ANGRY MOB

I'm afraid I'm going to make some sweeping generalisations and assumptions in this post and suggest that if you are reading this website you are not a Daily Mail reader. However, if you are I'd like you to please read on and listen to a few points I'd like to make and consider whether you really want to be buying and reading the Daily Mail.

1 - They are running a front page led campaign to ban wheelie bins. I mean, seriously, is this the kind of newspaper you want to be funding? A newspaper that thinks the most important thing in the world today is people being given one or more wheelie bins to put their rubbish in?

2 - The columnists that write for the Daily Mail. Today for example Richard Littlejohn - who earns around £800,000 a year - wrote a utterly pointless piece on wheelie bins to help spearhead the moronic 'revolution' against plastic bins: Plagues of rats. Little Hitlers terrorising old ladies. The Great Wheelie Bin Revolt is long overdue.

Just consider that headline: what exactly is terrorising 'old ladies', a plague of rats or plastic bins that somehow embody the spirit of Hitler? What exactly makes this a 'great revolt', the fact that a deranged newspaper has started a campaign that not even its readers seem to support?

Furthermore, I fail to see how wheelie bins are causing a 'plague of rats', I seem to recall rats (and cats, dogs, foxes) can tear open black bags pretty easily, but I've yet to see or hear about a mutant rat chewing through a wheelie bin.

Littlejohn manages to cram that much shite into just one 16 word headline - and he doesn't even spend most of his time in the UK, so he's hardly the-man-on-the-street he pretends to be. So, Daily Mail reader, do you want to be funding the salary of a writer so poor he makes porn dialogue appear positively Shakespearean?

3 - Do you want to buy a newspaper that blames racism on the victims of racism? For example, would you like to read a newspaper that basically says that extremism is fuelled not by hatred, ignorance or constant lies about immigration but is actually the fault of 'waves of immigrants':

If you wanted to retire to Spain and become an 'ex-pat' (euphemism for immigrant) and the Spanish people threw bricks through your windows and intimidated you, would you feel that it was your fault? Would you be part of a 'wave of ex-pats' fuelling extremism? You have the legal right to live in another EU country, just like those in EU countries have every right to live in the UK.

Do you want to be funding a newspaper that blames the victims of racist crime for somehow asking for it by having the temerity to try and make a life in the UK? Is that the sort of society that you would like to live in? It certainly is the society the Daily Mail are trying to engineer.

4 - Strain your eyes and read that little extract. Yes, it really does suggest that some communities of ethnic minorities living in the UK are the result of 'historical accidents'. Presumably the accident is Hitler losing WWII and the UK being lumbered with a state that tends to protect the rights of the individual - regardless of parental race or ethnicity.

5 - Just buy toilet paper. It's softer, more absorbent and actually wipes the shit off you, rather than smearing it on you.