{"id":44859,"date":"2013-10-07T14:04:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T13:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=44859"},"modified":"2013-10-07T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:04:16","slug":"the-mail-and-miliband-the-internet-hates-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/the-mail-and-miliband-the-internet-hates-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Miliband vs the Mail: Why the internet hates Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Britain is not, apparently, like (the very British) Marmite. It is not okay to hate Britain. So when Ed Miliband\u2019s father Ralph was accused of hating Britain by the Daily Mail, everything kicked off.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Twitter reacted with the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23mydadhatedbritain&#038;src=typd&#038;f=realtime\" title=\"My Dad Hated Britain\" target=\"_blank\">#mydadhatedbritain<\/a>, which while gave us such gems as:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>I once overheard my dad whistle The Fields of Athenry. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23mydadhatedbritain&#038;src=hash\">#mydadhatedbritain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin James Burns (@KevinJBurnsII) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinJBurnsII\/statuses\/386507115927728128\">October 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>My dad said my mum looked a bit like Brigitte Bardot. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23mydadhatedbritain&#038;src=hash\">#mydadhatedbritain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Sweet (@DrMatthewSweet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrMatthewSweet\/statuses\/385001114946400256\">October 1, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Helping to drive tweets about hating Britain to an all-time high:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hate-Britain-800x302.png\" alt=\"Daily Mail, Ed Miliband and hatred of Britain on Twitter social media measurement\" width=\"640\" height=\"241\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44861\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The story has been kept in the news by the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w-GMTxycAXY\" title=\"Alastair Campbell Nesnight\" target=\"_blank\">Alastair Campbell getting angry on Newsnight<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9JIvARoGbS4\" title=\"Mehdi Hasan Question Time\" target=\"_blank\">Mehdi Hasan getting angry on BBC Question Time<\/a>. Campbell\u2019s one man battle against the Mail (and the repeated use of the hashtag #coward) is one of the most significant points <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_uk\/read\/paul-dacre-versus-the-world\" title=\"VICE daily mail\" target=\"_blank\">according to VICE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The original Daily Mail article has been both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/oct\/04\/antisemitism-does-not-always-come-hitler-salute\" title=\"Anti-Semitism\" target=\"_blank\">accused of anti-Semitism<\/a> (for which the Mail is seeking an apology) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/politics\/why-the-daily-mail-is-not-antisemitic\/#.UlKpnCSa6Do\" title=\"Not Anti-Semetic\" target=\"_blank\">defended against such claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A further development came in the shape of a Mail on Sunday reporter intruding into a private memorial service for Ed Miliband\u2019s uncle. This led to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-24379322\" title=\"Apology\" target=\"_blank\">an apology<\/a>\u00a0(and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-2439714\/Ed-Miliband-evil-legacy-wont-apologise.html\" title=\"Apology from the Mail\" target=\"_blank\">only one anyone is likely to receive<\/a>), from Mail on Sunday editor Geordie Greig.<\/p>\n<p>The apology was not enough to stop a protest on Sunday outside the Mail\u2019s offices, with some demonstrators going as far as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/daily-mail-hates-britain-demonstrators-2344700\" title=\"Burning copies of the Daily Mail\" target=\"_blank\">burning copies of the Daily Mail<\/a>. A YouGov poll conducted on behalf of the Sunday Times revealed 72% of the public think the newspaper\u2019s description of Ralph as the main who hated Britain was unacceptable. This is a stat that the Guardian\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/greenslade\/2013\/oct\/06\/sundaytimes-dailymail\" title=\"Roy Greenslade Daily Mail\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Greenslade believes<\/a> deserves a headline of its own.<\/p>\n<p>As the topic continues to be discussed, many sites are doing their best to get in on the act(!), from Political Scrapbook\u2019s \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/politicalscrapbook.net\/2013\/10\/daily-mail-vs-ralph-miliband\/\" title=\"Daily Mail vs Ralph Miliband\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Mail vs Ralph Miliband<\/a>\u2019 image (which is clearly using the same tactics the Mail used in the offending article) to Benedict Brogan\u2019s two paragraph summation that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/benedictbrogan\/100239056\/whether-he-hated-britain-or-not-ralph-miliband-was-one-of-the-cold-wars-bad-guys\/\" title=\"Ralph Miliband Cold War\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Miliband was a Cold War bad guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And while, with a bit of digging, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.spectator.co.uk\/rod-liddle\/2013\/10\/ralph-miliband-hatred-of-britain-sprung-from-his-marxist-beliefs\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ralph-miliband-hatred-of-britain-sprung-from-his-marxist-beliefs\" title=\"Spectator support for Daily Mail\" target=\"_blank\">support for the Daily Mail article can be found<\/a>, those articles are few and far between. The Mail is struggling to even drum up support from its own staff, with Peter Hitchens\u2019 column claiming, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-2446210\/Like-Ralph-Miliband--I-Marxist-A-personal-perspective-Labour-leader-row-MoS-columnist-Peter-Hitchens.html\" title=\"Peter Hitchens like Ralph Miliband\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Like Ralph Miliband \u2013 I was a Marxist too\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">The internet hates Britain graph was made with<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/products-and-services\/social-media-monitoring\/\" title=\"Cision Social Media\" target=\"_blank\">Cision Social Media<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">via\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/products-and-services\/cisionpoint\/\" title=\"CisionPoint\" target=\"_blank\">CisionPoint<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">. All the posts were found with Cision\u2019s free<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/influencer-search\/\" title=\"Influencer Search\" target=\"_blank\">UK Influencer Search<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain is not, apparently, like (the very British) Marmite. It is not okay to hate Britain. So when Ed Miliband\u2019s father Ralph was accused of hating Britain by the Daily Mail, everything kicked off. 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