Comments on: Thank you

By: Yurpean Loser

Yurpean Loser — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:07:00 +0000

Oh don’t be silly, there’s obviously no such thing as right-wing political correctness and you’d be absolutely wrong to think otherwise.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:35:00 +0000

Isn’t all the fuss over Ken’s remarks, in fact, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD?!
If so, shoudln’t the Daily Mail be right behind Ken?

By: Andrew Bartlett

Andrew Bartlett — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:29:00 +0000

Well, more than that, she seemed to suggest we should have planned breeding on the basis that aristocratic 'bloodlines' are better then the rest of ours. Couple this with what she denied saying to a group of black diners in New York and I think we have a picture a particularly vile person. Who is great friends with our head of state. Who all soldiers have to swear loyalty to.

The Americans might contemplate the 'Salvador Option'.

When it comes to our aristos, even my pacific self is tempted to endorse the 'French Option'.

By: Meaders

Meaders — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:48:00 +0000

You could compare the Evening Standard's response to Ken's comments with its non-response to these remarks of Princess Michael of Kent to a German newspaper:

'But she told Welt am Sonntag: "I feel sorry for Harry. If he had worn a hammer and sickle, nobody would have got excited. Even though the hammer and sickle stands for Stalin and gulag and pogrom and devastation.

"The press has a different sensibility because of its ownership structure."'

Hm. Pointedly.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 04:17:00 +0000

Hilarious that Blair is urging him to apologise. He already said he couldn’t say words he didn’t believe in his heart, and there’s Tony going, "no come on Ken, it’s easy, I do it all the time."

By: Mat

Mat — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 04:11:00 +0000

Haha, the HP gang are great. While the lefty sects bash each other with the good old Nazi-stick, it’s as if the vast right-wing establishment didn’t exist…

By: dsquared

dsquared — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:15:00 +0000

It's also the case that Ken is still the official candidate for Mayor of London, therefore Harry and the gang will have to vote for him. Absolutely *have* to, otherwise all their whining about anyone considering a protest vote over Iraq will look pretty damn hypocritical. I seem to remember one of them was even proposing to frog-march protest voters round the poorest districts in town to get beaten up by Labour-voting proles for their "middle class conscience". I'm sure I can drag up a few nasty wards in my bit of North London for the HP gang to go along to and explain that their bus route's been taken away because after all, they were really quite offensive remarks.