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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
PostPosted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:09 pm 
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Homosexual noise makers? Sounds like an electronic gizmo that says, "Shut that door" and such like when you press a button. And standox doesn't feel safe in gay districts? Seriously? What does he imagine will happen? That some burly beast of a man will grapple him to the floor and ride his arse senseless? Is that plausible? Are most gay people also rapists? Well....... no. I think the idea of a bit of man love is very much on standox's mind but the threat is not out there but within - the dread of the barely repressed urge entering awareness. He and Fred Phelps could bite the bullet, break each other in and feel much calmer to boot.


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even on other things the commentators can be unpleasent take this article from a year ago

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvan ... -Lady.html

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:50 am 
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It was mentioned in the latest Private Eye that the comments on one story (can't remember which one; I don't have my copy with me) were so homophobic that the Telegraph felt compelled to put in a warning at the top of the comments section that offensive views were being expressed (rather than just not allow those comments).


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I've wasted yonks on their today and yesterday.

Latest is someone going on about the treachery of Clive Ponting. After initially telling us Ponting had betrayed secrets about cruise missiles, he's now telling us that any leak about the military is treachery. Even if you tell a journalist who publishes it, that's just the same as secretly handing it to the Kremlin.

And it's not fair unions get to work in employers' time (I explained this) but not the Adam Smith Institute. Maybe if the right bothered with grassroots at all they might get to do the same thing, eh?


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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 10:42 am 
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As you might expect, this piece by Louise Mensch has got them foaming at the mouth:

Why is the BBC using licence fee money to pay a man who wishes Margaret Thatcher dead?

How long do you reckon it will be before the Mail runs this story?


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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 4:09 pm 
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Messianic Trees wrote:
As you might expect, this piece by Louise Mensch has got them foaming at the mouth:

Why is the BBC using licence fee money to pay a man who wishes Margaret Thatcher dead?

How long do you reckon it will be before the Mail runs this story?

won't be long now.

I for one won't celebrate thatcher's passing. what's the point? the damage is done. dancing a samba on the woman's grave might make some feel good but it won't undo the multiple wrongs of 20+yrs ago.

but a state funeral?!? why? for fuck's sake tell me: WHY?


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Because Labour will go along with it.

My Thatcherite brother, who met her at some rightwing event, doesn't agree with a state funeral for her.


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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:49 pm 
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Messianic Trees wrote:
As you might expect, this piece by Louise Mensch has got them foaming at the mouth:

Why is the BBC using licence fee money to pay a man who wishes Margaret Thatcher dead?

How long do you reckon it will be before the Mail runs this story?


It's called freedom of speech you odious troll of a politician.


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:32 pm 
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mattomac wrote:
Messianic Trees wrote:
As you might expect, this piece by Louise Mensch has got them foaming at the mouth:

Why is the BBC using licence fee money to pay a man who wishes Margaret Thatcher dead?

How long do you reckon it will be before the Mail runs this story?


It's called freedom of speech you odious troll of a politician.

Hmmm. I'm not convinced about this. I mean, obviously this has nothing to do with the BBC, since this Limmy fellow's twitter account is his own business. But I'm uneasy about the all-too-common practice of wishing death, serious injury or extreme violence on people in a public forum, even if those people are reviled public figures.

I don't think people have yet got the hang of the fact that twitter and facebook and the like are published media. There's a difference between sharing this kind of comment with people you know, and sharing it with potentially the entire world. Twitter feels like banter with your mates, but in fact it has more in common with a newspaper. Not many of us would think it was okay for a tabloid, say, to publish that photo of Thatcher.

'Freedom of speech' is a catch-all justification that a) doesn't really exist in British law and b) is not the same as 'freedom to publish'. And it's about to undergo a massive rethink, in the age of social media. In the case of this twitterstorm, I can't see the public interest: I think that publishing a call for someone to die is a form of hate speech, and I don't like it. I recognise that this kind of stuff is all over the internet, but that doesn't make it all right.


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I placed a comment on the Mensch article saying how I was not happy about MPs like Mensch claiming a full salary as an MP whilst moonlighting as a writer, a journalist and a panelist on TV shows.

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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
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Why is the BBC using licence fee money to pay a man who wishes Margaret Thatcher dead?


well, louise...

wiki wrote:
In June 2009 the BBC commissioned a six part Series of Limmy's Show which began on BBC Scotland in January 2010.[4] The BBC recommissioned Limmy's Show for a second series which was shown on BBC Scotland from February 2011.


...unless you can provide evidence that he's been commissioned for a 3rd series (i can't find any), they're not.

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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
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I for one won't celebrate thatcher's passing. what's the point? the damage is done. dancing a samba on the woman's grave might make some feel good but it won't undo the multiple wrongs of 20+yrs ago.


I don't think there has ever been any suggestion, from any quarter, that Thatcher's death will magically undo all of the damage that she inflicted on the country and our society. Much as she may, metaphorically and in other ways, resemble him, she is not The Dark Lord Sauron.

But of course, you're quite right to say that it will make plenty of people feel a little better.
I won't be dancing, but I will definitely raise a glass to mark the final passing of a woman whose political philosophy I viewed as possibly quite literally evil, but certainly malign. And I'll be marking it because as someone once said, if we forget the mistakes of history then we are condemned to repeat them, and it's all too clear that Cameron, Osborne, Gove, Pickles, and co are now determinedly repating many of the mistakes of Thatcherism to the detriment of the least well-off in society all over again.

No, it's quite right - even essential - that we who count ourselves as her enemies should mark the passing of Margaret Thatcher just as loudly as the sycophants in the Tory party undoubtedly will, but for very different reasons. And you'd not deny us a little pleasure in doing so, would you?

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Abernathy wrote:
torontoboy45 wrote:

I for one won't celebrate thatcher's passing. what's the point? the damage is done. dancing a samba on the woman's grave might make some feel good but it won't undo the multiple wrongs of 20+yrs ago.


I don't think there has ever been any suggestion, from any quarter, that Thatcher's death will magically undo all of the damage that she inflicted on the country and our society. Much as she may, metaphorically and in other ways, resemble him, she is not The Dark Lord Sauron.

But of course, you're quite right to say that it will make plenty of people feel a little better.
I won't be dancing, but I will definitely raise a glass to mark the final passing of a woman whose political philosophy I viewed as possibly quite literally evil, but certainly malign. And I'll be marking it because as someone once said, if we forget the mistakes of history then we are condemned to repeat them, and it's all too clear that Cameron, Osborne, Gove, Pickles, and co are now determinedly repating many of the mistakes of Thatcherism to the detriment of the least well-off in society all over again.

No, it's quite right - even essential - that we who count ourselves as her enemies should mark the passing of Margaret Thatcher just as loudly as the sycophants in the Tory party undoubtedly will, but for very different reasons. And you'd not deny us a little pleasure in doing so, would you?


Damright!!


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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:00 pm 
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Just been reading through some of the comments on the Torygraph's big migrant benefits story and as you might expect, it's triggered the usual Pavlovian response from the resident oddballs. Can't work out whether this comment is a piss-take or not:

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This is just what every decent Englishman believed , but was , of course, denied , by our useless politicians. The equally useless civil servants who allowed them all in should be sacked and have their pensions totally withdrawn.
this is another major example of why England is heading for the dogs: reason ; simple , the public sector.
Led by small brained and big mouthed politicians, followed by a massive number of totally incompetant civil servants , who in turn are followed by low quality local authority workers.

The benefits offices, another public sector fiasco, are staffed almost entirely by immigrants (some possibly here legally), and hand out vast sums of money to all sorts of (mainly illegal) immigrants. The Benefits offices are , of course, unaccountable to anyone. , rather like the local authorities under whose banner some seem to operate.
Local authorities are equally unaccountable , other than to an employee, called the district auditor, who is usually some near retired old duffer who will sign his name to anything.

THE ANSWER: Get rid of the public sector. Only the Air Force and The Army are worth keeping. Get rid of parliament, the Lords,the civil service, pull out of the EEC, .Privatise education , the health service, the police and justice department..

The USA , with a population of 300million , gets by with 50 elected representatives. England only needs 30 at the most and they could gather 47 weeks a year, 40 hours a week , in Birmingham. Flog the houses of parliament in westminster to the Japs


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... -dole.html

I have to say, I find the Telegraph's comments pages infinitely more worrying than those of the Mail. Mailites are generally a bit dim and reactionary, but you get proper weirdos dwelling over at the Telegraph - there are Breivikite eugenicists and all sorts getting loads of recommendations. The Torygraph definitely attracts a more articulate and fanatical brand of right-wing loon.

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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
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new puritan wrote:
Only the Air Force and The Army are worth keeping


Poor old Navy. Nelson must be spinning in his grave.

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The USA , with a population of 300million , gets by with 50 elected representatives. England only needs 30 at the most and they could gather 47 weeks a year, 40 hours a week , in Birmingham.


You fucking nutcase!

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Flog the houses of parliament in westminster to the Japs


I bet they'll be thrilled. Why stop there though? Let's sell Saville Row to the Georgians, the Tower of London to Panama. Everything Must Go!

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