Daily Mail's front page seem a tad hypocritical to you?

The Daily Mail front page today has got people shaking their heads (as per).

This time they accuse Labour leader Starmer of trying to rig polls by using EU citizens to win votes.

They write: “Sir Keir Starmer told a conference at the weekend that he expects the next general election to get ‘dirty and nasty’. Now we know what he means.

“If Labour wins next year, Starmer plans to rig future elections by giving the vote to millions of EU nationals, plus millions more 16 and 17-year-olds.

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“The plan would mean that 3.4million EU citizens with ‘settled status’ would be eligible to vote. Another 2.6million are ‘pre-settled’ and would doubtless be fast-tracked by Labour.”

Voter ID

Well, this seems a bit churlish as there has been a huge argument about the new rules that meant you had to show ID when you voted, when electoral fraud is basically zero in the UK.

Here is Angela Rayner slamming the new law.

Oonagh had voted in every election since 1950 but was denied her say last Thursday. She was by no means the only one.

The Tories’ shabby voter ID scheme caused chaos and confusion, locking legitimate voters out of democracy.

Ministers must hold an urgent inquest. pic.twitter.com/c4USiUTmgv
— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) May 11, 2023

Now, as the Tories crashed out in local elections, Jacob Rees-Mogg appears to have accepted that it actually worked against the party and appears to confess that the scheme was deliberate gerrymandering by the Tories.

A confession from @Jacob_Rees_Mogg that the photo ID scheme to vote in elections was deliberate “gerrymandering” by the Conservatives, what we in @LibDemLords @LibDems said all along. We must now review acceptable forms of ID to include at least those used by the Post Office https://t.co/gG9zNlTeFe pic.twitter.com/oxzx3o09z3
— Chris Rennard 🔶💙🇺🇦 (@LordRennard) May 15, 2023

Central bylines wrote: “Quite a remarkable admission from Jacob Rees Mogg. “Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding that their clever scheme comes back to bite them. As we found by insisting on voter ID”

Quite a remarkable admission from Jacob Rees Mogg.

“Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding that their clever scheme comes back to bite them. As we found by insisting on voter ID”#VoterID #Gerrymandering pic.twitter.com/VqCQa2Iv0k
— Central Bylines (@CentralBylines) May 15, 2023

And here…

Jacob Rees-Mogg – "The Tories, not particularly me, were all in favor of voter ID, then we discovered the voters least likely to vote, because of voter ID, were elderly conservative voters" pic.twitter.com/X7oqasV0sr
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) May 15, 2023

You may agree with James O’Brien on LBC. He said: ”That would’ve mattered once. It might even have been career-ending.’

'That would’ve mattered once. It might even have been career-ending.'@mrjamesob reacts to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s ‘admission’ that the introduction of Voter ID was a plan to ‘deliberately suppress votes’. pic.twitter.com/vvwo80qqWz
— LBC (@LBC) May 15, 2023

Reactions – Daily Mail front page

"Rigging" the polls, Daily Mail ? You mean like the very narrow Brexit referendum was "rigged" by not letting those British citizens most affected by it (us living in the EU) vote ? Hundreds of thousands of our votes would have swung it the other way

That kind of "rigging" ? pic.twitter.com/bDYp915TzD
— Alex Taylor (@AlexTaylorNews) May 15, 2023

1.2 percent of voters turned away, half from minority backgrounds

Daily Mail:
the real scandal here is Labour might let people who live here have the vote pic.twitter.com/b1O0NheecJ
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 15, 2023

Oh dear…

Thank you Labour for finally doing something I actually liked. I certainly enjoyed those few minutes. pic.twitter.com/VjfpJCktta
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 15, 2023

I am sure the Daily Mail's front page tomorrow will be raging against Jacob Rees-Mogg's admission that voter ID was meant to rig the election in the party's favour https://t.co/IzvgYCgrY4 pic.twitter.com/XKtgcXSJLo
— Josiah Mortimer (@josiahmortimer) May 15, 2023

You mean the Daily Mail whose Non Dom owner pays no tax in UK !! whereas my EU citizen husband has been paying tax for years and should be entitled to vote in a General Election. So the Daily Mail is just stoking toxic division again. So strongly disagree. https://t.co/1SemOWiVDZ
— Catherine #Fightfordecency 🕊️ (@dem_cath) May 15, 2023

The Daily Mail

Fine with vote suppression through voter ID

Extending the franchise is 'rigging the polls' pic.twitter.com/2fbXMu3QWA
— Louis 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 〓〓 💙 Defend the right to vote (@LouisHenwood) May 14, 2023

I've been waiting for the Daily Mail to proclaim that the will of the people is under threat & that Brexit will be reversed. They've gone one better with poll rigging.
AND BRITISH TEENS

When Tories are the ones with voter suppression tactics 🤷‍♀️#ToriesOut312 #GeneralElectionNow pic.twitter.com/dnP9gzb9Bv
— Chirpy Chet (@ChirpyChet) May 14, 2023

Or indeed…

£1 for 3 months daily mail is an insult

You would need to PAY ME to read this rag pic.twitter.com/8fUL7Wg7vf
— Spanish Dan 💙 conservative CORRUPTION (@SpanishDan1) May 15, 2023