Headline in the Daily Mail (I know) suggest that finally Brexit may be over ...

So it wasn’t good journalism?
Hard work, principles, etc etc?

Zoejory

FannyCornforth

I’m finding GN particularly confusing this morning

Ditto!

I would have thought that no matter how much one loathes the DM they have to agree that the DM did the right thing. The Lawrence's managed to get some justice for the killing of their much loved son.

I'm sorry that you don't understand what 'lynch mob mentality' leads to.

Those were headlines for a lynch mob. Even posted the young men's photos to make it easy for them.

FannyCornforth

So it wasn’t good journalism?
Hard work, principles, etc etc?

It was good investigative journalism. Nothing wrong with that.

Plastering the photos of the suspects all over the front page and screaming that they were guilty was a completely wrong use of the findings from that work.

Oh MaizieD

I can't believe you would have preferred these men to remain at large. Which they would have done without the Mail's intervention.

Lynch mob mentality? Nonsense.

I think you need to do some research about the Lawrence case, MaizieD

Zoejory

Oh MaizieD

I can't believe you would have preferred these men to remain at large. Which they would have done without the Mail's intervention.

Lynch mob mentality? Nonsense.

You are absolutely and completely missing the point I was making, Zoejory.

And, just like the DM, you are using an emotive case to try to justify a wrong action.

I am very well aware of the Stephen Lawrence case, so don't try to patronise me..

I'm not missing any point.

You seem to be totally unaware of what had happened before this headline was published.

Your hatred of the DM has made you sound like an apologist for these men.

I'm not missing any point.

Just to verify that, Zoejory, can you tell me what 'point' I was originally making? Then we can judge whether or not you were missing it.

I'll just ignore the rest of the patronising cr*p in your reply.

We can judge? Is that the Royal we?

I am now posting a BBC link pointing out exactly what happened before the Mail posted the headline.

They were going to get off. They would never have been charged. And, in my opinion, that was wrong. If you think the Mail was wrong, that is fine. Your opinion.

But not everyone will agree with you.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26465916

Why not start a thread about Stephen Lawrence?

The case has nothing to do with Brexit.

It's the old "But Hitler liked dogs, so can't have been all bad" argument.

growstuff

It's the old "But Hitler liked dogs, so can't have been all bad" argument.

Godwin's Law, growstuff!

But you're right, the thread has meandered.

I'm leaving now.

Bye!

Before you go, do you have any comment on whether the DM is right and Brexit is over?

Zoejory

We can judge? Is that the Royal we?

I am now posting a BBC link pointing out exactly what happened before the Mail posted the headline.

They were going to get off. They would never have been charged. And, in my opinion, that was wrong. If you think the Mail was wrong, that is fine. Your opinion.

But not everyone will agree with you.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26465916

By 'we', I meant anyone else who might be taking a slight interest in our debate. I did think about making it 'I' but thought 'we' was more inclusive.

You still haven't clarified what you think my 'point' was. Just made some sweeping judgements about me and then flounced...

growstuff

Bye!

Before you go, do you have any comment on whether the DM is right and Brexit is over?

I posted about it yesterday.

I don't think that Brexit is over at all. Johnson's keeping it on the boil and will until he is toppled (which, DV, could be soon.)

MaizieD

growstuff

Bye!

Before you go, do you have any comment on whether the DM is right and Brexit is over?

I posted about it yesterday.

I don't think that Brexit is over at all. Johnson's keeping it on the boil and will until he is toppled (which, DV, could be soon.)

I know you did, but it's quite interesting that so much effort was put into avoiding the topic in the OP.

FannyCornforth

I’m not ashamed of my reaction to the DM’s investigation into and coverage of the Lawrence case.
It was brilliant

The DM campaigned for 15 years to try to get those 5 men back into court. Dobson and Norris are now in jail for Stephen Lawrence's murder. The Acourt brothers went on the run in Spain - one was sentenced to 6 years but was let out after 3 and the other is a convicted drug trafficker The 5th is free.

Occasionally the DM does some good work.

MaizieD

growstuff

Bye!

Before you go, do you have any comment on whether the DM is right and Brexit is over?

I posted about it yesterday.

I don't think that Brexit is over at all. Johnson's keeping it on the boil and will until he is toppled (which, DV, could be soon.)

Well, I've just read the article in the OP a few more times and I can't see where it claims Brexit is all over. I'm sure there are plenty of people who wish others would stop talking about it, but that's not the same thing.

Even more baffling is the turn this thread took.

FWIW In my opinion, of course Brexit isn't all over. The whole country is going to live with the consequences of whatever happens in Northern Ireland for decades - just as some people were predicting before 2016. The economy has been affected negatively and fishers and farmers have had their livelihoods changed forever. I doubt very much whether any of us in the latter part of our lives will see the UK recover in our lifetimes. It's created divisions which won't go away.

I don't pretend to know what's going on and I suspect the Daily Mail doesn't either. It's rehashed some PR story "leaked" from Downing Street. There's the same theme about the fall of the Greeks. There's no doubt that there's trouble brewing in the inner circles of the Tory party, which was inevitable when it absorbed UKIP. It's not quite Jacobins versus Girondins or Trotskyists versus Leninists, but it's obvious there's been a falling out.

So ... back to the OP ... no, Brexit isn't over.

Dinahmo

FannyCornforth

I’m not ashamed of my reaction to the DM’s investigation into and coverage of the Lawrence case.
It was brilliant

The DM campaigned for 15 years to try to get those 5 men back into court. Dobson and Norris are now in jail for Stephen Lawrence's murder. The Acourt brothers went on the run in Spain - one was sentenced to 6 years but was let out after 3 and the other is a convicted drug trafficker The 5th is free.

Occasionally the DM does some good work.

Great! Start a new thread on it. This one's about Brexit.

I wasn't giving you flak!!! I was explaining why you might know what you were talking about, after you were attacked by another poster.
I missed that, growstuff
(I was too busy being attacked by the dentist.)

No, it was just a link I found and was surprised to find it then thought it might be useful to some posters.

I think that what the DM article was trying to say was the Brexit isn't a prime concern of the new intake of tory MPs in the same way that it is for the old guard ERG MPs. So it will diminish in significance in the tory party. I can't see it myself.

Of course, like covid19, it is very far from over.

So we’re now trading with Australia instead of the EU.A country that is refusing to cut back on using and selling coal.

Calistemon

MerylStreep

Callistemon was silly enough to walk across someone’s line of sight, so was therefore an easy target.

Actually, I think some people are not very good at reading posts which contain quotes which contain quotes which contain quotes iyswim, MerylStreep
Who said what to whom?

I think you are right, and the use of too many quote boxes is sometimes very confusing, far better to use one only when replying really or two max!?

Back to the subject.

I don’t think that Johnson can afford to let Brexit go, because that is all that he has accomplished.

As long as he can keep the traction of spin, lies and fighting, he probably thinks he can keep the support of Brexiters.

He is probably right, but for how long?

FannyCornforth

This wasn’t so funny was it?

You know, I had doubts about my objection to this headline. I wondered if I hadn't noticed that it was published AFTER these men had been found guilty in a court of law. But now I've reread it, it plainly wasn't.

My point still stands.