It's been quite something to watch supposedly 'patriotic' British newspapers actively cheerleading on a foreign administration that is openly working against our interests.
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"Fakriotism" reminds me of a discussion I had with a prominent political science professor a couple of years ago where we discussed the shift to populist tactics of "triggering" in the right-wing media, under the guise of supposed nationalism, by extremist views; the term "fascionalism" came up...
All roads lead back to the cowardly and craven failure of the then Prime Minister David Cameron to stand up to Murdoch, Rothermere etc. and his refusal to make sure that the recommendations of the Leveson Report were implemented a decade ago. The consequences of his failure are ever more apparent.
Indeed, now we know that 'take back control' was a lie. Bad Enoch still loves Musk, and they'd have Typhoon Orange and Putler carve up Britannia. The more money supplied the better.
The interests of the masses rarely align with those of the wealthy and powerful. For the elite, loyalty lies not in patriotism but in profit. No matter who governs, their privilege shields them. They champion foreign powers when it suits them because, ultimately, their wealth transcends borders.
"We want somebody to take over our country from insane labor..."
Churchill is rolling in his grave.
If you want somebody to invade Britain go back in history... the French or the Norweigians... they have free health care.
MIND BLOWING
Also turning the MET POLICE INTO POLITICAL THUGS for the ZIONISTS
Totally destroying any shred of confidence in the bbc or government at all
And i will leave camilla alone today
WEARING BLACK
In case you hadn't noticed you bastards just legislated to force little girls to show their genitals to gym teachers so maybe just maybe you are the nation of paedophiles, hmm?
I don't see how this headline is 'cheerleading' Trump. Maybe the rest of the article does. (As much as I dislike the Mail and wish they'd stick to celebrity gossip, pinup girls and sports.)
Cheerleading a Criminal, supported by others that are happy to do anything for power and money, no doubt all waiting at the trough for their handouts and opportunities at further deregulation of anything that prevents them form making more. These people do not deserve association with any country
I’ll be honest, the more I see stuff like this, the more I get worried the stuff about Greenland, Canada, Panama, etc won’t be a bluff. There is clearly a GLOBAL ruling class effort to extend Trump’s political reach to around as much of the world as possible. They want Trump world domination.
Between this and Andrew Tate setting up for a PM run, it’s clear the fascist right is setting up to make its next assault on the UK, after it has completed its capture of the US.
So we're not all in this together then? Some people would much rather that this government fails rather than see it succeed where the previous 14 years were completely abject. What was achieved in that period? Sweet FA.
Yes but it's exactly what this rag has been doing for decades. Pretending to be patriotic whilst working to achieve some sort of far right state. It's owner for tax purposes is registered in France, it is registered in BVI so it doesn't pay tax. Only employs deadbeats
There is nothing patriotic about the Express or the Mail - they'd happily watch the UK crash & burn as long as their owners wishes were conveyed to the masses........
I'd take that any day. The perfect should not be an enemy of the good. The fact is, proper newspaper regulation would likely kill them. They are only sustained by billionaires. Time to allow new forms to replace them.
If Lord Leveson's recommendations had become law a decade ago, with newspapers subjected to strict regulation and journalists required to adhere to higher ethical and professional standards, there would have been no place for gutter journalism. Dan Wootton would have had to find another career.
I shall never forgive David Cameron, when he was Prime Minister, for his cowardly failure to make sure that the recommendations of the Leveson Report were implemented in full. We should by now have had much improved press standards and ethics, and credible and effective press regulation.
Cameron should have done alot of things, I'm no tory but I wish he hadn't staked his career on Brexit not going through. I'd rather have him back in power than any of his successors. maybe we'd live in a better timeline if he didn't resign.
He wasn't good but he was nowhere near as bad as the next.
Agreed, but it's obvious that they don't control the narrative in the way that they used to. Look at the Sun coming out for Labour the day before the election, no one cared.
Well that's a wider issue. The various right wing media outlets play a part, but the spread of misinformation is a much bigger issue.
Hopefully, the EU and UK will take a stand on this, as it looks like they're going to do. The question is whether they will maintain that in the face of Trump.
They never cared about Britain or her people. Those who care for our society support it by PAYING THEIR FUCKING TAXES AS A BARE MINIMUM. Anyone that ever thought the oligarch owners were patriotic brits is deluded
They also seem to have a headline on the front page about Hitler's secret English girlfriend's diary. That is their obsession with the far right. They undermine our country like Richard Littlejohn's article in DM supporting the UK to join as the 51st state of the USA . The traitors!
These are the same guys who favoured Hitler in the 1930's no surprise here. BTW the Spanish conservative PP party is "uniting"with rught wing parties in Europe to oust the "anti democratic" socialist party of Pedro Sanchez.. Fascism knows no borders
That's absolutely spot on @dailymail.co.uk is not patriotic. In fact, its owner is one of the biggest tax avoiders in the country. He's so patriotic he lives in France and avoids tax, priceless.
Many far right social/politcal media antagonists have their assets abroad as they are busy stirring up the racists and monetising them. Yaxley did it whilst at a luxury resort abroad. Richard Tice and Oakeshott literally live in Dubai a country with brown people. Tate in Romania where he can bribe
I am not religious but I pray for all the MAGA Trump cult. You wanted it and here is just one example of what is coming Peter Hegseth using God as a way to be forgiven for being a lying cheating bastard. Like Trump they have been rehearsing how by using the word god to fool https://youtu.be/jE8XEbjDbtg?feature=shared
Putin however can't get on a plane and go anywhere to impress his paid for hookers. His 200 bn is well stashed but the warrants out for his arrest (never gonna happen) limits where he can go. I guess China, Hungry, Slovakia and Austria, Africa, India, Brazil South Africa.Actually that's not that bad
I hope the useful idiots in Downing Street enjoyed their perverse moment in the sun while insulting President Trump.
The Anglo-American Bank of England 🇬🇧🇺🇸 is going to throttle all life out of the Starmer 🇪🇺, Blair 🇪🇺, Heseltine 🇪🇺, and Major 🇪🇺 political sht show 🇪🇺.
The Mail has NEVER acted in the UK interests, even during Hitler’s Regime, so why is this a shock. Only would-be fascists believe the in the Mail’s rhetoric.
The paper has a proud heritage of batting for the other side. I just looked at some of the 1930s right wing headlines. None of headlines were in any way patriotic.
The Mail is the slime scraped off the very bottom of the barrel in journalism. Pure rubbish purporting to be fact. Lies & incitement for the lowest IQ section of society to be racist, cruel, larcenous & greedy.
A hateful rag.
Our grandparents offered their lives to save democracy. We have been asked to get off oligarch media to save democracy. Even that seems too hard. How do we undermine far right media? Daily Mail writers, publishers and readers should be known as traitors to democracy.
The DM will be at the behest of the US far right been assigned by Trump and Musk Comms team to start firing up the right wingers again. The objective is to target Labour and make the UK think if Jenrick was PM we would have better trade. Forget Kemi she is female and black so NIMBY applies.
It's not a new thing.
The rise of Hitler was seen as a positive thing by much of the UK press & establishment in the 1930,s.
A lesson time has blurred.
Remember the owners of the press & much of the UK have very different priorities to you or I.
The wellbeing of our society is not one of them.
Money
Buying a peerage doesn’t count for anything really. Isn’t it time we abolish the House of Lords and replace it with something that has at least a semblance of democracy?
Well, 10 days ago another “patriot” wrote an article titled “Have I got a deal for you, Donald... forget Greenland and buy Britain instead!” (and the comments are just as insane, to say the least):
I just think the mail has become a parody of a paper, as for many of the readers so full of hate and anger, plus if anything ever happens to Harry or Meghan then it should be firmly placed at their door. The constant nasty articles and the hate generated is way over the top.
They can’t take on the media without biting the hand that feeds. Look at the bother Harry gets for taking a stand. And all the others firstly wronged and then forced to settle.
But the media doesn’t feed Labour or the LDs or Greens, only Reform and the Tories. If Labour don’t use their majority in this parliament to regulate the media, they won’t get another term & nor will they deserve it.
Agreed but also see what Murdoch did to Kinnock. Leveson 2 will never happen because those in power need the media on their side to maintain the popularity essential for re-election.
But that’s the point for Labour? Murdoch et al will ensure either Tories or Reform are in power next and Labour’s cowardice will have ensured the media barons stranglehold remains intact. To do nothing now is pure cowardice and British society will always be divided until they are defeated.
Nandy is so far on the granite scale of Hard Brexit that opening up the can of rotten worms that infests Brexit c/o the rancid media - is the last thing she would consider. Nandy & Labour in power are now very much part of the problem. Not the solution.
Yes I really do wish @lisanandymp.bsky.social would get her shit together in sorting out the MSM, Leverson 2 would be a good start and get the Tory stooges out of the BBC as well.
After Musk’s latest rants I’m amazed that the govt hasn’t announced that all govt and ministerial accounts will be deleted like the German govt did. It seems incredible to me that they continue to believe they’re making a difference on that hellhole.
Yes, from what I’ve seen so far I’m wondering what it is that she’s actually supposed to be doing, have we seen anything tangible from her yet or even what her plans are 🤔
The big lesson of the last twelve years in the US is that there is no competing with a political proposition that not only has big capital behind it but has created a huge (dis)information ecosystem to shape “truth” to its will.
Yet we are nowhere in the UK re building a counterweight.
Never a shock, nor a surprise from the Faily Fail. Spouting the usual bilious content that leaves the "correctly thinking people" (definitions of which will of course vary) with no doubt what the agenda is here. It's worrying at the least, disturbing at the most.
The Daily Fail is subversive and actively tries to derail British democracy but it’s not alone in its subversion, the British media is working together and is being directed by right wing billionaires who have the power to buy anyone or anything to achieve their aims
Fascism knows no boundaries. Geography, society, environment, culture, decency, morality, politics, democracy. All expendable at the whim of fascists to increase their personal wealth, power or infamy.
The fact that all fascists end up dead in a bunker doesn’t give anyone comfort. Damage done.
Always follow the money. Billionaires own 80+ of MSM & (anti) social media. It took 14 years to be rid of corrupt, greedy Tories who let Brexit break Britain which 9 jobs, unflushable Farage caused. He's made almost £600k in 6 months spreading lies, fear for Trump, Musk. This is about them. Power 💰
The plans these wealthy, megalomaniac misogynists have to remove some rights for women are very worrying. Tragic to know that some ethnic minorities, and also the poorest amongst all women believed and voted for this.
This is why many wealthy people are suspected and accused of rape and/ or paedophilia. When you have more money than a small country the goal is always power and control.
Trump is a convicted felon 34 charges inc sexual assault and rape. Without Musk's bribe money, they might both be in prison. Daily Mail isn't patriotic. It spreads Fascist, right wing propaganda, never ends
well. UK people fought against this racist hate before and see through their hypocrisy now.
So much if the establishment is against our current govt. They care nothing for our democratic choice and are so blatantly biased. The problem is too many think our press is factual rather than partisan
It's hardly a surprise though is it, Farage etc... will cheer as Trump hurts people in this country and in America before they realise the cost to them
There is evidence of massive cheating before, during and after the U.S. 2024 election. Trump is not the legitimate President of the U.S. Prime Minister Starmer should suspend relations with the U.S. indefinitely.
Starmer should be concentrating on more important things than the 🍊 💩 stains ego.
Musk and his ilk are the clear and present danger to democracy world wide .Drump is just their puppet.
As in every democracy in the world the majority of the media is owned by big money men who plan on keeping the ordinary people misinformed and fighting each other so they can keep making more money.
America's two flagship newspapers, the New York Times and the Washington Post, have become house organs for Trump. The rise of Putin stooges like Trump and Farage across the world wasn't possible without slick, algorithmic information war. "1984" looks almost quaint.
That’s what The Mail does. Incidentally, I’m surprised they shelled out for those Hitler diaries when there are surely some that are freely available, slightly closer to home.
I don't think the poverty is necessarily what they want, after all, if the working class can pay tax, there's less pressure to close loopholes exploited by their rich paymasters. It's the cap doffing deference of the working class and knowing your place they truly fetishise.
Ah but the mail, while being usually xenophobic, has always had a soft spot for fascists, foreign or homegrown. They don't discriminate when it comes to their favourite end of the political spectrum!
The thing that they seem to be overlooking on all this trump/musk UK interference is that their administration is likely to be an absolute horrorshow that the overwhelming majority of the UK won't want to touch with a barge pole
The Venn diagram of those who cried the loudest over the EU 'meddling' with UK Sovereignty and those welcoming whatever plan has to attack UK economic interests must be almost a circle by now.
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than I gave them credit for.
Samuel Johnson.
True in the 18c, even more so now.
Farage isn't interested in what's best for the UK, he's interested in furthering his own agenda and getting richer.
These people are opportunists, they're in it for themselves, they don't care what they sell, who they shill for or what the damage will be.
They're in it for themselves. Certainly not the UK or the people in it.
Churchill is rolling in his grave.
If you want somebody to invade Britain go back in history... the French or the Norweigians... they have free health care.
The not so secret history of Hitler’s favourite British mouthpiece.. *plus ça change*
This awful excuse for a newspaper needs dog shit sent through the post.
Also turning the MET POLICE INTO POLITICAL THUGS for the ZIONISTS
Totally destroying any shred of confidence in the bbc or government at all
And i will leave camilla alone today
WEARING BLACK
Google British publications that supported the nazis and you'll find the Mail right there alongside 'Action', 'The Blackshirt', and 'Fascist Week'.
It looks like the Dailly Mail has been holding the fort till fascism returns in force.
They don’t work for us…in any sense.
He wasn't good but he was nowhere near as bad as the next.
But the good news - The newspapers have become so irrelevant that we barely need to regulate them.
Still pick up the "hot stories" from these propaganda rags
Hopefully, the EU and UK will take a stand on this, as it looks like they're going to do. The question is whether they will maintain that in the face of Trump.
Have they reported on any alien invasions lately?
https://youtu.be/aRcY5do4MRw?feature=shared
No taxes, no assets in UK?
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/daily-mails-rayner-smear-alerts-public-to-owners-own-tax-affairs-372176/
They are really pushing it now. This is a very dangerous era and they are openly and platantly using a public platform to make things worse.
That makes them a legitimate target. Without question
The Anglo-American Bank of England 🇬🇧🇺🇸 is going to throttle all life out of the Starmer 🇪🇺, Blair 🇪🇺, Heseltine 🇪🇺, and Major 🇪🇺 political sht show 🇪🇺.
I’ll add, anyone who thinks Reform are going to form the next government are ‘kin insane.
It’ll never happen.
Owned by Scum
Written by Scum
Read by Scum
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Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and directed the Mail's editorial stance towards them in the early 1930s.
Never knowingly on the right side of history.
That's my only light relief...
A hateful rag.
Starmer should govern for the population, not for the right wing media.
It's no coincidence that the tories get in power so often.
https://youtu.be/aRcY5do4MRw?feature=shared
Time to stop treating them as mainstream. They are fringe far right.
They have quite the rap sheet.
The rise of Hitler was seen as a positive thing by much of the UK press & establishment in the 1930,s.
A lesson time has blurred.
Remember the owners of the press & much of the UK have very different priorities to you or I.
The wellbeing of our society is not one of them.
Money
Yeah, this seems familiar
Hint: It wasn’t the Allies.
Were Farage, Johnson and Truss not 'meddling' in the US election??
#fakepatriotism
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14267585/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Donald-Trump-Greenland-Britain.html
This is why Nandy must implement Levenson 2 & legislate that media ownership can only be by physically & fiscally UK full time residents.
Yet we are nowhere in the UK re building a counterweight.
The fact that all fascists end up dead in a bunker doesn’t give anyone comfort. Damage done.
well. UK people fought against this racist hate before and see through their hypocrisy now.
#birds
Musk and his ilk are the clear and present danger to democracy world wide .Drump is just their puppet.
Weird that you could recognise how ridiculous this was when Trump lost in 2016?