Daily Express thinks that MPs must be jailed for 28 days for opposing Brexit

[Scarlett.]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CujWwfaW8AAeOu6.jpg

Here's the link to the hate filled ****e rag (http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/720169/Parliament-vote-act-EU-Brexit-British-Westminster-MPs)

[Crimson Dynamo]

why are you reading the Express?

:umm2:

[Scarlett.]

why are you reading the Express?

:umm2:

I'm not, got that clipping off twitter, the link leads to the online version of it for verification that its not made up :laugh:

[James]

I don't think it is a leader column, just some columnist.

[kirklancaster]

That Express article is so wrong - I would bang the in the Tower for at least a year. :hee:

[Scarlett.]

I don't think it is a leader column, just some columnist.

Fair enough, but they still decided it was worth printing and putting on their front page.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CujlQyDW8AA-IGg.jpg

[bots]

i haven't read the daily express in 30 years :laugh:

[James]

Years ago it was one of the major newspapers in the country. Different now.

[James]

Fair enough, but they still decided it was worth printing and putting on their front page.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CujlQyDW8AA-IGg.jpg

That's not the same article, I don't think?

[Scarlett.]

That's not the same article, I don't think?

It ties in with it all, I think :shrug: still, they should not be printing such bold attacks against 48% of voters, the Daily Mail are just as guilty of trying to widen the divide in this country. We should all be working toward a compromise, it was such a close vote that you can't really just blank one sides' wishes.

[_Tom_]

It ties in with it all, I think :shrug: still, they should not be printing such bold attacks against 48% of voters, the Daily Mail are just as guilty of trying to widen the divide in this country. We should all be working toward a compromise, it was such a close vote that you can't really just blank one sides' wishes.

But the rest of the MSM can print and televise bold attacks against 52% of voters - and do exactly the rest of what you wrote?

[Scarlett.]

But the rest of the MSM can print and televise bold attacks against 52% of voters?

By bold attacks I mean these papers saying that Remainers must be silenced and that we're somehow traitors to our own country. That said I don't think attacks against the 52% should happen either. The divide needs to be healed, not widened. All I've seen the mainstream media do is show facts that a Hard Brexit would be suicide for the UK, thats not attacking Leavers, its the facts.

[Mokka]

I know I am not in your country....but I still believe it is the job of the MP to represent their constituents...and not their party. So if the MP's are from a region that voted heavily against Brexit....they are just doing their job imo.

But that is just my opinion

[Niamh.]

I know I am not in your country....but I still believe it is the job of the MP to represent their constituents...and not their party. So if the MP's are from a region that voted heavily against Brexit....they are just doing their job imo.

But that is just my opinion

Yeah that obviously makes most sense imo

[Northern Monkey]

That Express article is so wrong - I would bang the in the Tower for at least a year. :hee:

This

[bots]

I know I am not in your country....but I still believe it is the job of the MP to represent their constituents...and not their party. So if the MP's are from a region that voted heavily against Brexit....they are just doing their job imo.

But that is just my opinion

i think that is correct. For example no MP from Scotland should be supporting the brexit bill, because not a single region in Scotland voted for it.

The problem is that the regions dont tie up nicely with the areas that an MP represents, which makes it almost impossible to reflect clearly and accurately, without fixing it, which defeats the object of the vote.

[arista]

Years ago it was one of the major newspapers in the country. Different now.


Yes Very True James

[arista]

It ties in with it all, I think :shrug: still, they should not be printing such bold attacks against 48% of voters, the Daily Mail are just as guilty of trying to widen the divide in this country. We should all be working toward a compromise, it was such a close vote that you can't really just blank one sides' wishes.


But Chewy
I was going to post this
then "I thought, no
they do not need a promo"
you have helped sell
more of their papers 'today'
The D.E. loves tibb's Chewy

[Scarlett.]

But Chewy
I was going to post this
then "I thought, no
they do not need a promo"
you have helped sell
more of their papers 'today'
The D.E. loves tibb's Chewy

Good point, wouldn't be surprised if they printed crap like this to shock people and to try and sell copies.

[MTVN]

i think that is correct. For example no MP from Scotland should be supporting the brexit bill, because not a single region in Scotland voted for it.

The problem is that the regions dont tie up nicely with the areas that an MP represents, which makes it almost impossible to reflect clearly and accurately, without fixing it, which defeats the object of the vote.

Yep the vast majority of Labour constituencies voted to Leave yet the vast majority of Labour MPs voted to Remain so there's no clear correlation here

Anyway the Express has carried an EU headline literally every day since the referendum, I look at every paper's front page each day and that is always the case. They have their appeal to their readership but they're one of the least read papers and in today's print world that means they really are being read by very few people. Not worth agonising about.

[jaxie]

That Express article is so wrong - I would bang the in the Tower for at least a year. :hee:

40 years. That's how long we had to wait for a get out of jail Brexit!