The Fail on Sunday has fallen foul of its readers yet again, with a headline that begged for ridicule the moment it was released into the community. Here it is:
The worst crisis since when?
The Flail seems to be suffering from selective amnesia. As many commenters – especially on Twitter – have pointed out, the worst crisis since the abdication was probably World War II. Does anybody remember that little scuffle?
But then, what can you expect from the Mail? The abdication involved a Nazi sympathiser (Edward VIII) and at the time, the newspaper was run by a Nazi sympathiser too.
And what exactly was this “worst crisis”? It was the threat of a Labour/SNP deal that, according to Labour leader Ed Miliband’s categorical assurances, will not happen.
The good people on Twitter saw through the headline immediately – of course – and set about undermining it with extreme vigour. There followed a series of candidates for ‘worst crisis’ – some in pictures. See for yourself:
How about this one?
Or this one, from screenwriter, novelist and recent Doctor Who scriptwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce?John Prescott got in on the act: “I had to eat fish and chips without vinegar tonight #WorstCrisisSinceTheAbdication.”
Shona MacLeod offered: “All the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again #WorstCrisisSinceTheAbdication.”
There was this, from Lawrence McNeill: “Glasgow pubs run out of Beer #WorstCrisisSinceTheAbdication.”
And of course this, from ‘Mr Ethical’: “Worst crisis since Daily Mail supported Hitler. #WorstCrisisSinceAbdication.”
The Guardian‘s Patrick Wintour made a serious point: “Home Secretary should be entitled to display her ignorance of history but not to question the legitimacy of a free and fair election in UK.”
Let’s give cartoonist Gary Baker the last word – on a serious point: “It’s a good job Theresa May hasn’t got serious things to sort like child abuse claims otherwise her talk of ‘abdication’ would seem puerile.”
Yes indeed. What is happening about the Director of Public Prosecutions and Lord Janner – and why is the Home Secretary wasting everybody’s time on this instead?
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