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And you are talking of current polling. I believe you will find that in Corbyn's hayday the polling was suggesting he would sweep labour to power.. but with the wrong politics. Hence being pro Palestinian was turned (in the bbc reporting) into "anti Semitic".
Corbyn failed because he was a bad politician with extreme views. It was Corbyn not the media who covered him that chose to defend every antisemite they could find. If anything the media was too nice to him(the media is often too worried about false balance you get similar things with Trump). It's entirely unsurprising that he lost what would have been a labor victory without him
What influence has the BBC had on history?
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I don't think there is a single point there that is not an assertion. You should become a BBC reporter.. although their assertions are usually reported as "xxx said..."
Re: What influence has the BBC had on history?
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Prior to the current government the Tories were in power for 14 years, mostly with a majority. So I guess your opinion that the elites are left wing must be quite recently formed? For the newspaper editors, take a look at the circulation figures for 2020 (the last year that we have a full set)[1] The Guardian, i, and Mirror had a combined circulation of 800,989. The Mail, Express, Sun, Times, and Telegraph had a comb…
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You picked the sample, not me. Those categories are taken directly from the YouGov poll that you linked. I took the four categories where "Are members of the ruling class" scored higher than "Are not..."
Your own data doesn't support your argument. I'd also point out that the comment you originally replied to specified "economic/political elite", which is why I started off with politicians. The BBC doesn't fall into either category, it's media.