That’s what happens when its snows very heavily in a country which doesn’t normally get much snow. The alternative would be to house massive amounts of grit when not required at the expense of the taxpayer. Also ‘on the way’ suggests they can replenish stocks. Quality journalism.
And what the ballbags has the girl being beautful got to do with ANYTHING??? Presumeably it wouldn’t be front page material had she been a rotter.
Quite right Steve! – If we had had no snow and mountains of stockpiled salt-grit, the likes of this scum would be having a go at the government for wasting tax payers hard earned cash. The government cannot do right for doing wrong in the eyes of this shower of s###.
Yes, the BBC were right to sack Thatcher quite frankly!!! Next.
The girl killed on a sledge has invoked the usual comments on the DM website along the lines of “elf and safety will ban sledging now”
These people make me sick! My foul mood is on the increase!!!! Nurse, my pills!
Even Boris Johnson had the good sense to say that it would be a waste of taxpayers’ money if London bought a shitload of snow-ploughs and grit and whatever, and they were only put to use for an event that only really happens once every twenty years. This was when ITV’s London news was bitching about London authorities not doing enough to get rid of the snow. I was reminded of my cat Tillie, who hates everything ‘different’ and spent all of Monday wandering around the house yowling at us because we weren’t doing anything about the snow.
* From the opening lines in the article on the website:
‘Panicking ministers launched a desperate “smash-and-grab” raid last night to seize councils’ grit supplies amid fears that stocks are about to run out.
Local authorities across Britain face having their grit requisitioned by the Highways Agency as central stockpiles dwindle.’
THEN WE HAVE NOT ‘RUN OUT’!
Whenever the Express use ‘Now’ I always imagine some blue rinse biddy reading it through half moon spectacles and then announcing to her hen pecked and uninterested husband with a tut “NOW they’ve run out of grit!”
Brilliant! ‘Now’ and ‘They’ in one headline. Who is ‘they’ – the mythical PC Brigade? the mythical NuLab, yoghurt knitters, the BBC? But of course, if millions of pounds were spent on grit the headline would be ‘OUTRAGE AS YOGHURT-KNITTING MUESLI WEARING LOONY LEFT COUNCILS WASTE YOUR WHITE, ARYAN, RESPECTABLE MIDDLE CLASS HARD-EARNED TAXPAYERS MONEY!!
When I first saw this, I thought “Oh god” because it looked like another “NOW they want to ban…” headline. But then I saw the rest and at least they’re having a joke instead of complaining as usual.
aljardi-It’s disgusting what goes on in their heads. No sympathy and certainly no respect for the poor dead girl. Instead, they’re just using it as another excuse to bash ‘elf and safety. I know it sounds a bit harsh, but I’d like to see a right-wing Express journalist or reader die in a sledge crash and see the comments then. Suddenly, they’d be a lot of sympathy and possible a “He/she died because McBroon hasn’t brought in enough health and safety measures for sledge riding.
And as for whether it was right to sack Carol, the answer is yes. If Ross and Brand got fired for what they did, surely this is just as bad, if not worse and she should face the same punishment as them. Why’s what she said alright, but not what Ross/Brand said not, even though they were just as bad as each other?
It’s a fair rant. Both Express and Mail are contradicting their own statements at every turn on a LOT of issues recently.
They berate the schools for closing because of H&S, but will happily indulge in reporting the loss of a potential Oxbridge student because she was sledging on a car bonnet.
They STILL want Wossy sacked, but no WAY should Thatcher’s daughter get such shabby treatment. Oh, and then they’ll big up the license fee after last night’s Merseyside Derby debacle on ITV.
Only the Express could call the acceptability of the word Golliwog a ‘debate’
Imagine of a black presenter had called Andy Murray a cracker or a honky (I’m imagining it was Serena WIlliams Thatcher referred to as she’s sporting an Afro at the moment) and they were sacked, would there even be a fucking peep in defence of them? No.
It’s just racism dressed up as ‘debate’ and simply ‘one rule for you, none at all for us’ Essentially they don’t give a shit about the issues, just protecting their narrow self-interests and people who look like them at all costs, which to me is a medieval, inbred mindset.
Yeah, that thing with the girl pisses me off too. If the council had previously closed off access to the field it would have saved a life, but you’d have the papers screaming about health and safety gone mad, complete with Littlejohn bile and the requisite cartoon with Taliban members on sledges.
The terrible thing is imagine if one day you’re paralysed or a loved one killed due to an accident that could have been easily prevented but wasn’t implemented because the council were worried about negative publicity in enacting such measures. What right do Littlejohn and the rest have in trying to make the country more dangerous for the rest of us? It would be incredibly sweet irony if he was made into a quadraplegic in a crash where a bus ploughed into his car because of ice on the road.
Please lord! I’d become a religious man on the spot!
Surely the school should have been doing it’s job and educating the girl. Because of a spurious Health and Safety worry about a couple of inches of snow the school was closed and the girl was free to kill herself using a not very snowy hill and a bit of a car. (how does one obtain the roof of a car to use as a sledge by the way?)
If that’s making kids safer, I’m a Daily Mail purchaser.
Nick – So people not at school are in mortal danger? Thousands must die on weekends and bank holidays then! Doesn’t make sense. The desire to sledge down a snowy hill is not linked to having the day off school.
Steven – of course not. But to close a school out of fear that someone might twist an ankle on an icy playing field here allowed someone to kill themselves. Which is a bit of an owl goal.
That’s what happens when its snows very heavily in a country which doesn’t normally get much snow. The alternative would be to house massive amounts of grit when not required at the expense of the taxpayer. Also ‘on the way’ suggests they can replenish stocks. Quality journalism.
And what the ballbags has the girl being beautful got to do with ANYTHING??? Presumeably it wouldn’t be front page material had she been a rotter.
Quite right Steve! – If we had had no snow and mountains of stockpiled salt-grit, the likes of this scum would be having a go at the government for wasting tax payers hard earned cash. The government cannot do right for doing wrong in the eyes of this shower of s###.
Yes, the BBC were right to sack Thatcher quite frankly!!! Next.
The girl killed on a sledge has invoked the usual comments on the DM website along the lines of “elf and safety will ban sledging now”
These people make me sick! My foul mood is on the increase!!!! Nurse, my pills!
Even Boris Johnson had the good sense to say that it would be a waste of taxpayers’ money if London bought a shitload of snow-ploughs and grit and whatever, and they were only put to use for an event that only really happens once every twenty years. This was when ITV’s London news was bitching about London authorities not doing enough to get rid of the snow. I was reminded of my cat Tillie, who hates everything ‘different’ and spent all of Monday wandering around the house yowling at us because we weren’t doing anything about the snow.
Classic Express all the way.
Weather headline*, dead beauty corner, pee cee gone mad, free crap.
* From the opening lines in the article on the website:
‘Panicking ministers launched a desperate “smash-and-grab” raid last night to seize councils’ grit supplies amid fears that stocks are about to run out.
Local authorities across Britain face having their grit requisitioned by the Highways Agency as central stockpiles dwindle.’
THEN WE HAVE NOT ‘RUN OUT’!
Whenever the Express use ‘Now’ I always imagine some blue rinse biddy reading it through half moon spectacles and then announcing to her hen pecked and uninterested husband with a tut “NOW they’ve run out of grit!”
Brilliant! ‘Now’ and ‘They’ in one headline. Who is ‘they’ – the mythical PC Brigade? the mythical NuLab, yoghurt knitters, the BBC? But of course, if millions of pounds were spent on grit the headline would be ‘OUTRAGE AS YOGHURT-KNITTING MUESLI WEARING LOONY LEFT COUNCILS WASTE YOUR WHITE, ARYAN, RESPECTABLE MIDDLE CLASS HARD-EARNED TAXPAYERS MONEY!!
When I first saw this, I thought “Oh god” because it looked like another “NOW they want to ban…” headline. But then I saw the rest and at least they’re having a joke instead of complaining as usual.
aljardi-It’s disgusting what goes on in their heads. No sympathy and certainly no respect for the poor dead girl. Instead, they’re just using it as another excuse to bash ‘elf and safety. I know it sounds a bit harsh, but I’d like to see a right-wing Express journalist or reader die in a sledge crash and see the comments then. Suddenly, they’d be a lot of sympathy and possible a “He/she died because McBroon hasn’t brought in enough health and safety measures for sledge riding.
And as for whether it was right to sack Carol, the answer is yes. If Ross and Brand got fired for what they did, surely this is just as bad, if not worse and she should face the same punishment as them. Why’s what she said alright, but not what Ross/Brand said not, even though they were just as bad as each other?
Rant over.
Carol would quite like 10 inches!
It’s a fair rant. Both Express and Mail are contradicting their own statements at every turn on a LOT of issues recently.
They berate the schools for closing because of H&S, but will happily indulge in reporting the loss of a potential Oxbridge student because she was sledging on a car bonnet.
They STILL want Wossy sacked, but no WAY should Thatcher’s daughter get such shabby treatment. Oh, and then they’ll big up the license fee after last night’s Merseyside Derby debacle on ITV.
Shameless double standards.
Only the Express could call the acceptability of the word Golliwog a ‘debate’
Imagine of a black presenter had called Andy Murray a cracker or a honky (I’m imagining it was Serena WIlliams Thatcher referred to as she’s sporting an Afro at the moment) and they were sacked, would there even be a fucking peep in defence of them? No.
It’s just racism dressed up as ‘debate’ and simply ‘one rule for you, none at all for us’ Essentially they don’t give a shit about the issues, just protecting their narrow self-interests and people who look like them at all costs, which to me is a medieval, inbred mindset.
Yeah, that thing with the girl pisses me off too. If the council had previously closed off access to the field it would have saved a life, but you’d have the papers screaming about health and safety gone mad, complete with Littlejohn bile and the requisite cartoon with Taliban members on sledges.
The terrible thing is imagine if one day you’re paralysed or a loved one killed due to an accident that could have been easily prevented but wasn’t implemented because the council were worried about negative publicity in enacting such measures. What right do Littlejohn and the rest have in trying to make the country more dangerous for the rest of us? It would be incredibly sweet irony if he was made into a quadraplegic in a crash where a bus ploughed into his car because of ice on the road.
Please lord! I’d become a religious man on the spot!
Surely the school should have been doing it’s job and educating the girl. Because of a spurious Health and Safety worry about a couple of inches of snow the school was closed and the girl was free to kill herself using a not very snowy hill and a bit of a car. (how does one obtain the roof of a car to use as a sledge by the way?)
If that’s making kids safer, I’m a Daily Mail purchaser.
Yeah fund the services for a once-every-20yrs weather pattern, that’d be a smart idea, huh?
Morons.
Liars too.
The BBC did not and has not sacked CT, she lost a presenting slot on a crappy prog few watch.
She is still ‘working’ at the BBC.
Nick – So people not at school are in mortal danger? Thousands must die on weekends and bank holidays then! Doesn’t make sense. The desire to sledge down a snowy hill is not linked to having the day off school.
‘The Great Golliwog Debate’ was over before Thatcher senior took office. Its racism, and a shame that the Express are so far behind.
Steven – of course not. But to close a school out of fear that someone might twist an ankle on an icy playing field here allowed someone to kill themselves. Which is a bit of an owl goal.