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Aghast Mail bemoans birth of 'European superstate' | Peter Preston

Source: The Guardian

Nov 08, 2009

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CRY UMM! for England, David and St George. For when the cranky conservative president in Prague put his signature to the Lisbon treaty last week, Britain's Eurosceptic press didn't know what to do. The Express had a ritual rant, of course, but it doesn't count. The real question was what the Sun, Telegraph and Mail would say.

Answer: nothing very convincing. The Telegraph contrived to lead on other yarns and opine very little (except to mumble that Dave had done his best and shouldn't be blamed). The Sun took the same line in a magisterial leader full of supposed Sun triumphs in humbling the "federal European superstate" before, halfway down a column, edging round to "the need to be realistic about the perils we face today" (ie unemployment, debt, cuts and the non-loony-tune issues that will actually decide the next election).

But the Mail, oh! The Mail! On day one, it seemed curiously muffled. By day two, though, it was ripping into Cameron "for behaving as cynically as New Labour" with "pretty sorry stuff" on a "sad day for Britain, democracy and the Conserva

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