by Ana Rosenthal and Fiorella Lecoutteux

Four days into the Conservative party conference held in Manchester, headlines focus on Jeremy Hunt’s new proposal that ‘Britons must work like the Chinese’ and Theresa May’s upcoming speech on migration.  

Only the Daily Mirror headlines with ‘the nasty party shows true colours.’

Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun headlines with far more important information than the recent Tory claims: a televised baking scandal before the upcoming Great British Bake Off finale.

According to the Daily Telegraph, not only must British people work like the Chinese, they must also adopt similar living arrangements. In line with this, Tory Ministers, Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt, have said that ‘families should give spare bedrooms to grandparents just as they do in Asia’. Accordingly, he predicts this would save the extra costs on care homes.

Only the Daily Mirror has attempted to research the poor working conditions in China, including the average income of £150 a month despite the long working hours.

To highlight what hard work means, the Daily Mirror do not miss the opportunity to remind the readers that Cameron’s associate friend, Simon Hart, earns £20.000 per year as ‘outdoor education consultant’, for only six hours a week.

Breaking News:  While the Consevative conference was coming to a close on Monday, the Cathedral hosted speeches by: Jeremy Corbyn MP, Lindsey German, Owen Jones, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, representatives of the People’s Assembly and members of the Communication Workers Union. Thousands also gathered outside to listen in a wave of applause and vibrant optimism.

And yet, the only mention of last night’s gathering outside the Cathedral is cornered into page 6 of The Sun, under a sub-headline which reads: ‘GATECRASHER CORBYN RANT.’ The paragraph suggests that Mr. Corbyn was in fact  ‘incting violent protests’ by turning up at the rally.

The minimal coverage of the larger anti-austerity protest in Manchester has been negative. Today, the Daily Telegraph termed the cause a ‘hate-filled protest’ on page 19, arguing that the infamous spitting incident from Sunday represents Corbyn’s ‘new politics’. For reporter Dan Hodges, the main point of these protests has clearly been to put Tory members under a potential threat of being: ‘punched at, spat at, kicked, subjected to racist abuse, sexist abuse and other general threats of violence’.

 

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© The Mirror.co.uk, 5 October 2015, Manchester.

 

The Daily Mail and the Daily Express announce that Teresa May is delivering her speech at the Conservative Conference today, where she will focus on the limits of open border policies in reference to oversees and EU migrants. Her main concern is that ‘mass net-migration’ will hinder the possibilities of a ‘cohesive society’.

‘Cohesive society’ is a term that is widely being used in today’s press. The Guardian is brief on the subject, transcribing the expectations of May’s speech with little analysis.

A more obscure term to appear in the papers is Osborne’s: ‘Devolution-Revolution’. It refers to a gradual return of power to local authorities, taken to a new level by the recently announced move to all councils to lower taxes in order to attract businesses. According to the Guardian the result is that ‘plans to encourage investment in the regions will instead lead to greater levels of inequality’.

The Daily Telegraph dub ‘Devoluition-Revolution’ the scrapping of a ‘400 year-old system’, making the Tories the ‘builders fighting for Britain’, a quote that comes directly from Osborne’s speech at the party conference in Manchester. His punch line is: ‘Attract a buisness and YOU attract money!’

‘OZ the Builder’ is the Sun’s pun on Osborne’s new measures.

Tomorrow is the last day of the Conservative party conference. It is important to remember that although anti-austerity protests are laregly ignored in the  mainstream media, these efforts will not cease to positively influence a sense of optimism and hope over conservative control.