Anybody else read the comments from Robert Halfon MP for Harlow & The Villages? Sorry if this has been posted already
I quote âWent to London for dinner. Wished I hadnât. Scumbag football hooligans turn Covent Garden into a disgusting cesspitâ
I sent him the following email.
âLet me say from the outset that I'm a 70 years old "scumbag football hooligan" as you so nicely put it. I was one of several thousand in the Covent Garden area on Saturday and witnessed the party atmosphere first hand. The police were amused bystanders and I didnât witness a single arrest for drunkenness, violence, or littering. What I did note was the total absence of litter bins.
It probably sits nicely with your well-heeled constituents that you are making the right noises condemning the Sunderland fans (we were the only supporters there, I know I was there) as âscumbag football hooligansâ, after all itâs fashionable to hang a label on us, just like you would with the Bullington Club. I can vouch for the fact that there was no hooligan element present. Apparently there were only four arrests out of a total of thirty thousand of our people over the weekend for various offences including ticket touting, but why let the facts get in the way when you can impress your voters.
This is from an MP who seems unaware that the general public now rate Parliamentarians as being some way below a used car salesman in terms of trust. Thatâs why increasing numbers of people donât vote, they donât trust you or your ilk. You or your colleagues have been found guilty of stealing from the public purse by fiddling expenses and other misdemeanours (I note another of your colleagues, Patrick Rock, one of Cameronâs aides, was arrested today) but we are the âscumbagsâ.
Hope you enjoyed your dinner in London. It must be a source of satisfaction to you that you are able to afford to dine there. Unlike those working parents who canât afford to buy food let alone have dinner in a London restaurant and have to attend food banks to feed their families because of your governmentâs policies. Those people couldnât afford to attend the game and become "scumbag football hooligans".
P.S. I do hope the broken glass to which you refer didnât damage the tyres on your Rolls Royce as you travelled through Covent Gardenâ
P.P.S. âIâve just sent an email to your colleague Boris about the lack of litter bins in the Covent Garden area.
That should get things movingâ.
He has had a really serious attempt at backtracking in yesterdayâs Sunderland Echo and has sent a grovelling reply to me. Letâs keep the pressure on him and his ilk. His email address is [email protected] if you wish to contact him.
I quote âWent to London for dinner. Wished I hadnât. Scumbag football hooligans turn Covent Garden into a disgusting cesspitâ
I sent him the following email.
âLet me say from the outset that I'm a 70 years old "scumbag football hooligan" as you so nicely put it. I was one of several thousand in the Covent Garden area on Saturday and witnessed the party atmosphere first hand. The police were amused bystanders and I didnât witness a single arrest for drunkenness, violence, or littering. What I did note was the total absence of litter bins.
It probably sits nicely with your well-heeled constituents that you are making the right noises condemning the Sunderland fans (we were the only supporters there, I know I was there) as âscumbag football hooligansâ, after all itâs fashionable to hang a label on us, just like you would with the Bullington Club. I can vouch for the fact that there was no hooligan element present. Apparently there were only four arrests out of a total of thirty thousand of our people over the weekend for various offences including ticket touting, but why let the facts get in the way when you can impress your voters.
This is from an MP who seems unaware that the general public now rate Parliamentarians as being some way below a used car salesman in terms of trust. Thatâs why increasing numbers of people donât vote, they donât trust you or your ilk. You or your colleagues have been found guilty of stealing from the public purse by fiddling expenses and other misdemeanours (I note another of your colleagues, Patrick Rock, one of Cameronâs aides, was arrested today) but we are the âscumbagsâ.
Hope you enjoyed your dinner in London. It must be a source of satisfaction to you that you are able to afford to dine there. Unlike those working parents who canât afford to buy food let alone have dinner in a London restaurant and have to attend food banks to feed their families because of your governmentâs policies. Those people couldnât afford to attend the game and become "scumbag football hooligans".
P.S. I do hope the broken glass to which you refer didnât damage the tyres on your Rolls Royce as you travelled through Covent Gardenâ
P.P.S. âIâve just sent an email to your colleague Boris about the lack of litter bins in the Covent Garden area.
That should get things movingâ.
He has had a really serious attempt at backtracking in yesterdayâs Sunderland Echo and has sent a grovelling reply to me. Letâs keep the pressure on him and his ilk. His email address is [email protected] if you wish to contact him.
