Double standards Labour v Tories

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I am just wondering whether other people think that the Tories seem to get a free pass to do what they like and it takes the public ALOT longer to blame them, compared to Labour?

There is SO much corruption in the Tory party and the past 4 years have shown just how utterly incompetent and greedy they are. They have starved the NHS of resources to the point of being on a ventilator, schools are crumbling (literally), the courts system is creaking, social services are decimated and they have thrown hundreds of billions at friends.

Yet there are STILL a fair number of people who will willingly allow them to continue. The amount of people that say "yes but..." when talking about them is astounding.

Yet Labour went into a dubious war (okay not a good thing at all) and suffering the backlash from a GLOBAL financial crash and they have been demonised ever since. I never hear "Boris allowed the care system to effectively walk old people to their deaths in care homes" though I will forever hear "Blair, booo, criminal!" at every turn.

So my question is...

YABU - that both parties are treated the same in terms of free passes
YANBU - that the Tories are teflon when it comes to the level of incompetence before the public turn on them

I think it's been the same probably since about 1924.

The left has always been held to a higher standard than the right. It's the way of things.

People love to point to the Iraq war and the dodgy dossier as if it were 100% down to Labour, whilst ignoring the fact that many Labour MPs voted against the war whilst the Tories supported it with great enthusiasm. The hypocrisy is stunning.

People love to point out how Labour didn't prepare adequately for the lean times after the crash of 2008, but don't like to be reminded that the Tories are on the record in Hansard, arguing for more deregulation of the banks. People have political blinkers on.

The fact that Mr Blair won the election after the Iraq war with a substantial majority suggests many Labour voters were not at all bothered about foreign affairs unlike the noisy Left.

@Grantanow you mean the Iraq war which was almost unanimously supported by the Tory party, and which was opposed by many Labour and Lib Dem MPs? That Iraq war? (It's all in Hansard if you want to check)

I expect the fact that our Print Media is owned by very rich men whose interests best align with the right-wing policies of the Conservative Party is the answer to your question.

Blair got around it by striking a deal with Murdoch and Starmer is trying the strategy of being so beige that it is hard for the RW press to pin anything on him while letting the Conservatives implode with very little help from anyone else. Fingers crossed it works!