Stephen Bush: To give you an idea of how remarkably unpopular these guys are: Johnson is more unpopular than Cameron during the Panama Papers, Nick Clegg during the AV referendum, Ed Miliband in 2015, Tony Blair in 2006...but is 42 points ahead of J-Corbz.

Look at the media and how they attack anyone who’s not a tory or to the left of the Tory party. There has been a systematic campaign against left and centre-left people and ideas in this country for the last few decades.

Why is it you think that even Blair was covered in a better light than Corbyn. Only one of those men is responsible for the deaths of 1 million Iraqis, yet they’re treated better than Corbyn.

Corbyn is everything the UK media hates: he’s a leftist, he’s a cyclist, he’s vegetarian, he makes up his own mind on foreign policy rather than blindly following what the army says, he’s anti-war, he’s not a bigot, and (most importantly to them) he didn’t literally cry patriot tears while singing the national anthem.

Moving away from Labour, why is it that UK media in general is so reactionary? Well that sells more papers than reporting accurately on what’s going on. Much easier to fearmonger about migrants than it is to explain why tory universal credit is trapping people in a cycle of debt. This leads into their coverage of politicians.

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