Comments by "80s Music" (@eightiesmusic1984) on "Did Liz Truss kill the Conservatives? | Three months on the road with the Tory party" video.

Don't write them off. Because working people are easily fooled, the Tories are the most successful electoral machine in the world with a gift for reinvention. No matter that they are dishonest and are bad for the economy, they are adept at blaming Labour for problems they have caused. Labour used to offer a radically different set of policies but now they are on the same page as the Tories on so many issues. Yes, the Tories need to go, but we have been here before with false hopes for Labour.
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@runedova126 Because Britain is Tory under FPTP. Most people don't understand why socialism is or why it is supposedly such a threat to them. Pensions, the energy support measures, the NHS, free education, etc are all socialism. Corbyn was depicted as a hard left extremist yet none of the measures he pledged were anything more than moderate social democracy that would not raise an eyebrow in mainland Europe.
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Because the Tories have become a free market cult impervious to reason. The disastrous recent budget is a case in point. They were warned repeatedly in the leadership campaign and by treasury officials that their actions would spook the markets, and so it has proved, with egregious consequences for years to come. Not just higher mortgage payments, but also higher rents and a likely housing market collapse in the next few months. The Tory Party purged one nation Conservatives in 2019 and entered into a fantasy world of boosterism underpinned by gaslighting of the public on a hitherto unseen scale. Even Thatcher said you cannot buck the market and she was right. None of this would have happened under her in the eighties. Britain is now blighted with a political class that is fundamentally unserious, another reason for the mess it is in.
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@notgarybrown Media not as powerful as it used to be or likes to think it is. Even in 1992 when The Sun's notorious headline about the last person to leave Britain turning the light out with Kinnock's head in a bulb the day before the election ( April 8th) and the headline on 10th April claiming it was The Sun ' wot won it' masked the fact that half of all The Sun readers voted Labour. Even today half of Daily Mail readers vote Labour. Hard to believe but suggests media influence not that strong. Print media massively in decline for the last 20 years too.
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@notgarybrown The media is an establishment mouthpiece. It pretends to be holding power to account but does nothing of the sort. I recommend Media Lens and Noam Chomsky for a thorough analysis of how the media fails in its duty. BBC is state propaganda. The media has the nerve to claim to be impartial when it is the opposite.
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@notgarybrown Not sure print media is and don't know about the impact of social media on elections as not on it ( except You Tube). Labour seems to be good at messaging on social media or at least was under Corbyn but I don't know how much misinformation is out there peddling right wing lies. The public is so ill informed it beggars belief. Academic research in America found many of Trump's speeches used language easily understood by those aged 10, which appears to have been a deliberate strategy for ease of understanding on his part. Here The Sun has a reading age of about 10, which speaks volumes. It is a complicated picture in that Trump also garnered a lot of support from middle class professionals, not just the stereotypical blue collar voters from poor backgrounds. As a general rule in the UK those who are better educated are more likely to vote on the left as academic research has also shown. Not saying much though given how right wing Labour has become except for the Corbyn era and to some extent under Miliband.
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