Daily Express

Bluemerle · 09-09-2005, 11:22 PM

I received this e-mail earlier.

From Mike Smith,
City of Gloucester.

Hi everyone,

I don't know how many of our members regularly read the Daily Express but it seems to me that they are becoming increasingly anti-EU.
Could we mount a letter writing campaign to try to persuade them to head a campaign for withdrawal, or at least supporting the call for a referendum.

Perhaps Roger could try to contact Richard Desmond directly?

Write to expressletters@express.co.uk

It would be marvellous if we could get a national newspaper on our side and most of the others seem to be so tied up to their political allegiance that they are unlikely to do so.
Mike Smith
Gloucester

Alex McKee · 10-09-2005, 12:00 AM

Mike was chatting to me last sat about the Express. Aparrently he's landed a few letters over the last while, and also there has apparently been a lot of anti-EU stuff recently.

Alex

Cyburn · 22-09-2005, 08:21 PM

The Express has always had a repuation on being right-wing.

So many the express will become more pro-UKIP.

Britannist · 22-09-2005, 08:46 PM

The Express was not always "right wing" actually - whatever its alleged reputation. It supported 'Tony' B-liar's Lie-bour Government for a number of years (having previously been pro-Conservative for decades). A couple of years ago, the Express owner Richard Desmond wisely ditched europhile Labour and returned to backing the Conservatives.

Mr. Desmond was rightly angry at the way at the way Labour created the asylum mess. Despite vicious verbal attacks from the anti-English left-wing in this country, the Daily Express (and its sister paper the Daily Star - which sells about the same number of copies as the Express each weekday) has not faltered from its anti-mass immigration stance.

It has been alleged that Mr. Desmond was only prepared for his newspapers to support Labour as long as 'Tony' B-liar was in charge (I don't think he is much of a fan of Gordon Brown) - but what with the Iraq invasion mess and the debacle over asylum - Mr. Desmond appears to have decided that backing B-liar is too much of a liability. There is also the little matter of B-liar apparently turning down a donation from Express newspapers. It may have caused the Express group to decide that - if B-liar doesn't want the Express, they don't want him.

The Sunday Express carried Robert Kilroy-Silk's weekly column for some years and seemed happy to continue doing so after Kilroy became a UKIP member of the EU 'Parliament'. An editorial in the Sunday Express made it clear that the paper did not agree with UKIP and was, more or less, backing the Conservatives. Kilroy's Sunday Express column (full of his anti-EU views) continued appearing right up until he formally quit UKIP and formed Veritas. At that point, the Express group 'dropped him'.

It has to be said that the three national Express newspapers (Daily Express, Daily Star and Sunday Express) are not yet as eurosceptic as we would like. But at least they are sound in opposing Labour's plan to bring in hundreds of thousands of east europeans for cheap labour.

Hartlepool · 22-09-2005, 08:53 PM

I have noticed over the last few weeks that The Express has been leaning more toward being Euroskeptic than normal. This could be really good for the UKIP.

AcidTrash · 04-10-2005, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hartlepool

This could be really good for the UKIP.

In the same way Kilroy Silk was?

The Express is a dirty rag with a readership of cretins. Getting the Express onside would surely be another nail in the coffin of UKIP and the wider cause?

mkpdavies · 04-10-2005, 12:37 PM

Couldn't you say that about almost any rag?

Tom Wilde · 04-10-2005, 12:46 PM

Typical Express front page headline:

"Asylum Seeker Ate My Granny!"
(in letters 4 inches high)

Probably followed by a tedious story about how a stallholder in a fruit market thinks a foreign looking dude stole one of his Granny Smiths.

The Express is no longer a serious newspaper. Also its headline writers are obsessed with immigration and asylum to a degree which apparently embarrases its own journalists, and it is only likely to remain mildly anti-Blair up until the time that Richard Desmond can wring some more concessions out of Blair about his media holdings. Always nice to get some good letters published, and well done to Mike, but I wouldn't place any reliance on the Express as a possible "UKIP-sympathetic" newspaper.

Hartlepool · 04-10-2005, 12:59 PM

This post of mine merely said that what with the Express mentioning the euroskeptic comments of recent,it was good for UKIP.

Nothing was said regards the EXP taking up the UKIP banner and running defiantly thru the streets of Cities. The 8 words of mine as quoted by Acid are all that needs to be seen really,nowt else.

Tom Wilde · 04-10-2005, 01:17 PM

Fair enough - so far as what you said went, I completely agree!

(I must forget to count to ten before pontificating about the Daily Express )

ops:

09-09-2005, 11:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
Bluemerle Uber Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Dorset. Posts: 3,252	Daily Express I received this e-mail earlier. From Mike Smith, City of Gloucester. Hi everyone, I don't know how many of our members regularly read the Daily Express but it seems to me that they are becoming increasingly anti-EU. Could we mount a letter writing campaign to try to persuade them to head a campaign for withdrawal, or at least supporting the call for a referendum. Perhaps Roger could try to contact Richard Desmond directly? Write to expressletters@express.co.uk It would be marvellous if we could get a national newspaper on our side and most of the others seem to be so tied up to their political allegiance that they are unlikely to do so. Mike Smith Gloucester

22-09-2005, 08:46 PM	#4 (permalink)
Britannist Uber Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: London Posts: 22,896	Background to politics of the Express group The Express was not always "right wing" actually - whatever its alleged reputation. It supported 'Tony' B-liar's Lie-bour Government for a number of years (having previously been pro-Conservative for decades). A couple of years ago, the Express owner Richard Desmond wisely ditched europhile Labour and returned to backing the Conservatives. Mr. Desmond was rightly angry at the way at the way Labour created the asylum mess. Despite vicious verbal attacks from the anti-English left-wing in this country, the Daily Express (and its sister paper the Daily Star - which sells about the same number of copies as the Express each weekday) has not faltered from its anti-mass immigration stance. It has been alleged that Mr. Desmond was only prepared for his newspapers to support Labour as long as 'Tony' B-liar was in charge (I don't think he is much of a fan of Gordon Brown) - but what with the Iraq invasion mess and the debacle over asylum - Mr. Desmond appears to have decided that backing B-liar is too much of a liability. There is also the little matter of B-liar apparently turning down a donation from Express newspapers. It may have caused the Express group to decide that - if B-liar doesn't want the Express, they don't want him. The Sunday Express carried Robert Kilroy-Silk's weekly column for some years and seemed happy to continue doing so after Kilroy became a UKIP member of the EU 'Parliament'. An editorial in the Sunday Express made it clear that the paper did not agree with UKIP and was, more or less, backing the Conservatives. Kilroy's Sunday Express column (full of his anti-EU views) continued appearing right up until he formally quit UKIP and formed Veritas. At that point, the Express group 'dropped him'. It has to be said that the three national Express newspapers (Daily Express, Daily Star and Sunday Express) are not yet as eurosceptic as we would like. But at least they are sound in opposing Labour's plan to bring in hundreds of thousands of east europeans for cheap labour.

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10-09-2005, 12:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
Alex McKee Moderator Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Gloucester Posts: 6,666	Mike was chatting to me last sat about the Express. Aparrently he's landed a few letters over the last while, and also there has apparently been a lot of anti-EU stuff recently. Alex

22-09-2005, 08:21 PM	#3 (permalink)
Cyburn Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Kilburn, London Posts: 523	The Express has always had a repuation on being right-wing. So many the express will become more pro-UKIP.

22-09-2005, 08:53 PM	#5 (permalink)
Hartlepool Uber Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: North East England Posts: 6,817 Party: Popular Democrats	I have noticed over the last few weeks that The Express has been leaning more toward being Euroskeptic than normal. This could be really good for the UKIP.

04-10-2005, 12:46 PM	#8 (permalink)
Tom Wilde Moderator Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: London. Posts: 2,914	Typical Express front page headline: "Asylum Seeker Ate My Granny!" (in letters 4 inches high) Probably followed by a tedious story about how a stallholder in a fruit market thinks a foreign looking dude stole one of his Granny Smiths. The Express is no longer a serious newspaper. Also its headline writers are obsessed with immigration and asylum to a degree which apparently embarrases its own journalists, and it is only likely to remain mildly anti-Blair up until the time that Richard Desmond can wring some more concessions out of Blair about his media holdings. Always nice to get some good letters published, and well done to Mike, but I wouldn't place any reliance on the Express as a possible "UKIP-sympathetic" newspaper.

04-10-2005, 12:59 PM	#9 (permalink)
Hartlepool Uber Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: North East England Posts: 6,817 Party: Popular Democrats	This post of mine merely said that what with the Express mentioning the euroskeptic comments of recent,it was good for UKIP. Nothing was said regards the EXP taking up the UKIP banner and running defiantly thru the streets of Cities. The 8 words of mine as quoted by Acid are all that needs to be seen really,nowt else.

04-10-2005, 01:17 PM	#10 (permalink)
Tom Wilde Moderator Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: London. Posts: 2,914	Fair enough - so far as what you said went, I completely agree! (I must forget to count to ten before pontificating about the Daily Express ) ops: