The big red ALL makes a comeback!
Hooray! Remember this shit?
They've only gone and done exactly the same fucking thing again!
Except it's a bit bolder, given that this is the Star and not the Express, wherein all slender traces of respectability can be safely chucked in the bin in favour of "The bloody foreign bastards innit?!" hamfistedness. I've mentioned before that the Express has been subcontracting the immigration hatred out to the Star. I don't know whether this is because they feel the Star demographic, wanking with one hand over a page 3 girl and holding the paper with the other (while sitting in a Transit van), are particularly susceptible to the subtle nuances of an argument about immigration's role in Britain's changing demographics. I don't know. But that's what they're doing.
Notice again the language used. Like "BBC puts Muslims before YOU!", this headline of "They've stolen ALL our jobs" implies a simple us-and-them equation. If you're from the abroad, you're one of THEM. If you're not, you're one of US. You have to wonder what Richard Desmond's Jewish immigrant ancestors would have felt encountering such hatred; then again, you wonder if he gives a flying one, so long as racism sells papers.
As for the story? It's the same nonsense as before, just re-heated for a Tuesday morning. Same old story, same old lies. (Have you had a new job since 2001? Are you an immigrant? Do you know anyone who has had a new job since 2001 who isn't an immigrant?) If there is a debate to be had about immigration, this certainly isn't it, and this certainly doesn't contribute anything other than hatred, deceit and ignorance.
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December 16th, 2008 - 13:27
And the story’s nicely juxtaposed next to a picture of one of the bullied in the Celebrity big Brother racism row, who commented of the Indian housemate, ‘She should fuck off home’.
December 16th, 2008 - 13:43
I wouldn’t let the Express off that lightly, they have the story as well (ended up reading a copy in the pub at lunch time) just tucked away on the inside pages somewhere. Don’t know if it’s in the online edition, frankly I’m too intollerant of the pop ups on there to go looking for it.
In terms of same old lies I’ve had to be told to calm down today by my boss after going off on one in the office about the same old lies in the Mail about public sector pay and pensions.
There’s a lot of this stuff about it would seem.
December 16th, 2008 - 15:57
That should have read ‘bullies’. Sorry.
December 16th, 2008 - 16:35
“…cheaper than the Sun.”
Enough said.
December 16th, 2008 - 17:46
In this neck of the woods it’s allowed Frank Field to do one of his ‘I’m not Enoch Powell but…..’ soundbites for the local media.
Old Danni’s not so popular here either. her mum was on local radio when she was on CBB but suddenly became unavailable for comment when the Shilpagate affair broke.
December 16th, 2008 - 20:39
I prefer the surreal Beckett-esque headlines of the Daily Record – “Blind Shoplifter BANNED!” was a pretty classic one. But I guess more blatantly racist ones are going to become more popular as tabloids go straight for the “pissed up idiot at a pub” school of economic analysis.
And, as an aside, I really hate the suffix of -gate being tacked onto any word as an easy, catch-all “scandal name generator”. Nazigate, BNPgate, Blairgate etc etc.. It’s one of those journalistic/blog clichés that I dislike almost as much as equating the Labour party to either Stalin or (lately) Zanu-PF. Zanu-labour, Mugabrown, Zanuzab etc.. It’s ridiculous. dr