Sorry guys I know there are lots here who follow the Guardian newspaper....

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  1. man

    mansfield_red Well-Known Member

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    Funny how you never start threads criticising those "equally crap" articles...
     
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    I think you're severely twisting your 'limited' view if what you're seeing is a drip driop of anti government rhetoric.

    I live here - see an hr of news a day, hear maybe an hour on the radio, read papers online and for the most part, the government support is as strong as it ought to be during a national crisis.

    Meanwhile if you want something to moan about from an opinion piece this week...

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/06/open-churches-easter-give-people-hope/
     
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    Hooky feller Well-Known Member

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    When Murdoch took over the sun in the late sixties. It was a prominent labour supporting rag. He promised to keep it that way. One year in, it Changed support to. Yes you’ve guessed. It changed its alliance again at the very last minute to support Tony Blair and New Labour. (Centre right) But **** himself. At the thought of a more left of central Labour Party ( Ed Milliband) and Then JC. When he took over the sun he got shut of 5000 workers. That led to the Wapping dispute. How anyone working class could read that rag and his other papers after that, was beyond me.
    Eric Hammond used his members in the EETPU to run the presses. A labour supporter? Who had several run ins with Arthur Scargill who criticised his leadership.
     
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    John Peachy Well-Known Member

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    sorry was nearly with you until you put the bit about putting principles before feeding family
     
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    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    are you just being obtuse for the sake of it?
     
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    John Peachy Well-Known Member

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    You are standing up for a newspaper that has destroyed families, communities & ridden roughshod over working people.

    No, I'm not being obtuse. If every one of the families involved with Orgreave, Hillsbrough, etc read your comments about looking after your family they would be a lot harder on you than I'm being I'm afraid.
     
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    If you thought yesterday was bad I wouldn't look at today's Sun front page.

    The set of *******.
     
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    F@cking disgusting, hypocritical piece of s@it paper.
     
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    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    ahh OK, if I still had a young family and a mortgage I should let the kids starve and our lives go to **** on principle.
    I like to think I have my priorities right and this all started because I said I felt sorry for any workers ( not the actual paper)that might lose their jobs at a time when they would be nigh on impossible to replace.
    You might be happy to see that but I wouldn’t.
     
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  10. John Peachy

    John Peachy Well-Known Member

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    Everyone makes there own moral personal decisions. I made mine when I left Yorkshire Bank in 1996 over the PPI scandal. I had internal memos that were set to whistleblow the whole thing. I couldn't sleep at night forcing staff to sell insurance to people at inflated prices on loans they couldn't afford a lot of the time. It was a whole different bank than the one I joined in 1983, that did everything to help the miners during the strike & afterwards. In the end I had to leave. Some other people who felt the same stayed on, but in the end banking changed completely & all of them are doing different things now.
     
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    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    I actually left the insurance industry for the same reason, refused to push people to their limits or into something they didn’t want just to meet sales figures.
     
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    John Peachy Well-Known Member

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    Funnily enough my Dad in the 60's came out of the hotel industry (they had the Roker Hotel on the south shore in Blackpool), into working for the Prudential selling insurance. He lasted only about 18 months before jumping ship to British Gas.
     
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    Fancy! A newspaper running opinion pieces as well as hard news.

    They'll be doing celebrity interviews next, and restaurant reviews.

    The cvnts.
     
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    I don't think they will be doing restaurant reviews, if they do, you'll know that they are made up.
     
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