"who else is there to vote for". It's frightening but as an earlier post said "they got Brexit done", even though many still don't know what the impact had been on the country. In this country we have newspapers like the Mail, the Express and the Sun, which all have high sales, and all spew out right wing propaganda by mocking socialism. In addition, Skynews also leans to the right.
As alluded to on this thread the cult of personality is part of the problem isn't it? People are not voting for Johnson, but think of it that way. It's a terrible situation where people in the North are voting Tory thinking there is no alternative, as they've been totally primed to hate Starmer and Corbyn before him.
They don't really have high sales, just in comparison to other papers. There are only about 3m newspapers in circulation each day (including the free ones), that's 15% of registered voters at most. Most people get their news from other sources these days although they do push headlines and articles online via social media. Makes it hard to know what their true reach is. The Guardian is not far behind the mail online and the mail has a huge amount of people that only visit the celebrity gossip section."who else is there to vote for". It's frightening but as an earlier post said "they got Brexit done", even though many still don't know what the impact had been on the country. In this country we have newspapers like the Mail, the Express and the Sun, which all have high sales, and all spew out right wing propaganda by mocking socialism. In addition, Skynews also leans to the right.
I despair with some of my fellow Brits
I'd add that they're also likely to live in a cosmopolitan area so less likely to see immigration as a big monster like lots of post-industrial northern towns.