Gove: Mail Was Right To Offend

[ChillDoubt]

Dear oh dear.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24363765

Just doesn't get it does he? This idiot gets further detached from reality day by day. But given Dacre's reputation I suppose he foolishly believes he feels he has to defend a daily sh*t-sheet that his wife writes for, despite all from the PM down saying the paper was wrong.

[anotheoldgit]

ChillDoubt

/// Gove is just currying favour with his bosses wife, which is a bit sad really. ///

Yet another assumption, when you can't possible know he is "currying favour with his bosses wife".

[Zeuhl]

Many people don't realise that Peter Dacre was a vital part of the war effort based partly in Bletchley Park and partly in a knocking shop off Old Compton Street

His showbiz gossip column contained cleverly encoded instructions for his avid Resistance Fighter readers in Occupied Europe.

Most notably, his June 1944 Review of 'No, No Nanette' starring Zasu Pitts included detailed deployment instructions for the Normandy Landings.

He was awarded the VC (vodka cocktail) with Bar in 1945.

His son should be very proud.

[ChillDoubt]

Yet another assumption, when you can't possible know he is "currying favour with his bosses wife".
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Like your assumption that I was a card-carrying pinko 5th columnist that was 180 degrees wide of the mark you mean?

Different editor but same stable, doesn't the Mail On Sunday's apology today for their most recent faux pas make Gove look even more foolish, given that he said there was no need for an apology over the first outrage, that even Heseltine called a hatchet job?

[anotheoldgit]

ichkeria

/// The Mail's Lord Rothermere loved Hitler and the Nazi Party in the 1930s. But are we to infer from that that the Mail today are their ideological heirs?

But then Lord Rothermere's ideology is not likely to be passed on to a possible Prime Minister of the UK.

[FredPuli43]

AOG, it could be that Ralph Miliband was forced to join up and you haven't read anywhere that he wasn't. Well, then read on:

The man wasn't a British citizen until 1946, merely a foreigner in Britain. He could not have been forced to join up in the War. He served in a Belgian unit of the Royal Navy.[Source Wikipedia "Ralph Miliband"]

But saying Dacre's father was deficient in some way is just as bad as saying Ed Miliband's father was, when the intent is to cast a slur on the son.

[mikey4444]

AOG...why on earth are you trying to defend the DM ? They have been caught out trying to smear the Labour Party. Even Dave thinks it was a mistake. Just accept that and move on.

[mikey4444]

Just seen this on the BBC website...seems that the DM has few friends now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24380958