Why The Mirror Is A Shit Newspaper

Because like most British 'news'papers it either ignores or deliberately obscures the truth.

In this case, for instance: Tony Benn writing about post office closures without mentioning the EU elephant in the room (as covered in a previous post of mine); and Gordon Brown being portrayed as a hero 'warning off the moneylenders from repossessing homes'.

Many people are unaware that their homes may be at risk over relatively trivial amounts they owe on loans and cards - and not just if they miss mortgage repayments.

So says the magnanimous Mirror, failing to tell you, of course, that the legislation allowing this to happen (Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007) went through parliament with the full knowledge and support of His Great Prime Ministerness Gordon Brown.

Odd, then, that he is now portrayed as being 'very concerned about financial firms demanding repossession orders to chase credit card debts.'

Under the laughable heading 'Analysis', John Husband in the same excremental journal agrees that the Great Unelected One is right.

What's interesting from a linguistic point of view is the use of the word 'moneylenders': makes it seem as if the perpetrators are a bunch of seedy, greedy, backstreet loan sharks. As opposed to a bunch of seedy, greedy, high street banks and credit card companies, who have just had their wallets filled with our cash for having screwed the world's financial system.

Is the EU Worried We're On To Them?

Trawling the internet for further information on the EU's hidden part in destroying the British postal system I came across this. Issued in May, presumably as a response to growing awareness that the EU is directly responsible for legislation that is resulting in the closure of British Post Offices, it's described as a 'Fact Sheet' and yet bears the odd instruction 'not to be quoted from'!

It's basically a deceitful attempt to shift blame from itself onto the British government (and, to be fair, the government is guilty - of allowing the EU to get away with this legislation and of implementing measures well before they should). Look here and here for the truth. A combination of 'liberalisation' (ie enforced competition) and restriction of subsidies is at the core of it.

For instance, if you wondered why the Post Office introduced that insane method a couple of years ago of judging the cost of postage by whether an envelope would fit a specific size 'letterbox', then here's your answer.


An article in today's Observer, 'Mandelson urged to halt Post Office Closures' by Toby Helm, talks about Labour MPs calling on Mandelson to block all further closures. Nowhere in the article does Mr Helm acknowledge the part of the EU in this mess. Possibly because he doesn't know? The idea of Mandelson, having just returned from a 4-year jolly at the EU, facing the bureaucrats down and actually doing something useful is laughable. Mr Helm seems unaware of this irony.

However, not all British journalists are as useless as Toby; Henry Porter continues to wage his lonely war against the government's destruction of our freedoms, with an article attacking that pudding-faced cretin of a Home Secretary after the 'scrapping' of the 42 days bill.