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14 December 2017

Proud of yourselves? The internet’s best alternative Daily Mail front pages

Paul Dacre freaks out at government defeat. Twitter responds.

By Media Mole

The Mail’s front page reads like an angsty piece of teenage poetry, but from the eighteenth century – or a really angry bit from a rap mangled through a thesaurus.

Here it is in all its demented glory:


Photo: Twitter

This weirdly verbose splash is a response to the Tory rebels who defeated the government and forced a “meaningful” parliamentary vote on the Brexit deal last night.

Well, the internet is less concerned about increasing democratic scrutiny, and here are its alternative front pages to prove it:

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