What a cunt
Our esteemed Foreign Secretary has been proving himself to have all the diplomatic skill of a nuclear bomb.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 9:57,
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I do hope we get a Cunt Bandwagon
I would post a "What a cunt" link to Bono who it seems isn't happy with just being a mega rich, international super star celebrity cunt and has now branched out into the Lithuanian retail sector...but I didn't want to spoil everyone's morning.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Tue 7 Nov 2017, 10:21,
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Yeah he's an absolute cunt for telling a commons committee the truth isn't he?
I've been following this story since last year.
She was training journalists for the BBC's Media Action group.
Those journalists were arrested when they got back home and were jailed in 2014.
Back in 2016 she was arrested trying to leaving Iran and held on secret charges but it's thought that it's down to her training these Iranian journalists back in 2014.
Yes at the time she may well have just been just visiting family, not teaching or speaking to any of her former pupils.
However she was arrested because she had been teaching Iranians journalism.
I love that the fucking social media it jumping on the Boris is a cunt bandwagon without giving a shit before that this woman has been held for a year now for nothing more than journalism.
Maybe the regime that locks up people for thought crimes should be called cunts once in a while?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 10:59,
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so call them cunts, they double her sentence, then what?
She's in jail for a decade, the Iranians are a bit angrier, erm...
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Don't be such a benny, benny.
Nothing he said to that Select Committee is new to the Iranians.
Fuck it's not even new to me.
She's being held as a political pawn in negotiations and to stop others from daring to train journalists.
She's in jail for as long as they want her in jail.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 11:27,
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certainly if the foreign secretary keeps undermining her defence, yes
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Tell you what, you go back to having a wank over the latest "Boris gaff" and let the grown ups do the thinking eh?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 12:42,
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he's been on the phone all morning to Tehran, 'clarifying' his comments
What nous
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Yes the nice man in Iran has assured him that his comments had nothing to do with ramping up the sentence.
Not that they needed any excuse to do so anyway.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 13:36,
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You're being a bit of a patronising twat there.
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sm.pl.crt.rs I don't fucking know, do I?, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 22:09,
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Tried being captain reasonable and had Benny jump in with his size 3's
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 7:33,
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Bit naive, this is the whole point of international diplomacy, its a subtle art that Borisconi is too self-absorbed to get and is wholly unsuited for. Her guilt or not or the rights and wrongs of the Iranian position might be in question...but Boris' suitability for the post is not.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Tue 7 Nov 2017, 12:39,
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How am I being naive?
This isn't about his suitability it's about a point in fact.
She was training journalists.
Those journalists were imprisoned.
She was imprisoned on hidden charges most likely because she trained those journalists.
No matter who is in that post those details do not change.
All he did was to state the fact that she had trained them.
Was he supposed to keep quite and mislead the Select Committee?
I'm pretty sure that's against the rules.
Now people can use her situation to have a go at Boris or they can start getting angry that a British citizen is being held as a political prisoner.
Because they sure as hell were not a few days ago and she's been rotting there a bloody year.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 13:10,
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You’re not being naive,
You’re being wilfully ignorant.
It’s a basic rule of diplomacy that if the government you’re dealing with are cheating, lying scumbags, if you’re after anything then you don’t publicly acknowledge that. The absolute very last thing you do is tell the truth, when the truth will see this womanr locked up for longer.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 13:25,
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TLDR Boris is a proved c*** isn't good at this job
Iran are playing a diplomatic game and have ceased on his slip, as any decent government, despotic or not, would do.
Boris made an unforced error, he didn't have to say what he said, while he can't lie he wasn't asked a direct question about it. He even says this himself "we have to be careful about this..." Regardless of it being just a diplomatic power play...he f***ed up.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Tue 7 Nov 2017, 13:38,
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Oh hush now
Weren't you paying attention? Toffs are the real enemy here.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 11:24,
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Ah sorry forgot the approved narrative and found myself thinking for myself for a moment there.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 11:40,
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Photos or it didn't happen.
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 12:12,
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For the sadistic who want to see the master in action
Bumbling through and offering up all sorts of gems there is no need for, check it out 15:13 for the offending comment And Yes...I am wanking as I type this.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Tue 7 Nov 2017, 13:49,
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Where's the bit where he says she did whilst in Iran?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 15:38,
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Why does anyone give much of a fuck...
unless they plan to go to Iran to train some journalists?
Has it not occurred to anyone else that going to a repressive regime to work with people that regime views as dissidents is a fucking stupid idea, and that if one does so then one should not expect much in the way of government assistance?
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Are you really suggesting imprisonment and possible torture of a British national visiting their family is acceptable? Disgraceful.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Tue 7 Nov 2017, 13:57,
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I'm suggesting that doing stuff that the government of a country counts as terrorism,
and then escaping, and then going back to visit your family, thinking that the government had probably forgotten about your actions, is fucking stupid. Whether it's right or wrong, acceptable or unacceptable, graceful or disgraceful, it's to be expected.
As a person who doesn't go an interfere in despotic regimes (and I think I speak for the majority of people in the UK here) I'd much rather the foreign office was spending time on more mundane things than an idiot with a deathwish.
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So you are then. You terrible, terrible person.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Tue 7 Nov 2017, 14:49,
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Are you saying that British people
have the right to travel the world poking their noses unasked into other peoples business with an inalienable right to do so?
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Are you saying that British people
Should turn a blind eye to brutal torturous regimes that oppress human rights? Maybe you are saying that teaching is bad? You might be saying its open season on anyone working abroad...buyer beware hey.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Tue 7 Nov 2017, 15:11,
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I'm saying it's fucking Iran.
We haven't been repeatedly told how the Iranian government are evil fuckers who don't share our values for no reason. It's precisely because of this sort of shit.
It isn't open season on anyone working abroad. But it IS open season on anyone at any time in specific totalitarian countries, especially people working with others deemed to be terrorists by those countries. Iran is one of them.
Thinking that the foreign office is a safety net to protect you from dissident acts within such a country is utterly ludicrous.
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If he is, then he's fucking RIGHT. Not our problem. Britain isn't the World's fucking police force, and every single fucking time we've acted like we were it's been cunts like you have been the loudest fucking protestors against it.
'Torturous regimes that oppress human rights'? We've fucking funded and trained enough of them. 'Teaching is bad'? Well we helped set up the 'schools' that taught and trained the Mujahadeen because those poor oppressed Afghans had been invaded by the big bad Soviets. Look how fucking well that turned out for everyone. And frankly, yeah, if you go to any foreign country that doesn't subscribe to 'Western democracy' with the intent of subverting their government or not following their fuckwitted heathen laws then it pretty much IS Caveat Emptor. Smuggling drugs in a country where that gets you the death penalty? You fucking deserve to be beheaded. Taking your family sailing around the Somali coast? Sorry, too bad that those pirates are using you all as fuckpuppets and then food, but you WERE warned.
Fuck you and the bleeding heart you rode in on you fucking hippy scum.
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 8 Nov 2017, 5:08,
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It is a shame I have to explain this...I don't think eVil thinks these things. There is a habit here of taking a comment made "She was a British citizen teaching students staying in the UK" (for example) then turning this into "ah you think X, Y or Z then don't you? You cunt!" People think it clever but it is just straw manning someones argument...and usually results in tedious TLDR dribble like your reply...which seems to be equating types like Osama Bin Laden with a woman teaching journalism.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Wed 8 Nov 2017, 8:14,
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Did Bin Laden start out as a deranged religious-nutterist intent on destroying civilisation?
No, no he did not. When he left his comfortable life to go and become a religious nutterist he was hailed as a hero for standing up to Soviet oppressors. Thatcher even invited one of his henchmen to speak at a Tory party conference. Several Western democracies helped Bin Laden become what he eventually went on to be. We funded him. Reagan armed him. The SAS helped train him, the CIA set up the 'madrasses' in Pakistan where he and like-minded nutters could go and learn about how evil democracy is and how to destroy it, all paid for by taxpayers in Western democracies.
And what she's teaching doesn't count as journalism in the theocracy of Iran. There it counts as sedition. Which she should have known, and undoubtedly did know, before she went there.
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:54,
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well, sure, its not your problem
and I guess that's close enough for you.
also, saying fuck a lot doesn't help your argument, it just makes you sound unhinged.
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Tell you what, you keep on wringing you hands and wetting your bed.
I'll keep on not giving a fuck about some crybaby libtard subversive.
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:56,
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Can I leave you to be the mobs target for a while?
Got some chores to do.
Ta.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 14:01,
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Wipe your knob on the curtains mate.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 14:19,
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Fair enough, they're your curtains ...
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 14:22,
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No problem mate,
I relish any opportunity to go toe to toe with a overwhelming plethora of ill-thinking dickheads!
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Easily pleased, eh?
Your insults are extremely lacklustre. Do you ever even bother with actually thinking of something sharp, or do you just giggle to yourself with the assumption that your opponent must look objectively stupid just because you think so?
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Direct from your wank bank I guess?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 19:31,
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I'm with cerebus, evilandy, and with the other defenders of everything a conservative might say or do
It's about time we had a Foreign Secretary that wasn't beholden to the PC Brigade or any notions whatsoever of diplomacy. Blurting out statements unprompted that undermine the defence of a British National close to release but serve no other purpose is why he's fantastically suited to the role.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 7 Nov 2017, 20:12,
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I hate political posts here
They have a place somewhere, but just look at these wanky replies. Fuck sake post some cunts calling over instead or summin.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 7:00,
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What he said...I feel pity for those looking to brighten their day with a clip of a cat sneezing...
I get dragged in because a post calling Boris an incompetent C*** really shouldn't get questioned here. Maybe a politics tick box for posts and a profile setting to not see it.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Wed 8 Nov 2017, 8:23,
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See that's the thing, I refuse to blindly go along with the mob and not question something.
Not going to rehash the whole thing but it's not as cut and dry as has been reported. A slight change in the context on what was a dry meeting with a simple statement of fact. Note also that not one of the politicians questioning him had an issue with it at the time.
When it's reported however the words "whilst in Iran" are added which completely changes the story, puts her at risk and a despicable regime gets something to use.
In the face of all this I refuse to go along with the "Lol boris gaffe whatacunt" group mindset.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 8:55,
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So you're blindly going along with the default retarded right wing views? What a rebel.
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Thu 9 Nov 2017, 10:00,
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I asked Rob if we could have a section for the political stuff for exactly this reason.
Rob said no, can't remember what his reasoning was.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 8:43,
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but there is no other place on the internet where people argue about these things
where am I supposed to go?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 10:34,
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