TOGs
So fair thee well Sir Terrence. Enjoy the semi-retirement
Just one thing to note tho' - you'd think the Gord could count after being Chancellor of the Exchequer.
In his vote for me pleeeease,...I mean warm, message to Sir Tel, he said: ""Five decades at the very top of British broadcasting is a towering, indeed an unparalleled achievement."
Um, Sir Terry started on the beeb in 1969 - which is 40 years, four decades, and took on the breakfast show in 1972.
Ah well.
Just one thing to note tho' - you'd think the Gord could count after being Chancellor of the Exchequer.
In his vote for me pleeeease,...I mean warm, message to Sir Tel, he said: ""Five decades at the very top of British broadcasting is a towering, indeed an unparalleled achievement."
Um, Sir Terry started on the beeb in 1969 - which is 40 years, four decades, and took on the breakfast show in 1972.
Ah well.
IT'S (nearly) CHRISTMAS!!!
Don't have too much too say at the moment, Things are a tad depressing and all that.
Instead some updated carols -
Christmas is a-coming the country's getting thin
Please put some money in the deficit bin
If you haven't got a penny then a ha'penny will do
And if you are a banker then fuck to you
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Silent Night, Holy Night
All is calm all is bright
Last defence spending, cupboards laid bare
For those soldiers getting blown up out there
Sleep in bivowacy peace, sleep in bivowacy peace.
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Oh come all you voters, fill the pockets of wankers
Who know you'll be paying their mortgages tonight.
Sing for your supper, as we pay each other
Oh come lets redact houses
Oh come lets redact towers
Oh come all you MPs and trough out the night
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O little town of Copenhagan
How still we see them lie
Above they fly, carbon credits in the sky
The warming seems to pass them by
Yet on the web the emails come to pass
Of lying out their arse
Their man-created fears of all the years
Are laid bare for all to see.
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following the latest defence cuts, the MoD has issued revised lyrics for one carol
I saw a ship come sailing in, on Christmas day, on Christmas Day
I saw a ship come sailing in, on Christmas day in the morning
It should be three but only one came in, because of pay because of pay.
There was only one that we could see, because Christmas cuts in the Navy
Instead some updated carols -
Christmas is a-coming the country's getting thin
Please put some money in the deficit bin
If you haven't got a penny then a ha'penny will do
And if you are a banker then fuck to you
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Silent Night, Holy Night
All is calm all is bright
Last defence spending, cupboards laid bare
For those soldiers getting blown up out there
Sleep in bivowacy peace, sleep in bivowacy peace.
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Oh come all you voters, fill the pockets of wankers
Who know you'll be paying their mortgages tonight.
Sing for your supper, as we pay each other
Oh come lets redact houses
Oh come lets redact towers
Oh come all you MPs and trough out the night
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O little town of Copenhagan
How still we see them lie
Above they fly, carbon credits in the sky
The warming seems to pass them by
Yet on the web the emails come to pass
Of lying out their arse
Their man-created fears of all the years
Are laid bare for all to see.
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following the latest defence cuts, the MoD has issued revised lyrics for one carol
I saw a ship come sailing in, on Christmas day, on Christmas Day
I saw a ship come sailing in, on Christmas day in the morning
It should be three but only one came in, because of pay because of pay.
There was only one that we could see, because Christmas cuts in the Navy
DECKCHAIRS
So the guvment is to tax all British-trading banks a "one-off" 50% tax on bonuses is it?
A couple of questions:
What will stop banks from "paying" bonuses in a non-taxable manner? Which will lead to lower tax revenues
What right does a government have to dictate tax in a discriminary manner?
I know there is deep anger against bankers at the moment but governments should not have the right to dictate bonus policy of a privately-owned business. That is down to shareholders and management not a politician (and following troughgate the irony is huge).
Today could be the day that Labour's scorched-earth policy comes to fruition and I will remember the date for ever as it's my birthday...bastards!
Couldn't you have sent a card instead?
A couple of questions:
What will stop banks from "paying" bonuses in a non-taxable manner? Which will lead to lower tax revenues
What right does a government have to dictate tax in a discriminary manner?
I know there is deep anger against bankers at the moment but governments should not have the right to dictate bonus policy of a privately-owned business. That is down to shareholders and management not a politician (and following troughgate the irony is huge).
Today could be the day that Labour's scorched-earth policy comes to fruition and I will remember the date for ever as it's my birthday...bastards!
Couldn't you have sent a card instead?
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JONAH CURSE
On a lighter note Guido Fawkes does the occasional amusing "Curse of Jonah" about the death-touch of Gordon Brown but he seems to have missed a very high profile hit -
BBC News 27 November 2009
10 January 2008
(ok I know Beckham is claiming that it is to go mobile but heh)
David Beckham's football academy in south-east London is "very likely" to close by the end of the year, site owners AEG Europe have confirmed
BBC News 27 November 2009
10 January 2008
(ok I know Beckham is claiming that it is to go mobile but heh)
THINK FAST
My mother died following a massive stroke yesterday morning so today I would like everyone to forget about climate change, troughing MPs, Nanny States and the EU and for a moment think FAST.
Facial weakness - can the person smile? Has their mouth or eye drooped?
Arm weakness - can the person raise both arms?
Speech problems - can the person speak clearly and understand what you say?
Time to call 999
If the person has failed any one of these tests, you must call 999. Stroke is a medical emergency and by calling 999 you can help someone reach hospital quickly and receive the early treatment they need.
Prompt action can prevent further damage to the brain and help someone make a full recovery. Delay can result in death or major long-term disabilities, such as paralysis, severe memory loss and communication problems (aphasia).
FAST wouldn't have saved my mum but it could save someone else's life.
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AU CONTRAIRE MR HESTER
After the Supreme Court overturned previous rulings on unfair bank charges, Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Stephen Hester, told a Scottish Parliament committee that: "We should understand there is not a free lunch here, that banks have certain costs of doing business and if you don't get paid those costs in one way then you have to find them in another way."
I take it the irony was lost on him.
I take it the irony was lost on him.
EUROPA
I'm not going to comment on the latest stitch-up by those unelected doyens of Brussels but one quick question now the French can exact their revenge on us perfidious Albions -
When is Britain going to get politicians that act in the national interest?
When is Britain going to get politicians that act in the national interest?
FLOODS
"From the 1960s until the 1990s, floods were a rarity in Britain."
Climate change to lash Britain with tropical storms: The Sunday Times, 22.11.09
Well when I was a kid the woods at the end of my road used to regularly get flooded...
Oh and there was this:
"The cool, wet summer of 1968 left the ground saturated. The weekend of 14 and 15th September was dominated by thunderstorms and torrential rain, with an astonishing 1,000 million tonnes of water falling on South-East England."
BTW in the 80s there was huge flood defences built on the Ember and the Mole's defences were completed last year.
OK not the disaster that happened at Cockermouth but less of the inaccuracies. Floods occur every year in the UK. Flood plains are being built on and water is not finding a way of escaping.
After a weekend of leaked emails, you'd think global warmists would think twice before blaming everything on their pet subject.
ea sports
if this is accurate EA Sports is no more!
OK it could just be their London operations and not the whole company but the former staff of EA Sports London were pretty sure it was the whole company.
Again, if this is accurate and not just hearsay, it's a shame - I remember buying my first Megadrive game which was EA Sports!
I have asked EA Sports for a comment so I'll let you know the veracity of what I've heard
Update: OK it looks likely that the closure is UK-based. I haven't heard anything back from EA Sports but for such a big games company, if it had filed in the States, would have been noticed by now.
OK it could just be their London operations and not the whole company but the former staff of EA Sports London were pretty sure it was the whole company.
Again, if this is accurate and not just hearsay, it's a shame - I remember buying my first Megadrive game which was EA Sports!
I have asked EA Sports for a comment so I'll let you know the veracity of what I've heard
Update: OK it looks likely that the closure is UK-based. I haven't heard anything back from EA Sports but for such a big games company, if it had filed in the States, would have been noticed by now.
LABOUR'S MANIFESTO
Nope, no electioneering going on here, Mandy said so.
The Queen's Speech was this morning and god it was bad. Here's the list of bills which won't get anywhere before the general election -
1. Fiscal Responsibility Bill - put into law promise to halve deficit
I like this one. How to stuff the Tories up before they're in government.
PMQs in 2013 - Labour MP: "The government has failed to halve the deficit and has broken the law.
Cameron: "YEs well, if you hadn't of broken the country then introduced this law then maybe we could have sorted it all out within four years."
Yep, burn the house down then make a law banning matches.
2.Financial Services and Business Bill - clamp down on bonuses for bankers taking too many risks
Here we go again. Is Labour embarking on a scorched earth policy? Who decides the risk? What right does a government have to interfer with the business of a privately-owned bank? Who the hell is going to be left in the City? Bet Frankfurt and Dubai won't see any such law.
3.The Flood and Water Management Bill - give councils powers to prevent floods
Ah yes councils are all powerful. Take a lesson from Canute will you. How does this tally with the new super-planning quango which will, I presume, allow further building on flood plains which creates the conditions for flooding...
4.Social Care Bill - neediest elderly to get home care
Blatent politicking. Labour accelerated the cost of elderly care, with private homes essentially becoming the property of local government, and this is to counteract the Tories' idea of giving £8,000 for elderly care.
5.Policing, Crime and Private Security Bill - DNA of more sex offenders added to database
More DNA. Actually, how come there are still sex offenders' DNA that isn't on the database? Oh, hang on, the government is busy compiling innocent people's DNA.
6.Energy Bill - give Ofgem more powers to act on behalf of customers over prices
Erm, what's the point of Ofgem if it doesn't act on behalf of customers already?
7. Bribery Bill - make it offence to bribe foreign officials and for business to fail to prevent bribery
Haven't we been here before?
8.Digital Economy Bill - set up fund to bring in universal broadband by 2012
Yep, definitely been here before
9. Cluster Munitions Prohibition Bill - ratify international ban on cluster bombs
eh? I thought after the blessed Diana had died that Britain had already done this? Oh hang on, there was a definition problem with British armanent sales and the use in places such as, oh, I don't know, Iraq. Oh and that the RAF had to wait for a replacement for them as well.
BIG BROTHER pt 46736
It's going to happen isn't it.
Eventually some government is going to join up all the dots and bam we'll be barcoded, id'd and rationed on alcohol, sugar, fats and flights.
The latest wheeze in the Big Brother house is this.
Not only are GPs being ordered to upload patients information to a central spine (BTW ask your GP to opt you out, it's allowed but the DHS doesn't like people to know that) but now parents will be asked to fill out a four-page child wellbeing review in a pilot scheme in Lincolnshire.
"The Review asks parents to indicate whether their child "often lies or cheats": whether they steal or bully; and how often they eat red meat, takeaway meals or fizzy drinks.
However, the interrogation is not limited to intimate details of a child’s health. Parents responding to the survey are asked to provide details about their health and their partner’s health, whether they or their partner are in paid employment, and even to own up to whether or not their child is upset when they (the parent) returns to a room"
Enough already.
QUEEN VERMIN
No, no, no Peter White. The vermin is the one in front of her...
I will think of something sensible to say sometime this week promise!!
I will think of something sensible to say sometime this week promise!!
PARANOIA
OK, when the news that dementia pills were killing paranoid schizophrenics came out, did anyone else think "Maybe those guys were right"?
I'll get me coat.
I'll get me coat.
WOW
I'm stunned.
Had to phone the council today and the official was helpful, useful and the outcome was completely to my benefit.
Um, wow!
Had to phone the council today and the official was helpful, useful and the outcome was completely to my benefit.
Um, wow!
SQUIRREL
There was a meme in the Summer about that gatecrashing squirrel which seems to have made a reappearance.
So here're mine!!
So here're mine!!
MOORCOCK WHO
A quick update on the Moorcock story. He posted on his forum this weekend about the Doctor including:
1) I've been watching Dr Who since it began. Haven't liked all the doctors and after Peter Davison stopped watching regularly until the new BBC Wales series.
2) Since the Tom Baker series, a lot of my ideas crept into the stories and so in many ways I'll be writing a story which already echoes my own work.
3)I do have to submit it to editors so they can make sure it fits into the canon and this, of course, is understandable. By saying it wasn't a tie-in I did, of course, mean that it would be an original novel, not one which was linked to previous stories.
You can read it here
JILTED JOHN
Oh how they sneered when they managed to wrest the other party's lover into their arms. For 12 years, they canoodled, played footsie under the table, shared their dreams.
But all things come to an end and the jilted lover is now screaming and tearing his hair out, "How could they do this to me," he screams. "I thought I was the one."
Two things to note Mandy - 1) Petty revenge is beneath you. It was your party that removed the Ashes in the first place so that, er, Sky could hoover up the rights.
2) You spent 12 years in bed with Murdoch so it is pathetic that you are now running around trying to persuade people that Cameron has done a deal with Murdoch. I didn't see your party trying to chase up the billions of pounds that News International and Sky must surely owe the exchequer. I didn't see Blair objecting to being feted in Australia by Murdoch.
So like all tragic breakdowns in relationships, I think the best thing for you to do is take a deep breath and have a nice cup of tea.
But all things come to an end and the jilted lover is now screaming and tearing his hair out, "How could they do this to me," he screams. "I thought I was the one."
Two things to note Mandy - 1) Petty revenge is beneath you. It was your party that removed the Ashes in the first place so that, er, Sky could hoover up the rights.
2) You spent 12 years in bed with Murdoch so it is pathetic that you are now running around trying to persuade people that Cameron has done a deal with Murdoch. I didn't see your party trying to chase up the billions of pounds that News International and Sky must surely owe the exchequer. I didn't see Blair objecting to being feted in Australia by Murdoch.
So like all tragic breakdowns in relationships, I think the best thing for you to do is take a deep breath and have a nice cup of tea.
QUESTION TIME
Just noticed something, at PMQs on Wednesday the PM said: "I have to say about the youth unemployment figures that the right hon. Gentleman quotes that 250,000 of that number are full-time students looking for part-time work, and they are not fully unemployed."
Erm, correct me if I'm wrong but if a person is a full-time student they cannot be registered unemployed. So they cannot be part of unemployment figures.
Just a thought
Erm, correct me if I'm wrong but if a person is a full-time student they cannot be registered unemployed. So they cannot be part of unemployment figures.
Just a thought
GORDON
I am not going to comment on Brown's latest gaffe as I don't think an attack on a one-eyed person who writes in felt-tip is fair.
What I do find interesting is that Labour have really lost it. Mandy has led the charge by accusing the Sun of acting with a political interest (NSS).
The old Mandy would never have done that. Indeed the old Mandy would have realised that if Brown was to call and apologise then there would be an attack on him and the call would be recorded.
Whatever your personal views on Labour in the last 12-15 years, there is no denying that for the first 10 years the political machine was incredible.
From getting the public to think of the Tories as sleeze to avoiding the same damage during Teflon's era was with one of the best political messaging management teams ever.
Now though that's gone and like The Office, I am now beginning to cringe at each disaster: - from this letter, to looking bored and disinterested at the Festival of Remembrance to not even bowing at the Cenotaph.
What I do find interesting is that Labour have really lost it. Mandy has led the charge by accusing the Sun of acting with a political interest (NSS).
The old Mandy would never have done that. Indeed the old Mandy would have realised that if Brown was to call and apologise then there would be an attack on him and the call would be recorded.
Whatever your personal views on Labour in the last 12-15 years, there is no denying that for the first 10 years the political machine was incredible.
From getting the public to think of the Tories as sleeze to avoiding the same damage during Teflon's era was with one of the best political messaging management teams ever.
Now though that's gone and like The Office, I am now beginning to cringe at each disaster: - from this letter, to looking bored and disinterested at the Festival of Remembrance to not even bowing at the Cenotaph.
BIG BROTHER
I am at a loss over all of this, really.
The government is to go ahead with the monitoring of all phone calls, emails and which websites every person in the UK has visited.
THis is on top of Ripa, the extension of seizure powers to councils etc, and the introduction of an "exit visa" in 2010.
Would the real UK politicians stand up? You know those people who genuinely believe in the idea of freedom, free speech, the home is a castle and all that.
Where are they?
Will the Conservatives make a commitment to remove, not just repeal but remove, all these pieces of rubbish from our statute books?
I won't hold my breath.
And as others have said, this latest infringement to our privacy comes at the marvellously ironic time of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
EUROPA
Well the inevitable happened with the Czechs finally signing up to the Lisbon Treaty.
The other inevitable thing was the decision of David Cameron to back down from a referendum.
The third inevitable thing was the tin-helmet brigade shrieking - and backed by their shrill-voiced paper, The Daily Mail - that Cameron has betrayed Britain.
How exactly? C'mon how? He isn't Prime Minister and he never said that there would be a referendum if the Treaty was ratified before the next election, only if it wasn't. Try learning to read Tin-Hatters.
The Treaty no longer exists - it is now law. Now I presume Cameron is acting honourably (for a politican, natch) and has consulted constitutional lawyers about the feasibility of the proposed checks and balances - and judging from the protocol-ignoring reaction of the French there seems to be some truth to this - so good for him for trying to make a bad decision better.
Finally, how must Labour laughing at all this.
Let me remind you again, Cameron didn't "betray" the nation by going back on a referendum...
He did
and
so did he
Oh him as well
The Conservatives were the only ones to keep honouring their manifesto commitment whilst the other two parties sold us down the swanny.
The other inevitable thing was the decision of David Cameron to back down from a referendum.
The third inevitable thing was the tin-helmet brigade shrieking - and backed by their shrill-voiced paper, The Daily Mail - that Cameron has betrayed Britain.
How exactly? C'mon how? He isn't Prime Minister and he never said that there would be a referendum if the Treaty was ratified before the next election, only if it wasn't. Try learning to read Tin-Hatters.
The Treaty no longer exists - it is now law. Now I presume Cameron is acting honourably (for a politican, natch) and has consulted constitutional lawyers about the feasibility of the proposed checks and balances - and judging from the protocol-ignoring reaction of the French there seems to be some truth to this - so good for him for trying to make a bad decision better.
Finally, how must Labour laughing at all this.
Let me remind you again, Cameron didn't "betray" the nation by going back on a referendum...
He did
and
so did he
Oh him as well
The Conservatives were the only ones to keep honouring their manifesto commitment whilst the other two parties sold us down the swanny.
crash, bang, wallop
l see the worthies are at it again.
A Dr Karen Pfeffer has called on cartoons to include a warning about violence and injuries.
Haven't we been here before? I can honestly say that watching Tom and Jerry did not traumatise me, nor did it make me want to hit someone with a frying pan.
A Dr Karen Pfeffer has called on cartoons to include a warning about violence and injuries.
Haven't we been here before? I can honestly say that watching Tom and Jerry did not traumatise me, nor did it make me want to hit someone with a frying pan.
comedic values pt 2
So not enough with Frankie Boyle resigning from Mock the Week, I hear a call for him to be banned from the BBC.
Listen, it's a comedy quiz. if taking the piss out of the Queen's vagina is OK according to the BBC Trust then surely taking the mick out of some swimmer is OK? Unless BBC Sport has paid taxpayers' money for her appearance of course. or is that too cynical?
If the BBC had some balls this would never had happened. Remember this happened because of one person, after a repeat...
That's right one person, 0.0004% of the average audience and as a result we have lost a very talented, close to the bone comedian, from the programme. And if the reports are real, well sorry Rebecca, but I am sure you have laughed at Frankie's comments about other celebs, just because you got a tax-aided medal doesn't exclude you from ridicule.
Listen, it's a comedy quiz. if taking the piss out of the Queen's vagina is OK according to the BBC Trust then surely taking the mick out of some swimmer is OK? Unless BBC Sport has paid taxpayers' money for her appearance of course. or is that too cynical?
If the BBC had some balls this would never had happened. Remember this happened because of one person, after a repeat...
That's right one person, 0.0004% of the average audience and as a result we have lost a very talented, close to the bone comedian, from the programme. And if the reports are real, well sorry Rebecca, but I am sure you have laughed at Frankie's comments about other celebs, just because you got a tax-aided medal doesn't exclude you from ridicule.
BNP pt2
A quick appendum to all the BNP stuff. As I wrote below, BNP support is coming from Labour as this YouGov/Channel 4 poll shows.
So what you going to do Gordon?
H/T: To Political Betting for putting this up again
So what you going to do Gordon?
H/T: To Political Betting for putting this up again
BNP-QT
So how was it for you?
Like many I thought Griffin came across exactly as I thought he would - shifty, nervous, ludicrous.
But... As others have pointed out, how will this play out in Bradford, Dagenham etc?
To be honest I don't think that his support will rise. Yes it may look like he was being bullied and yes I agree with Iain Dale that perhaps the Beeb should have stuck to the topical format of QT instead of focussing on the BNP. But the support he has is already there, I doubt he will get new support after this. We'll see when the polls are done, spose.
Anyway well done the Beeb for sticking to its guns and well played Alan Davis on The Week where he was perfect foil to the shrill Diane Abbot.
BTW, funniest moment? Jack Straw reaching for a (partisan),er, straw. He was asked if Labour were to blame for the rise of the BNP and in his waffle he ended up trying to blame the Conservatives and Enoch Powell for the policy that allowed Commonwealth citizens to work for "the Mother Country" in the '50s.
At least I think that was what he was trying to say because he was waffling. Also Jack try not to make it too obvious when you are reading your SPAD notes!
Like many I thought Griffin came across exactly as I thought he would - shifty, nervous, ludicrous.
But... As others have pointed out, how will this play out in Bradford, Dagenham etc?
To be honest I don't think that his support will rise. Yes it may look like he was being bullied and yes I agree with Iain Dale that perhaps the Beeb should have stuck to the topical format of QT instead of focussing on the BNP. But the support he has is already there, I doubt he will get new support after this. We'll see when the polls are done, spose.
Anyway well done the Beeb for sticking to its guns and well played Alan Davis on The Week where he was perfect foil to the shrill Diane Abbot.
BTW, funniest moment? Jack Straw reaching for a (partisan),er, straw. He was asked if Labour were to blame for the rise of the BNP and in his waffle he ended up trying to blame the Conservatives and Enoch Powell for the policy that allowed Commonwealth citizens to work for "the Mother Country" in the '50s.
At least I think that was what he was trying to say because he was waffling. Also Jack try not to make it too obvious when you are reading your SPAD notes!
Comedic values
I see the BBC is once again in a self-flagellation mode again with the news that Mock the Week has been censured for a joke by Frankie Boyle about Rebecca Adlington.
The joke "The thing that nobody really said about Rebecca Adlington is that she looks pretty weird. She looks like someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon" was deemed "humiliating" by the BBC Trust.
Now look, there were 75 complaints, yep 75! That's from an audience of around 2m. And that wasn't the end of it - One, that's ONE, viewer continued to complain which resulted in the formal censure.
So 0.0037% of viewers complained intially. Then 0.00005% of viewers were sad enough to keep going.
Listen, I like Mock The Week. I find Frankie Boyle is gloriously rude and bare knuckled. Some of his jokes are extremely close to the bone but that's him. If you don't like it, turn of the TV, watch something else, do something else. Don't try and decide for me and 1,999,998 other viewers (or 1,999,924 other viewers if you include the original sad cu..complainees) what we can watch post-watershed.
Interestingly The Trust concluded that a joke about the Queen was "in bad taste" but was broadcast long after the watershed and was "within audience expectations for the show".
So were the Adlington jokes.
The joke "The thing that nobody really said about Rebecca Adlington is that she looks pretty weird. She looks like someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon" was deemed "humiliating" by the BBC Trust.
Now look, there were 75 complaints, yep 75! That's from an audience of around 2m. And that wasn't the end of it - One, that's ONE, viewer continued to complain which resulted in the formal censure.
So 0.0037% of viewers complained intially. Then 0.00005% of viewers were sad enough to keep going.
Listen, I like Mock The Week. I find Frankie Boyle is gloriously rude and bare knuckled. Some of his jokes are extremely close to the bone but that's him. If you don't like it, turn of the TV, watch something else, do something else. Don't try and decide for me and 1,999,998 other viewers (or 1,999,924 other viewers if you include the original sad cu..complainees) what we can watch post-watershed.
Interestingly The Trust concluded that a joke about the Queen was "in bad taste" but was broadcast long after the watershed and was "within audience expectations for the show".
So were the Adlington jokes.
Free for all not Pic n Mix
"Five years on, the broadcasting ban remains a nasty little law, flirting with censorship."
Peter Hain is continuing his campaign to prevent the BNP from appearing on Question Time
I have always argued and will continue to argue in favour of free speech.
It is not a pic and mix, if there is free speech for one there is free speech for another.
"Tolerance of the intolerable is the hallmark of a democracy."
Why do Labour want to block these odious idiots anyway? They complained loudly about the Sinn Fein broadcasting ban - or were those bunch of political thugs acceptable to their ideology? (I thought the broadcasters did a brilliant job circumventing a ban that should never have been ordered and Labour correctly applauded the media's actions.)
You cannot decide on who has free speech. Although we don't have a written right to free speech, we do have laws and precedences to protect people. If Griffin, or any other loony commits an offence for incitement to racial violence or violence against a person then hit him with the law.
There is one straight precedence, it is fine to exercise free speech but you cannot shout fire in a packed cinema. So apply that. And whilst you're at it, arrest those thugs at the Finsbury Mosque for incitement as well. Like free speech, laws should be applied to all no matter what religion, colour or which House of Parliament you sit in.
As always, confront the bigot, don't make him a martyr. It is your natural constituents, Labour, that are voting for them.
The BNP is tapping into fears about jobs, housing, crime, the "way of life", and the only answer you're coming up with is to try and ban them?
AS I argued before, if you ban one political party, where does it stop? Hmmm, UKIP, bunch of loons, ban them. Tory Party? Full of rascists and capitalists, ban them. Lib Dems? Those orange book lads look a bit off-our-message, ban them.
Where do you stop?
Oh, and while I'm here, THE BNP IS A LEFT-WING PARTY! Look at its manifesto commitements, they're all socialist ideals. Just because they want to kick "anyone not them" out of the country and use nationalist imagery, it does not make them right wing, the left has used that as well!!
One final thing, the quotes on this blog - you may be interested to know that these come from Ann Clywd, the then-Labour spokesperson on National Heritage,on the fifth anniversary of the Sinn Fein broadcasting ban.
Here's the final one...
"Being right is not the key. Being allowed to be obnoxiously wrong is. The constitutional concept of free expression means something in continental Europe, and it means something in the United States. It should mean something here."
Appendum: Even Richard Littlejohn is calling for a ban!?! H/t Obo
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