This is a repost from the esteemed Mary in Malaga on the Spain expat forum, it made me smile :)
"Don't buy this hateful rag!!
When I make my rare forays into areas with a larger Brit population I find that the Daily Mail is often the only paper to be found in petrol stations and supermarkets. It is obviously very popular amongst immigrants in Spain.
The Mail is notorious for its skewed reporting, its smears on any politician to the left of Nick Griffin, its anti-Europeanism, its obsession with immigrants, benefit cheats, sex crimes especially those involving underage girls, teachers and lesbians with no salacious detail spared...but it has now surely gone way beyond the boundaries of taste and decency in its attack on Ralph Miliband.
Miliband pere was an unreconstructed old Marxist whose relevance to real, practical politics was nil. He was an academic, a theoretician of socialism more revered in Hampstead than Huddersfield. He came to the UK as a refugee from the Nazis and volunteered - yes, volunteered - to fight in the Royal Navy in the War for the country that became his adopted home.
Yet the Nazi-supporting Daily Mail has dared to label this man as 'hating' Britain.
Why? On the grounds of his Marxism...a belief often adopted by idealistic young people such as myself, a CPGB member in my youth and also taken up by such as the son of the one-time Head of the CBI, Adair Turner and also by Mail rabid right-wing columnist Peter Hitchens, once a rabid Trotskyite.
The Mail's 'evidence' for this 'hatred' includes Miliband's criticisms of some British values such as excessive patriotism, the established church and the monarchy, amongst other things. Well, I must by their definition also hate Britain as although I reject Miliband's Marxism I too have little respect for some of our British 'values'.
I would NEVER pay money for this rag. I wouldn't use it to wrap up the dog's crap. I read it online so I can post replies under some of the more ludicrous pieces...I use the names MarbellaMary or PraguePix. Sometimes my posts get to see print, mostly they don't.
I would really love to start some kind of 'Dacre Must Go' petition plus a boycott of the Daily Heil. But I'm in Spain ....I'm tempted to write 'Danger: fascist propaganda' on sheets of A4 to leave on the piles of DMs when I see them...or accidently spill cooking oil on them..I'm getting old and clumsy, after all....
At least Cameron, Clegg and Heseltine have voiced their objections to this disgusting character assassination. Alistair Campbell said it all last night on 'Newsnight' when he said The Mail purported to stand for the best of British values when it actually exemplified and promoted the worst. He also called Dacre a coward for sending his deputy Steafel to defend the indefensible.
I would urge everyone to spread the word 'Danger: this newspaper contains poison. Do not buy".
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