At least my two deluded 100/1’s have gone, along with the thoroughly unpleasant insult to womanhood, Leadsom. Let’s hope we don’t hear from them ever again.
Other than that...bad news. How does one get a Dutch citizenship, MA?
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You really think it qualifies as sense of humour territory?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/928584...ttack-victims/
For what it’s worth...I think Jo Brand made an unwise joke in the current circumstances.
Having said that...context is everything and on R4’s ‘Heresy’ programme you are going to find people saying things which, in other circumstances, are entirely indefensible.
It’s also worth saying that the purpose of much ‘alternative’ comedy is to overstep the line and shock. Such lines are constantly being redrawn and what was once acceptable ‘humour’ e.g. ‘Love Thy Neighbour’, ‘On the Buses’, ‘It Ain’t ‘Arf Hot Mum’ is - in the name of political correctness (and good taste) - no longer so.
Frankly though, it beggars belief that the likes of Farage and the Sun are claiming such moral outrage.
Jo Brand made it perfectly clear at the time, to any nutters out there, that she was joking and didn’t actually advocate the idea. It was a joke about the silly impotence of throwing milkshakes. It was, in her words, a ‘fantasy’ about doing something more radical to people she perceives as disuniting and damaging our/her country.
Did she choose her words ill advisedly in the circumstances? Yes, probably.
Has she caused as much harm and hurt by it as Farage’s attempts to make racism respectable? No certainly not, but it won’t stop those on the Right bleating on about how that nasty, fat, leftie so called comedienne has incited hatred and violence. Hypocrites!
Seems it’s been decided she has a case to answer. I actually think the limit of Baker’s andBrand’s punishments should have been to be widely called out for being insensitive tw*ts but the inconsistency is my issue. Note that I’ve not found her funny for twenty years and never called for her head before.