Trevor Kavanagh explains The Sun not suppoting New Labour (30Sept09)

[Idattani]

I find it funny how The Sun (and it's columnists) claims to speak for the "common man" and working-class but yet obsessively focuses on issues that the average working-class or poor person couldn't care less about such as whether the new labour leader is a puppet of the unions, fiscal policy, Clarkson's latest quip about the roads etc...

They THEN back a party that seeks to destroy and ruin the things the poor DO care about such as welfare, free bus passes, NHS, housing benefit support etc..

[Kevinasp]

The Sun is not a working-class newspaper. It is a far-right, big-business supporting, war-mongering, union-bashing, hatred-spreading, bigoted, racist, homophobic, lying, two-faced rag.

[Pippiok]

WeAreTheBritish - are you a fucking child or something? arguing about politics in a youtube videos comment section, quit refeshing the page and fuck off. all your doing here is depriving a forum of a cunt.

[WeAreTheBritish]

not long to go now before the FILTH and SCUM of nu labour are wiped from the face of the earth and back into the sewers and gutters of islington........forever

[coalfires]

lets wait and see IFF THE CONS GET IN they said they will cut the free bus pases and heating alowance also free tv licence for the over 75s, but like we say IF IS A big WORD IFF YOUR AUNT HAD BALLS SHE WOULD BE YOUR UNCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[coracleman]

how do you know I am left wing? Have I mentioned my own personal politics - no! And of course new labour will be back - maybe not in the next election but before you know it. That's the nature of politics. There is too much invested in both labour and tories for it to fizzle out overnight. Be sensible, there's a good chap!

coraclewoman

[barnett682]

I hate labour, but most of all that fat cunt gordon brown!!!

[googajoob7]

I think the newspapers should be impartial as their tv counterparts are . The reporting of news should never be propaganda for whatever political party its owner supports . I would very much like to see laws that banned overt political commentary in favour of one party over another . i m not sure how i m going to vote in the next election yet but i find papers forcing thier views on me sickening which is why i dont buy them anymore .

[coracleman]

I'm happy with the Sun's decision too - I don't think their 'readership' (?!) is New Labour or any Labour, let's face it, or that they are politically clued in. It's a paper for those who believe what some guy in the pub told 'em. So the fact that the Sun are no longer supporting Labour is probably the best break Labour have had all year!

coraclewoman

[WeAreTheBritish]

drivel.....if you lot weren't bothered by this decision you wouldn't out here shrieking your little left wing lungs out

nu labour are finished and the country cannot wait to flush them back into the gutters of sewers of islington

it's over, and they're not coming back

[mofi500]

WeAreTheBritish.... you really are a wanker.

'Professional Brit' LMFAO.

[WeAreTheBritish]

one of the few who actually has a job under nu labour

the midlands are a shithole, a total and utter shithole and it comes as no surprise that somone like you comes from there

[LCStreetPhotographer]

WeAreTheBritish. I hope your wrong. As a serving Royal Marine i can remember the crap kit we had under the last tory government and im reliably informed by my father, a former Royal Marine that the kit was equally as shit under Thatcher too. The press have too much clout when it comes to elections, it has been said before people listen to the press too much especially gutter press such as the sun. The Tories will fuck the nation up just like all the tories before them. Elitist scumbags.

[WeAreTheBritish]

as a former para officer i have no interest in a bleating bootie, you joined up so take the shit and shut the fuck up or fuck off and be a plumber

[Paul2377]

But most of The Sun's readers are common Labour supporters, so it's a bit of a silly move.

[coracleman]

Come on then WATB just tell us what the Tories are going to do IF they get in. All you have done so far is slag off Labour and not once have you said what the Tories are planning to do in their place. Still, that's hardly surprising as the Tories don't even know yet what half their policies are. Note just how quiet they are about what they are going to do about public spending. Hmm, now let me think?

[WeAreTheBritish]

rather than ask me, I suggest you ask a tory supporter, or why don't you email dave cameron direct

[coracleman]

Ah, there we are then, you hav'nt a clue what they are planning to do but want them in because you are fed up with Labour. I already know what the Tories are planning - mass destruction of the NHS, massive cuts in public spending, higher interest rates, higher taxes, end of help for the unemployed, end of minimum wage, end of winter fuel allowance, return to boom/bust economics, the list is endless. Labour WILL ensure stability & security, that is what we need not a return to economic disaster.

[WeAreTheBritish]

NHS has already been destroyed by nu labour

cuts in public spending? GREAT....fartoo many no-jobs for overpaid common purpose scum

tax rises? have a chat with the outgoing chancellor, he'll tell you that nu labour plan tax rises, massive ones

return of boom and bust? fuck me mate, gordon brown's already made that happen

it's over for nu labour....another 18 years in opposition awaits after the General Election next year.....we can't wait!

[coracleman]

Ha, ha, ha, ha. I see from your homepage that you are from Scotland where the Tories are even more despised than Labour, where the Scum are not getting behind the Tories and where the vast majority of them want independence from the rest of the UK. Ha, ha, ha, ha brilliant. Oh, by the way you forgot to mention all the Tory MP's caught up in the expenses scandal (Quack, Quack!!) and the Tory MP's involved and imprisoned in sleaze and corruption scandals when they were in power. Tut, tut.

[WeAreTheBritish]

since I'm not a tory supporter your words are somewhat wasted

silly boy

[LCStreetPhotographer]

WeAreTheBritish..you are a Tory dont tell lies theres a good little boy. You are too up your own backside not to be a tory. As Tony Benn said, show me a tory and i'll show you a SELFISH SELFISH individual. Camerons yet to release a SINGLE policy..why?? because he is simply telling the public what they WANT TO HEAR. He has no substance to him whatsoever and IF he gets in i'll laugh in the faces of anyone in a year or two's time when they whinge about him and say "you voted him in...pratt"

[WeAreTheBritish]

stupid ignorant little fuckwit that you are, you haven'y a clue about anything, have you

[WeAreTheBritish]

ah yes, thank you oriola for adding to the list

the list of nu labour politicians who have been exposed for fraud and fiddling is , as you say, endless

[KingHotdog]

will u calm down u seem very desperate to get ur little point across we get it now go and find a life or a woman or something.U have made ur point (whatever it is) now go away shooo skidaddle BEAT IT

[WeAreTheBritish]

and last, but not least

peter mandelson - TWICE resigned for scandals including mortgage fraud and passport fraud

[WeAreTheBritish]

all right....let's have a beauty parade of failed and discredited nu labout scum...

tony blair - illegal wars

gordon brown - addicted to anti-depressants, sometime thrower of mobile phones

ron davies - nicked for cottaging on clapham common

robin cook - adultery

ten-bellies prescott - adultery

keith vaz - Hinduja passport scandal

numerous backbench nobodies - expense fiddling

[VictoriaIsCross]

Nu Labour are dead men walking - they are finished and they know it - so now they will exact revenge by being as spiteful as possible before they go. What a bunch of losers they are - I remember the day when Jack Straw said "The English are not worth saving as a race" that was all I needed to hear - 12 years of misery - well said WeAreTheBritish - you are a credit to YOUR country.

[eaglestirreth]

How dreadful is this ??Many millions of people will vote for a political party because the "Super Soaraway Sun" tells them who to vote for...Can't they make up their own minds..I'm gonna get all the facts together from various sources before I make a decision....Unlike "White Van Man",I wouldn't believe a word in this newspaper.....absolute drivel.....

[WeAreTheBritish]

I think you'll find that people will vote based on the misery they have endured under 12 miserable years of nu labour scum

[KingHotdog]

is it me or does WeAreTheBritish look a bit desperate with his 500 posts on the subject WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO PROVE ?????

[WeAreTheBritish]

I think it's just you.....

[coracleman]

the Sun did exactly to the same when the tories were at the end of their time in office, so it's no surprise. It's called 'running with the hare and the hounds'. Because they are in the business of selling newspapers, nothing else.

coraclewoman

[knicky241177]

Ah well, bye bye to The Sun.  Enjoyed our brief romance, but I cant in all good conscience purchase a paper that backs them. If we are stupid enough to vote them back we will reap the whirlwind. This country will deserve everything it gets. Trouble is, its been so long, most have forgotten how bad they were.

I usually enjoy Irony, but in this case its painful. The people who will suffer the worst are the very people who this rag will encourage to vote them back in.

[densaner77]

The Sun is less a newspaper and more a right wing rag sheet. The venom it spews out on many subjects is stomach churning and more often than not completly inaccurate. Take the Hillsborough article, it took them years to apologise and then when they did it was self serving. Rupert Murdoch is not a citizen of this country and we should change our media ownership laws so that greedy little aussie pigs like him cannot own newspapers. That is the law in America. The Sun votes tory? Up Yours Murdoch!

[WeAreTheBritish]

lol.....bet you're looking forward to obeying Tory laws ....

not long to go now son......few more months and it will all be over for labour...

and who knows.....maybe gordon brown will be able to come off the tranquilisers and sleeping tablets ...maybe.....

[densaner77]

Tory laws? We have had a tory government since 1979!

[coracleman]

Typical of the Scum. Run by the Murdoch empire and always want to be seen as getting into bed with whoever seems most likely to win the next general election. The Tories are the ones who've lost it. God help us all if they get in. The NHS will die, 5 million unemployed, OAPs will lose winter fuel and TV licence allowance, end of minimum wage, end of help for the unemployed plus lots more doom and gloom ahead. I, for one, never want to see the Tories get in ever again!!

[WeAreTheBritish]

well sonny, the Conservative Party WILL win the next General Election and YOU will have to obey laws made by Conservative politicians....

better get used to it, labour's not coming back

[coracleman]

What makes you sure they will win the general election? None of their policies seem that favourable with the electorate, they are not given very high regard within Europe or the rest of the world, the NHS certainly don't want them back in and neither do teachers, public sector workers, low paid workers, the unemployed, disabled, the elderly, etc. The only reason they are ahead in the polls is because of Labours unpopularity not because of anything they have put forward themselves.

[WeAreTheBritish]

sadly for you and your kind the public sector alone will not decide the future direction of this country, and thank god for it

the public sector is riddled with common purpose scum who were placed there deliberately by nu labour to ensure auto-votes when the time came

it won't be enough to save the left wing filth, they've had their day in this country, it's over and it's not coming back

get used to accepting that nu labour are finished and you'll sleep easier at night

[coracleman]

And what of the city scum, rich corporate bankers, these are the kind who cost us billions not the public sector workers who do more good for the benefits of this country than the lot you want in will ever do. New Labour may be finished but Labour are'nt. People will remember come the election just how bad the tories were from 79 to 97. High interest rates, high inflation, record repossesions, record unemployment, I could go on.. and you want a return to that??? Please, spare me!

[WeAreTheBritish]

you want to talk about corrupt filth who have made their pile on the backs of ther workers......then look no further than peter mandelscum and phony blair

you're a typical desperate old school left winger......living in the past and deluding yourself on a daily basis

but hey, if you want to talk history why don't you bring up the reason why Maggie won .....winter of discontent, unburied dead, power cuts, bankrupt Britian......my how history repeats itself under labour

[coracleman]

You have to learn the lessons of the past to build for the future. We had 18 winters of discontent under Thatcher and Major but since 97 we've had record levels of employment, better NHS provision, better job protection, improved education facilities, better provision for the elderly, more opportunities for our youngsters to develop, low levels of interest rates and inflation, low taxes. You know damn well the tories would ruin all that in their own self interest. You have been warned!!

[WeAreTheBritish]

18 years where people consistently REJECTED labour

and you know what, that wilderness is coming again for labour......another 18 glorious years in which the loony left and consigned to the fringe of British society, which is their natural and only home

[WeAreTheBritish]

RISING unemployment

RECORD levels of national DEBT

RAMPANT crime

FAILED NHS

FAKE exam results

UNCONTROLLED immigration

ILLEGAL wars

EXPENSE scandals

want more?

[KingHotdog]

Rising unemployment= not as bad as the 80s. Record levels of debt= needed to secure the country.Rampant crime= NOT record crime. Failed NHS= labour invented the NHS. Fake exam results=wasnt anyone from the labour party.Uncontrolled immigration=YES but better than ur racist views.ILLEGAL Wars=Happened in 1990 under torys.EXPENSE Scandals= ALL PARTIES INVOLVED. So as u can see from everything u listed u have picked at bits and turned them ur way PATHETIC and ur OWNED :)

[WeAreTheBritish]

no, actually it is nu labour that has been 'owned' as you say

[KingHotdog]

ha ha ha u didnt have much to say there , now u have been owned go away and spout ur crap to mindless idiots like yourself SENSIBLE people will see whats in front of them AU REVOIR

[WeAreTheBritish]

sensible people are going to vote AGAINST nu labour....and they will do so in their MILLIONS

it's over for nu labour, accept it and move on

[WeAreTheBritish]

nu labour are FINISHED and so too are the BIASED, COMMON PURPOSE subverted bbc

[KingHotdog]

The so called paper for the working class has just joined forces with the tories well The Sun can get lost i wont buy it ever again and for the idiots that go on about the past 12 years being hell well get a grip and remember the tory years before it the yuppies destroyed employment and caused the poll tax riots ok labour havent been great but its hard times for everyone SO GET A GRIP AND GET OFF THE ANTI LABOUR BANDWAGGON

[callevahacm]

Please be quiet. The Thatcher Era was 12 years ago. The Tories have moved on, as has the rest of the political spectrum. Keeping this Tory bashing up, rather than a proper policy debate, and Labour will lose this election more badly than the Tories did in 1997.

[WeAreTheBritish]

son, we haven't even started on the backlash against the FILTH and SCUM of nu labour....but we will

[KingHotdog]

im not ur son as my father dosent talk like a muppet as for ur views UR NAME AND PICTURE SAYS IT ALL keep truckin SON.

[WeAreTheBritish]

lol, scream all you want sonny, nu labour are DEAD and will never come back

get used to taking orders from the Tories and get used to obeying their laws

[trip3newton]

Vote Conservative...Happy it is back to it's Tory Roots..Great News!!

[TheOrderoftheGarter]

Labour is finished, the Lisbon Treaty is next, return independance to Britain.

[WeAreTheBritish]

for 12 miserable years this country has been raped and pillaged in an orgy left wing spite and greed

now, in its dying days, their minds shot away with painkillers and anti-depressants the filth and scum of nu labour huddle in the bunker in Brighton and try to pretend that this isn't happening

we have news for them....IT IS HAPPENING and there is NOTHING they can do to stop it

nu labour are FINISHED, not just in 2010, but FOR ALL TIME

[asmodeus585]

I'm happy with the Sun's decision. :-)