"I take it you are serious. So, logically, if MSM tells us political left does not exist, that's it. Take it on the chin and roll over?"
Of course I'm serious. When did we last have a government that could even vaguely be classed as " Left wing"? Callaghan was a Monetarist so that leaves you with Harold Wison.
The UK hasn't had a government with even half a pretence to being on the left since 1976: that's nearly half a century of right wing rule alongside the near complete sidelining in that same period of any and all left wing figures in opposition. What effectively begun under Callaghan has been completed under Starmer.
Stating there is no left wing in the UK politically is merely pointing to fact for both government and opposition. All you have now are vying right wing factions mirroring the Democrats and the Republicans in the US.
As to the media, it's not them merely telling us "the political left does not exist" but actually making it so. As Malcom X pointed out, it's "...the most powerful entity on earth." and of course we were given a firm demonstration of just how powerful when it decided that even a gently left-aspiring government under the mild mannered janitor Corbyn was not allowable... thus he was demonized and demeaned in the media, so there's no place for even mildly social democratic politics either.
- UK politics was "rolled over" half a century ago and it's been rolled rightward ever since then.
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