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    The Sun announces it is switching its support to Labour on eve of election

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    2. Swimming_Map2412 on

      I guess that’s one way of making sure they can say they backed the winner.

    3. RoutineCloud5993 on

      Murdoch sees the way things are going and pivot at the last possible second to stay on the (presumeably) winning side.

      What a duplicitous fucking toad he is

    7. McCloudUK on

      Who give a flying fuck what the sun does. That insidious rag has caused so much pain and misery with its drivel over the decades.

    8. VFiddly on

      It’s very funny how completely embarrassed they are by it. The headline is obviously deliberately vague about which party they’re actually supporting and the article doesn’t admit that they’re talking about Labour until the end.

      They want to say they backed the winner, but they don’t want to back the same people they’ve spent so much time bashing. lol.

    9. intangible-tangerine on

      The Sun can do one.

      I know Labour will welcome this endorsement in the belief it will increase their vote share but blatantly the Sun is only doing this to try to preserve its access to government contacts.

      The Sun is never going to be a true friend of the centre or the left.

    10. Electric_Death_1349 on

      Starmer could have told Murdoch to go fuck himself and shove his endorsement up his rancid old arse; instead he releases a fawning video response, utterly debasing himself by heaping cloying, deferential praise upon a foreign billionaire whose continued presence in this country is an affront to what passes for democracy here.

      It is a sign of what’s to come; Starmer will win the biggest landslide in British political history and then spend the next five years making “tough decisions” and lecturing us on the folly of the “magic money tree” while our living standards continue to fall, our wages stagnate further, our infrastructure crumbles and our environment in saturated with human shit; and all the while, the likes of Murdoch will grow increasingly wealthy as the flow of our tax money into their pockets continues unabated.

    11. JimJonesdrinkkoolaid on

      Lets not forget that Starmer has had a decent amount of meetings with Murdoch in the past.

    12. PabloMarmite on

      I fucking told you the Sun would flip just before the election.

      Murdoch has no principles, he’s only ever been concerned with backing the winner.

      The Sun in Scotland has backed the SNP the past few elections while the Sun in England has been attacking them.

    14. IAS316 on

      I hope the sun never stops production. When the apocalypse arrives, we’ll need some decent loo rolls.

    15. shredditorburnit on

      I really don’t get why the British government tolerates the likes of Murdoch interfering so heavily in our politics.

      “I can write a load of bollocks about you in my paper”

      “We control one of the most highly trained and effective paramilitary forces in the world. Fuck around and find out.”

      I’m not being serious when i suggest this, I’m all for freedom of the press, but maybe that should include freedom from billionaire owners? And maybe we should extend impartiality rules to all news distributors.

      Edit to clarify: I mean his interference in aggregate, not this instance in particular. Very happy to see the Tories kicked out of office.