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Of course, Anna Soubry’s comments on the Marr about Nigel Farage show were wrong but the interesting thing, as is being noted in the Tweets above, has been the UKIP/Farage response.
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The faux outrage is quite frankly pathetic, but in this digital age such remarks go viral.
The Soubry colonoscope is flexible and available in purple and yellow.
Trying to work out if that was deliberate.
Chortle.
And wasn't this Farages response to it? A short quip
@Nigel_Farage: @tnewtondunn perhaps @anna_soubrymp should spend less time investigating digital rectal insertion and more on her brief?
Think the thread writer is writing what he wants to have happened rather than what did happen
They don't like it up 'em.
'You look Like an Easter Island statue with an arse full of razor blades.'
And he went on to be PM.
NickP must be smiling like a Cheshire cat.
I look forward to Anna roundly thumping Nick P at the GE and safely increasing her majority even if Nick P is a nice chap.
As it happens there is great support for Farage and all manner of negative retorts re Soubry on twitter.
Politics hasn't been this surreal since the good old days of usenet and the Lewinsky scandal.
+12.60 SA
+12.70 Draw
+ More India but won't happen.
Based on one single comment in a single TV show, what a load of nonsense!
They could have polled on this.
On the smart stakes he's more Varro than Hannibal.
But he could have pointed out that if he'd said the same thing about her (sexist) or even Lord Mandelson (homophobic), he would have been in lot more trouble.
How about: "Instead of making offensive comments, Anna Soubry should pull her finger out and focus on the day job"
(The most interesting reaction was Mandelson, I think. He patted Soubry back into her chair in a wonderfully patronising manouvere. He knew straightaway that she had made a bad mistake - although I think it was more a case of over-reaching and trying to keep the laughs going than a planned comment)
I was so disappointed that her autobiography wasn't a blow by blow account of the affair.
That doesn't affect the fact that he's completely unrepentant about his role in a government which came close to permanently wrecking the country. I hold him and his fellow Labour MPs at the time in utter contempt.
Just imagine the PB thread on that.
you are obviously a massive Soubry fan as evidenced by your thread asking if Farage had lost it after her last QT performance... But you have read this incorrectly... Farage did reply with a short humorous quip, one that prompted @JosiasJessop to comment
"A great reply: dismissive and slightly amusing."
on the last thread
The premise of this thread is wrong
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100251640/tory-ukip-hater-reveals-mind-like-a-sewer-but-the-media-round-on-farage/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Farage reacted appropriately but the right-wing media except the Express will use anything to tar UKIP for they know the Tories are done for if UKIP do well in 2015.
Back from Christmas shopping with Mrs Stodge - not as busy as I had expected but it may well be tomorrow will be manic as (if my office is anything to go by), a lot of people will be on leave.
Fantastic to see NZ win a test series and it looks a huge task for the Saffers to chase down the India target but we'll see.
I noted Avery/Seth yesterday comparing the Conservatives to a horse "four lengths off the leader on the home turn but still travelling on the bridle". Well, I've looked ahead to the General Election Handicap on May 7th 2015 run over one parliament for three year olds of all ages and the result is as follows:
1) Labour (People's Flag - Mister Eds) - soon prominent and led. Clear halfway but reeled in under pressure final furlong. Held on narrowly, one out all out.
2) Conservative (Blue Streak - Big Society) - behind early and challenged for second halfway. Rallied to press leader but hung right and left under pressure final furlong. Just failed.
3) Liberal Democrat (Yellow Peril - Gladstone's Folly) - soon well behind and struggling. No impression until took third close home.
4) UKIP (Better Off Out- Farrago) - chased up to challenge for second halfway. Soon ridden and faded under pressure. Lost third post.
Distances: who knows, who cares
Time: 5 years
seems pretty humorous to me....
Can't see it being a massive positive for either UKIP or CON...
Oook maybe Labour is the small winner here as this story is a bit of a typhoon in a coffee mug.
The RSPA guidance:
http://www.rspca.org.uk/ImageLocator/LocateAsset?asset=document&assetId=1232719611043&mode=prd
A report from 2003, saying it should end:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/2977086.stm
The fact that Labour banned fox hunting, yet ignored (I think) two independent reports stating these practices should end, is concerning.
Still, the release of one of the reports a few years ago did provide me with some hilarity: the sight id an imam and rabbi on the same news program, equally angry, and on the same side.
Perhaps a ban on these practices would unite those two religions... ;-)
Have a happy Christmas.
"have much of a sense of humour"
He seems to smile less in the last week or two, as evidenced by his youtube appearances.
I put it down to pain from his recent spinal surgery.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100251640/tory-ukip-hater-reveals-mind-like-a-sewer-but-the-media-round-on-farage/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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I agree Mike. Soubry is getting under Farage's skin and he's coming across as a wounded and petulant take-offence-monger. I sense Crosby's hand in this. Targeting party leaders with psychological warfare is a well-known practice in Aus. The Tories clearly feel Farage is vulnerable - a confidence player who needs to be loved - and are aiming to shatter his self-esteem. I think they're on to something.
But I just think i wouldn't work in such a store rather than work there and ask for different rules..., and secondly, and most disturbingly i suppose in terms of division and segregation, this is their country not a foreign land
This will not need to happen too many times before M&S change their policy. We are fortunate to have competitive markets in this country.
Do you often insult people's friend's Or is it something you do only from behind the safety of a computer?
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You can buy pork and alcohol in many Muslim countries. Often served by Muslims. (I know, i'm a Muslim). this is getting more pathetic by the minute!
Its tricky to put myself in anyone's place on this as I don't have any beliefs whatsoever myself, but it just smacks of the 'PC consensus'.
Anyway, electoral effect: zero. Do not adjust your bets.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/
Farage immediately made a joke of it, and the only indignation I have seen is from the fact that had a Kipper said it, the outrage would be through the roof, calls for sackings would be made etc etc
Surely the only person who comes out of this badly is the person who made the vulgar comment
Ex Conservative UKIP voters are reminded about 'Tory toxicity' and continue to vote UKIP.
Ex Labour UKIP voters are reminded about 'Tory toxicity' and return to voting Labour
Hmm. Am I going mad, or was Soubry in some way connected with the infamous 'stick the boot in' poster campaign some years ago?
The management should make it clear to all staff that in on the cutthroat high street, customers simply won;t tolerate this sort of behaviour. Either everybody serves everything, or ultimately everybody's job is at stake.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/18/marks-and-spencer-debenhams-slump-share-price
However, it does not seem to appear on Farage's twitter account (but I'm unknowing of Twitter's ways, and it does not mean he did not say it on another media).
In fact, the reactions are so different that I wonder if they are even from the same person?
Amazing how people will let their standards drop when they are angry and desperate.
Cable and Clegg are all over the media today, with shrill accusations of 'scaremongering' and 'rivers of blood' rhetoric.
You have to think the people who are panicking are the coalition.
Non pc, so good, insulting, who cares in the modern society.
I would be amazed if it has any political effect.
You can tell its silly season though can't you? Widow Twanky is in full pantomime mood is she? One thing's for sure few would fantasise about her aging bottom. Even I didn't think Tories were that childish but hey ho. Now I wonder if Widow Twanky would say the same about say her colleague Alan Duncan, joking or no?
Farage should have just made a smart quip about it. The thing is given Farage's core constituency and the level of prior abuse that has been aimed at UKIP by the Tories outside the circus of the Westminster Freakshow I doubt this will have any negative impact. Of course the usual sheeple and nodding dogs will tut disapprovingly as they so adore to do (whilst no doubt sitting on each others fingers)........
Think the non-muslim staff won;t be affected by this?? think again. Imagine having to deal with customers who've been shunted from a queue where a muslim won;t serve alcohol.
'Well, you're deigning to sell me alcohol, that's so big of you, I must say, how nice. I've only wasted twenty minutes due to somebody's religious beliefs. Think I'm going to keep shopping here..???
Or let's say you're a muslim on a checkout. Are you really going to refuse someone who says 'oh go on, its only one bottle, I'm sure Allah won;'t mind, its really busy in here, Oh come on I've been waiting for ages....oh please.....my car's on a meter.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-25484161
Warwickshire lad lived in second best house in Stratford.
And you only insult them anonymously and from behind the safety of a computer?
Time to top up those Broxtowe bets.
But Farage seems to have judged things perfectly with regard to those very few UKIPers who may have noticed. Appealing to feelings of indignation and persecution (it's PC gone mad, we can't do/say this that or the other anymore, it's one rule for them another for us etc) are integral parts of the UKIP package, aren't they?
Any difference, apart from the sexuality of it, obviously?
Would Mr Cameron would have been so quiet and would people have been asked to laugh it off?
Who knows what votes, if any, will shift as a consequence - but if I was a kipperish swinger in her constituency (tries to empathise...) I wouldn't be impressed.
Not that I'm a fan of hers either; but now every time I see her I'll be imagining Farage's rear end.
Maybe I'm getting a bit prudish in my old age (44, since you ask), but Soubry just come out of this looking absolutely crass to me. Like the sort of thing you might say when you've had one drink too many - and regret once you've sobered up. Not really acceptable from an elected representative, as far as I'm concerned.
Unless I'm misremembering, Soubry's electoral record was also very poor before she became an MP as well.
If Soubry was a bloke does anyone doubt that she'd still be on the back benches ?
Now it might be argued that having more female minsters is a good thing, but I wonder what professional experiences a former lawyer and journalist brings to the role of defence minister ?