Sep 30 2009
It’s warmer in the Sun
It’s good news for the Tories that Sun now want a Conservative government. The Conservatives have been surviving in the media with just one Conservative supporting paper, the Express, for all too long.
It’s also important to read of the kind of Conservatism the Sun wants. They say
“Britain needs a brave and wise Government to restore our self-respect, our natural entrepreneurship and the will of every family to improve its lot through its own efforts, without depending on handouts.
We need a Government that will cut the red tape strangling businesses, that will make affordable tax cuts to stimulate growth, that will reform wasteful public services. ”
That’s what I want, and what many of you want. I look forward to the Sun helping us make the case for a freer, more enterprising and succcessful Briitain. That does require less tax on enterprise, a dismantling of the surveillance society, and more encouragement for the many good men and women who want to make something of their own lives.
Well done, my Sun. We need your help in winning the battle against the b ulging bureaucracy.
Labour Ministers says it’s voters, not newspapers that decide elections. That is right. They also need to grasp that sometimes newspapers judge the mood of electors well, so they can sell more newspapers. That is what the Sun has just done.
23 Responses to “It’s warmer in the Sun”
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
John,
Just remember that “The Sun” is a fickle allay and they will turn on you at some point in the future, just like they did in the past.
Enjoy it while you have it’s support. Anything that reduces Labour’s chances is a good thing, in my opinion.
Yes its good news that the Sun is suporting a change of Government after years of what seemed sometimes, as blind Labour support.
Why do the press seem to want to support a particular Party.
Why not just simply report the news and facts without political bias. After all, they are all supposed to be newspapers, not a party political leaflet.
StevenL Reply:
September 30th, 2009 at 10:14 am
“Why not just simply report the news and facts without political bias.”
Because it’s boring? I mean, I hardly agree with the Guardian but I’d sooner buy it for a long train journey than the Times.
Little Black Censored Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:47 am
Bias can be boring as well, as you have noticed with the Times.
Their editorial today is excellent and shows the mark of Trevor Kavanagh who we have long admired as a voice of tabloid sanity, even when this paper was labour-leaning.
It’s being reported that No 10 banned photos of the PM after the news was announced lat night and we can well understand why! He certainly seemed to be tetchy and off-balance still in his round of interviews this morning and this is a clear body blow.
His speech mirrored most of his previous efforts with the Chinese Meal effect…satisfying at the time but you realise you’re hungry very soon after. And, as so often with this ex-Chancellor/PM, the prawns and the egg foo yung turned out to be dodgy!
Were we unkind we’d advise he reaches for the Valium…
THE ESSEX BOYS Reply:
September 30th, 2009 at 8:53 am
We think we again hear the sharpening of knives coming from constituency offices in the Wiral and Huddersfield!
Well it’s better late than never, I suppose, but where have they been these last five years? It’s been pretty obvious since – at the latest – 2005 that NuLab were making a complete pig’s ear of the country, socially, politically and economically. Did we really have to suffer the deepest recession since the 1930’s, and incur the largest peacetime budget deficits in history, and watch the very fabric of our society and nation crumble under the weight of uncontrolled immigration and the continuous onslaught of EU legislation and treaties, before the geniuses working at the Currant Bun saw the light? Oh well, at least they’ve pulled their heads out of the sand at last, but for how long I wonder?
Cameron’s first job is transparency – then the public will understand why he is having to balance the books.
His second job is to take a hatchet to the BBC funding and give it to independent news organisations to provide detailed reports on Government (over) spending.
Taxes are our biggest cost and we need to demand that taxes are spent wisely.
I think the point is, as the Sun says, that “Labour’s lost it” not that the Tories have won it. Not much of a recommendation.
It’s probably fair to point out that the Daily Mail and the Telegraph have also both been generally supportive!
In the early years of the Thatcher government, the UK had more small business than all of the rest of Europe put together. Some would have died (as bad business should) some no doubt grew and create wealth to this day. Of course this is how we wil get out of the hole we are in, not by Gordo ‘investing’ in more diversity awareness co-ordinators.
BTW I can’t resist this one ~ How many libertarians does it take to change a light bulb? None, they let the free market take care of it.
apologies that should read ‘Small business start ups’
The Conservatives should never feel gratitude to the Murdoch press, even in an hour triumph. They own it nothing – not one cent.
Murdoch will always back the party he expects to win so that, when it gets to power, it will in a moment of gratitude decide not to take any action that might harm his empire.
If the Conservatives win the next election they will have done so by their own efforts. They will not have been helped one iota by Murdoch.
Interestingly, the Scottish Sun haven’t decided whom to support. They say they won’t support Labour, but won’t go for the Tories, either. They’re also against Scottish independence, which rules out the SNP, and I just can’t see them supporting the LibDems.
The support of Rupert Murdoch and his ilk is to my mind a poisoned pill.
Politicians, yourself included John take far to much notice of newspapers and the media in general. Obsession with tomorrows headlines is wholly damaging to the conduct of good government.
Managing the message constantly is bulldust, the public is now immune to spin. Govern well and it doesn’t matter tuppence what any Journo says for the next 4 years and 10 months
Sack all those PR men in Government about 3000 I believe and there will be such an employment crisis in journalism that none of the so and so’s will step out of line for a long time to come.
Meanwhile the Internet will continue to erode the income base and thus the importance of the printed word.
Last of all take all government advertizing from the Guardian and put it on a government website only. It would amuse me hugely to see Polly Toynbee out of her sinecure.
I amazed to see the publicity given to that dreadful little Red top.
It is bought by spotty youths for the salacious content- and ring tones and spoil-sport.
Will the chav society vote themselves out of benefits?
We gathered at lunchtime and re-ran the PM’s interviews with Sian Williams on BBC Breakfast and Adam Boulton on Sky News. We let Mr Brown off lightly in our earlier blog by saying he was ‘tetchy and off-balance’. He was downright rude to both interviewers despite the soft parental olive branch each seemed to be offering their ‘bolshy teenager’ who was clearly down in the dumps and oozing resentment.
What on earth do Sarah and Mandy think of their hero undoing any goodwill they’ve helped stoke up for him this week when they have to endure these irritable, ill-disciplined displays that are seen by a wide audience and replayed ad nauseum throughout the day.
What the hell does Mr Brown, our senior politician and country’s representative, himself think if and when he watches a replay?
Another ‘delight’ was to see those Sultans of NuLabor Spin – Messrs Campbell, Whelan, Price & McGuire – look as though they were sucking on lemons whilst chewing sour grapes when dismissing the significance of the Sun’s altered allegiance.
Just as well that Trevor Kavanagh added some common sense and decency to the morning’s ill-tempered interviews; it seemed so apt today that we abandoned the lager and went instead for best bitter!
alan jutson Reply:
September 30th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Yes, Neil Kinnock really lost his rag on Radio Five at 9.20 this morning as well.
Perhaps they have all realised that they have been found out at last.
Amongst the great delights of being retired and political anoraks to boot is that we can record, re-run and analyse the news programmes on big political mornings like today.
So we gathered at lunchtime and re-ran the PM’s interviews with Sian Williams on BBC Breakfast and Adam Boulton on Sky News. We let Mr Brown off lightly in our earlier blog by saying he was ‘tetchy and off-balance’. He was downright rude to both interviewers despite the soft parental olive branch each seemed to be offering their ‘bolshy teenager’ who was clearly down in the dumps and oozing resentment.
What on earth do Sarah and Mandy think of their hero undoing any goodwill they’ve helped stoke up for him this week when they have to endure these irritable, ill-disciplined displays that are seen by a wide audience and replayed ad nauseum throughout the day.
What the hell does Mr Brown, our senior politician and country’s representative, himself think if and when he watches a replay?
Another ‘delight’ was to see those Sultans of NuLabor Spin – Messrs Campbell, Whelan, Price & McGuire – look as though they were sucking on lemons whilst chewing sour grapes when dismissing the significance of the Sun’s altered allegiance.
Just as well that Trevor Kavanagh added some common sense and decency to the morning’s ill-tempered interviews; it seemed so apt today that we abandoned the lager and went instead for best bitter!
I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Sun this morning, even page three! Who does Harriet Harman think she is with her low digs on Osborne and The Sun? I do not, as a woman, feel like I need to be prepresented and defended by someone like her, thank you very much…!
It will be nice to see this shift of bias kicking into action as The Sun has the experienced, hardened commentators to deliver good blows. Of course newspapers don’t win elections as such, but the constant bias in favour of Labour has made it difficult to argue a fair case for the Tories to begin with.
The Sun supported Tony Blair and for that I will never forgive them.
Politicians need to forget the media – newspapers follow opinion, they don’t lead it – After all, Guardian readers are rabid socialists before they start reading the paper!
- the sooner Tories prove that they can win regardless of the Sun, the more honesty will come back into politics -and the less power Murdoch can extract from the political classes!
Living up to its nickname of The Bun. The Sport is a far superior newspaper and all true.