The communist-loving "right wing" tabloids

I often read tabloid newspapers which have a reputation for being right wing, whatever that actually means in practice.  I read these newspapers online, however, as I refuse to pay to read them.

The attitude of these papers and their comment writers can be fairly accurately summarised as follows.

First, immigration is harming Britain.  This may seem an entirely reasonable point of view, except that the tendency is to lay the blame for our immigration-related horrors squarely at the door of previous Labour governments.  It seems that Tory governments are never to blame.

Nevertheless it is still acceptable to vote Labour, and yet you should never vote for any political party which actually wants to reverse the trend in immigration.

Second, the BBC is unfairly biased.  This too may seem like a reasonable point of view, but I wonder how many tabloid journalists have no television, thereby exempting them from having to pay to support the biased BBC.

Third, the government's austerity programme is entirely justified, and criticism of it - whether from Labour MPs or from church leaders or from foul-mouthed comedians - is misguided.  To be fair, the tabloids do sometimes come close to the truth on this issue.  They report, for example, that the welfare budget has not fallen, and they allow comments which mention the money we pay to the EU, or the pay rises that MPs vote themselves.

The fact is that the Conservative-led government squanders billions of pounds of our money on things like illegal wars and EU membership, which they would not do if they had any dedication to sound management of the nation's finances.

Meanwhile, many ordinary people continue to queue for the food banks.

The truth is that our political masters - whether Labour or Conservatives - are vicious communists (is that a tautology?), while the supposedly right wing tabloids are fellow travellers.

Related previous posts include:
Our fellow-travelling national press
The Daily Mail defames the EDL
The Daily Express must try harder
Starvation Britain