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Originally Posted by garinda
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'Meanwhile, instead of backing the Tories as they had done in 1992, The Times encouraged it's readers to back Euro-sceptic candidates of whatever partisan pursuasion (in 1997).'
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'The 'Tory faithful' are readers of the three newspapers that continue to support the Conservatives in 1997, The Mail, The Express, and the Daily Telegraph.'
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Very well correct somebody if they make a mistake. Don't try and do it in a patronising way if you're going to make a fundamental error yourself. Mancie was not talking about the readership, but about the papers themselves, as was I.
Some of the papers I listed listed may not have had a firm backing of a political party, but the Mail often supported Blair and the New Labour project in the run up to 1997, and backed them at the 2001 election.
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Originally Posted by Garinda
but still the most damning fact is that after four Conservative governments, all the traditionally supportive Tory press came to the conclusion the Tories had failed, and the future lay with a Labour government.
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It's not that they 'failed', quite the opposite. The Labour Party would never have changed to New Labour if the Conservatives hadn't been so successful. When you have a seemingly fresh alternative after 18 years of government, which ended in sleaze, it's no surprise that newspapers who had backed the government in the past, chose not to on that occasion.