The media onslaught on Labour in the 2019 Election campaign has, as expected, been vitriolic.
‘As expected’ because much of the media have a very strong track record on it.
Looking back 45 years to the February 1974 Election campaign (which Labour, just about, won) there is the following entry in Tony Benn’s Diary
Monday January 7th 1974
There was a cartoon in the Daily Mail depicting me as a stormtrooper with a swastika on my shoulder, ordering Joe Gormley and Ray Buckton to torture the British public saying ‘we have ways of making you suffer’
Its rather a long time ago now, so worth noting that Joe Gormley was the right-wing (pre Scargill) miners leader and Ray Buckton was the right-wing leader of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR). You don’t need to be left-wing to attract abuse from the Mail, just not a Tory.
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