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DAILY PAPERS IN the UK have made their final pitch to voters as the public heads to the polls for today’s General Election.
The Daily Star is taking particular glee with the turmoil likely to befall Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party, with its front page bidding a “fond farewell” to “self-entitled clowns, chancers, liars, wazzocks, cheats, sociopaths, scumbags and bellends”.
Its front page also claims the Tories have taken the public for “complete mugs” over their 14 years in Number 10.
However, the ‘Thought for the Day’ on the Daily Star front page takes a “wait and see” approach to whether Keir Starmer’s Labour will do any better.
The conservative Daily Express meanwhile calls on the public to “vote Tory”, despite noting that the party faces a “punishing pounding at the ballot box”.
The paper claims “unchecked power” for Labour for “diminish this great country of ours”.
“We will continue carrying the torch of Conservatism until it is burning bright again,” says the Daily Express.
The Daily Mirror meanwhile urges its readers to “vote for change, vote Labour”.
It also uses its front page to remind voters to bring photo ID.
In 2022, former UK prime minister Boris Johnson introduced a law requiring photo ID at polling stations.
Elsewhere, the Daily Mail warns its readers to reject Nigel Farage’s Reform Party.
Alongside a photo of Labour leader Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner, the paper states: “Vote Farage, get them…”
The Daily Mail claims Labour would bring in “uncontrolled immigration” and the scrapping of the controversial Rwanda plan, as well as “rampant wokery, betrayal of women’s right, Net Zero mania, and surrender of our Brexit freedoms”.
The Sun meanwhile goes for a Euro 2024 themed front page, stating that it’s “time for a new manager” and they are not talking about England manager Gareth Southgate.
In Scotland, the Scottish Daily Mail is hoping its readers dislike former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon.
The former SNP leader will be a pundit on ITV’s election night coverage, and next to a photo of a gleeful Sturgeon, the Scottish Daily Mail states: “Back Rishi and beat the SNP… or she’ll be celebrating like this on your TV tonight.”
Elsewhere in Scotland, The National, a paper which backs Scottish independence, is wary of a Labour win, telling its readers that Starmer will “deny us a say on Scotland’s future” and “support the failed Brexit project”.
It’s a different feel though on the Daily Record, which features Starmer in a Barack Obama-inspired ‘Change’ style image, urging its voters not to “miss the chance to kick” the Tories out.
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The Daily Mail says vote Farage or we surrender our Brexit freedoms.What freedoms?
@Willie Marty: The freedom to have less places you can live, endless tedious form filling, loss of business and added expense on nearly all goods? They showed Johnny Foreigner though!
@Willie Marty: freedom not to have freedom to travel or use iconic blue passports printed in France. Even the Monster Raving Loony Party has more credibility at this stage.
Hopefully the Tories are given an unmerciful kicking at the ballot box. Less than 100 seats
Who cares? They are all as terrible as each other, except Count Binhead
Express, Star, and Mirror all part of the same Reach group. Just telling their respective markets what they want to hear.
Half of the people here didn’t care to vote, as a result we have the same clowns, and a government with a lot more confidence to continue screwing us without impunity. So never mind UK elections
@Dominic Leleu: You can’t assume that the half who didn’t vote would have voted differently.
@Dominic Leleu: False. We have the same clowns in government here because those clowns tried to be in government. Parties like Labour, SD, PBP and SF etc are all great at screaming from the side lines. But when it comes to general elections and the chance to govern they don’t run enough candidates to win and lead a government. Same over the water in the UK only 2 parties will run enough candidates in today’s general to form a government. Can’t vote for change when no other party wants to lead that change can we?
I don’t care who you vote for,that’s your business , but I do care of you don’t vote
@Meatball Martin: because it’s important to have your say it might or might not , but at least you know
@Meatball Martin: Brexit wasn’t our election but it mattered to us. All of these current elections the World over matter to everyone.
@Meatball Martin: We live in a world of interconnected trade, finance and commerce.
Yes, these elections DO impact us and you’re incredibly short sighted to not understand that.
@Meatball Martin: Yeah! Because the years of inward looking nationalistic isolationism of the De’Velara era worked out great for us.
@Meatball Martin: He kept us in poverty and servitude.
So this is what an independent, unbiased, balanced media looks like?.
@Peter 1: You think this is new behaviour from the UK Tabloids? Express, Telegraph, Daily Mail have always been Tory.
The Sun claimed they were responsible for Kinnock’s loss back in 1992.
None of this is new for the UK tabloid papers.
@Peter 1: Why do you think independent media should be unbiased? State media is supposed to be unbiased because it’s not independent.
@Tricia G28: As they were for the orchestrated smear campaign against Corbyn last election.. probably the most vicious one I can recall. They’re all just propaganda rags serving their paymaster.
I know it’s highly unlikely, but I would laugh if the lib Dems won a majority.
I would like to Farage get a good amount of votes. He has the most character out of the leaders and deserves a shot.
@Sean Money: where specifically on his body does he deserve a shot?
@mani mus: Oooh!! I know, I know!!
@mani mus: oooh good one! But he does not deserve to be shot now come on.
@Sean Money: in the words of the late great Winston Wolfe
‘Just becase you are a character doesn’t mean you have character’
Labour will lose a lot of votes in Liverpool. Madness by the Labour leader
@Shaun Gallagher: they still wont vote tories
If Irish papers done the same. Most if not all would print “vote PBP”.
@Laois Weather: LOL.. you clearly haven’t a clue about the political leanings and editorial policies of the national Irish papers. Maybe read some more and stop making things up..
@Laois Weather: The Irish papers are all brit owned!
More interested in the. JAY THE RIDDELL OF THE ROLEX .
@Karen Marten: I wouldn’t bother, it’ll be some nonsense conspiracy theory because they’re desperate to keep the story going.
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