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[winterbadger]

from the Daily Mail's piece on last night's Question Time

But just beyond half-time the programme came to life. This was the result not of a new assault on Nick Griffin, but of a question to Jack Straw.

An audience member named Johnny Lisle demanded: 'Can the recent successes of the BNP be explained by the misguided immigration policies of the Government?'

This was so obviously true that the Justice Minister had to deny it.

Puts me quite in mind of the Rt. Hon. James Hacker, MP, whose first rule of politics was "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied".


(For readers not familiar with the British press, the Daily Mail is a jounal of news and information rather similar in tone, class, and high-minded style to the NY Daily News--or the World Weekly News with a few more celebs and not quite as many alien autopsies. For it to criticise Griffin is akin to Fox News lambasting Rush Limbaugh.)

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[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

The Mail (or Daily Heil, as I call it - I'm so witty) is thoroughly unpleasant. Its a strange little window into an odd little world of rampant paranoia and teeth-grinding fear - the Heil fears gays, lesbians, working mothers, single mothers, single women over 30, Europe, Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg, politicians who have extra marital affairs, anyone who has sex, the left-wing, the West Wing, S & M, M & S...everything in fact, that isn't safe, reassuring, and bland. It is a comic, except it doesn't realise this, and it is best to laugh at it.