Piss off Daily Express
Published by Mike Nolan on June 13th, 2008 in Rants.
The cover of yesterday’s Daily Express featured an article designed to cause panic across the UK by putting the idea that the country is going to run out of petrol into the minds of the Daily Express reading masses. Alongside the PANIC STATIONS headline was a photograph of a Shell petrol station and some cars queueing to fill up.
But as is often the case with the Express, things aren’t always as they seem. The picture is of the Shell garage on the A59 in Maghull. It’s the cheapest garage in Merseyside and is always busy. I’ve seen 10-15 cars queueing up on the road to get petrol, but the Express didn’t show this, because it simply wasn’t that busy. When I drove past on the way home from work today at 8pm there was one car waiting for a free pump.
So Daily Express Editor, if you happen to be reading, how about you publish a front page story saying PANIC OVER. No? Of course not - you’re a bunch of dirty hacks.
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September 15th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
What a joke.. that’s not even busy for that petrol station… there’s always queues. Usually the queues are also down to knobhead drivers and NOT this enormous shortage of petrol and the total collapse of everything around us.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
The media pulls this type of garbage over here in Canada too, they are always starting panic to get the consumers running off to the stores.