Would Labour really have done the same if Corbyn had got in and the markets had had their say on plans to spend trillions buying back everything Thatcher and Major sold off (a policy I might add that was only even legal thanks to Brexit, a Daily Mail victory for the ages). 

I think not. Labour is addicted to dogma and top down enforcement of what a few thousand activist "delegates" think is good public policy. It is their sad lot in life that most of the time most of the voting public hate that with a passion, even if a lot of the time that is an unfair characterisation of a system that at least had its origins in democratic organising. 

Hate the Daily Mail all you want. But I suspect this is largely because you already know that perusing its pages at any given moment gives you a pretty good idea of how to win a general election in this country.