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The absolute state of the Daily Mail (re Meghan Markle)

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Hithere12 · 30/07/2019 12:18

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7298013/Meghan-Markles-organic-baby-shawl-used-swaddle-Archie-workers-earning-37-PENCE-hour.html

This is there top story. Meghan is using a cheap shawl & DM have found the factory it was made in.

She’s been criticised non stop for her spending, uses something cheap and the DM visit the sweatshop it was made in! I’m sorry but we are all guilty of this, very few people I’m sure track down where everything they buy is made and how much the staff are paid.

It’s just getting ridiculous how they’ll find literally anything to criticise.

If the DM want to expose sweat shops (something they care little about usually) they have the resources and man power to do so but they don’t give a shit they just want to go after Meghan.

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Monsterinmypocket · 30/07/2019 13:27

It's not the articles about MM I'm worried about. It's all the other hateful shite.

Hithere12 · 30/07/2019 13:27

I think of all the shady scenarios Prince Andrew has put the family in and he hasn't received 1/10 of the scrutiny that Meghan has

Yeah surely Prince Andrews links to pedophile Epstein should be the headline and not Meghan using a blanket.

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gingerbreadsprinkle · 30/07/2019 13:28

Yeah surely Prince Andrews links to pedophile Epstein should be the headline and not Meghan using a blanket.

Exactly.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 30/07/2019 13:28

something they care little about usually)
Say what you like about the Mail and I’ll agree with most of it but, this bit isn’t true. They have a history of running spreads on this issue. They ran a piece on that ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ T shirt, that turned out to be made by, mostly women, in appalling conditions and for little pay. They’ve ran investigative pieces from Liz Jones re sweatshops in China and Bangladesh and they also ran a big piece on BHS clothing a few years ago, Bangladesh sweatshops again iirc. Though I assume in this particular case their motivation may have been something other than concern for the workers. Wink

LaurieMarlow · 30/07/2019 13:30

Yeah surely Prince Andrews links to pedophile Epstein should be the headline and not Meghan using a blanket.

Amen

CaptainJaneway62 · 30/07/2019 13:32

I wish I had an industrial muck spreading machine...I would happily drive it up the the DM's offices and cover the lot of em in tonnes of the stuff!

LaurieMarlow · 30/07/2019 13:32

her unbelievably extravagant spending of public money

A load of shit. Her spending is par for the course for the royals. Probably quite a lot lower than many.

her refusal to play herself in with the people who ultimately are funding the lifestyle

In what sense has she refused to play? She conducts her public engagements with enthusiasm. Had a nice big wedding.

Hithere12 · 30/07/2019 13:33

They have a history of running spreads on this issue. They ran a piece on that ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ T shirt, that turned out to be made by, mostly women, in appalling conditions and for little pay

They weren’t being virtuous here it was just a way to say “fuck feminism” why of allllll the high street stores who use sweatshops they choose to go after a t shirt advocacting feminism.

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OnlyFoolsnMothers · 30/07/2019 13:33

People are crying racist on her behalf but she's brought this bad publicity on herself - amongst other things with her unbelievably extravagant spending of public money and her refusal to play herself in with the people who ultimately are funding the lifestyle of unparalleled priveledge which she's chosen to follow and marry into

I dont see how Meghan has acted any differently to Kate.
People dont scream racist at every thing and its worrying that you cant see what "media" outlets are feeding youl

alittlerayofsunshine · 30/07/2019 13:34

I just ignore the Meghan hate now. It's boring and predictable, and actually quite laughable, coz it's SO pathetic.

Hithere12 · 30/07/2019 13:34

her unbelievably extravagant spending of public money

When she buys cheap stuff they track down the factory it was made at 😂 what’s she supposed to do?

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Brefugee · 30/07/2019 13:35

They have a history of running spreads on this issue. They ran a piece on that ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ T shirt, that turned out to be made by, mostly women, in appalling conditions and for little pay.

it wasn't because they were worried about those women, though, was it?

IAskTooManyQuestions · 30/07/2019 13:40

When has Kate ever been criticised for using something cheap and the DM have tracked down the sweat shop it was made in? No she’s been fawned over as “thrifty Kate”

Waity Katie rings a bell - the fact she deferred going to uni for a year, the fact she worked for her parents company, the fact the press didnt like it aht she wasindependently wealthy and didnt have to have 'a proper job', the awful 'middle class' slurs her family had to endure, digging out Uncle Gary, ridiculing her mother for being an air stewardess.

I can go through all the Royal

Margaret - feckless party animinal
Anne - horse like, acid tongued
Zara - wild child with tongue stud, fighting in the street
Eugenie/Beatrice - ugly, poor dress sense, apparently no job
Sarah - too fat, too thin, no dress sense, spendthrift
Sophie - fake sheik sting, too middle class
Diana - too thin, too tall, too anorexic, sun through her skirt, penchant for exotic men,

I simply cant wait until the next batch come of age. Hmm

derxa · 30/07/2019 13:41

I don’t care if people criticise the Vogue thing but she’s got a top headline story on the DM crisitising her for using a blanket. Yes the blanket story is indeed pitiful.

CalamityJune · 30/07/2019 13:43

I find it uncomfortable as well. Especially at the moment, as Kate can do no wrong. It wasn't that long ago that she was branded lazy. I don't see what either of them have done wrong.

GrouchoMrx · 30/07/2019 13:45

At this stage, describing The Daily Mail as rabid is an insult to dogs with rabies.

IAskTooManyQuestions · 30/07/2019 13:45

Yeah surely Prince Andrews links to pedophile Epstein should be the headline and not Meghan using a blanket.

^^ this silly bollocks gets on my titsTBH! Plenty of posters here find out that their FIL/BIL/Uncle Jack/NDN/Random bloke is convicted paedophile - so until someone is actually unmasked, I dont think it actaully inappropriate to have a friendship with someone. plenty of photos of royals/stars/celebrities/joe public photographed with the likes of Jimmy Savill, but you wouldnt accuse them of being cahoots and a paedophile.

The absolute state of the Daily Mail (re Meghan Markle)
Passthecherrycoke · 30/07/2019 13:47

I haven’t clicked on the article but I very much doubt the DM know where the shawl is from. It’s not the sort of thing the palace send press releases about Wink they’ve just made it up, as usual

18YearsAMummy · 30/07/2019 13:50

People need to leave her alone, she looks a million times better than 90% of people in this country.

HeavenlyEyes · 30/07/2019 13:51

I agree with you OP - their witch-hunt against her is just vile. She can not do anything right in their eyes.

Hithere12 · 30/07/2019 13:52

this silly bollocks gets on my titsTBH! Plenty of posters here find out that their FIL/BIL/Uncle Jack/NDN/Random bloke is convicted paedophile - so until someone is actually unmasked, I dont think it actaully inappropriate to have a friendship with someone

Maybe actually do some research? They were still friends and photographed and together AFTER he’d been released from prison in 2010. Why was he still friendly with a convicted pedophile?

www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a28339290/royal-family-prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-relationship/

There have also been accusations levied at him

www.thesun.co.uk/news/9504801/prince-andrew-secret-files-sex-slave-epstein/

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TheFormidableMrsC · 30/07/2019 13:52

This woman can't do right for doing wrong. I don't blame neither her nor her husband for keeping their privacy given the horrific amount of abuse she is subjected to. A few years ago it was Kate who was the target of the vitreol of the press but is now considered perfect due to the absolute NERVE of this American interloper invading the Royal Family Hmm.

As it's school holidays, I happened to be watching "Lorraine" on ITV the other morning, currently being presented by Christine somebody (Lampard?). That hideous "journalist" Dan Wootton was on there. The utter bile and spite he spewed about Meghan Markle was shocking. He didn't even attempt to hide it, he was utterly vicious and looked deranged while he ranted on about her and Christine looked horribly embarrassed. Quite a few members of the RF have been guest editors on various things, not one of them attracted this sort of hatred. I'm not clicking on the blanket link but guaranteed if she'd gone into Primark and bought a blanket, she'd be accused of perpetuating forced labour or not caring about her child. She can't win whatever she does. Until the next target comes along of course.

Notmydalek · 30/07/2019 13:55

The Fail seem to hone in on some members of the RF, particularly Meghan and the York women and never let go. Others they focus the beam of vileness on and then decide they’re paragons of virtue and thrift - ie Kate, then let go. They’re total shits. Meghan is being vilified and bullied due to the unforgivable trio of daring to be mixed race, American and an actress. They really are scum.

TheFormidableMrsC · 30/07/2019 13:57

Oh and Rolf Harris had several sittings with the Queen to paint her portrait and from the documentary, she clearly liked him very much despite the fact we now know he's a piece of shit. Nobody has accused her of being in cahoots with paedophiles because that would be ridiculous. I find the whole thing baffling.