The inaccuracies in this Daily Mail cartoon did not go unnoticed.
A Daily Mail cartoon depicting a gang of drunken DUP members has been blasted for its cluelessness.
On Monday, UK Prime Minister Theresa May officially reached a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party to back her minority government.
Believed to be worth in the region of £1 billion, the ‘confidence and supply’ arrangement – it is not a formal coalition – will see the 10 DUP MPs in Westminster back the Conservative Party in key Commons votes, starting with the Queen’s Speech later this week, and the Budget.
The deal has drawn some criticism and was the subject of a satirical cartoon by MAC in the Daily Mail on Tuesday which, in turn, has received plenty of flak for being somewhat wide of the mark.
The cartoon depicts a host of drunken men and women on the floor of a pub called The Belfast Arms, having seemingly availed of an offer of ‘Free Guinness for Life’ displayed on the bar counter, behind which stand a shocked looking barman and barmaid.
Under the cartoon, a caption reads ‘Theresa May took some persuading but eventually the DUP clinched the deal’.
Aside from what was described as ‘racial stereotyping’ by musician Billy Bragg on Twitter, others pointed out the anomaly in associating the DUP – a party with a reputation for being teetotal – with an image of public drunkenness.
Mac in Daily Mail wrong on so many levels: Racial stereotyping; the DUP are teetotalers; if they drank, it wouldn't be stuff made in Dublin pic.twitter.com/BCzDg3bOLv
— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) June 27, 2017
Stereotypes aside, Mac in the Mail has patently never met anyone from the DUP pic.twitter.com/RHiItELE93
— Ian Prior (@ianprior) June 27, 2017
Clearly the right wing Daily Mail has no idea about the DUP and it's views on the world. pic.twitter.com/ltypSV2Z1A
— Gary Bush (@BushMelton) June 27, 2017
Awkward.
How the chaps at the Daily Mail see the DUP.
Someone needs to remind the English hack that the Norn Iron folk are "Bratash".
? pic.twitter.com/75lo1f8jEx— Phil MacGiollaBhain (@Pmacgiollabhain) June 27, 2017
To the folks at the Daily Mail, DUP are just as Irish as the rest of us. https://t.co/WwvJ4YGIGm
— Cillian Maguire (@funglegunk) June 27, 2017
As the DUP 1) don't identify themselves as Irish and 2) view booze as 'the devil's buttermilk', the Daily Mail really outdo themselves here pic.twitter.com/AoEnRpnARH
— Mike White (@miguelblanco85) June 27, 2017
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