since the advent or the printed press by doing everything in his power to antagonise them and give them impossible-to-resist negative front page headlines.
That will DEFINITELY end well.
I know it's me but did he actually do anything wrong by not singing the national anthem - a song about a deity he doesnt believe in preserving a concept he doesnt believe in?
Are you an enthusiastic singer of the national anthem, monts?
- even the broadsheets. To give them such an easy stick to beat him with is staggeringly stupid.
The media will not change. He has to play the game.
He might be a republican and disagree with the system, but he'll be equally hypocritical in the unlikely event that he asks HM the Queen to allow him to govern the country after an election win
Just sing it and say that it was the respectful thing to do despite being a republican
He's a committed republican and atheist, the headlines would have been about how much of a hypocrite he is otherwise.
The bigger issue might be the fact that the whoe media is basically owned by tax avoiding non-doms, many of whom are natural supporters of the tory party.
It just seems as if he is acting like a grumpy teenager who has been told by his mum he has to wear it but by god he isn't going to do it properly. Childish imo