I’m lost for words. Literally, there’s so many things I want to say that the words collapse into a mental black hole and I draw a blank. Well done Express, your shitty journalism has overwhelmed me from sheer poor quality.
I’ve just typed statins “side effects” into Google and got 916,00 hits. Haven’t bothered to read any but it looks like the info is out there for anyone who wants to know.
“Meanwhile, in an article for the British Medical Journal, Swedish physician and cholesterol expert Dr Uffe Ravnskov claims that little is known about the side effects of taking statins at higher doses.
Dr Ravnskov and two other eminent colleagues have studied these side effects. They say there is a possibility of mental and neurological problems such as severe irritability and memory loss, and muscle weakness (myopathy) ? this can make walking difficult, cause aches and pains, and in rare cases leads to total muscle cell breakdown, and kidney failure.”
Does this mean we’ll get out of the next recession a bit sharper then? Because I, like I’m sure most irate DE readers, really don’t know what this treaty is about – just that it’s named after a foreign city. I’ll just make up a theory, then.
Seems Britain is defined as ‘not Europe’. Because WWII was fought just to defend Britain.
I am seriously going to buy a copy, to keep for prosperity. We all criticise the far right, but at the same time, when they go this far, and start satiring themselves, you can only enjoy it.
My whole problem with the issue on Europe, in truth, is that they’ve managed to convince a generation of tabloid readers that it’s the work of the devil – and not many people actually know why?
You know, you get people trying to explain to me how the tories are a euro sceptic party here to protect us from the invading euro hoardes. How?
Of course, like Labour, they have a few loons on the right of the euro debate, who shout a lot.
But I was under the impression that there general position on Europe was pretty moderate.
The tories took us into the EU. Thatcher campaigned very hard to stay in the EU, when it went to referendum last time. Major was very pro eu, until the French started banning beef. He signed the Mastricht treaty with no referendum.
Why do people have it in their head that Cameron has some duty to be anti eu? Why is it suddenly deemed un tory?
It’s all smoke and mirrors. Idiot papers like this and the mail are just plain xenophobic, and try and pressurise people and politicians into being the same.
Pulling out of the eu is some odd, racist ideology. But that’s all it is, an ideology.
Like me wanting to live on a desert island like Richard Branson. A great idea that would make my life better. Apart from the problem of visas, passports, and a few hundred million pounds.
Much of Britains wealth is based on being in the EU. What’s more, I think it’s pretty clear that our relationship with the USA, in regards to trade is based on us being a strong member of european politics.
As Kissinger said “Europe doesn’t have a telephone number, so we leav messages with the UK”.
What’s more, I may be wrong, but doesn’t our seat on the UN security council, and Nato, as well as our power of veto on all world affairs depend on us abiding by UN and Nato rules.
As in, taking in asylum seekers, and having open borders?
You know, as I said, ideology. Not based on real life
Erm, this is SO stupid. EVEN if you’re anti-EU, you have to admit that the Lisbon Treaty improves the EU.
Mill said that only the educated should vote, and the state should put all possible effort into educating people. I’d say only non DM, DE & The Sun readers should be banned from voting, and the state should put all its effort into burning copies of those papers.
Xmas dinner for £3 a head? Purchase a turkey (frozen and battery-farmed may be cheaper), potatoes and fresh vegetables (brussels sprouts, obviously, maybe some carrots, etc), some bacon etc to garnish. Ensure the quantities you cook correspond to the amount human beings are able to consume without exploding. Maybe pick up a cheap pudding somewhere if anyone in your family actually likes it. Cook. Serve.
Sorry, I mean “Purchase frogs legs, sauerkraut, and falafel, serve while singing the Iranian national anthem and facing Mecca”.
I hate to admit it, but I do have my doubts about the EU project. It seems to be popular with political elites and not voters. That said, the UK has had a number of opportunities to leave or remain outside the community. I can name three:
1) The UK joined what was then called the Common Market (or European Economic Community) in 1973 when Edward Heath was Prime Minister. If the Conservatives hadn’t been elected three years prior to this, we might not have joined. It was probably a Tory party manifesto promise.
2) In 1975, approximatedly a year after the Labour party returned to government, Tony Benn got a bee in his bonnet about our membership of the EEC, so the country had a referendum about it. 2/3 of those who voted wanted us to stay. Remember that proportion! Most newspapers backed the ’stay in’ campaign.
3) During the late ’70s and early ’80s, the Conservatives marketed themselves as the pro-Europe party. The Labour opposition thought that the whole project was a capitalist trick and promised in its manifeso that, should it win the 1983 election, the UK would leave the EU. The Conservatives won the election of that year.
Even after all this time and these opportunities to stay out or b*gger off, the UK is still part of the EU. Eurosceptics had better get used to it – we aren’t leaving any time soon.
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Blair as the first EU president sounds fun… We could simultaneously have an British EU president and tabloids bitching that the UK gets a raw deal somehow (although the president is only reallly a figurehead.. he’ll be an infuential one).
Not to have a go at you but seriously this EEC/EU revisionism is ridiculous.
The EEC/EU is before any and everything else a political union.
It always has been & never was primarily merely an economic entity.
Besides, ‘we’ had already tried that.
It was called EFTA back then too and the UK was a member of it – and still our share of world trade declined alarmingly, why do you think we went into the EEC/EU in the 1st place?
We also had the Commonwealth.
It too failed miserably to halt the UK’s sliding share of trade.
All the ‘trade only’ stuff was tried and failed us.
Sadly we have had nothing but one bunch of politicians after another terrified of spelling out precisely why the UK needed to join Europe so desperately.
The history of our attempt to join and the reason why we needed to have it would seem been lost to at least 1 generation that really ought to know better.
Our politicians prefer to lie & foster the delusions of grandeurs long past and leave those likely to be gulled by such nonsense in their happy if laughably deluded state.
I have to say that I find the idea that ‘Europe’ should be solely concerned about business and trade only a tediously limited & at root a pretty nasty one at that.
As if ‘business’ doesn;t have sufficient ’space’ in our lives, some sort of counter-balance in favour of the people is more than simply required, it’s vital for us (which is, let’s be honest, why the right-wing in the US back the right-wing here and what lies at the heart for their loathing of Europe).
I’m lost for words. Literally, there’s so many things I want to say that the words collapse into a mental black hole and I draw a blank. Well done Express, your shitty journalism has overwhelmed me from sheer poor quality.
I’m not eating anyone or anything’s head for Christmas dinner just to save a few quid.
Hey, David Cameron has pissed off the Express, even he has a redeeming quality once in a while it seems.
I’ve just typed statins “side effects” into Google and got 916,00 hits. Haven’t bothered to read any but it looks like the info is out there for anyone who wants to know.
“Meanwhile, in an article for the British Medical Journal, Swedish physician and cholesterol expert Dr Uffe Ravnskov claims that little is known about the side effects of taking statins at higher doses.
Dr Ravnskov and two other eminent colleagues have studied these side effects. They say there is a possibility of mental and neurological problems such as severe irritability and memory loss, and muscle weakness (myopathy) ? this can make walking difficult, cause aches and pains, and in rare cases leads to total muscle cell breakdown, and kidney failure.”
Daily Mail June 2006.
I thought this was a pisstake until I saw it in a newsagent… So the Express has now become so ridiculous it manages to satirise itself.
Life goes on a usual.
Wow – they actually went and did it. I knew someone would – but assumed it would just be a blog.
Must buy a copy and frame it for posterity…
The Daily Express is rapidly becoming a print version of Prison Planet.
They can’t even do a decent photoshop either
Does this mean we’ll get out of the next recession a bit sharper then? Because I, like I’m sure most irate DE readers, really don’t know what this treaty is about – just that it’s named after a foreign city. I’ll just make up a theory, then.
Seems Britain is defined as ‘not Europe’. Because WWII was fought just to defend Britain.
I like how they got an idiot to do the photoshopping to match the technical level of their journalism.
… I actually agree with the newspaper on this one…
“Hey, David Cameron has pissed off the Express, even he has a redeeming quality once in a while it seems”
Sadly, not so. The Sun and The Express barely mention Camerons U turn in their blast about the EU.
They’ve whitewashed it, in return for blasting Brown, and deflecting blame onto him
I am seriously going to buy a copy, to keep for prosperity. We all criticise the far right, but at the same time, when they go this far, and start satiring themselves, you can only enjoy it.
My whole problem with the issue on Europe, in truth, is that they’ve managed to convince a generation of tabloid readers that it’s the work of the devil – and not many people actually know why?
You know, you get people trying to explain to me how the tories are a euro sceptic party here to protect us from the invading euro hoardes. How?
Of course, like Labour, they have a few loons on the right of the euro debate, who shout a lot.
But I was under the impression that there general position on Europe was pretty moderate.
The tories took us into the EU. Thatcher campaigned very hard to stay in the EU, when it went to referendum last time. Major was very pro eu, until the French started banning beef. He signed the Mastricht treaty with no referendum.
Why do people have it in their head that Cameron has some duty to be anti eu? Why is it suddenly deemed un tory?
It’s all smoke and mirrors. Idiot papers like this and the mail are just plain xenophobic, and try and pressurise people and politicians into being the same.
Pulling out of the eu is some odd, racist ideology. But that’s all it is, an ideology.
Like me wanting to live on a desert island like Richard Branson. A great idea that would make my life better. Apart from the problem of visas, passports, and a few hundred million pounds.
Much of Britains wealth is based on being in the EU. What’s more, I think it’s pretty clear that our relationship with the USA, in regards to trade is based on us being a strong member of european politics.
As Kissinger said “Europe doesn’t have a telephone number, so we leav messages with the UK”.
What’s more, I may be wrong, but doesn’t our seat on the UN security council, and Nato, as well as our power of veto on all world affairs depend on us abiding by UN and Nato rules.
As in, taking in asylum seekers, and having open borders?
You know, as I said, ideology. Not based on real life
Erm, this is SO stupid. EVEN if you’re anti-EU, you have to admit that the Lisbon Treaty improves the EU.
Mill said that only the educated should vote, and the state should put all possible effort into educating people. I’d say only non DM, DE & The Sun readers should be banned from voting, and the state should put all its effort into burning copies of those papers.
Xmas dinner for £3 a head? Purchase a turkey (frozen and battery-farmed may be cheaper), potatoes and fresh vegetables (brussels sprouts, obviously, maybe some carrots, etc), some bacon etc to garnish. Ensure the quantities you cook correspond to the amount human beings are able to consume without exploding. Maybe pick up a cheap pudding somewhere if anyone in your family actually likes it. Cook. Serve.
Sorry, I mean “Purchase frogs legs, sauerkraut, and falafel, serve while singing the Iranian national anthem and facing Mecca”.
I hate to admit it, but I do have my doubts about the EU project. It seems to be popular with political elites and not voters. That said, the UK has had a number of opportunities to leave or remain outside the community. I can name three:
1) The UK joined what was then called the Common Market (or European Economic Community) in 1973 when Edward Heath was Prime Minister. If the Conservatives hadn’t been elected three years prior to this, we might not have joined. It was probably a Tory party manifesto promise.
2) In 1975, approximatedly a year after the Labour party returned to government, Tony Benn got a bee in his bonnet about our membership of the EEC, so the country had a referendum about it. 2/3 of those who voted wanted us to stay. Remember that proportion! Most newspapers backed the ’stay in’ campaign.
3) During the late ’70s and early ’80s, the Conservatives marketed themselves as the pro-Europe party. The Labour opposition thought that the whole project was a capitalist trick and promised in its manifeso that, should it win the 1983 election, the UK would leave the EU. The Conservatives won the election of that year.
Even after all this time and these opportunities to stay out or b*gger off, the UK is still part of the EU. Eurosceptics had better get used to it – we aren’t leaving any time soon.
Bonjour mes amis. Donc, finalement, nous avons mis la manière.
Ja, für sie ist der Krieg vorbei.
Hee, hee, hee, hoo, hoo, ha, ha
** rub hands with glee ** exit stage left
BWHAAAAAHAAAAHAHHHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Unreal
This is an all time classic front page. All that’s missing is Diana’s severed head impailed on the EU flag.
http://www.express.co.uk/search/statins/
They’re great!
No, they’re deadly.
They’re great!
No, they’re deadly.
I wish they would make their mind up, so I can print out the article and take it to the medical centre to show my doctor.
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You’re laughing now, but you won’t be so smug on MONDAY MORNING, when an ISLAM tells you you’ve got to speak FRENCH from now on!
And you won’t even be allowed to wear a POPPY! By EU LAW! Because of HEALTH and SAFETY!
And SOMETHING ABOUT THE QUEEN as well! And can we fit ASYLUM SEEKERS in there, as well?
And HOODIES! Don’t forget the HOODIES!
Daily Express? Give me strength…
Blair as the first EU president sounds fun… We could simultaneously have an British EU president and tabloids bitching that the UK gets a raw deal somehow (although the president is only reallly a figurehead.. he’ll be an infuential one).
JohnD
Not to have a go at you but seriously this EEC/EU revisionism is ridiculous.
The EEC/EU is before any and everything else a political union.
It always has been & never was primarily merely an economic entity.
Besides, ‘we’ had already tried that.
It was called EFTA back then too and the UK was a member of it – and still our share of world trade declined alarmingly, why do you think we went into the EEC/EU in the 1st place?
We also had the Commonwealth.
It too failed miserably to halt the UK’s sliding share of trade.
All the ‘trade only’ stuff was tried and failed us.
Sadly we have had nothing but one bunch of politicians after another terrified of spelling out precisely why the UK needed to join Europe so desperately.
The history of our attempt to join and the reason why we needed to have it would seem been lost to at least 1 generation that really ought to know better.
Our politicians prefer to lie & foster the delusions of grandeurs long past and leave those likely to be gulled by such nonsense in their happy if laughably deluded state.
I have to say that I find the idea that ‘Europe’ should be solely concerned about business and trade only a tediously limited & at root a pretty nasty one at that.
As if ‘business’ doesn;t have sufficient ’space’ in our lives, some sort of counter-balance in favour of the people is more than simply required, it’s vital for us (which is, let’s be honest, why the right-wing in the US back the right-wing here and what lies at the heart for their loathing of Europe).
I know this was a few days ago, but I can’t help myself.
Best. Express. Headline. Ever.