
Daily reminder that Neil worked for Murdoch, compared Tony Blair favourably to Winston Churchill, called George W Bush 'convincing and masterful', supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, employed David Irving...
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You're both occasionally cunts and occasionally agreeable in equal measure. But it's not a fucking competition.
Harman's comments were inappropriate, but have been taken wildly out of context by the red top brigade. Surprise sur-fucking-prise. Nobody comes out well from this story,despire the fact the more accurate headline should have been 'Harman Knows Holocaust Joke'.
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And it would all be stuj's fault. In Cerebus' denty little brain.
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Why don't you copy and paste some "team spiders" ascii art to make yourself feel better.
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Only you hardly ever get that right either.
Because you're a complete fucking retard.
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I think little Cerebus was comparing me to Andrew 'Brillo-Pad' Neil in his last post by implying that I've been offensive in the past and was now upset by him pointing it out. Which would make him the Harriet Harman of /links...
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Tell you what you go back to insulting people, playing the plastic nazi persona and get a hard on when ever a spider is mentioned.
And we'll go back to tolerating it because it's you. You're special.
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You're right though (on your other point): The labour party does have a huge historic problem of antisemitism that goes way beyond Red Ken that has never really been tackled.
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However it's breathtaking that she felt it would be ok to repeat it.
If I was making a point on racism I wouldn't feel comfortable telling a racist joke.Even if I had said before hand that I had read it elsewhere.
Stating that the interviewer would enjoy the joke was just stupidity.
As to labour antisemitism...
From what I can see coming out of the party conference labours getting worse.
They're well in bed with radical islam now.
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That'd be the one for me.
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NEVER say anything that can be taken out of context by idiots, Harriet.
Also: Played that to my office & both of us choked laughing.
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She prefaces the joke with "So, this was a Guy’s hospital rag magazine back in the day and people like Andrew say that these things are perfectly alright"
I'd be a bit miffed too.
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Of course Neil was going to act 'miffed' on air. But the fact that in a previous job he'd turned up at work in Nazi fancy dress and has told jokes like that in public can all be forgotten now because "OMG HARRIET HARMON MADE A JEW JOKE! Let's completely ignore the point and BURN HER! BURN THE ANTI-SEMITE WITCH!
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F*** sake. I know being an MP nowadays is a minefield but how thick do you have to be. Although I can't tell you how much the jolly, laid-back bon ami air that pervades the shit smiling, jokey turdfest that is This Week...that caught her off guard...annoys me. It is the 2nd best politics show on UK TV...yes exactly.
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I can't believe you went with the Harman thing as Metro article of most interest when this was right there
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All about the N-word and the P-word was that one. And poofs; don't forget the poofs.
Simpler, kinder times.
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She was quoting the joke, not telling it. It's a hugely important distinction.
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Sadly, in this twitter-led age of comments shorn of context and left for the loudest idiots to decry in electronic lynch mobs, MPs should show more caution.
Not to mention lobbying groups sniffing out free publicity, as is happening here, predictably.
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Doubt she would get away with that.
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It might be foolhardy, given the chance of wilful misinterpretation; but there're times when it'd be wholly justified. It rather depends on the nature of the (merely hypothetical) conversation in which it (merely hypothetically) happens.
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If as a public servant you're repeating a holocaust joke on live tv which is going to offend / hurt a lot of people you better make sure the payoff is worth it.
True story, I once had a director that let slip to the board he had never heard of the holocaust. Because of that the whole lot of us were flown to Poland to visit Auschwitz for education. Fucking grim, the smell of human hair that had been cut from the prisoners still haunts me.
Krakow is lovely though, if you've never been your should.
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I wouldn't tell or quote the joke on tv, especially if I was in a position of public authority like she is. She only needed to say that there were offensive jokes about Jewish people in the publication.
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Trufax.
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It does somewhat undermine your indignation when a Tory is exposed as a nonce, but hey ho.
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...30 years later after the mail decided to run with it.
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or what the joke alluded to was.
I predict a twitter storm based around my ignorance.
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