Comments on: Howard and/is a racist joke

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

When did Blair bash a middle-eastern taxi driver?

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

For that matter, when did Latham?

By: Manas

Manas — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

It’s not the first time…
Winterton has been stood aside before, from the position of spokesperson for Agriculture I think, for making anti-Asian remarks.

Interestingly though, Ann is a Fellow of the British Taipei Parliamentary Group.

NB. I noticed, looking at the tory website, their positions are still referred to with the traditional male suffixes: chairman, spokesman…I thought the world’s PC and valueless society had at least eradicated these types of patriachal allusions from daily use? Surely even Tory women object to being referred to as something-’man’?

Oh – don’t forget though Rob, someone in the Libs, if not the leader himself, did stand up to Hanson’s politics at one stage, at least. Remember Hanson was expelled from the party right before the ‘96 election?

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Given Blair’s recent antics on the House of Lords, internment without trial, refugees, public service reform, the war, and the GCHQ prosecution you’d almost prefer that Latham would start borrowing from Michael Howard.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

True enough, both Carita and Alan.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Cartia, on the PC language thing, are you serious, or was that a joke?

By: Manas

Manas — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Of which part are you asking whether it was a joke? My indignance or the conservatives’ use of gendered language? Because neither was in jest.

By the way, apologies for my ineptness with HTML. I meant to turn italics off.

By: Observa

Observa — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Manas, why didn’t you use spokeswoman instead of spokesperson, when referring to the woman in question?

By: David Tiley

David Tiley — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Given that chairman goes to chair, shouldn’t spokesman go to spoke?

I think they should just be called “bikes” myself.

As in “A bike for the sugar industry accused the Prime Minister of being a howling fuckwit who doesn’t want kiddies to get their cheap kitchener buns.”

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

13th July 2001