Off Topic Clarkson

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John Cardew said:
Everyone can read for themselves and see the truth. You squirm and misquote me as much as you like (you'd make a great newspaper reporter btw, no standards for morals or truth) . But the FACT is that you claimed that you never make any grammatical errors, and I pointed out a whole host of grammatical errors you had made ON THAT THREAD. Your only defence was that making grammatical errors was "your own writing style" and you shouldn't be judged for it. The end. Now, see, I'm not saying "night pal" because I'm running away. It's because you are a boring old sad sack who can't just have a laugh and accept being done on a football forum, so any prolonged conversation with you becomes tiresome. So again, goodnight.
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I don't make many errors and certainly not in this case ............ I say nowt, mesel or summat whenever I like and it's deliberate.
I've always used dots wherever I feel like it, I know all about 'ellipses' but they're not actually the same thing.
They're traditionally used to indicate the absence of a word or whatever ........ not the case with the way I use them

I made a point about a Newcastle poster mocking the appointment of a 67 year old when Newcastle had done the same thing. You come on, without any mention of the subject whatsoever, and try to make out that things like TBH are spelling mistakes ............. pathetic <doh>

A whole host of grammatical errors <laugh>

You incorrectly pointed out 2 or 3 ludicrous examples and now claim you've humiliated me ....... you're an idiot.
 
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Safc83 said:
Yeah, you give that to me for blaming Labour for opening the floodgates to immigration..
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Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural …


Labour wanted mass immigration to make UK more multicultural, says former adviser
Labour threw open Britain's borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a "truly multicultural" country, a former Government adviser has revealed.


The huge increases in migrants over the last decade were partly due to a politically motivated attempt by ministers to radically change the country and "rub the Right's nose in diversity", according to Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.

He said Labour's relaxation of controls was a deliberate plan to "open up the UK to mass migration" but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its "core working class vote".

As a result, the public argument for immigration concentrated instead on the economic benefits and need for more migrants.

Critics said the revelations showed a "conspiracy" within Government to impose mass immigration for "cynical" political reasons.

Mr Neather was a speech writer who worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett, in the early 2000s.


Writing in the Evening Standard, he revealed the "major shift" in immigration policy came after the publication of a policy paper from the Performance and Innovation Unit, a Downing Street think tank based in the Cabinet Office, in 2001.

He wrote a major speech for Barbara Roche, the then immigration minister, in 2000, which was largely based on drafts of the report.

He said the final published version of the report promoted the labour market case for immigration but unpublished versions contained additional reasons, he said.

He wrote: "Earlier drafts I saw also included a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural.

"I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended – even if this wasn't its main purpose – to rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date."

The "deliberate policy", from late 2000 until "at least February last year", when the new points based system was introduced, was to open up the UK to mass migration, he said.

Some 2.3 million migrants have been added to the population since then, according to Whitehall estimates quietly slipped out last month.

On Question Time on Thursday, Mr Straw was repeatedly quizzed about whether Labour's immigration policies had left the door open for the BNP.


In his column, Mr Neather said that as well as bringing in hundreds of thousands more migrants to plug labour market gaps, there was also a "driving political purpose" behind immigration policy.

He defended the policy, saying mass immigration has "enriched" Britain, and made London a more attractive and cosmopolitan place.

But he acknowledged that "nervous" ministers made no mention of the policy at the time for fear of alienating Labour voters.

"Part by accident, part by design, the Government had created its longed-for immigration boom.

"But ministers wouldn't talk about it. In part they probably realised the conservatism of their core voters: while ministers might have been passionately in favour of a more diverse society, it wasn't necessarily a debate they wanted to have in working men's clubs in Sheffield or Sunderland."

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the Migrationwatch think tank, said: "Now at least the truth is out, and it's dynamite.

"Many have long suspected that mass immigration under Labour was not just a cock up but also a conspiracy. They were right.

"This Government has admitted three million immigrants for cynical political reasons concealed by dodgy economic camouflage."

The chairmen of the cross-party Group for Balanced Migration, MPs Frank Field and Nicholas Soames, said: "We welcome this statement by an ex-adviser, which the whole country knows to be true.

"It is the first beam of truth that has officially been shone on the immigration issue in Britain."

They did…<ok>
 
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This whole thing is a little puzzling to me and I have no particular feelings either way tbh.

If ordinary working class people talked about executing people, how they should be allowed to drive as fast as they like & how other people are inferior then people would just roll their eyes and tut tut ............ but a bigot, like Clarkson, says it and we're supposed to find it hilarious.

The people who appear to worship Clarkson seem to be the kind he looks down on.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
This whole thing is a little puzzling to me and I have no particular feelings either way tbh.

If ordinary working class people talked about executing people, how they should be allowed to drive as fast as they like & how other people are inferior then people would just roll their eyes and tut tut ............ but a bigot, like Clarkson, says it and we're supposed to find it hilarious.

The people who appear to worship Clarkson seem to be the kind he looks down on.
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Nuff Said… <ok>
 
Blowing caravans up, and buggering of to Africa looking for a river source what the hell is that about ? it is not about cars, the original series was good. Get Tiff needell and the chick back.
 
monty987 said:
Blowing caravans up, and buggering of to Africa looking for a river source what the hell is that about ? it is not about cars, the original series was good. Get Tiff needell and the chick back.
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I heard they're looking at replacing the three clowns with Wenger, Ancelotti and Pellegrini.

Stumbling block may be their pre-contract agreements with us.
 
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