So Roy & the FA say sorry for upsetting people, not sure how we upset anyone singing F**K a terrorist group, that is beyond me the murdering scum they are. people say but we are playing Scotland, OK take the blinkers off, it was at the home of Irish football in Scotland. But yet the Irish Chief Excutive gets caught singing a tribute to IRA hunger strikers. no uproar from anyone, but he did say sorry but the last part makes me think he did not mean it "uesday morning made a lengthy apology to Irish radio station RTE 2fm, at the same time as describing the publication of the video clip as 'sly'. " http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ntroversy-by-singing-pro-Republican-song.html Time we grew a back bone again
What you have got to understand is this....you are allowed to be openly racist. You are allowed to openly celebrate violence. You are allowed to celebrate your patriotism, flag and culture. Unless. You are English. In England. Then it is "threatening"...."imperialistic"....."intolerant"......"bigoted"......."racist" That is the way it works
Nobody complains about the National Anthem, which has a verse about praying to God to give the Duke of Cumberland "strength to crush the rebellious Scots"
The reaction to the Tweet by Labour MP Emily Thornberry last week was indicative of what a mess we are now in, in this country. An MP purporting to respresent the English working class Tweets a picture hashtagged "Image from Rochester" of a modest house draped in 3 England flags, with a white van parked outside. When challenged about the apparent snobishness of her Tweet, she smugly replied: "I just thought it was extraordinary. I had never seen anything like it before". This from a Labour MP from England. Think about that statement for a moment. If she had driven past a Mosque, and seen the flag of Islam flying high, would she have Tweeted that ?
That says more about Labour's penchant for shooting itself in the foot than anything else. David Cameron said he was "appalled" by it, meaning he was "delighted" by this free gift, just like Gordon Brown's "bigot" remark before the last election.
Labour will be equally "appalled" by the judge deciding that the Tory Chief whip actually did call the police "f***ing plebs", and by Chelsea's ex-Fulham fan David Mellor telling a cabbie to "F*** off back to your £10-an-hour job".
