The best takedown of today’s Daily Mail front page was written by … the Daily Mail
Today’s Daily Mail got the hump with the House of Lords after it dared to question whether the way the government was going about Brexit was entirely in the national interest.
It’s the latest in a long line of Daily Mail front pages seemingly unable to understand the concept of a parliamentary democracy.
It’s not so long ago that one newspaper fulminated against proposals to limit the power of the House of Lords.
“True, the present Lords is far from perfect … but as a revising power and a check on the executive it nonetheless works fairly well, whichever party is in power.”
Indeed, it went on to describe it as “constitutional vandalism”.
And which paper was this? Step forward, the Daily Mail…
Of course it was!
Who would have suspected Dacre and the Mail of being hypocrites?
— Philip Davies #FBPE (@pdss9) January 31, 2018
Here’s how other people responded to the Mail’s front page today.
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TOMORROW: Is there anything more unsavoury in British politics than a millionaire newspaper editor deliberately misleading readers over the purpose of parliamentary scrutiny to wallow in nationalist fantasies. No wonder the Daily Mail was yesterday described as a “bag of dicks.” pic.twitter.com/6J6uE7L1DL
— The DM Reporter (@DMReporter) January 30, 2018
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So that's the rule of law, Parliamentary sovereignty, academic freedom, judicial independence, freedom of speech, political representation of half the population and now the House of Lords that Paul Dacre can't abide. If he hates British values so much why does he live here? pic.twitter.com/V6psmzZEBO
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) January 31, 2018
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It’s DISGRACEFUL to sneer at 17.4m voters. It’s FINE to sneer at 16.1m voters absolutely every day. Something magical happens to democracy between 16.1m and 17.4m it’s complicated you wouldn’t understand. pic.twitter.com/qUfK18LIE6
— Dan Rebellato (@DanRebellato) January 30, 2018
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‘Is there anything more unsavoury than the unelected Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre bullying MPs and lords and trying to wreck British democracy? No wonder the Mail regarded as the gutter of British journalism’ pic.twitter.com/awRjvo4FCJ
— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) January 30, 2018
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https://twitter.com/TheMediaTweets/status/958483762685382662
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TODAY: ‘Stop telling us unicorns don’t exist and we can’t have as many as we want” warns newspaper editor unhappy at not getting his knighthood. pic.twitter.com/30GUkepiiK
— The DM Reporter (@DMReporter) January 31, 2018