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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish ·
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2020: The British press lied so much about the EU they decided to archive them all

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The London Economic - One Euromyth published by The Sun in 2006 claimed "nutty" EU officials wanted to rename Bombay mix to Mumbai mix “to make the snack politically correct" - News
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    No, its worse. I remember seeing an obese women on the “page 3” were tabloids used to put nude women, with the threat that this is what it will look like, if labour gets elected. I cannot find it anymore. I found a similar trope from 2010 though.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2010/may/05/the-sun-page-three-pants

    So yes, in the UK of that time “if you vote the wrong party, we will take your softporn from the paper” was a political argument accepted in society.

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      What The actual fuck

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