I thought ‘Everyone’s Worst Nightmare’ was living in Scrooge Mugabe Chav(ez) Ceausescu McBean Broon’s Once Great PC/yooman rites/elfnsafety gorn mad, Stalinist, yoghurt-knitting, asylum-seeker infested NuLiebore Britain.
Insult to the dead? Try this article from last Friday’s paper: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229643/This-isnt-Britain-fought-say-unknown-warriors-WWII.html
It was printed under the title ‘Why Did We Bother Fighting Hitler?’. Obviously sufficient caution prevailed to stop them putting an article on the web with a title suggesting that the Nazis should have won WW2*. Personally, this is the most frightening article I’ve seen the Mail publish yet.
“Her husband, a veteran of Dunkirk and Burma, died a disappointed man, believing that his seven years in the Army were wasted.
‘It is 18 years since I lost him and as I look around parts of Birmingham today you would never know you were in England,’ she wrote.”
“‘Bring back birching and hanging, the sanctions they grew up with, they say. Put more bobbies back on the beat.
We were rigidly taught good manners and respect for older people,’ said a wartime WAAF, ‘but the nanny state has ruined all that. Television programmes are full of violence and obscene language.
This Land of Hope and Glory is in reality a land of yobs, drug addicts, drunkard youths and teenage mothers who think they are owed all for nothing.’
Aged 85, she has little wish to go on living.”
“But then political correctness is another thing (war veterans) take strong issue with, along with politicians generally – ‘liars, incompetents and self-aggrandising charlatans’ (with the revealing exception of Enoch Powell).”
The worst thing about the article is the comments section – anyone who suggests the slightest bit of caution about fascist revolution is hugely voted down, whilst the most psychotic comments are receiving the most support:
“I am an immigrant who has worked from day one after my arrival here, I have paid tax from the start and never claimed a penny in benefits.
Since 2006, I have been British citizen and proud of it.
Against this background, I find these views utterly insulting.”
… which received -55 votes.
“This may not be the country these veterans fought for, but voting for the BNP might help to make it the country Hitler wanted it to become!
There is an alternative – the United Kingdom Independence Party – non-racist but with Great Britain’s interests at heart. They also have seven more MEPs than the BNP in the European Parliament.”
-47 votes.
“A great man once said:
There are wolves among the sheep.
Rise up you sons of the White dragon. This is our Anglo-Saxon homeland. Defend it. For the sake of your kith and kin.
- ceorl, A race betrayed”
+138 votes
To be fair, Dave, the Mail was always reasonably sceptical about the war – it was the Murdoch press and the Express that went totally doolali over it. Even the Mirror though (which had sponsored the anti-war movement) took the stance that whatever their view was of the politics behind the war, they would put the troops in a positive light once hostilities began. So in fairness, not that bad a front page. However in all honesty, the Mail are more interested in laying the blame on Labour than actually getting some form of ‘justice’.
Yeah, it would appear that the headline actually refers to something newsworthy for a change. However, I’m guessing the dead they are referring to here are not the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis that would still be alive today if the war had never happened.
People keep blaming Labour and Blair. The truth is that the situation was caused by the Thatcher government supplying Iraq with weapons to fight a proxy war against Iran and the USSR in the 1980s which left millions dead. There was also the invasion of Kuwait by the US and UK forces during the Tory Thatcher/Major government which was because Iraq annexed Kuwait. Kuwait has always been part of Iraq but this oil rich region was created by, guess what, a Tory government!
The Tories are responsible for the situation in Iraq right from the beginning when it was a British occupied country.
I seem to remember the Mirror getting into a little trouble for publishing accounts of British military brutality quite early on in the conflict. Didn’t it cost Piss Morgan his job?
I can recall then tory leader Howard accussing Blair of ‘dithering’ as he went to the UN for the 1st resolution (nevermind the 2nd attempt).
Howard also said that a tory Gov then would have stood ’shoulder to shoulder’ & gone to war with the USA without any such ‘dithering’ .
I’m pretty certain I recall the DM (like the rest of the right-wing press) supporting Howard’s views & jumping on that ‘dithering’ band-wagon at the time.
I thought ‘Everyone’s Worst Nightmare’ was living in Scrooge Mugabe Chav(ez) Ceausescu McBean Broon’s Once Great PC/yooman rites/elfnsafety gorn mad, Stalinist, yoghurt-knitting, asylum-seeker infested NuLiebore Britain.
And I thought the Fail was an enthusiastic supporter of the war in Iraq. Funny how it changes its tune
Insult to the dead? Try this article from last Friday’s paper:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229643/This-isnt-Britain-fought-say-unknown-warriors-WWII.html
It was printed under the title ‘Why Did We Bother Fighting Hitler?’. Obviously sufficient caution prevailed to stop them putting an article on the web with a title suggesting that the Nazis should have won WW2*. Personally, this is the most frightening article I’ve seen the Mail publish yet.
“Her husband, a veteran of Dunkirk and Burma, died a disappointed man, believing that his seven years in the Army were wasted.
‘It is 18 years since I lost him and as I look around parts of Birmingham today you would never know you were in England,’ she wrote.”
“‘Bring back birching and hanging, the sanctions they grew up with, they say. Put more bobbies back on the beat.
We were rigidly taught good manners and respect for older people,’ said a wartime WAAF, ‘but the nanny state has ruined all that. Television programmes are full of violence and obscene language.
This Land of Hope and Glory is in reality a land of yobs, drug addicts, drunkard youths and teenage mothers who think they are owed all for nothing.’
Aged 85, she has little wish to go on living.”
“But then political correctness is another thing (war veterans) take strong issue with, along with politicians generally – ‘liars, incompetents and self-aggrandising charlatans’ (with the revealing exception of Enoch Powell).”
No wonder it’s already appeared on the neo-Nazi site Stormfront:
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=659362
The worst thing about the article is the comments section – anyone who suggests the slightest bit of caution about fascist revolution is hugely voted down, whilst the most psychotic comments are receiving the most support:
“I am an immigrant who has worked from day one after my arrival here, I have paid tax from the start and never claimed a penny in benefits.
Since 2006, I have been British citizen and proud of it.
Against this background, I find these views utterly insulting.”
… which received -55 votes.
“This may not be the country these veterans fought for, but voting for the BNP might help to make it the country Hitler wanted it to become!
There is an alternative – the United Kingdom Independence Party – non-racist but with Great Britain’s interests at heart. They also have seven more MEPs than the BNP in the European Parliament.”
-47 votes.
“A great man once said:
There are wolves among the sheep.
Rise up you sons of the White dragon. This is our Anglo-Saxon homeland. Defend it. For the sake of your kith and kin.
- ceorl, A race betrayed”
+138 votes
Jesus Christ.
* Despite Peter Hitchens saying more or less the same thing on the 20th whilst disparaging the Iraq dead: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-560700/Was-World-War-Two-just-pointless-self-defeating-Iraq-asks-Peter-Hitchens.html.
To be fair, Dave, the Mail was always reasonably sceptical about the war – it was the Murdoch press and the Express that went totally doolali over it. Even the Mirror though (which had sponsored the anti-war movement) took the stance that whatever their view was of the politics behind the war, they would put the troops in a positive light once hostilities began. So in fairness, not that bad a front page. However in all honesty, the Mail are more interested in laying the blame on Labour than actually getting some form of ‘justice’.
Yeah, it would appear that the headline actually refers to something newsworthy for a change. However, I’m guessing the dead they are referring to here are not the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis that would still be alive today if the war had never happened.
People keep blaming Labour and Blair. The truth is that the situation was caused by the Thatcher government supplying Iraq with weapons to fight a proxy war against Iran and the USSR in the 1980s which left millions dead. There was also the invasion of Kuwait by the US and UK forces during the Tory Thatcher/Major government which was because Iraq annexed Kuwait. Kuwait has always been part of Iraq but this oil rich region was created by, guess what, a Tory government!
The Tories are responsible for the situation in Iraq right from the beginning when it was a British occupied country.
One of the few times the Mail and I agree
I seem to remember the Mirror getting into a little trouble for publishing accounts of British military brutality quite early on in the conflict. Didn’t it cost Piss Morgan his job?
Andy McDandy
I doubt that is 100% accurate.
I can recall then tory leader Howard accussing Blair of ‘dithering’ as he went to the UN for the 1st resolution (nevermind the 2nd attempt).
Howard also said that a tory Gov then would have stood ’shoulder to shoulder’ & gone to war with the USA without any such ‘dithering’ .
I’m pretty certain I recall the DM (like the rest of the right-wing press) supporting Howard’s views & jumping on that ‘dithering’ band-wagon at the time.
Well, my own worse fear is being on the receiving end of a botched hanging.
So on that basis I won’t be buying today’s Daily Hate Mail, as it has nothing in it for me.
You recall wrong Mail Man. The Mail was sceptical about the war.