PM Brown calls an old woman a bigot ...

Massive · 04-29-2010, 07:56 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...10/8649644.stm

I don't know if anyone on this site is following the elections saga which is going on over here in the UK, but when I heard about this my respect for our PM Gordon Brown actually rose, because, finally (!) a politician being heard being honest.
The woman he talked to was a bigot!
Now the poor sod's being made to apologise again and again, and, sadly, this is the typical reaction of the common folk here, they are all incredibly bigoted and underinformed about the facts of life, yes immigration IS a problem, but, at the end of they day, immigrants are people too! Their humanity is demeaned and degraded on a daily basis by the gutter press here ...
Anyhow, just found this amusing and had to share

Hack · 04-29-2010, 08:01 PM

I have been following the election stuff over there a bit. I have an interest in all things political, and I love your country.

I heard a snippet of the debates last week...one of the candidates really railing about why England shouldn't join the EU. And some of the immigration stuff...which is really becoming an issue in many western European countries as well -- Germany and the Netherlands come to mind. Don't know if you follow Dutch politics, but that Geert Wilders dude just scares me. He sounds very Hitler-esque at times, in my opinion.

Going to delve in to this election a bit more, though. To me, it is way more interesting than American politics at times.

Jake

Massive · 04-29-2010, 11:38 PM

I think they're all as bad as each other and find it really sad that Europe has yet again failed to remember what happened the last time we let the bigots and megalomaniacs have their way ...

StoneFinn · 04-30-2010, 01:27 AM

'allo--

I have been following from here as well-- and Massi-- I am with you. My respect for him *rose* as he was just calling it as he saw it, and frankly, he was spot on.

I don't know how much you have been following the immigration and boat issues here, but there are problems arising socially and politically in this region as well.

I am not going to go into too much, at this point... except to say (proudly)... I AM AN IMMIGRANT legally, and everything. I think that this is important to remember-- "immigrants" ARE people, and just like everything else-- we ARE beyond stereotypes. Just as I am not every transguy, nor every queer, I am not "every" immigrant.

and to PM Brown:

04-29-2010, 07:56 PM	#1
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04-29-2010, 11:38 PM	#3
Massive Member How Do You Identify?: Trans man Preferred Pronoun?: He, Him Relationship Status: not looking Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Northern England Posts: 945 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,669 Thanked 2,383 Times in 765 Posts Rep Power: 17762094	I think they're all as bad as each other and find it really sad that Europe has yet again failed to remember what happened the last time we let the bigots and megalomaniacs have their way ... __________________ You may not be able to choose your bio-family, but you can choose your Family

04-30-2010, 01:27 AM	#4
StoneFinn Member How Do You Identify?: Transgressive Male Preferred Pronoun?: masculine Relationship Status: hog-tied with love Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: beyond the never-never Posts: 157 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 234 Thanked 311 Times in 91 Posts Rep Power: 1671349	'allo-- I have been following from here as well-- and Massi-- I am with you. My respect for him rose as he was just calling it as he saw it, and frankly, he was spot on. I don't know how much you have been following the immigration and boat issues here, but there are problems arising socially and politically in this region as well. I am not going to go into too much, at this point... except to say (proudly)... I AM AN IMMIGRANT legally, and everything. I think that this is important to remember-- "immigrants" ARE people, and just like everything else-- we ARE beyond stereotypes. Just as I am not every transguy, nor every queer, I am not "every" immigrant. and to PM Brown: __________________ "Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." ~~ Da Vinci "If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies; if the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself." ~~ Van Gogh

04-29-2010, 08:01 PM	#2
Hack Just a guy. How Do You Identify?: Just a guy Preferred Pronoun?: male Relationship Status: Sparkle's consort Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: MA Posts: 1,458 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 807 Thanked 3,783 Times in 960 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	I have been following the election stuff over there a bit. I have an interest in all things political, and I love your country. I heard a snippet of the debates last week...one of the candidates really railing about why England shouldn't join the EU. And some of the immigration stuff...which is really becoming an issue in many western European countries as well -- Germany and the Netherlands come to mind. Don't know if you follow Dutch politics, but that Geert Wilders dude just scares me. He sounds very Hitler-esque at times, in my opinion. Going to delve in to this election a bit more, though. To me, it is way more interesting than American politics at times. Jake