Did you notice that the Daily Mail pointed out that one of the judges who made the ruling on Article 50 is “openly gay”. They don’t mean gay in a closed sort of way, or even a closet sort of way. No. He’s openly gay, which explains everything if you are a parasitic Mail journalist.
This week we have learned that the British judicial system is the enemy of the people, that the only lorry drivers who use their phones when driving are of course foreign and a judge is “openly gay”. I may be a Pound Shop writer and blogger, but I would rather have root canal surgery than work for Paul Dacre.
How can a journalist have such low principles as to write the things they do in a paper that currently flirts with fascism? I am not exaggerating. There is more than an insinuation that the public should rise up against parliament if it cares out its democratic function of making laws in this country.
The language of the Mail resembles more a banana republic, ruled by dictators with dodgy moustaches and ill-fitting uniforms, or Paul Dacre as I call him. It is not just the Mail , of course. The filthy vermin who call themselves Sun, Express and Star journalists are little better, telling lies and printing mistruths are a matter of course. This is not the type of writing I envisaged doing in the fourth form at Brislington School.
And words matter. In a show of breathtaking half-wittery, many people were so exercised by yesterday’s decision that they somehow believed that the result of the EU referendum had been overturned. In part, this is surely down, at least in part, to the drivel that appears in the papers under the guise of news. It’s not news. It’s propaganda.
The Mail explains that the judge is “openly gay” not because he is, but because there is a suggestion that there is something wrong about someone being gay. They did not, for example, make a point of pointing out that the other two judges were “openly straight”. The Mail is suggesting, in its poisonous little way, that the man’s sexuality affected his decision making. After all, if you wanted to delay Brexit, you must be gay. In which case, shut that door!
We need to fight back, us ordinary plebs. We can’t do much to fight back against the ugly press, but we need to stop believing every word they say and if we feel strong enough, stop buying every single paper, except perhaps the Guardian and the Mirror and their Sunday equivalents.
I read today that Mail owner, Lord Rothermere was an EU remainer, but is too scared of his editor Dacre to tell him. His grandad was mates with Hitler. I’ll bet he wasn’t quite so scared.
