Who will the Mail Hate Now?

The Daily Mails proprietor once summarised his job as "giving his readers a daily dose of hate.", and under a succession of editors like David English and Paul Dacre, he has had willing accomplices. Now I don't think with a new PM, we are suddenly going to see the Mail drop all the same old hate campaigns against immigrants, "feckless welfare junkies", public sector jobsworths, and the liberal elite. It just wont happen, it's as much a part of the papers fabric as the mafia are to the Godfather films. However their number one target is out of the picture now, the Labour party are out of Downing street, so this shifts the focus of the Mails ire somewhat. So how is this going to affect their editorials?

I don't claim to be clairvoyant, but we can assume that the Mail (and Express/Sun) will be glad that their beloved Tories are in. But there is that elephant in the room, the coalition with the Lib Dems, which they may (and will) perceive as a threat to their alliance with Cameron, and these guys absolutely hate to lose! The fact that the inheritance tax threshold [Tories wanted it to increase] will not go up is a concession to Nick Clegg as well as the post of deputy prime minister, and the likelihood he will take up the reigns during Camerons planned paternity leave won't allay those fears. The commentary in the rightwards press does seem to single out Cleggs perceived venality, and that the cabinet level Lib Dems as a bunch of sandal wearing strident protesters out for trouble. I can imagine Clegg will receive a lot of flack for being the man who came third, and got second in command. (in the mold of "unelected Brown" There seems to be an inference that they [Lib Dems] should be reined in, and reigned in as soon as possible. It may be interesting to see how more traditionalist Tories react in comparison to the press coverage. Normon Tebbit said they should have ditched any alliance and gone it alone. Will they accuse Cameron of pandering to his new allies, and straying even further from what they see as "core conservative values", and they think he has been straying too much even before the coalition took power. How much of a stir will this cause? I also think the presence of such a high profile europhile like Clegg in this government of which the majority party is bitterly divided, and increasingly hostile to the EU, just seems to be a big cloud on the horizon, as it always has been for the Tories. Again it doesn't help that Cameron was seen as making promises he couldn't fulfill in regards to the Lisbon treaty. Not to mention divisions on how to deal with the deficit.

Interesting times.