I wasn’t going to do another Daily Maily blog for at least a week but I couldn’t help myself with this:
Their readers are thoroughly bored with all the Ross bashing now so they’ve managed to beat that little storm in a tea cup with the new ’scandal’ which makes all other examples of fine journalism pale into insignificance:
The remarks by Jo Brand concerned the leaking of the British National Party’s membership list. Brand, 51 – who is a staunch Labour Party supporter – joked that as a result of the list becoming public knowledge on the internet, she now knew the addresses where to send the ‘poo’ through the post.
“Poo”? Oh no. That’s not very sporting, is it? I bet she’s that ‘orrible Russell Brand’s mum.
The details of almost 13,000 BNP members were leaked last November – including those of teachers, solicitors, church ministers and even a doctor and a serving policeman. Their names, addresses and phone numbers were published, exposing many to the risk of vilification, disciplinary action and dismissal from their jobs. Brand’s routine was a hit with the live audience, who laughed and cheered at her remarks. However, the joke, which was broadcast on the late-night BBC1 show from Hammersmith Apollo on January 16, offended members of the BNP.
That’ll never do. Can’t offend the people who make it their business to offend. It’s all getting terribly paradox-y.
The following day, Simon Darby, the BNP’s deputy leader, made an official complaint to Hammersmith police alleging that Brand’s comment had been an act of incitement to cause racial harassment.
When did ‘Racist’ become a race? Is it part of their ‘poor discriminated-against white male’ thing?
A police spokesman last night confirmed: ‘We have received a complaint and officers will be reviewing the programme to see if any offences have occurred.
So it’s just wasting police time? What about taxpayers’ money, eh, Mail readers?
Last night the BNP’s Simon Darby said: ‘The BNP is technically an ethnic group and, under Section 26 of the Race Relations Act, we would suggest there are grounds that an offence of incitement to commit racial harassment has been committed.’
Irony overload explosion in my brain. Is this a spoof? Do the BNP actually believe that they are “technically an ethnic group”? I suppose if they were all white but that would mean that they had to be racist to only allow white people to join and that would bring the alleged racism full circle and…
A BBC spokesman said last night: ‘We do not comment on police matters. However, we believe the audience would have understood the satirical nature of the remarks.’
Well they obviously, to quote a silly man, misunderestimated some of their more knuckle-dragging audience. Damn you, biased ZaNuLieBore Broadcasting Corporation. It is not a joke. Racial harrassment against racist harrassers is a very serious offence. Even when clearly a bit of televised satire.
Calling Jo Brand a fascist for disapproving of fascism is particularly amusing. That kind of thing may be ok in Croydon but not round these parts, mizz… Bring on the red thumbs down for any sensible comments, yawn, etc… and Owen appears to have replaced his blood with racist vemon, which is at least an interesting science story waiting to be told.
Jerry: the nasty people who vote up all the racist comments do not like it when someone calls them racist. Haven’t you learnt? Nice try though.
Moving on…
And that is all you need to know on that subject.
Meanwhile, some Saturday highlights:
So, the Gay Adoption ZOMG saga continues with some sensible and non-emotive (and “I reckon”ed words) in a piece where they have given the children names (not their own) to add to the imagined circumstances:
The graffiti-scarred concrete block, of the kind still common in Eastern Europe, is where the social services department is based, and as a metaphor for what was about to happen, these soulless surroundings are apt.
What?
It was Mrs Rush — who has two children herself by different fathers — who contacted them again. She had some ‘good’ news. They had found a new home for Stewart and Fiona. They were to be placed with a ‘male couple’.
Two children by different fathers? She has no right being around normal people’s kids!
The children’s grandmother burst into tears. Their grandfather was furious… The family are not homophobic; they have a number of gay friends. But if believing that children are best raised by a mother and father living together constitutes homophobia, most people probably are.
How simple it all is. the Mail found a woman who used to work in Social Services (now known as The SS for heightened drama) and asked her what she reckoned:
“Political correctness is a big issue in local government, especially in social work. I am not aware of any official quota system, say, to ensure a percentage of adopted children go to gay parents. But if you ask me, could it be happening informally in certain areas that like to be seen as progressive — and that usually means the big urban authorities? Then, yes, I believe it is more than possible.”
Case closed!
More scandal:
Crikey!
Fabuliss – ‘where boys are girls’, as the group literature chooses to phrase it – has been hiring the Hampshire parish’s community centre after advertising cabaret nights, fashion shows, dressing-up sessions and girly deportment classes. On selected evenings for the past few months, lavishly-dressed figures have been seen emerging gingerly from expensive cars or click-clacking in stiletto heels across the nearby Sainsbury’s car park to join like minded ‘TVs’ in the Millennium Hall. While St John Ambulance cadets meet in one part of the building, Fabuliss occupies a private room in the other. But suspicions were raised after one local resident noticed that many of the ladies seemed to be uncommonly tall, and speaking in rather deep voices.
Did they have rather large hands too?
Now Bramshott and Liphook parish council, which is responsible for the hall, is facing a simmering rebellion from those who prefer to accommodate more traditional meetings, currently including a bridge club, amateur dramatic society, Pilates nights and Age Concern events.
The ‘rebellion’ appears to only be in the minds of the Mail though.
All harmless fun? Probably so. But what has concerned some locals is that both are pictured cosying up to Alison Dale, a 6ft 2in ‘pre- op transsexual’ whose own website (‘the home of hardcore transsexual porn’) raises the startling question that there could be far more to this TV malarkey than Fabuliss’s ’strictly non-sexual’ burlesque and beauty nights.
Neither Miss nor Mr Dale (her website poses leave no doubt that she is both) has ever attended a Liphook meeting – Fabuliss was merely planning to invite her to judge a beauty contest.
So that was the red herring to get the readers all hot under the collar then? Bravo! But what about these outraged locals? Surely you can find some?
“Parents were dropping their children off for a Scout meeting when these people started tottering out of their Mercs and BMWs in wigs and make-up. I can’t imagine what they were doing inside, but at one point, one of the walls seems to have been covered in a display of flouncy dresses and frilly knickers.’”
Burn the witches!
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