Vote Clegg: get Maggie’s support?
Yesterday both myself and Mark Pack blogged about the Daily Mail and other tabloids paying paparazzi to stalk Miriam Gonzalez Durantez as she shopped at Rigby & Peller. Today it appears that the Mail have had second thoughts and pulled the article from their web site – only to replace it with something even more odious – a Jan Moir poison special.
Ms Moir is obviously still preening from her nasty, homophobic character assassination of Stephen Gately last year, as this time she goes for a full house. In one page she manages to make snide criticism about women who have their own careers, mothers who like to spend time with their children, fathers who like to spend time with their children, wives who support their husbands in their jobs, wives who don’t support their husbands in their jobs, women who earn more than their partners, people with a religious faith, people without a religious faith, women who shop for their own clothes, particularly in any ‘upmarket’ shop and women who do a grocery shop for food for their family. Gosh, that doesn’t leave many of us unscathed!
“Miriam Gonzalez Durantez is in a lingerie shop, bulk buying bras. What the heck is going on? Miriam is also in an arm sling, although these two incidents are apparently not connected. The wife of the Lib Dem leader claims that she simply broke her elbow when nipping out to buy groceries at the weekend. As you do.
“Yet pro-wrestling observers suggest that Mrs Clegg’s injury looks far more like it was sustained during the execution of a classic elbow smash; seemingly a routine response in the Clegg household when Nick doesn’t empty the dishwasher quickly enough.
Followed later with
“Over the weekend, Mr Clegg was also encouraged, no prizes for guessing by whom, to leave the most important campaign of his life to spend more time with their three young sons”.
So the new line, as parroted by the Daily Mail, is that you can’t have a ‘henpecked husband’ running the country, when he can’t even rule his own household? I wonder what parallel universe Paul Dacre lives in and then I remember that it’s one in which women literally cannot wear the trousers. What section of the population is this meant to appeal to, except for those who are Conservative, with both a capital and lower case ‘c’?
Never mind the fact that an allegation of routine domestic abuse is being levelled at Miriam, something that must be actionable. I await the ‘apology’ from Ms Moir, saying that it was just a necessary scrutiny of the lifestyle of a man who is putting himself forward as our Prime Minister.
But the greatest irony of all is that not only does the Daily Mail feature lingerie from Rigby & Peller, the lingerie shop which Miriam dared to visit, not infrequently on its pages, today it runs a puff piece on the shop and its soon to retire owner. Oh, and it informs us that R&P’s customers include not only the Queen, but also Margaret Thatcher. Now there’s a new one: Vote Clegg – get Maggie …
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