Julia Hartley-BrewerVerified account

Your reference to the Nazi Germans burning books connection probably wasted on the average Leftie.History not a strong point with them !

I have a degree in history and am a leftie

I doubt John had 100,000 people with swastika armbands doing Hitler salutes watching his burning bin, Clive.

No, but it is the same outlook, i.e. that which offends me, and those who think like me, what it is must be destroyed ... rather fascist !

I take the point but I think this was more symbolic of his loathing of the gutter press rather than an attempt to silence them permanently

Gutter Press... ah yes, those which do not peddle Left leaning gesture politics,virtue signalling, and the feeble Snowflake mind set.

Sorry Clive, but you seem to have malfunctioned and gone into alt-right bullshit terminology bingo mode. That didn't take long.

That is not a sensible answer to anything. Not untypical, nothing to say so sink to insult.Excuse me while I burn this Guardian

These lefties are so progressive and open minded. Fascists more like.

I've burnt loads of newspapers in my life. They're great for starting bonfires. Does that make me a fascist?

Are you 6 years old?

Nope. Because I've worked out how to upload an avatar to Twitter.

Ok, you have the mental age of a 7 year old. Happy now?

Can't you cope with Twitter debate without having to pretend the other person's a child? Do adults scare you? Do I threaten your safe space?

I'm no debating with you. You're too immature.

'Sir, sir, this man's being immature to me on Twitter by using debate.'

Marx, Engels, Bismarck, Wilhelm, Hitler, Honecker... That's a long list...

I'd probably be willing to bet that John didn't have 100,000 people with swastika armbands doing Hitler salutes watching his burning bin.

No one claimed he did. But his example has been copied by others. Shows how stupid they think voters are that they can't let them see papers

You know in this country we have something called a free market. Like when Top Gear used to buy Morris Marinas and smash them up.

Would you perhaps prefer the Soviet-era model of bread coupons, extended to national newspapers?

What? I think you'll find it's the people burning the newspapers who favour controlling the press, not me...