I disagree. Miliband was not treated equally by the BBC, he only was when The Mail rain that story about his Dad hating Britain.
Of course it is, that's what happens at elections.
Blair did what? Move social mobility right down and inequality right up from under Thatcher, all under the premise of wearing something red not blue, and not being the awful stuffy Tories, and a trivializing media and gullible public bought it, his legacy is a disaster- The ME, faith schools, banning grammars, devolution then losing the core vote eventually in Scotland, civil liberties decimated, and he wanted into the Eurozone(GB, media bogeyman kept us out but of course got no credit, another Labour leader who didn't seem Tory enough-he was hardly economically radical left but see my point about media? Their judgements are entirely superficial)He made sure that the economic left was wrecked and the Tories moved over on social issues, whatever you individual views are we have near obliterated adversarial democracy because of this, the last 15-20years have felt like nominally different parties, but ideologically a one-party state. Clearly I'm not alone in this, the electorate have been maddened and alienated by this non-representative, non politics for so long now. I believe in the pendulum 100%, which is why all this nonsense about Labour having to be economically so much closer to Tories to get elected is wrong. It is only based on their current leaders personal short term ambitions, and if the press is Tory biased anyway, they should have the courage of their convictions and stay further economically to the left. Corbyn has tried to do this, I don't agree with all his policies, but at least he has tried to maintain integrity on this, and although the Beeb and Labour say one thing, why are record numbers joining Labour? They were totally wrong over remain so why not now? (Establishment in the US is wrong about Trump too...)
Regarding TTIP and the Euro- i'm aware of that. But TTIP was wrecked with Brexit. It was stalled in Europe because one more aware, less pro-American, pro-globalist, pro-corporatist country rejected it....France. Obama then sent his Swedish lapdog to Paris to soften them up. This gave me a good insight into the EU future. And I do think had we remained, the march to federalism and the single currency was utterly inevitable and would have cause a lot of pain, and misery across Europe.
You should read Hitchens more than Jones. Try Larry Elliott, or Tariq Ali. Or Daniel Hannan.
When was the last time the BBC covered Nobel winning economist Joseph Stiglitz backing Corbyn, and Brexit, and saying the Euro currency and TTIP were disastrous? When did they ever show an ethnic minority like Tariq Ali backing Brexit?
There's something to that point, but put it in context of the political and media classes anti-democratic stitch up which has tried to stifle all debate and options for 15-20 years. You had a 72% turnout at 52% for something only 25% of MP's believe in. As Hitchens says, who could parties become so out of touch with their voters? If they has been responsive before, and representative, there would be a party to offer that in the fray. I don't think your being entirely honest here in saying you would have welcomed that? Weren't you happy for the disconnect to go on, and 'dissent' to be pushed down? I'm shocked that even quite open minded and objective people like in my family, seemed to even succumb briefly to the emotion, it really is quite heart wrenching for people who see themselves as more cosmopolitan, and there were mutterings of technical issues people don't understand etc....I think a lot are willing to subvert democracy to get something which they rather emotionally want on the behalf of their tribe that is more 'cultured'. It's this that makes them blind to the fact that anti-EU does not always equal anti-European, and the arguments.