matthew
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What a disgrace of a newspaper
That is all.
That is all.
And Jeremy H(c)unt is just as bad for using it to score cheap points
The thing I don't understand is why Ed Miliband doesn't go for the jugular by pointing out the Daily Mail's support of Adolf Hitler, and compare that to his father serving for Britain...
The Daily Mail has a cheek, given its shameful past. Before they indulge in their low smear tactics, they should explain the words of their owner, Lord Rothermere, in the 30s:
'I urge all British young men and women to study closely the progress of the Nazi regime in Germany. They must not be misled by the misrepresentations of its opponents. The most spiteful distracters of the Nazis are to be found in precisely the same sections of the British public and press as are most vehement in their praises of the Soviet regime in Russia.
They have started a clamorous campaign of denunciation against what they call "Nazi atrocities" which, as anyone who visits Germany quickly discovers for himself, consists merely of a few isolated acts of violence such as are inevitable among a nation half as big again as ours, but which have been generalized, multiplied and exaggerated to give the impression that Nazi rule is a bloodthirsty tyranny.
'My dear Fuhrer everyone in England is profoundly moved by the bloodless solution to the Czechoslovakian problem. People not so much concerned with territorial readjustment as with dread of another war with its accompanying bloodbath. Frederick the Great was a great popular figure. I salute your excellency's star which rises higher and higher.'.
PG (with thanks to my mate Kevin the Tiger for researching the quote)
The thing that always amazes me is that I've yet to meet anyone who admits to buying it -- but a lot of people clearly do. Is it something they have delivered under a plain wrapper; is it like voting Tory (well clearly it is in a sense) in that people do it in the privacy of the voting booth, but are ashamed to admit it to their mates because of what it says about them?
Agree with the other posts though. They've completely lost the plot on this one. Even if Milliband's father had hated the UK (which as far as I can see he didn't) there's no case for using that as a stick to beat his son with. And as for Hunt equating Ralph Milliband's not being a supporter of the free market with not being pro-British, that kind of smacks of McCarthyism to me.
The thing that always amazes me is that I've yet to meet anyone who admits to buying it -- but a lot of people clearly do. Is it something they have delivered under a plain wrapper; is it like voting Tory (well clearly it is in a sense) in that people do it in the privacy of the voting booth, but are ashamed to admit it to their mates because of what it says about them?
Agree with the other posts though. They've completely lost the plot on this one. Even if Milliband's father had hated the UK (which as far as I can see he didn't) there's no case for using that as a stick to beat his son with. And as for Hunt equating Ralph Milliband's not being a supporter of the free market with not being pro-British, that kind of smacks of McCarthyism to me.
Oi Soistes,I vote Tory and don't care who knows, but have never read the Mail and never will!!
The Daily Mail has a cheek, given its shameful past. Before they indulge in their low smear tactics, they should explain the words of their owner, Lord Rothermere, in the 30s:
'I urge all British young men and women to study closely the progress of the Nazi regime in Germany. They must not be misled by the misrepresentations of its opponents. The most spiteful distracters of the Nazis are to be found in precisely the same sections of the British public and press as are most vehement in their praises of the Soviet regime in Russia.
They have started a clamorous campaign of denunciation against what they call "Nazi atrocities" which, as anyone who visits Germany quickly discovers for himself, consists merely of a few isolated acts of violence such as are inevitable among a nation half as big again as ours, but which have been generalized, multiplied and exaggerated to give the impression that Nazi rule is a bloodthirsty tyranny.
'My dear Fuhrer everyone in England is profoundly moved by the bloodless solution to the Czechoslovakian problem. People not so much concerned with territorial readjustment as with dread of another war with its accompanying bloodbath. Frederick the Great was a great popular figure. I salute your excellency's star which rises higher and higher.'.
PG (with thanks to my mate Kevin the Tiger for researching the quote)