sadly it is very successful. Doesn't mean Dacre isn't a massive c*nt though
Those with closed minds and a long mental list of scapegoats like to have their prejudices massaged and reinforced, not challenged. The Mail is set up to do that, not inform, enlighten or educate.
I had a salutary experience two autumns ago: I was with old friends who live in Gloucester, and on the Saturday we had "posh" fish and chips in a picture-book Cotswold village pub; you know the sort of thing - a board instead of a plate, a stack of triple cooked potato building blocks served stacked in a mug, tartare sauce in a cast-iron pot, all on a natural slate base. 12 quid. The fish was coley.
Anyway, we then went to Cirencester (where, apparently, the "royals" shop), had a mooch, and ended up in a very "English" tea shop where large China teapots and huge slices of Victoria sponge were produced. Sugar cubes in a silver bowl - with tongs, all very genteel. It was now 4.30 and I walked up the side street to W.H Smith, to see whether they'd still got an iPaper. They did - lots in a single rectangular dispenser. The Guardian ditto - one dispenser, lots left. Six empty dispensers where the Mail had sold out, four nearly empty for the Express, four for the S*n, four for the Telegraph. ALL aside from the iPaper and Guardian,virtually sold out, one dispenser for the Indy was almost empty, no sign at all of a Daily Mirror.
I actually subscribe to the notion that Sadiq Khan spelled out - Labour needs a bigger tent, broader appeal, and to persuade some Tory voters to change their allegiance. But even in places less entrenched than Cirencester, the task is enormous. P.R and strategic targeting of marginals in collaboration with other anti-Tories has been mooted again. Labour voters have been defecting to UKIP, the Greens, and the Welsh and Scottish nationalist parties. The anti-Tory vote is hopelessly splintered and factionalised. The targets of ire, spite, press briefings and destructive tweets are not aimed against awful Tory misjudgements, wrong-headed policy initiatives, cruel and divisive legislation announcements, but against those who are ostensibly natural allies.
It's all very dispiriting; divide and conquer once again succeeding. The Establishment don't have to really work very hard. So easy to scapegoat, so many easy targets.
