The Independent had the perfect takedown of the Daily Mail’s ‘Theresa’s Triumph’ front page
MPs last night voted to back seeking “alternative arrangements” to replace the Irish backstop in Theresa May’s Brexit plan.
The prime minister won after she gave into Brexiteer and DUP demands by making a promise that she won’t necessarily be able to keep and one that the EU says right now is impossible.
The Daily Mail and the Independent had wonderfully different takes on last night’s events.
Here’s the Mail (and a few examples of what people made of it).
*Theresa May spends two years negotiating a deal she ends up voting against in favour of pursuing a delusional batshit crazy policy the EU already categorically ruled out before the vote*
Daily Mail: pic.twitter.com/e2XlVZhwpe
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) January 29, 2019
TOMORROW: You would have to be clinically insane to write a headline like this. You would have to be wilfully, deliberately and voluntarily ignorant to believe it. #MailFrontPages #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/W4ylJ5WUhV
— The DM Reporter (@DMReporter) January 29, 2019
As front page judgements that will be congratulated by posterity, this is up there with Crush The Saboteurs. https://t.co/XzvTNV61B4
— Aditya Chakrabortty (@chakrabortty) January 29, 2019
And here’s the Independent.
Top notch front page by the Independent pic.twitter.com/efJunXyo7a
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) January 29, 2019
8.41pm: MPs send May back to Brussels for a new deal
8.47pm: Brussels says no
Nails it.