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Virgin Trains stops selling the Daily Mail and people had the perfect comeback for Nigel Farage

John Plunkett. Updated January 12th, 2018

Nigel Farage isn’t happy that Virgin Trains is going to ‘ban’ the Daily Mail. Except it’s not really going to ban it, it’s just going to stop selling it in its tiny overpriced on-board shops.

This is why.

“Thousands of people choose to read the Daily Mail every day. But they will no longer be reading it courtesy of [Virgin Trains].

“There’s been considerable concern raised by colleagues about the Mail’s editorial position on issues such as immigration, LGBT rights, and unemployment. We’ve decided that this paper is not compatible with the VT brand and our beliefs. We won’t be stocking the Daily Mail for sale or as a giveaway.”

And this is what Farage had to say about it today.

To which our favourite response was this.

And this.

And this.

Oh, and this.

Virgin Trains’ decision prompted a splutterful of fury from the Mail. Here’s what they had to say.

“It is disgraceful that, at a time of massive customer dissatisfaction over ever-increasing rail fares, and after the taxpayer was forced to bail out Virgin’s East Coast mainline franchise — a decision strongly criticised by the Mail — that Virgin Trains should now announce that for political reasons it is censoring the choice of newspapers it offers to passengers.

“It is equally rich that Virgin chose to launch this attack on free speech in the ASLEF trade union journal.

“For the record Virgin used to sell only 70 Daily Mails a day. They informed us last November that to save space, they were restricting sales to just three newspapers: The Mirror, FT, and Times.

“They gave no other reason, but it may be no coincidence that all those titles, like Virgin owner Sir Richard Branson, are pro-Remain.”

Ah, we see! It’s all about Brexit! Of course it is! What isn’t (in the world of the Daily Mail).

It prompted quite the debate online which we’ve read so you don’t have to.

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