When the Daily Mail says anybody 'faces fierce backlash', they mean a fierce backlash that they're about to stir up.
Fierce backlash - a few irrelevant people made some tweets that got like 14 favourites and half that of retweets even after being embedded in the article all day
You might think I'm being factious with that title, but no, these people are genuinely beyond parody.
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It's a recurring thing.
Right wing astroturfing groups keep trying to get control of the national trust.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/06/right-leaning-group-fails-to-wrest-control-of-national-trust-from-political-takeover
If it's not vegan food, they're complaining about pride, or people explaining where all the money for these big country houses came from.
The group's actually run out of the same place as a Tory think-tank. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/28/national-trust-captured-by-well-funded-fake-grassroots-group-restore-trust