Off Topic Politics Thread

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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?
 
St. Luigi Scrosoppi said:
1. There are my fellow citizens. People I went to school with and worked with. The people who live in my street and all around me in this city and our country. They had a similar education to me and work experiences. They drank in the same pubs and ate in the same restaurants and supported the same local and national sportsmen and women. Watched the same TV and listened to the same radio. Read the same newspapers and magazines.

2. So what I don't get is why so many of them were so dumb arsed as to fail to see through the shallowness of this incompetent lot and vote leave and then for a clown to run the country. Some people's judgement is totally flawed.

3. Let us hope they have a Road to Damascus moment pretty soon and realise that Cummins and Johnson are out to get themselves and their buddies rich and the rest of us can go to hell in a hand cart. Thanks to their incompetence over 40,000 have been carted off to the crematorium in a bier with many more to follow when the second peak hits in a month or so. So many lives wasted, discarded in the name of a political ideology. We really have become like a banana republic and that is being insulting to banana republics.
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I’ve split this up as point 1 is a great invocation of this romantic notion of the ‘British People’. Rather Churchillian I think :emoticon-0148-yes:

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
 
Osvaldorama said:
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?
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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.
 
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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.”
 
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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.
 
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ChilcoSaint said:
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.
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And BJ probably owes his life to part of Clement Attlee's legacy too...:mad:
 
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Archers Road said:
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.
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If anyone has never seen Blazing saddles . I suggest you do ASAP while you still have the chance !
 
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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.
 
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