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Deb wrote: …Like here, the media (except for a couple newspapers) are controlled by the Left. Both the Beebs are run by the government and the government in power is Labour (Socialist).

The influential magazine The Spectator is comparatively conservative, as are the broadsheets The Telegraph and The Times.

The #1-selling newspaper in Britain, the tabloid The Sun is like its lead columnist Richard Littlejohn, generally conservative in outlook though not necessarily Tory in politics.

The Torys are after all not all that conservative by our lights.

[Phillip Augustus]

I can think of a British political party, led by one Nick Griffin, that tells the truth about the immigration crisis, and has a program to deal with it. Unfortunately, it is a borderline-Nazi party that I couldn't support...let's hope that either the Tories (fat chance, though) or another party emerges with their immigration policy. If not, this group will only grow in power.

[Deb]

Sorry to say, the Spectator ain't that influential. It's about two steps behind PUNCH going out of business.

I think Peter Hitchens (my personal fave) writes a weekly column for the Sun, but it may be the Mail. I always forget because I get them all when I'm home.

There is huge section of the Tory party that's conservative, but like the old guard GOP, there are lots of go-along-to-get-along, Bob Michel Tories. I adore Ian Duncan Smith. He blows the Evil Pixie into the popcorn machine during Prime Ministers Questions.