Billy Bragg to European Commission: buy the Daily Mail and sack Paul Dacre

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Billy Bragg wants the European Commission to buy the Daily Mail, sack its editor, Paul Dacre, and use the paper to tell the truth about the European Union.

The singer-songwriter, in an interview with EurActiv, castigated the Mail along with The Times, Daily Telegraph and Daily Express for "a daily diet of xenophobia" and for "pouring scorn on anything that is not British".

He also laid into newspaper owners Rupert Murdoch, Lord Rothermere and the Barclay brothers, contending that the Conservative party had agreed to a referendum on the EU because they want one.

Bragg said: "The CBI doesn't want it. [David] Cameron clearly doesn't really want it. Everyone recognises that it's an expression of the worst aspects of the 'Little Englander' mentality."

<em>Source:</em> EurActiv

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