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Post by starlilolill on Jan 9, 2018 12:08:46 GMT
As Toby Young has resigned can we now see that the people of the UK have a wee bit of power! After a petition to sack him reached over 200,000 he had to go and rightly so.
The question I would like to have answered is why he was ever appointed in the first place! He is a closes friend of the Johnson brothers - that would have been enough for me to question his credentials! He started a free school in 2011 and has had four permanent headteachers and one temporary one up until now. You have to question that record.
How I feel about his tweets - disgraceful and that is the mild version.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 13:04:40 GMT
As Toby Young has resigned can we now see that the people of the UK have a wee bit of power! After a petition to sack him reached over 200,000 he had to go and rightly so. The question I would like to have answered is why he was ever appointed in the first place! He is a closes friend of the Johnson brothers - that would have been enough for me to question his credentials! He started a free school in 2011 and has had four permanent headteachers and one temporary one up until now. You have to question that record. How I feel about his tweets - disgraceful and that is the mild version. Have you never said anything in your "youth" that you would not say or say differently in later years?
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Post by starlilolill on Jan 9, 2018 14:32:37 GMT
Youth? You are very much mistaken there old bean!
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Post by aubrey on Jan 9, 2018 17:34:39 GMT
As Toby Young has resigned can we now see that the people of the UK have a wee bit of power! After a petition to sack him reached over 200,000 he had to go and rightly so. The question I would like to have answered is why he was ever appointed in the first place! He is a closes friend of the Johnson brothers - that would have been enough for me to question his credentials! He started a free school in 2011 and has had four permanent headteachers and one temporary one up until now. You have to question that record. How I feel about his tweets - disgraceful and that is the mild version. Have you never said anything in your "youth" that you would not say or say differently in later years? He was in his late 40s when he made most of the comments. He's made a good career as a "Controversialist"; saying all kinds of things about disabled children and the like; and he can't expect to do that, and to be given Govt posts as well. The only censorship he's had was done by himself, frantically going through his own twitter feed and deleting stuff - far too late to be of any use though, at least to him.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2018 9:05:45 GMT
Have you never said anything in your "youth" that you would not say or say differently in later years? He was in his late 40s when he made most of the comments. He's made a good career as a "Controversialist"; saying all kinds of things about disabled children and the like; and he can't expect to do that, and to be given Govt posts as well. The only censorship he's had was done by himself, frantically going through his own twitter feed and deleting stuff - far too late to be of any use though, at least to him. I am fed up with the constant retraction/deletion/apologies being made by people who make statements considered controversial and then rush to be PC I am convinced that this was one reason that Trump won in the USA, a man who says what he thinks and sticks to what he said. Very appealing to those who just admire someone sticking to his guns
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Post by aubrey on Jan 10, 2018 9:51:14 GMT
Trump contradicts himself all the time; the difference is that he never acknowledges it.
“I have no intention of running for president.” (Time, September 14, 1987)
“I am officially running for president.” (New York, June 16, 2015)
“I don’t want it for myself. I don’t need it for myself.” (ABC News, November 20, 2015)
“I wanted to do this for myself. … I had to do it for myself.” (Time, August 18, 2015)
“Politicians are all talk and no action.” (Twitter, May 27, 2015)
“I’m not a politician.” (CNN, August 11, 2015)
“I’m no different than a politician running for office.” (New York Times, July 28, 2015)
“If I ever ran for office, I’d do better as a Democrat than as a Republican—and that’s not because I’d be more liberal, because I’m conservative.” (Playboy, March 1990)
“I’m a registered Republican. I’m a pretty conservative guy. I’m somewhat liberal on social issues, especially health care.” (CNN, October 8, 1999)
“You’d be shocked if I said that in many cases I probably identify more as a Democrat.” (CNN, March 21, 2004)
“Look, I’m a Republican. I’m a very conservative guy in many respects—I guess in most respects.” (The Hugh Hewitt Show, February 25, 2015)
“I’ve actually been an activist Democrat and Republican.” (CNN, October 8, 1999)
“Folks, I’m a conservative, but at this point, who cares? We got to straighten out the country.” (Burlingame, California, April 29, 2016)
“I’m totally pro-choice.” (Fox News, October 31, 1999)
“I’m pro-life.” (CPAC, February 10, 2011)
“Look, I’m very pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject, but you still—I just believe in choice. … I am strongly for choice, and yet I hate the concept of abortion. … I am pro-choice in every respect … but I just hate it.” (NBC News, October 24, 1999)
“I am very, very proud to say that I’m pro-life.” (Cleveland, Ohio, August 6, 2015)
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Post by aubrey on Jan 10, 2018 9:54:54 GMT
And this little doozy:
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Post by starlilolill on Jan 10, 2018 12:04:21 GMT
If voters chose Trump because 'he sticks to his guns' then they must be seriously questioning their choice.
Back to Toby Young if I may. To say it was the voice of youth that made all those disgraceful (mild) tweets then they really have to think again. Was their Twitter in his youth? No, of course there wasn't. He 'tweeted' as an adult which doesn't say very much about his morals!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2018 17:42:33 GMT
If voters chose Trump because 'he sticks to his guns' then they must be seriously questioning their choice. Back to Toby Young if I may. To say it was the voice of youth that made all those disgraceful (mild) tweets then they really have to think again. Was their Twitter in his youth? No, of course there wasn't. He 'tweeted' as an adult which doesn't say very much about his morals! I said "youth" as an illustration If you want to be pedantic let's change it to "previously", but whatever it is you will never agree I admire people who say what they think, and stick to their guns when challenged - especially by PC people Here's another example www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/its-political-correctness-gone-mad-darlington-pubs-german-night-advert-banned-over-nazi-imagery-a3736146.htmlYou will note that the pub regulars found the advert "amusing". Good for them
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Post by aubrey on Jan 10, 2018 17:46:37 GMT
If it was inspired by Fawlty Towers, it should have been "Don't mention the war", not "ze". It was Basil who said it, not the Germans.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2018 19:13:12 GMT
If it was inspired by Fawlty Towers, it should have been "Don't mention the war", not "ze". It was Basil who said it, not the Germans. Now you're being pedantic It's called humour, something the socialists and PC people sadly lack
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Post by aubrey on Jan 10, 2018 21:09:26 GMT
Not especially funny, though, and it doesn't really make the connection: it's more of that Old Brits still going on about the war thing (adding '66 for good measure), as if they had anything to do with it. Fawlty was funny, though: and Cleese was taking the piss out of that sort of little Englander.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2018 8:50:25 GMT
Not especially funny, though, and it doesn't really make the connection: it's more of that Old Brits still going on about the war thing (adding '66 for good measure), as if they had anything to do with it. Fawlty was funny, though: and Cleese was taking the piss out of that sort of little Englander. What is funny in the socialist world these days apart from Corbyn being a joke himself?
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Post by aubrey on Jan 11, 2018 9:36:09 GMT
I don't like jokes about national and racial stereotypes - they're the worst kind of lazy. The first time I heard an Irish joke I didn't get it because I didn't realise that all Irish people are supposed to be stupid.
I do like the joke about the Policeman who, on learning that a German man who doesn't speak English (pretty unlikely in itself) has been arrested, tells the station commander that he can speak German and then asks the prisoner: "Vat iss your name?"
This is really funny:
(You have to wait until the end)
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Post by aubrey on Jan 11, 2018 9:38:25 GMT
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