Protest: The Daily Mail Hates Britain, Kensington, London, Sunday 6th Oct

[editor]

Facebook event has just gone up.

• The Daily Mail, Young Street, W8 5EH (High St Kensington tube)
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  So, the Daily Mail accused Ralph Miliband - a Jewish refugee who fled the Holocaust and proudly fought the Nazis - of "hating Britain". The irony. This is a paper that once backed the Blackshirts and Adolf Hitler, whose genocidal regime posed arguably the greatest threat this country has faced in its entire existence.
  
  But the truth is the Daily Mail hates Britain more than anyone. It hates its proudest institutions, like the BBC and the NHS, which the Tory Nigel Lawson once described as "the closest the English have to a religion." It hates public sector workers, who range from dinner ladies to nurses - the pillars of our society. It hates trade unionists, who belong to Britain's biggest democratic movement. It hates women generally. It hates Muslims. It hates travellers. In its long, hateful past, it has spewed hate at Jews and gays.
  
  It really is just one big inky fountain of hatred. But for too long we've ignored it, almost like an eccentric misguided relative, stuck in a bygone era, but largely harmless. In reality it is a poison in public life, bullying and blackmailing anyone and anything that gets in its way.
  
  So let's strike back. On Sunday, all the people hated by the Daily Mail - that's pretty all of us - are going to turn up at their headquarters, loud and proud about who we are. If you're a woman, a Muslim, LGBT, a nurse, a socialist, a trade union rep, or just someone who doesn't like hatred being pumped into public life every day, turn up.
  
  This is an upbeat, carnival-type protest, a statement of defiance against bigotry and hatred. So turn up in a good mood, with colourful banners, full of pride about who we all are.

https://www.facebook.com/events/247553875396192

 

[treelover]

That would be the BBC, the institution which has by stereotyping and often demonising unwaged, sick and disabled it has been an enabler for the welfare reform programme which is literally killing people.

as of course has the DM.

 

[gabi]

Facebook. That renowned guardian of such things as 'privacy' and who was floated for billions, invested in by some of the same people who invest in the Mail. Why are you promoting such a site?

 

[gabi]

i would hazard a guess, a wild guess, that you might be a slightly bitter 'returner' ivor

 

[gabi]

i do wonder what you get out of this, seriously firky

im off for a pint. good to see you back tho, for a limited time only.

 

[audiotech]

Lord Rothermere and his sub editor.

 

[Lemon Eddy]

Why are you promoting such a site?

Presumably because it's a demonstrably successful way of organising meetings and protests at short notice. What alternative would you have used?

 

[where to]

This in danger of being a defend Ed Miliband's dad protest, which is a ludicrous proposition. People pushing this have to be v careful about framing. the average punter may be on their side and disgusted at DM but these issues have fuck all to do with putting bread on the table. Story could yet backfire on Labour as time goes on.

 

[gabi]

Presumably because it's a demonstrably successful way of organising meetings and protests at short notice. What alternative would you have used?

Anything other than the one used

 

[Dynamo]

Why didn't you protest against the Sun newspaper when they wrote out and out lies about Liverpool football fans in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster? See this

 

[cantsin]

Why didn't you protest against the Sun newspaper when they wrote out and out lies about Liverpool football fans in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster? See this

great last post, complete with link in case we weren't sure what was being refferred to

 

[butchersapron]

Why didn't you protest against the Sun newspaper when they wrote out and out lies about Liverpool football fans in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster? See this

We did - you didn't - you made jokes about thieving scousers and carried on doing it for over a decade.

 

[SikhWarrioR]

The "Sieg Mail" and it's owner certainly seemed to hate Gt Britain back in the 1930's

 

[killer b]

so glad you've finally let us know.

 

[RedDragon]

Sticking the boot into the poor, disabled, unemployed and immigrants - not a word from Ed - Slag off his Dad and there's an uproar