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The trots and pinkoes phrase is a straight lift from the Dear Bill letters in Private Eye, and the Dear Bill play.
The BBC and the Grauniad are left wing leaning. e.g. The stories in the media last year that some one who has either a Centrist or a Right wing view are just not hired by the BBC. If they are, they are made to feel very uncomfortable very quickly.
Whilst Iam not a fan of Murdoch's media world, if the Times were saying that what is going on, then it might gain more of an audience.
I'm not disagreeing with what the TUC are saying -- my two daughters are impacted, but to get a broader hearing, we need to get more media publicising the issues.