ANGRY MOB

We are in a world where some people simply see something to hate in everything. Take last week for example: it snowed. Whilst I looked outside and saw a country inches deep in snow, made beautiful by a natural phenomenon, others saw it as a further sign that Britain is a terrible country. With Peter Hitchens declaring: 'Snow surrender - I saw no roaming polar bears or ravening timber wolves, just the final proof that our nation is now as soft as slush' and numerous front pages dedicated to the weather apocalypse.

The Severn bridge was shut due to the thawing of ice on overhead suspension cables causing large sheets of ice to fall onto the motorway- smashing several car windscreens. Let's put this into context: this is the first time that the bridge has been shut due to bad weather since it opened in 1996. However, a driver interviewed by the BBC had this to say:

 Now, I don't know what paper this person reads, but he demonstrates the Mail mentality perfectly: the instinctive need to blame someone; labelling the accused organisation of being 'pathetic'; pointing out that he 'pays good money' and therefore he is someone being ripped off by this incident. It is the classic Mail whine: an idiot complaining without any just cause. It is the mentality being created by the right-wing press, lauded and practised by Littlejohn and his readers, and worst of all, repeated by people in any given situation.