Hurrah for the Blackshirts - favourite Daily Mail stories

[TheFaQQer]

Favourite Daily Mail stories

Vile Product of Welfare UK

[Mich the Tester]

A bit off topic, because not a Daily Mail story, but instead a personal telegram from Lord Rothermere, which may help to clarify the Mail's position on Jewish refugees:

Now you see, my gripe with the Wail is not really that they got things wrong in the 30s, of course there's hindsight and all that, but that the experience of being 'on the wrong side' back then hasn't taught them to avoid making hasty judgments on asylum seekers or refugees. They've learnt nothing. They still spread bile masquerading as respectability. Fair enough to report on immigration and the problems it can bring, but it could be done in a balanced way; but of course, that wouldn't sell so many papers.

[Old Greg]

Now you see, my gripe with the Wail is not really that they got things wrong in the 30s, of course there's hindsight and all that, but that the experience of being 'on the wrong side' back then hasn't taught them to avoid making hasty judgments on asylum seekers or refugees. They've learnt nothing. They still spread bile masquerading as respectability. Fair enough to report on immigration and the problems it can bring, but it could be done in a balanced way; but of course, that wouldn't sell so many papers.

Well, you may have a gripe with the Mail. I am simply sharing my favourite stories.

[EternalOptimist]

A bit off topic, because not a Daily Mail story, but instead a personal telegram from Lord Rothermere, which may help to clarify the Mail's position on Jewish refugees:

and ?

Nobody over here wanted another war. There was no sense of 'unfinished business'. Most people just wanted the stus quo and to forget the horror of WWI.
This country had tight immigration laws and some people were sneaking in through the back door. The British did not want too many people moving into Palestine either, for administrative reasons.

Obviously, if someone had looked into a crystal ball and said 'you better do something different or ten million of these people are going to be murdered' it would be a different story

[Old Greg]

and ?

Nobody over here wanted another war. There was no sense of 'unfinished business'. Most people just wanted the stus quo and to forget the horror of WWI.
This country had tight immigration laws and some people were sneaking in through the back door. The British did not want too many people moving into Palestine either, for administrative reasons.

Obviously, if someone had looked into a crystal ball and said 'you better do something different or ten million of these people are going to be murdered' it would be a different story

Exactly!

I salute your Excellency’s star, which rises higher and higher.

[vetran]

it could be done in a balanced way; but of course, that wouldn't sell so many papers.

Now there I see your point. Don't entirely agree with it because most of the other news sources studiously avoid covering the topics or give them a positive slant to satisfy their backers or liberal readers.

[EternalOptimist]

Exactly!

I salute your Excellency’s star, which rises higher and higher.

I dont read the papers anyway. Not since that headline about a woman giving birth to a frog.

and all those Diana photos. put me off for life they did

[Old Greg]

I dont read the papers anyway. Not since that headline about a woman giving birth to a frog.

and all those Diana photos. put me off for life they did

Was it the same article?

[vetran]

Exactly!

I salute your Excellency’s star, which rises higher and higher.

"Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability."

[Old Greg]

"Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability."

I thought that too. Funny old world.

Edit: I guess that means that Rothermere = Galloway x Hitler/Saddam