THE UK has agreed the 50-year rule of Rupert Murdoch over all aspects of their nation and politics gave so much more than it took.
Britons have looked back over lives ruled by the whims of an Australian press baron and decided it was worth Thatcher and Brexit for that funny headline about George Michael.
Wayne Hayes, aged 62, said: “Yes, the breaking of the unions, yes, the destruction of the post-war welfare state, yes, rampant misogyny, but the Sun was dead-on about football transfers.
“They had the scoop about Andy Cole going to Man United before anyone else. For me that counterbalances when I saw that Kinnock lightbulb front page and decided to vote John Major and eventually lost my house.”
Eleanor Shaw of Falkirk said: “Sure, stuff like Hillsborough, Kill an Argie Bingo, the relentless campaign of homophobia during the AIDS crisis, calling Frank Bruno a loony and that whole Ben Stokes business looks bad. But then you’ve got Page 3.
“Printing pictures of big-breasted women for 40 years, often when they were only 16, has to be a net positive. I myself am a DD-cup and being compared to a page 3 girl in the playground always made me blush with delight and happiness.”
Ordinary rough-around-the-edges working bloke Sir Keir Starmer agreed: “Yeah, it’s a bit of alright the Sun, innit? Dolly birds and that? Wait, do I not have to do this anymore?”
