By TruePublica: Paul Dacre, who
used to be the Daily Mail’s editor until last August after 26 years at
the helm drove a right-wing newspaper into Britain’s most fanatical
anti-liberal voice. In a rare moment of clarity three years ago, even
David Cameron made a case for replacing the then Mail’s editor on grounds that he was threatening the nation’s future with his stance on Brexit.
The Daily Mail has a history of being on the wrong side of the big
things. Who, in their right minds could forget those immortal words when
comparing Brexit to World World War 2 – “As in 1939 we are at a crossroads in our island history,”
without even a hint of irony for a paper that at the previous
crossroads, its own editorials stood sympathetic to fascism and acted as
a recruitment agent for Oswald Mosley. “Hurrah for the Blackshirts!” eh!
The Mail practically invented the language of Brexit. With
“Remoaners” and concepts of the “tsunami of immigrants,” along with
“Crush the saboteurs,” and “Enemies of the people” – the nation has been
encouraged to split.
So serious is the Brexit meltdown as we approach its own manufactured
cliff that doubt has now entered the mindset of even those employed at
this most hate-filled of bile spewing propagandists. The Daily Mail has
been at the heart of creating a violent culture of hostility towards
migrants and refugees that has done little but to massively increase
racism and xenophobic attitudes in our country and drive the
nation-state into what we can clearly see is a political slow-motion
crash.
