Bollocks about the criminals getting off on ECHR. They report the times when criminals say they're going to appeal under the ECHR...but never the times when it's thrown out of court for being laughably stupid

exactly, thank you. also they bang on about "health and safety" and "compensation culture" and people who sue for loads of money over stupid stuff like slipping on a banana skin or whatever, but they never report it when it's thrown out of court or when people sue for money over not-so-stupid things like factories not keeping to health & safety measures such as making sure people aren't exposed to dangerous substances like asbestos. they go on about the number of personal injury claims rising, but they aren't actually rising, the only claims that have risen lately are the number of asbestos-related ones, and i think that's quite reasonable. if a factory next to your house is negligent and doesn't put filters on its chimneys to stop dangerous substances escaping into the air and floating over your garden where you can breathe them in, and you develop a disease like lung cancer as a result, i think it's quite fair for you to sue them!
someone on the train in front of me was reading the mail today and there was an article about people 50 years ago changing lightbulbs on bridges with no safety equipment, with the headline "don't tell health and safety!" - oh yes, the good old days when you were free to fall hundreds of metres (sorry, feet) to your death...

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hahaha sorry for the contentless post but that was funny thanks hel.

Littlejohn 28/04/2006:


A politician more concerned with human poverty that needlessly putting down other politicians? Outrageous.

What are politicians for, after all, if not to entertain us with childish attacks on other politicians?

And yes, sending homeless people "home" will really solve all ills. Unless what Littlejohn means by "this problem" is "I have to look at them". In which case, why not have them killed and fed to people with no food? Solving two problems in one fell swoop.

Read another paper if all this upsets you that much.

When you all leave college and start paying a bit of tax, you'll end up loving Littlejohn like the rest of us.

The great tragedy of most Left-leaning people (for them) is that most come from well-to-do families and don't have a clue about what so-called 'real' people think. It's all about guilt and probably psychological damage bought about from long traumatic nights of fagging duty at public school.

Littlejohn may be a little pompous, but he speaks up for what those of us who work hard and live in areas blighted by law and order issues (Wythenshawe, in my case) actually think.

And he's funny.

Am now off for a night of poovery down Canal Street... (Wow! Some minority groups can actually take a joke! Reflect.) [/img]

Hi Gareth, it's ironic that you should say Middle-Class liberals who want to make everybody as fortunate as themselves have feelings of guilt yet you have no troubles with the fact you appear to be a gay man who idolises a homophobe.

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Gareth should go to another website if this one upsets him so much, RIGHT?

Also, if I have so much wealth and privilege, why was I not previously aware? Where is all this cash money that I'm supposed to have? Why was I given this stash of notes that Littlejohn haters all should have? Nobody tells me anything

Besides, if that was a public school I went to, I'd hate to see the state ones. Am also surprised to find myself still at university when I thought I'd left years ago. And that my family is well-to-do. I shall tell my mother when I see her on Tuesday, and hear her laugh her hollow laugh.

I do, it doesn't help. Also i find your assertion that all working class people are wankers to be highly offensive.

Public School!? No, I didn't go to a Public School! I think you're confusing me with a Mail Reader!

Gareth, you're wrong on just about every count, in my case. I leftt university many years ago, was at state school before that, my family was poor, and I now live in a rough inner-city area. Oh, and I work hard and probably pay more tax than you. I'm on the left politically largely because of my working-class background: it's only thanks to the labour movement that families like mine had a chance of a decent life. As for Littlejohn, his purpose is to distract the easily amused. Ask yourself this: since he's so concerned about taxpayers' money, why does he have so little to say about corporate tax evasion, when (for example) this positively dwarfs spending on benefits? It's better for the rich and powerful to keep the little people fighting one another.

Gosh Gareth, I suppose that living in Wythenshawe must make you an expert on crime, no crime happens anywhere else in Manchester.

I'd hate to play the "Waah, I had it tough card" but I lived on Ruskin Avenue in Moss Side for sometime, where the Gooch Gang had a safe house and a rather large number of guns on the property. Thankfully they all got arrested and charged with murder and are now in prison. I lso managed to work, pay taxes and move house to liberal Chorlton where the gay men and women haven't internalised the homophobia of people like Littlejohn

Sorry to disappoint you by having not been to public school, I grew up in Rochdale in a single parent household, we just didn't have the money for school fees. That's why I'm left leaning, the Tory party and people like Littlejohn demonised my family and thanks to Section 28 I spent a long time thinking being attracted to women as well as men meant something was wrong with me. I'm never going to find anything appealing about people who think I don't deserve full human rights.

Please don't assume that just because you stopped taxing your brain the day you started paying tax, that we all did.

Read another website if all this upsets you that much!

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I left college and now I pay tax, but I still don't love Littlejohn. Is there something wrong with me?

Gareth, you don't impress me one iota. I left University in 1999, pay an amount of tax (I don't need to tell you how much) and I still think Dick Littlejohn is a semi-literate buffoon. His articles, his books, his articles and his seemingly irate personality are all complete balderdash.

Yes, I am a Left-leaning person, but I don't come from a well-to-do family. My (cheap) shoes were a Christmas present and I don't own a car. I do know what 'real' people think as I am in contact with them most of the time. I don't feel guilty because I don't believe in Original Sin. I don't suffer from psychological damage and certainly never did any fagging. I'm not really sure what that would entail anyway.

Littlejohn is pompous, absolutely. You think he stands up for those who 'work hard'. What are we to imagine that this comment means? Perhaps you are clinging to a Protestant work ethic that is rapidly becoming obsolete and think people who don't work deserve to be disenfranchised because they are 'lazy'.

Your comment about crime is misguided. Littlejohn lives in a gated community in Florida, according to Johan Hari, and has none of the concerns that you might have. I, conversely, live on an estate that has recently seen a spate of burglaries and think that Littlejohn has nothing useful to say about crime whatever. His journalism exists to encourage innocent people to hate each other rather than realise what most of us have in common and what we can do to improve the lot of humankind. His vile work is a distraction at best.

Littlejohn is not funny. His novel, 'To Hell In A Handcart' is the most unfunny bigoted bile I have ever read. Every character and situation within is a cliche and Littlejohn underestimates the intelligence of his readers.

Finally, I find it difficult to believe that you are gay and also like Littlejohn. Unless I am mistaken, he once said that flame throwers should be employed to get rid of homosexual protestors on a radio programme that he was speaking on. So he can just f*ck himself.