Ever Stumbled On A Conservative Rag In Britain? You Have? Well That’s Odd

Adam Lovejoy writes from Fleet Street in London: Have you ever stumbled on a conservative rag in Britain? You have? Well that’s odd, because there ain’t any left. Not one.

Weird, isn’t it? You’d have expected the Kingdom to boast at least a couple or even more bouncy right-wing publications, considering that around 60 per cent of its subjects are of a conservative, right of centre disposition. And that’s a conservative estimate, mind you, if you pardon the pun. It might even be 70 per cent or more.

Yet, everywhere you cast your inquisitive glance you would encounter either loony left, leftish or left of centre publications, with a few of them pretending to be edging to the right of centre but failing miserably, as they are just liberal left-wing rags that have a few rightish comments inserted into the usual flow of celeb gossip, fashion and health news, TV reviews and more celeb gossip – to get those readership numbers up, to charge more for the adverts. (Poor righties in Britain these days are prepared to forgive supposed ‘right-wing’ organs of print for filling most of their pages with junk news, if only to see an occasional piece resembling something that reflects, even vaguely, a conservative point of view.)

What’s he implying, I can hear some stiff upper lipped Brits saying with indignation. Britain has a proud stable of right-wing publications, like the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, including their Sunday supplements, not to mention The Times and The Sun and not forgetting that ultra-right-wing mag, The Spectator. Plenty of newsprint for conservative minded folks to tuck into.

Yeah, sure, my reply to that drivel would go. You might as well say that the Daily Mirror is moving to the right or that The Observer is showing signs of serious conservative thinking. Or The Economist actually supporting the free market.

Get a life, people! You’ve been had by the liberal mafia that has penetrated your beloved print media and turned it into a left-wing orgy, with a few supposed right-wingers allowed occasionally to have a say, all in the name of impartiality and objectivity, while the overwhelming flow is blatantly progressive and left-wing often bordering on communist.

Let me enlighten you on the difference between right-wing and left-wing press, so that you would be able to make a distinction between them in the future. The right-wing organs of print, proper ones that is, don’t devote endless pages to celeb gossip and shows on the box. They question everything their governments say or do, don’t bow to political correctness and, most importantly, stand up for traditional values that, in the case of Britain, include the monarchy, with all its constitutional arrangements, religion and the old way of life generally. They resent reformers, who change things to suit their petty agendas, and refuse to accept any suggestions that multiculturalism and diversity are a way forward for the nation. And one more thing: conservative publications shun irrelevance in their reporting, as opposed to leftish organs of print that thrive on irrelevant news.

Now, tell me, with your hand on your heart, that you can name a single newspaper or magazine in Britain that comply with the criteria mentioned above. I don’t think you’d be able to. So that’s settled then.

And if you want to know when it all went wrong, I can tell you that the rot began during the years of Margaret Thatcher when the lefties of all shapes and sizes realised that if they could control the media across the board it would allow them to dominate the political life for decades. By then they had the BBC and most of the terrestrial TV channels on their side, but they wanted the printed word to be theirs as well, especially as by then the prophet of antichrist of the left, Tony Blair, had already been born, in a political sense that is, and he needed the path cleared for him to reach Number 10 and turn Britain into a socialist republic.

So the liberals infiltrated all the right-wing organs of print, gradually turning them into shadows of their former selves, poisoning the content with celeb gossip and overwhelming coverage of TV programmes and shows. The main aim was to put in as much advertising as possible, because excessive advertising demeans and cheapens the newspapers and turns them into catalogues for banks, big companies and retail chains.

If Britain would have had any proper right-wing press Mr Blair and his New Labour clique would have had a hell of time in office and Gordon Brown, a communist in all but name, would have been slaughtered. And as for David Cameron and his coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, any proper right-wing press would have by now hounded them out of office.

So there you have it: Britain has no conservative newspapers or mags. Learn to live with that if you can.

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