I ask because in the US, the media has been obfuscating the Democrats unpopularity and loss in 2024 to things like manosphere influencers to being too “woke” to lack of enthusiasm among voters for ephemeral and unknowable reasons. These are all BS of course, but there’s enough lack of clarity on these issues to confuse people.
But the incredible levels of unpopularity that Labour and Starmer are experiencing seem much more stark. I mean, they just won an election and their popularity has nosedived. The only things the government seems to be doing is loudly proclaiming support for Israel, proscribing PA, destroying everyone’s privacy online, and imposing austerity. I don’t think anyone could possibly accuse Labour of being too far left since the election.
How is the media covering this? Is everyone just trying not to bring it up or ask why Labour has become so unpopular? Are they pinning it on Starmer being an unlikeable twat? I’m assuming the media won’t dare suggest Labour is doing very unpopular things, especially in relation to Gaza… but it feels like at least from my POV the elephant in the room is now just too big to ignore.
They're not, at least not outside faint allusions to it in only the most poll obsessed wonky places, and even there all they're going on about is how the government is setting up an "Attack Team" led by Morgan Mcsweeney (Starmer's chief of staff, early Mandleson intelligence ghoul, & chief party bribe collector) to take on Reform while still courting their voters.
The usual far right tabloids are running the 'lefty woke shite' line against individual Labour ministers despite it being maybe the most right wing government in history, but Starmer did a (devil's) deal with the Murdoch press to keep them from going fully in on him, while the financial press galley is hectoring Labour to do even deeper cuts to state spending no matter how much austerity and tearing up of pensions they do (under Labour's current pension age proposal one third of people would pay in their whole life but never get their pension due to dying before it kicks in), but that's it.
Meanwhile a lot of the right wing attack dogs in the press along with the insidious 'left' papers and outlets like The Guardian and Novara are busy sowing the seeds of wreckerism in the Greens and Corbyn legacy party respectively.