How the Daily Mail reports the same policy when Ed Miliband and then Theresa May suggest it
Theresa May’s had an idea to encourage landowners to build homes to help solve the property crisis and she’d like to share it with you.
.@theresa_may on making sure developers don't just sit on land, but get on with building the houses Britain needs. 🏘️ pic.twitter.com/GHgYjsi8vc
— Conservatives (@Conservatives) March 5, 2018
It’s remarkably similar to an idea Ed Miliband had a few years ago.
Here’s how the Daily Mail reported it when it was the then Labour leader’s idea, as highlighted by @josh_salisbury on Twitter.
Stalinist! Confiscate! Backlash!
And here’s the Daily Mail today, reporting the same idea but now crediting it to the so-called prime minister instead.
Greedy property developers! Muscular government!
Nimbys!
It’s almost as if they’re massive hypocrites who only managed to get angry if its politically motivated
— Jim Cognito (@JimCognito2016) March 5, 2018
It’s Stalinist when Milliband does it, when May nicks the same policy it’s a brave new world. What a farce.
— BurntPlasticCard (@nine_shields) March 5, 2018
A perfect example of “Newspeak in the 21st Century”
— Paul Byrne (@Pavilaxed) March 5, 2018
And here they are again, side by side.
Notice the difference in headlines pic.twitter.com/bk1ZtYKj48
— SUSAN SIMPSON (@smartysue) March 5, 2018
Latest in a long Daily Mail tradition of this sort of thing.
Leveson. Yet another corrupt cover up. Complicit media unpunished. Corrupt government unpunished pic.twitter.com/PxyXtsIVEf
— RD (@RPD_Bear) March 5, 2018