Amanda Platell

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:50 pm

glasgowgril wrote:

All together now, the Fallacy of False Alternatives Strikes Again. Where would tabloid journos be without it? they might actually have to think and that would never do.

Good phrase that.

ezinra · **Posted:** Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:51 am

Having moaned about not being a parent, Platell remins us why we should be grateful of the fact:

Just why do parents condone teen sex?

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Children as young as 14 — who should be playing or gossiping with friends in comparative innocence as they come to terms with adolescence — are instead having casual sex.

Platell doesn't know many 14 year olds, then. When the second paragraph shows how wildly out of touch she is, is there any point in reading on? No. But I did anyway. :oops:

Platell complains that

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mealy-mouthed Public Health Minister Anne Milton will only say:

‘Young people should think carefully before having sex. Consider seriously if it’s right for you, what contraception to use and the best way to protect yourself from sexually transmitted infections.’

Outrageous! She should be handing out chastity belts in year 7.

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She makes no mention of the disastrous emotional effects of having sex too young, utters not a word about love or respect, nor about the issues when a girl of 14 or 15 is so emotionally immature she is unable to understand the consequences of growing up too fast and trying to be a woman in a child’s body.

Whereas Milton treats 14 year olds like human beings capable of thought, consideration, and making an informed choice, Platell depicts them as hapless victims pathetically incapable of managing their own bodies or emotions. Or saying no.

And where are the boys in all this? Do they suffer the same "disastrous emotional effects" from adolescent sex? Or is it just assumed that they're walking hormones? Why is sex education so often targeted at girls? A proper columnist might ask those questions. Not Platell.

PS A true Glenda Slagg moment:

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The diminutive and deeply unpopular French President Nicolas Sarkozy describes David Cameron as ‘an obstinate kid’, with a ‘single obsession’ over his veto of Europe’s Euro rescue plans. What a crazy little guy!

shyamz · **Posted:** Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:05 pm

Just because Anne Milton didn't mention love or respect in that part, doesn't mean that she doesn't think these things are important or that teachers and health workers don't include them when talking to children about sex.

It's easy to cherry pick the parts that suit you and ignore the rest, or to hear one thing out of context and make the rest up for yourself. Isn't it Mandy?

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:21 pm

Anne Milton used to be a nurse. She might know a bit more than Amanda, do you think?

Hang on, so did Nadine Dorries.

satnav · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:24 am

At the start of December Platell wrote an article about how tough it was at Christmas for women who can't have children. She then wrote an article on the 23rd with quite a few pieces that could have been written at any time in the last 6 months and there hasn't been an peep out of her since. Is it safe to assume that she is currently sat on a sun lounger in some exclusive resort that is only affordable to those people who haven't got kids?

shyamz · **Posted:** Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:08 am

Possibly, and as far as I'm concerned she can stay there.

2k. · **Posted:** Sat Jan 07, 2012 7:21 am

shyamz wrote:

Possibly, and as far as I'm concerned she can stay there.

and hopefully its fucking hot down there

satnav · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:11 am

Platell is back and as bonkers as ever.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2086436/How-vanity-childs-life.html

A young boy had his cancer treatment delayed due to a lack of intensive care beds so rather than wait a week or so his parents took him to Germany for private treatment. Platell then contrasts this story with the story about the government agreeing to help women who have been fitted with dangerous implants and goes on to try and argue that the two things are in some way related.

In the case of the young boy it doesn't look like it was a lack of money that was the problem but the lack of beds, I'm guessing that towards the end of December and early January there could be staffing issues with staff taking holidays so for a couple of weeks things can be a little tight so if there is a sudden rush of emergencies over Christmas some operations that can be delayed a week or so will be. Even though the NHS has agreed to help women with the faulty implants no time scale has been established yet for doing the work and no one has worked out how much all the surgery will cost but one thing is for certain is that the money will not come out of funds set aside for cancer treatment.

Platell seems to think that there should be a big legal battle between the NHS and the company that supplied the implants before any of the women get help. I would have thought the sensible thing would be to remove the implants as soon as possible to reduce the danger of the women suffering any complications and then let the lawyers argue about who foots the final bill.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2832

The really Big Issue is bullying beggars

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z1k5J99vXX

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Established in 1991 with the best of intentions to help the homeless to learn the skills and discipline of work, then progress into the workplace, it has too often become a lucrative cover for bullying beggars who milk the welfare system.

They camp outside supermarkets begging for our benevolence. And many of us do feel guilty as we pass them laden down with our bags full of food. So we hand over a few pounds, imagining these poor souls have no home to go to and are living rough.

Yes, many of us have long believed that those who sold the Big Issue were homeless. Not any more, thanks to Ms Vasile's triumph. In her pursuit of benefits, she has done the genuine homeless, as well as the Big Issue sellers who are struggling, a great disservice.

How many of us will think twice about handing over anything when we next walk by? How many of us now think the original concept of the Big Issue — to help the homeless — has become nothing but a charter for welfare spongers to help themselves?

A view echoed by quite a few cunts underneath:

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I bought the Big Issue regularly when I thought it was for the long term unemployed, Now I don't.
- Geoffrey, Richmond, 21/1/2012 1:57

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I used to buy the Big Issue from British people but once I clocked on to what was happening and the regulars disappeared to be replaced by people who don't even bother to learn to speak our language, I don't. And having read that I will take even greater pleasure in walking past them. Perhaps she cannot get a job because she cannot speak the language.

- isadora, milton keynes, 21/1/2012 7:29

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The Big Issue is like everything else well intentioned left wing moonbats dream up. They did not think it through to its logical conclusion. The Political Correctness which infects the UK and the Western World has created a dependency culture which seeks only to be supported but to give nothing back to society whatsoever.
- Peter Barry, Bali, Indonesia, 21/1/2012 4:18

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Why can't we just get shut of vermin like her ???
- Frank, Pattaya Thailand, 21/1/2012 3:45

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When I hear the noise of "Beeg Issue, Beeg Issue", its as grating as chalk on blackboard. Homeless are you kidding, this Government needs to get a grip and deal with the BIG ISSUE of British people struggling to make ends meet. Firuta Vasile certainly knows her Rights and the location of the nearest Pie Shop.!!
- Eve, Surrey, 21/1/2012 9:33

Northerly Swell · **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:52 pm

[quoteWhy can't we just get shut of vermin like her ???
- Frank, Pattaya Thailand, 21/1/2012 3:45][/quote]

Got to agree with Frank. Platell should be on the next flight out of Heathrow for Australia?

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:56 pm

John Bird doesn't exactly sign leftwing.

Big Issue sellers are always polite, in my experience. I don't buy the magazine but I'll happily get them a can of coke or something.

DTR · **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2012 2:16 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

John Bird doesn't exactly sign leftwing.

Big Issue sellers are always polite, in my experience. I don't buy the magazine but I'll happily get them a can of coke or something.

John Bird wrote:

My guilty secret is that I’m really a working class Tory. There, I’ve said it. I’d love to be a liberal because they’re the nice people but it’s really hard work – I can’t swallow their gullibility and I think their ideas are stupid. I’d love to be someone who wanders around in a kind of Utopian paradise seeing only the good in everybody but I just can’t. I support capital punishment for a start

source Express

JohnG · **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2012 2:36 pm

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Amanda Platell-The archetypal right wing coward.She can only ever attack beggars and protesters-never anyone with institutional power or influence. She clearly hasn't the nerve to stand up for her opinions on celeb compo payments or where to site a new airport so she comes out with snide nonsense.Rest assured the standard of writing in the Big Issue is ten times better than her efforts hence her jealous rantings. Still using her amazing political skills she saved us from a Billy Hauge premiership. Be thankful for that.....
- Free Palestine, Ecotopia, 21/1/2012 9:20
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I liked this one.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2832

The madness of outlawing TV ads for boob jobs - yet allowing them for abortions

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One important point should not be forgotten. Advertising abortions on TV will so normalise the procedure as to trivialise it. That’s just what the abortion lobby wants: to make 'removing' an unwanted baby no more difficult than dealing with an ingrown toenail.

When the controversial 1967 Abortion Act made abortion legal, so long as a woman secures the consent of two doctors, millions of concerned people were assured the law would be tightly regulated. We were guaranteed this was not abortion on demand, yet all the evidence suggests otherwise.

Advertising abortion on TV makes it plain this life-and-death procedure is as trivial as Sky Plus-ing our favourite shows — on demand, any time, with guaranteed repeats. What a sad indictment of our society.

Kreuzberger · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:58 pm

La Platell wrote:

The madness of outlawing TV ads for boob jobs - yet allowing them for abortions

She is even betraying her own right-wing roots and that beloved party of hers. TV, especially commercial TV, has since its inception been skewed female and down-market - ie towards a demographic with which she and her ilk has the greatest problem. Surely, if these younger, poorer women would just do the decent thing and opt for a termination...you can see where I am going with this one...

Won't someone think of the Taxpayer!

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