I see that little britain has been pulled from BBC and Netflix 'because times have changed' I'm torn on this - a lot of the jokes are borderline, but I've always loved 'offensive' humour, as long as its not specifically targeting anyone and crossing the line. Little Britain took the piss out of everyone equally, (Classes, White, Black, etc.). I really don't want to see censorship and cancel culture ruining comedy or entertainment, but I also am not sure if they cross the line too much... What does everyone else think, correct decision?
I’ve split this up as point 1 is a great invocation of this romantic notion of the ‘British People’. Rather Churchillian I think And point 2 is recognition that they really didn’t all go to the same school, pub, restaurant as you and they don’t read the same paper as you, unless you’re a Mail, Express or Sun reader. They don’t all think as one and can’t be referenced as a single body. However maybe point 3 is that we hope there are enough of your British People to bring back to sanity and vote for a government that actually cares about them
We all circulate in our own little circles. If we circulated in each other’s we would find there are many different versions of the ‘British People’
It’s bollocks mate. A handful of EDL saddos with tenuous football connections. And they’ll all be hiding behind the police, if they turn up at all.
I’m generally of the opinion that if it’s funny, let it go. If anything, humour defuses tension and breaks down barriers. Little Britain wasn’t that funny though, so there’s that. Til Death Us Do Part was brilliant comedy which will almost certainly never be shown on TV again. A shame, because Alf Garnet’s bigotry was the joke. The racist old git made a fool of himself every time he opened his mouth, if we were all more comfortable with ourselves as a country, we’d show that.
Some comments from an SNP spokesman, reference the EU/Brexit negotiations. Very accurate. SNP Cabinet Office spokesman Pete Wishart mocked the Government for blaming the EU over an inability to reach a trade agreement. He said: “It’s going to be misery heaped on misery as Covid and Brexit appear like the twin horsemen of the economic apocalypse trampling over any prospect of a recovery. “And whose fault is it going to be? Obviously them, nothing to do with us guv’, it’s all these nasty, invidious Europeans, how dare they hold this Government to the commitments they’ve already given in good faith? These fiendish Europeans asking us to deliver on what we’ve already agreed to.” He added: “When you see them sitting down to negotiate, it’s like watching the Scotland B team taking on Brazil of the 1970s, it’s almost cruel to observe. “Them (the EU negotiators) with their screeds of documents and facts, and team GB with their ill-fitting clown shoes.”
This government has to be stopped, there’s no two ways about it. https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ris-johnson-trade-deal-us-chlorinated-chicken George Monbiot’s last paragraph sums up the whole Tory strategy rather well: “Just as Donald Trump seeks to erase Barack Obama’s legacy, Boris Johnson and Cummings seek to erase Clement Attlee’s much deeper legacy. It’s not about sovereignty. It’s not about taking back control. It’s not about British values or British autonomy. It’s about locking deregulation and the demolition of public services in place, by means that cannot be challenged by either people or parliament. The combination of a no-deal Brexit and a coercive US trade agreement will allow the government to rip down a wide range of rules and protections, creating a paradise for the disaster capitalists funding the party, and hell for the rest of us.They intend to pursue this agenda regardless of the pandemic, regardless of a food standards petitionthat has already gained 800,000 signatures, regardless of the economic and political harm it might do. This is their game, and we must use every democratic means to stop it.“ It will get to the point in the next couple of years where democratic means won’t be enough.
The scandal of sending elderly patients with Covid 19 symptoms back from hospital into the breeding grounds of underprepared care homes will be revealed in time as well.
I've just re- watched the C4 When Boris Met Dave Docu-Drama which was about their days at Eton and Oxford and the Bullingdon Club and most of the people that knew Johnson back then said he was a blagging bluffer who always "winged it" whatever he did.
So you seriously think there will either be an official enquiry or, if there is, there’ll be any criticism of the government? In the same way as the Russian report and the enquiry into the illegal activities of the Leave campaign?
