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Social media users have reacted to today\u2019s Daily Mail front page “It’s time to pull plug on the Lords”, with many highlighting the paper\u2019s outrage at unelected representatives it has defended in the past.<\/p>\n
The right wing British tabloid, run by Paul Dacre, reportedly the only media figure to receive hospitality from UK PM Theresa May within her first 6 months in office, has taken aim yet again at the Lords, after peers defeated the government for the fourteenth time on the EU Withdrawal Bill.<\/p>\n
The Daily Mail backed Brexit and is a little peeved at what it sees as the Lords frustrating the \u2018will of the people\u2019 and trying to \u201cthwart Brexit.” <\/em>LBC Radio presenter James O\u2019Brien tweeted a list of particular people the paper has targeted, from judges and MPs to academics and now the Lords, for what many see as simply exercising their democratic rights.<\/p>\n So that\u2019s judges (Enemies Of The People); MPs (Crush The Saboteurs); Academics (Our Remainer Universities) and now the Lords. \u2014 James O’Brien (@mrjamesob) May 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Jo Green, the Ex Head of Press and Broadcasting for Labour tweeted a quote from the Daily Mail Editorial September 19, 2003, where they described the lords as “robustly independent.”<\/em>\u00a0What has changed for the editor-in-chief, Dacre?<\/p>\n \u201cThe truth is this prime minister (Tony Blair) hates the robustly independent Lords, which has proved a more effective check on an over-mighty executive than the Commons … Now he wants a Lords full of placemen, puppets and toadies.\u201d <\/p>\n Daily Mail editorial, Sept 19th 2003<\/p>\n \u2014 Jo Green (@jg_ccpress) May 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n The apparent change of heart towards the Lords from the Daily Mail has not gone unnoticed by lacasadelliberalismo on social news aggregation and discussion site Reddit, commenting that:<\/p>\n In 2000 when the House of Lords defeated the Labour government\u2019s attempt to repeal Section 28, a law that banned local authorities from promoting homosexuality, the Daily Mail hailed the Lords, running the headline \u201cPraise Be to the Lords.”<\/em><\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Lords rebel against May\u2019s Brexit plans: Tory and Labour peers unite in call for UK to remain in EEA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n However, the issue of Brexit has dominated political discourse over the last few years, a subject the Mail seems incredibly emotionally attached to, as illustrated by their latest antagonistic front page.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not just the Daily Mail that has come under fire for their supposed about turn on their attitude towards the Lords; Brexiteer Tory MPs who have spoken out against the Lord\u2019s latest defeat of the government, such as Jacob Rees-Mogg suggests \u201cThe peers set themselves against the people, using an ermine-covered wrecking ball in their efforts to stop Brexit,\u201d<\/em> has been identified as one of those many MPs to have voted against Lords reform in 2012. The list Daily Telegraph journalist Michael Deacon has tweeted makes for interesting viewing.<\/p>\n Brexiteer Tory MPs who voted against reforming the House of Lords in 2012:<\/p>\n Jacob Rees-Mogg \u2014 Michael Deacon (@MichaelPDeacon) May 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n The Daily Mail\u2019s attention grabbing headline sits next to a large picture of the Queen with a line underneath that reads \u201cHas she EVER looked so happy?\u201d<\/em> prompting joe.co.uk\u2019s Nooruddean Choudry to tweet “Imagine questioning the legitimacy and relevance of the Lords as a part of our democratic system whilst gushing about a monarchy.”<\/em><\/p>\n Imagine questioning the legitimacy and relevance of the Lords as a part of our democratic system whilst gushing about a monarchy pic.twitter.com\/hnFSZjgZyR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
Paul Dacre\u2019s sociopathic rage is running out of targets. pic.twitter.com\/3rD9YnxwiH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
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David Davis
Steve Baker
Philip Davies
Nadine Dorries
John Redwood
Bernard Jenkin
Bill Cash
Penny Mordaunt
John Whittingdale
Edward Leigh
Philip Hollobone
Andrew Bridgen
Anne Main<\/p>\n\n\n