Up Yours Delors!

[iwbus]

What was this classic Sun headline about? Presumably it wasn't anything to do with "wailing Irish banshee" Delores O'Rihrdon from out of The Cranberries

[Zen]

. In January 1984, the paper was reacting to a violent campaign- including attacks on British lorries and the kidnapping of British lorry drivers - aimed at reducing the EEC quota for British lamb sold in France. The 1990 offensive, launched on November 1 with the now infamous front-page headline "Up Yours Delors", was The Sun throwing its populist weight behind Margaret Thatcher's recent denunciation in Parliament of what she perceived as the determination of Jacques Delors and the European Commission to impose the Ecu and take Britain through "the back door to a federal Europe."

[kempie]

This was the Sun's campaign, initiated 1st November 1990, to stop Britain joining the the single currency. Then known as the ecu (European Currency Unit) it morphed into the Euro we now know and love(?).

[jake-the-peg]

My personal favorite Sun headline was

"One down Three to go"

When the Met shot a certain Brazilian electrician

Nothing like getting your facts straight before running to the presses eh?

[Aschenbach]

After England beat Argentina 1-0 in Japan  2002 World Cup, the Sun had the headfline 'Up Yours Senors'. (Even though the plural is se�ores)

My favourite was 'Clobba Slobba' when NATO bombed Slobodan Milosevic's army in Belgrade.