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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sandwich-makers of Britain concede Daily Mail front page is right

Monday’s Daily Mail eschewed its usual front page focus on house prices, immigrants, or the price of immigrants’ houses, in favour of a simple question put to the nation. “Is there no one left in Britain who can make a sandwich?” its splash headline spluttered.

The (blancmange-like) foundation to the story was the plight of a firm that supplies fresh sandwiches to UK supermarkets, which, the Mail says, has been forced to look to Hungary for the 300 staff needed for its new factory due to a lack of suitable candidates in the UK.

The Mail’s exasperation at modern Britain’s inability to educate and train people with the sufficient wherewithal to slap two slices of Hovis together was too much of a gift for the wags of Twitter to resist.

Here’s some of Monkey’s favourite examples:

Even the Guardian’s very own Zoe Williams got in on the act:

Want to learn how to make a proper sandwich?

We’ve got some great Mail-pleasing ideas right here:

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