People are doing something that is upsetting the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail has got so upset at this behaviour that they have called the public ‘utterly irrational’, and The Daily Mail knows what being irrational looks like. What on earth could this be? What could the public be doing that would upset the powers that manipulate so much? Well according to the polls the public are starting to ignore the tabloids.

That’s right millions of people are changing their voting allegiances to the Liberal Democrats after Vince Cable and Nick Clegg’s fantastic performance at the Chancellors’ and Leaders’ debate. The tabloids have gone on the offensive, heaven forbid the public decide to vote for someone against the wishes of the tabloid press, manipulating and lying to the public in order to get their own way.

A recent Daily Mail article tries to first undermine the nature of the leaders’ debate and then undermines the public’s motives.

“There can be only one credible explanation for the utterly irrational outpouring of support for the Liberal Democrats after a mere 90 minutes of X Factor-style TV politics: the public, disgusted by the near moral bankruptcy of the last Parliament, is looking for revenge.”

Apparently the public aren’t smart enough to make rational decisions for themselves, no the only ‘utterly irrational’ reason anyone could want to vote for the Liberal Democrats according to the Daily Mail is out of revenge. The article reads a bit like a child complaining when it hasn’t got its own way. “But MUM, its not fair. The public don’t want to vote with me! They must be poo poo heads or something, that’s the only rational explanation.”

This kind of comment makes me sick, how fucking dare they! How can they get off telling us why we are choosing to support someone? Since when did “Daily Mail Comment”, I presume they couldn’t get a real person to say exactly what they wanted, get a hotline to the public consciousness and know each and every one of our motivations? Spin it how you like but you can’t hide the fact that the public didn’t turn their vote in some fit of pique, but after watching a debate in which only one of the leaders of the political parties seemed the right man for the job. The tabloids can fuck off for all the public seem to care about what they think.

The Daily Mail doesn’t stop there though, in its usual style it goes on to make shit up in order to defend its political alliances.

As this paper reveals today, Mr Clegg and many of his MPs have been some of the worst expenses offenders.

Now they are making quite a specific claim there, one that we can check. During the expenses scandal the Telegraph, who broke the story, wrote an article revealing the worst expenses offenders. According to them ten of the worst offenders were Labour and six were Conservative MPs, none of them were Liberal Democrats. None.

This fantastic graphic in the Guardian shows that although the Liberal Democrats expense claims were the highest of the parties on average, they also had to pay back the least suggesting that these claims were legitimate. In fact the average Conservative repayment was £4,227 more than DOUBLE the average Liberal Democrat repayment of £1,910 and nearly £1000 more than the average Labour repayment of £3,237. Now I am not great with numbers but even an idiot can see that it takes nothing short of a massive manipulation of the truth to imply that the Liberal Democrats were some of the worst expenses offenders.

This is the kind of tactics that we can expect to see across the tabloid newspapers in the coming weeks as they try to influence and lie to the public in order to get their own way. It is almost laughable that The Daily Mail accuses the BBC of having a “risible lack of objectivity” within the words of such a bias and manipulative article but nothing should surprise you when you are left in the hands of a tabloid hack. You have been warned.