Champagne with Rupert Murdoch … Keir Starmer’s Labour is preparing for power
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It's a smart, pragmatic move, to keep on the good side of the world's most powerful media mogul but it's infuriating that any politicians are obligated to attend private meetings with him
What does that mean? That Labour have to do what Murdoch tells them? Or offer him something?
I don’t think it’s smart. I think it raises much bigger issues of the influence that bullionaires hold over the (supposedly) democratic political system.
This. A cautious, managed Faustian pact. Sadly necessary.
Starmer doesn't need Murdoch. The Tories have imploded and no one believes their garbage media anymore. It is one thing talking to him, but remember he is not British and doesn't pay tax here. We owe him nothing except better legislation to bring our shitty media to account.
We owe him a hefty prison sentence for crimes against humanity.
Can't even call them champagne socialists any more.
If it was good enough for Blair it'll be good enough for Starmer.