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Sunday 5 March 2017

Everything that's wrong with the Daily Mail, in one headline

This encapsulates pretty much everything that's wrong with the Daily Fail rather nicely. Headline is from October 2016. The original article is as ludicrous as piece of political jingoism as you'll find anywhere; about it's only saving grace is that it's clearly labelled as a "comment", i.e. an opinion. Still, there's far too much in the "article" to go through, so let's concentrate on the headline.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3833496/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Whingeing-Contemptuous-Unpatriotic-Damn-Bremoaners-plot-subvert-British-people.html



1) "Damn". Off to a good start by instantly attacking anyone who holds a certain view. Yes, let's make enemies and foster hatred. Curses be upon you ! How marvellous !
2) "Unpatriotic". What utter bollocks. I love my country; I see Brexit as a means to causing it severe harm. Even supposing that I'm wrong, how does campaigning to stop such a course of action make me unpatriotic ? Is it, perhaps, because I don't see that loving one's country means hating other countries too ? Hmm, I wonder...
3) "Bremoaners". Yes, I'm moaning - see reason 2. It's rather a lot more than moaning, given the scale of the problem. And as per reason 1, oh yes, attack the people not the ideas - great to see this coming for a national newspaper.
4) A "plot" you say ? Ooohhhh, delicious irony. This from a paper which is little more than propaganda.
5) "Subvert" ? Yes, alright, I'll give you that one. I do want to overturn the results of the vote, using every legal means and these pesky things called "facts".
6) "The will of the British people" (which is even "emphatic" according to the article). Hahah, very droll. The voting question asked about leaving the EU. Nothing else. To infer anything else and insist that you know what that vote means - i.e. get out of the EU at any cost, as the article flagrantly does - is anti-democratic. Not to mention that the Leave vote is 37% of the electorate (27% of the population), wasn't legally binding, most other polls showed a different result, and voters are able to do this crazy thing called, "thinking" which some have it "is just a fancy word for changing your mind".

Good grief.

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