Bloody hell!
The Mail really is bricking it over the election result. I believe the normal tabloid policy is to largely ignore the LDs for fear of giving them a credibility that might threaten Lab/Con dominance. The Mail have waited 13 years to regain direct political influence and they clearly don’t like this sudden and unexpected threat to it.
Clegg said on this: “I must be the only politician in the space of a week to go from being Churchill to a Nazi.”
Mail defacating themselves that Cameron might not get a majority (or government at all), and Barclay Brothers clearly don’t want to pay UK taxes (as Clegg proposes).
IF – and I seriously doubt it, but IF – that subheading in any way bears any relation to anything Clegg said…then he was only telling the truth. 65 years of military triumphalism is more than enough and it’s time to…hang on…what’s that in the top right corner?
So after months of huffing and puffing about corrupt and hypocritical MPs (emphasis on Labour MPs of course) the corrupt and hypocritical Mail (let’s not forget the Express) are attacking the party which was least tarnished by the scandals. It seems they wanted (surprise, surprise) a majority Conservative Government after all!
It’s true LibDem policies can be a bit eccentric at times, probably because the political media ignore them, but at the moment voting for minority parties may be our best chance of scuppering the political establishment and their tabloid cheerleaders.
Has Mr Dacre got his knighthood yet (for services to the Conservative Party, sorry I mean churnalism)? Could be he’s worried that’s about to go up in smoke if Mr Cameron doesn’t get a majority.
Clegg’s point about delusions of grandeur after WW2 are clearly nonsensical. Its just coincidence that the free DVD offer for today is “World War II in Full Colour!”
Nazi Slur on Britain: ““All nations have a cross to bear, and none more so than Germany with its memories of Nazism. But the British cross is more insidious still. A misplaced sense of superiority, sustained by delusions of grandeur and a tenacious obsession with the last war, is much harder to shake off. I wish Mr Puhle and Mr Sawartzki well. We need to be put back in our place.””
This one could get more interesting, the Sky debate tonight is by definition going to be heard about, for most, by report.
The Beeb debate next week is the big one.
Papers tend not to like being on the losing side and realising they are alienating their readers. I suspect another week of sunk tory polls and the prospect of a coalition Gov (with all parties getting about 30% of the vote = a very strong LibDem element at Westminster) will start to shift minds.
The most likely prospect is a LibDem/Lab coalition on the central condition of genuine electoral reform.
If that happens you can kiss goodbyee to a majority tory Gov on the basis of a minority of the vote ever again.
Well both of these rags go for Clegg, the fact they thought Cameron was a shoe in looks worrying. If The Lib and Lab vote stays relatively high 20’s to low 30’s the Tories need a miracle.
The Mail is the Tory house magazine, what you read is what they stand for and what they stand for is hatred, bile and venom whenever something doesn’t quite go their way. Their man got trounced in the debate so they do what they are famous for, smears, smears and more smears.
Their stupid lie about the money going into his account has been exposed as a lie, a real lie, they are starting as they are meaning to go on. Imagine if they ever got to power, the Tories must not be allowed anywhere near Downing Street.
With any luck this will backfire on the Tories. Can even the Mail readers be stupid to accept this? Ironic as this comes from the paper that supporte Mosley and his Fascists.
Another nights sterling work by Clegg, clearly he won,, again if not quite so impressively as last week (but then after last week all he had to do was not blow it, and he did not).
It was a solid if unspectacular display by Brown.
Cameron again failed to say anything that is truly ‘new’ or ‘change-worthy’ at all, despite all the Sky-contrived camera close-up for those oh so sincere talk to camera moments.
Talk about obvious & totally fake.
With the polls staying at around 30-30-30 Cameron’s cake-walk to power is finished.
All being well that means no tory Gov afterall, a big LibDem presence and with luck an end to our undemocratic electoral system.
I think the important thing we have learned from this election is:
1: The press has no indluence on politics any more
2: The press has no influence on politics any more
3: The press has no influence on politics any more
Since the election has been announced, Cameron has had partisan support from:
The telegraph, the times, the sun, the express, the star, ITV.
The Guardian have been indifferent. Backing no one.
Ditto the FT
Labour have had partisan backing from the mirror.
The Libs have had partisan backing from no one.
Since the election has been announced, tory support has dropped in polls by 7%
Labour by 3%
Libs has gained by 9%.
The press in the UK no longer has any influence on politics. Cameron has had partisan backing by nearly all press outlets, and his polling share has fallen dramatically in the last 3 weeks
The “Nazi Slur” was an interview in the Guardian, about xenophobic abuse, Clegg had heard being shouted at German tourists, while he was doing his political canvassing.
He was simply stating that shouting xenophobic abuse at Germans is wrong, and the reasons why we shouldn’t do it.
Eight years ago a man suggested that the reaction of some British people to a football match with Germany might not be entirely rational.
Bloody hell!
The Mail really is bricking it over the election result. I believe the normal tabloid policy is to largely ignore the LDs for fear of giving them a credibility that might threaten Lab/Con dominance. The Mail have waited 13 years to regain direct political influence and they clearly don’t like this sudden and unexpected threat to it.
Clegg said on this: “I must be the only politician in the space of a week to go from being Churchill to a Nazi.”
Mail defacating themselves that Cameron might not get a majority (or government at all), and Barclay Brothers clearly don’t want to pay UK taxes (as Clegg proposes).
And people say politicians are dishonest?
IF – and I seriously doubt it, but IF – that subheading in any way bears any relation to anything Clegg said…then he was only telling the truth. 65 years of military triumphalism is more than enough and it’s time to…hang on…what’s that in the top right corner?
The Mail have realised their horse might not win.
So after months of huffing and puffing about corrupt and hypocritical MPs (emphasis on Labour MPs of course) the corrupt and hypocritical Mail (let’s not forget the Express) are attacking the party which was least tarnished by the scandals. It seems they wanted (surprise, surprise) a majority Conservative Government after all!
It’s true LibDem policies can be a bit eccentric at times, probably because the political media ignore them, but at the moment voting for minority parties may be our best chance of scuppering the political establishment and their tabloid cheerleaders.
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Has Mr Dacre got his knighthood yet (for services to the Conservative Party, sorry I mean churnalism)? Could be he’s worried that’s about to go up in smoke if Mr Cameron doesn’t get a majority.
Clegg’s point about delusions of grandeur after WW2 are clearly nonsensical. Its just coincidence that the free DVD offer for today is “World War II in Full Colour!”
Nazi Slur on Britain: ““All nations have a cross to bear, and none more so than Germany with its memories of Nazism. But the British cross is more insidious still. A misplaced sense of superiority, sustained by delusions of grandeur and a tenacious obsession with the last war, is much harder to shake off. I wish Mr Puhle and Mr Sawartzki well. We need to be put back in our place.””
‘We need to be put back in our place’
Yes, the bottom of the magazine rack
can anyone else hear the bottom of a barrel being scraped.
Genuine laugh out loud moment from the Daily Fail.
How much more desperate can those fools get?
This one could get more interesting, the Sky debate tonight is by definition going to be heard about, for most, by report.
The Beeb debate next week is the big one.
Papers tend not to like being on the losing side and realising they are alienating their readers. I suspect another week of sunk tory polls and the prospect of a coalition Gov (with all parties getting about 30% of the vote = a very strong LibDem element at Westminster) will start to shift minds.
The most likely prospect is a LibDem/Lab coalition on the central condition of genuine electoral reform.
If that happens you can kiss goodbyee to a majority tory Gov on the basis of a minority of the vote ever again.
(and yes, that also applies to Labour too)
Could Clegg take comfort from Rudyard Kipling I wonder:
“If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,”
Well both of these rags go for Clegg, the fact they thought Cameron was a shoe in looks worrying. If The Lib and Lab vote stays relatively high 20’s to low 30’s the Tories need a miracle.
Damn, TedB beat me to it!
This prospect sounds so delicious it is surely impossible.
The Mail is the Tory house magazine, what you read is what they stand for and what they stand for is hatred, bile and venom whenever something doesn’t quite go their way. Their man got trounced in the debate so they do what they are famous for, smears, smears and more smears.
Their stupid lie about the money going into his account has been exposed as a lie, a real lie, they are starting as they are meaning to go on. Imagine if they ever got to power, the Tories must not be allowed anywhere near Downing Street.
With any luck this will backfire on the Tories. Can even the Mail readers be stupid to accept this? Ironic as this comes from the paper that supporte Mosley and his Fascists.
Another nights sterling work by Clegg, clearly he won,, again if not quite so impressively as last week (but then after last week all he had to do was not blow it, and he did not).
It was a solid if unspectacular display by Brown.
Cameron again failed to say anything that is truly ‘new’ or ‘change-worthy’ at all, despite all the Sky-contrived camera close-up for those oh so sincere talk to camera moments.
Talk about obvious & totally fake.
With the polls staying at around 30-30-30 Cameron’s cake-walk to power is finished.
All being well that means no tory Gov afterall, a big LibDem presence and with luck an end to our undemocratic electoral system.
I think the important thing we have learned from this election is:
1: The press has no indluence on politics any more
2: The press has no influence on politics any more
3: The press has no influence on politics any more
Since the election has been announced, Cameron has had partisan support from:
The telegraph, the times, the sun, the express, the star, ITV.
The Guardian have been indifferent. Backing no one.
Ditto the FT
Labour have had partisan backing from the mirror.
The Libs have had partisan backing from no one.
Since the election has been announced, tory support has dropped in polls by 7%
Labour by 3%
Libs has gained by 9%.
The press in the UK no longer has any influence on politics. Cameron has had partisan backing by nearly all press outlets, and his polling share has fallen dramatically in the last 3 weeks
PS.
Osborne called the tory press to HQ, the day before these headlines, and briefed the tory press on what he wanted to see.
This is the result.
Testament to the fact that the tories are stuck in the 1980s, in regards to election strategies.
Anyone who puts faith in the press, billboards, to influence the electorate in 2010, doesn’t deserve to win a majority
PPS
The “Nazi Slur” was an interview in the Guardian, about xenophobic abuse, Clegg had heard being shouted at German tourists, while he was doing his political canvassing.
He was simply stating that shouting xenophobic abuse at Germans is wrong, and the reasons why we shouldn’t do it.
What is Nazi about that?
PPPS
I have to also comment, what is the “Nazi slur” from Clegg. As in the “Nazi” bit. I don’t see it.
He said that Germany have got over World War 2, faster than the UK?
So from that he is calling English people Nazis?
Again.
I think this is:
Really shit story, so put Nazi in the headline, to make it sound more interesting.
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