Labour minister Hazel Blears thinks that readers of the Daily Mirror should run the country, according to today's errrr Daily Mirror.
‘We need more and more MPs who read the Mirror and fewer who write for the Guardian or Telegraph,' she says in the news story.
Well I'm all for a bit more diversity - particularly when the Guardian is involved - but let's look at the evidence based on the editorial content in today's Mirror and therefore, presumably, the issues that its readers care about.
Aside from coverage of Obama, the rest is questionable. Page 3 is dominated by celebrity tat - ‘Enter Robo Posh' - Victoria Beckham arrives at Heathrow airport dressed in leathers, while the second story on the page is about some bloke from Strictly Come Dancing may miss a show because he's injured. A full page on X Factor follows ‘X Factor Rachel SACKS mentor Dannii', while there are also stories on Gwyneth Paltrow and a bloke who is scared of fireworks.
Do we really want people like this running the country? I think I'd rather have retired colonels and polytechnic lecturers any day.
