Reading this piece about Tebbit in the Daily Mail repeating the lie that people only use food banks, not because they’re starving, but because they’re free, reminded me of Goebbel’s statement about repeating a lie so often that it becomes the truth. And the Daily Mail should know a thing or two about Fascist propaganda. Under Lord Rothermere the Daily Mail published pieces praising Hitler and promoting Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists. And who advised Lord Rothermere to do that? Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. See Richard Thurlow, Fascism in Britain 1918-1986 for details.
From the Mail’s point of view, it’s important to repeat this lie in order to maintain the case for the further dismantling of the welfare state. If they are forced to admit that people use food banks, because they really are starving, then public opinion, even amongst the ignorant and bigoted readers of the Daily Mail, might just start to turn against them, and against the parties that support cutting the welfare state back further. And as this would not be ‘business-friendly’ in the eyes of the Mail and its Tory paymasters, nor the parts of its readership who share Thatcher’s opinion of the working class as idle, workshy and treacherous, this has to be avoided at all costs.
Tebbit’s life: He used to be Margaret Thatcher’s ‘boot boy’ – now he is mostly used to scare birds away from his garden and to dribble nonsense at the Daily Mail.
Former Tory enforcer and walking cadaver Lord Tebbit seems intent on spending his twilight years making a fool of himself.
His latest effort appeared yesterday in the Daily Mail , when he parroted a comment about food banks that Lord Fraud – sorry, Freud – made last year. The claim was disproved almost instantly but, thanks to the power of Tory stupidity, here it is again:
“There is always a near infinite demand for valuable goods that are given away free,” said Tebbit, who nowadays looks like he needs a food bank himself, before going on to claim that they use the service to save cash – and then spend it on junk food.
Compare that with what Freud…
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