Daily Express derided over Brexit front page days after encouraging gunboats to guard fish

But it has raised eyebrows with after it came just days after a front cover encouraged gunboats to guard British fishing waters in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

The newspaper on December 12 amplified news that four Royal Navy patrol ships could be used to “impound EU fishing boats that stray into the UK’s exclusive economic zone”.

“The f**king cognitive dissonance,” tweeted comedian James Felton.

“It’s like they think they print this stuff, it goes out into the world, and then is instantly forgotten the next day,” replied one.

“The target demographic of this rag only understand 50% of the words in your tweet,” added another.

“The right-wing press is unbelievable. Spend 4 years wanging on about sovereignty, then when a country actually exercises its sovereign rights, start whining about it,” noted @sj_gibbo.

“Imagine for a moment the Sun headlines if the new strain had emerged in France, and Macron was asking Johnson to compromise on screening in order to get French trade flowing again,” responded Dmitry Grozoubinski.