The Mail vs CET

Paul · **Posted:** Sun Nov 28, 2010 2:11 pm

Portugal warns Britain: We switched to Berlin Time and it was a catastrophe

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z16a8eD5Wj

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Our mailbags contained 7,216 coupons and the campaign has also been boosted by 2,684 emails and 1,046 text messages.

In all, 10,946 Mail on Sunday readers have made their voice heard.

Kreuzberger · **Posted:** Sun Nov 28, 2010 2:59 pm

Mail On Sunday Readership:
12 Months: October 2009 - September 2010: 4,974,000 Adults (+ online of course)

10,946 Mail on Sunday readers have "made their voice heard."

So, 0.2% response. Well, that's impressive :lol:

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7417

Paul wrote:

Portugal warns Britain: We switched to Berlin Time and it was a catastrophe

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z16a8eD5Wj

Quote:

Our mailbags contained 7,216 coupons and the campaign has also been boosted by 2,684 emails and 1,046 text messages.

In all, 10,946 Mail on Sunday readers have made their voice heard.

Madeleine McCann would never have been lost but for that 2 hour gap in the space-time comtinuum.

Paul · **Posted:** Mon Nov 29, 2010 12:27 am

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Three bags of coupons is NOT representative of the population as a whole. I see Hitchens has distanced himself from the "campaign" soon enough. Let Parliament debate it, with all the facts, not just the DM distorted viewpoint.

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Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:57 am

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Why do you keep referring to 'Berlin Time'? Dog-whistling?

Don't mention the war!

(Profoundly silly article by the way).

- Wedge Varney, Town

I'm 46 in the green! Oh the shame...

Paul · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:39 am

Nothing I can see in the Mail about their campaign against it.

The Express are for it and celebrating "their" victory.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/215353

Fozzy · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:45 am

It's a Mail on Sunday campaign, so expect some major mouth-frothing tomorrow,

Fozzy · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:29 pm

From the Express story:

Quote:

Tory Tobias Ellwood told MPs: “It is hard to imagine a more simple, cost-effective piece of legislation which would dramatically change our way of life for the better. Sunshine brightens our day, our lives and our spirits. It makes our world happier.”

He dismissed claims in some quarters that the switch would put the UK on to “Berlin time”.

He said that, as the clocks were changed to double summer time during the war, a more appropriate term would be “Churchill time”.

That'll annoy Hitchens.
:lol:

Esqui · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 8:53 pm

Tobias Ellwood is my MP (for the next week, anyway). I'm not surprised he's for it, the extra sunlight will help people spend more time on the beach buying overpriced ice creams from the council here in Bournemouth.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 12:56 am

Esqui wrote:

Tobias Ellwood is my MP (for the next week, anyway). I'm not surprised he's for it, the extra sunlight will help people spend more time on the beach buying overpriced ice creams from the council here in Bournemouth.

That's awful!

Oh, hang on...

Paul · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 11:55 am

Berlin Time: Now the Government swings behind Mail on Sunday campaign to keep GMT

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z17EWzGimJ

No comments, I can not believe that.

Quote:

As I have said before, three bags of readers coupons is NOT representative of the population as a whole. I see Mr Hitchens has distanced himself from the "campaign" soon enough. Let Parliament debate it, with all the facts, not just the D M distorted viewpoint.

Mike Ocherts 10.55

Fozzy · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 12:09 pm

I think the comments facility has died as there don't seem to be any comments anywhere. I must say in general the great MoS campaign seems to have gone rather quiet - even Hitchens has buried his sulk way down his column today. Perhaps even they have worked out that only their most rabid readers are going to fail to notice that the Parliamentary vote went overwhelmingly against them.

Paul · **Posted:** Sun Dec 05, 2010 12:22 pm

Comments are up.

slilley · **Joined:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:58 pm **Posts:** 54

Hang on the Daily Express are having a "crusade" to introduce an hour's more sunshine into our lives in winter by having us adopt CET. Methinks all is not well in right wing tabloid land.

AOB · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:02 pm

This was on the polls thread from August;

Quote:

Should British Summer Time be introduced throughout the year?

Yes - 68%
No - 32%

5 months on, Mail readers are against it, generally. Bit of a U-ee.

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