Rupert Murdoch is a malevolent force on British life.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp are backing the Tories.
That, in short, is reason enough not to vote for them.
The Sun, a newspaper owned by Murdoch's News Corp, has correctly predicted (and campaigned on behalf of) the winner of the general election in the UK since Thatcher's win in 1979.
As was beautifully explained by David Yelland's article in the Guardian earlier this week, that might not happen this time around.
You only have to look at the newspapers' coverage before and after Clegg's success in the first televised debate to see that there has been a dramatic shift in the way this election is going. How permanent or lasting that shift is still unknown, but with each passing day, the shift seems a greater influence on our country's political landscape. As a consequence, the national press is going crazy. The right-wing and Murdoch-owned press have turned their attack from the incumbent Labour party and turned it on the once-thought insignificant Lib Dems. They are panicking. The left don't seem to have a clue either. Should they stick with Brown or go with new boy Clegg instead?
I still don't know who to vote for. My mind is not made up. What I do know is that for any press organisation to presume they decide who wins an election is a sorry state for affairs. That Murdoch's son and a former Sun editor can deem it appropriate to angrily burst into the Independent's offices just because that newspaper advertised that the electorate decide the outcome and not Rupert is at first funny and then anger inducing. Link.
Murdoch backed Cameron. The public like Clegg, see him as the bringer of change. Murdoch loses it. I'm pretty happy about it. Let's hope Murdoch - I mean Cameron - loses the election, too.
I'm not voting how Murdoch wants me to.
I'm not voting Tory.
