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The
Telegraph is practically a mouthpiece for the Tory Party.
Is
Theresa May guilty of treason? Plenty of readers think so.
Politicians would be wise to listen up
CHRISTOPHER
HOWSE
11
July, 2018
The
postman, his stout legs clad in perennial shorts and reddened by the
unaccustomed sun of the past week, staggered beneath the weight of
two bulging sacks as he struggled up the path to the Daily Telegraph
letterbox.
I
speak figuratively. All but a handful of letters these days arrive at
the Telegraph as email. But, by heaven, there have been a lot of them
since Friday, when Theresa May held the Cabinet hostage, phoneless,
in her Buckinghamshire hideout – hundreds and hundreds of them,
whizzing from the electronic Cloud like shooting stars on a
mid-August night.....
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The Daily Telegraph said this about Theresa May and these are the only 9 replies you need
Here’s what Daily Telegraph readers think about Theresa May and the paper’s Christopher Howse suggested politicians would be ‘wise to listen up’ if they know what’s good for them.
Is Theresa May guilty of treason? Plenty of readers think so. Politicians would be wise to listen up telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2018/0…
These 9 replies have pretty much got it covered, we reckon.
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Utterly deplore this shockingly irresponsible tweet by @Telegraph. May is incompetent, untrustworthy & reckless, but that is not ‘treason’. Editors need to remember that it is just two years since an MP was murdered, and that many receive regular death threats. Just grow up.
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This sort of rhetoric is what happens when people cannot engage with complicated realities and seek refuge in seductively simplistic narratives. It really is not helpful or healthy for our democracy and media organisations should not be encouraging it twitter.com/Telegraph/stat…
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On the other hand, are we meant to be scared of Telegraph-readers? The most they work on their biceps is whilst they spread their fucking pâté.
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The
Telegraph has drawn the ire of MPs and social media users alike over
an article it published insinuating UK Prime Minister Theresa May is
guilty of treason over her latest Brexit plan.
Cross-party
MPs are accusing the outlet of being “shockingly
irresponsible” over
the article by writer Christopher Howse entitled: ‘Is
Theresa May guilty of treason? Plenty of readers think so.
Politicians would be wise to listen up’.
Howse
explains how the paper has received a storm of letters from angry
readers who feel “betrayed” by
May’s post-Brexit trade plan agreed at Chequers on Friday. The plan
would see the UK sticking to EU rules in order to have a free trade
deal with the bloc once Brexit takes effect.
“‘Where
are the politicians of principle who will honour the manifesto
promises they were elected on,’ asked a reader from
Solihull,” Howse
wrote of the correspondence.
“Instead
we have only traitorous members of the Cabinet who think only of
their careers,” the
reader added.
Public
outcry swiftly poured in through Twitter over the article, with one
saying it “verges
on criminal” in
its broaching of the treason charge.
Utterly disgusting. The Telegraph is out of control. This is verging on criminal. Anyone who still buys this publication should do the decent thing and boycott it.
This is disgraceful and @Telegraph should delete it immediately pic.twitter.com/ei4XjRM71E
@Telegraph No @theresa_may is not guilty of treason. You are guilty of gross hyperbole, lack of judgement or common decency. My subscription is cancelled and until you find some leadership of your own your "newspaper" will not be bought here again
Is Theresa May guilty of treason? Plenty of readers think so. Politicians would be wise to listen up telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2018/0… pic.twitter.com/Q14PXU5ktz
I think we can see in this one headline why your readership & advertisers are deserting the Telegraph in droves. I have little time for Theresa May but accusing her of treason is appalling, unacceptable & very dangerous behaviour. Shame on you.
Other
social media users referenced the murder of Jo Cox in 2016 as a
reason to deplore such incendiary rhetoric. The Labour MP was shot
and stabbed multiple times by far-right extremist Thomas Mair, who
was handed a life sentence for the murder.
Utterly deplore this shockingly irresponsible tweet by @Telegraph. May is incompetent, untrustworthy & reckless, but that is not ‘treason’. Editors need to remember that it is just two years since an MP was murdered, and that many receive regular death threats. Just grow up. pic.twitter.com/OAynzD2bMr
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