The problem, in the UK (like the US and perhaps everywhere else), is that you have papers like the Daily Mail that enjoy much higher circulation than real newspaper like the FT and the Guardian, and so they are naturally seen more as the "voice of the people," even though only a small fraction of Britons actually read them.  It's the same story with FauxNews.  At the maximum, two million people might watch Fox on a given half-hour time slot.  But we already know those people are insane, and they didn't matter, since they were, at most, 1/35th of the mid-term electorate.  They'd never vote our way, anyway.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin