[News] Richard Littlejohn article in the Daily Mail

[hans kraay fan club]

Ah the 'voice of reason ' returns. The last time we spoke I asked you if you would go into a Glasgow pub pub and call the drinkers 'sweaties' (As you've called Scottish people on here before) I received a deafening silence in return but hey now you are back eh?? Oh how I would love you to walk into the Spoons next to Glasgow central station and say 'allright sweaties' then you could look up and say 'i am the voice of reason'

I’ve regularly called Scottish mates, and team-mates by that term. None have ever taken any offence. Why would they?

It’s ryhming slang (sweaty sock / jock). No offence meant, nor in my experience, taken.

Back to the thread in hand. What ‘worked’?

 

[Blue3]

Little John has a point . He often does have a point but usually the essence of his message gets lost because he takes it too far .

However his article today seems quite mild when compared to Polly Tomybe of the Guardian who seems to be blaming the govt for daring to allow estate agents back at work to help kick start the housing market , which is after all a big player in our economy .

Her view seems to be let’s hope corona will cause a property price collapse so everyone can buy a house . Obviously the idea of supply and demand seems to have escaped her and she is starting to sound like a communist . Not a huge surprise I guess .

It would be a very good thing in my opinion if the value of land and property were to fall by a third its current value none of us would be any worse off with the exception of those who had recent mortgages might find themselves in negative equity and financially to rectify this would be a small hit (in the scheme of things) to the banks.

Then moving forward a combination of land and property price, rental costs controls based upon wages working in concert with homes being available to local home nationals and not to property speculation often global companies or wealthy others hoilday homes or simply investment

 

[Hugo Rune]

But what about all the differences ?

1. Johnson has better manners
2. Johnson has better hair
3. Johnson knows some Latin

I think that's about it

There is more.

Trump is an egotist.(Everyone for themselves).

Johnson is an egoist. (Everyone for me).

 

[clapham_gull]

Like many shock jock journalists, they lose all respect for themselves (and their readers) when they realise they can pay the bills by just pumping out hatred every now and then.

Why did I bother training to be a journalist, when I can shit this out every other week ?

Another one is Alison Pearson who has morphed into a sort of Katie Hopkins-lite. Once a respected award winning journalist, now nothing more than a click bait columnist.

They all follow the same path, something goes wrong in their personal lives (usually a relationship or financial) start spewing hatred then realise they can make a career out of it.

They hate themselves first, their readers second. The victims of their bile they have never met.

 

[Weststander]

I don't think you have any idea what you are talking about.

This.

Millions of SME’s do not qualify for grants or loans, and for limited company SME’s most shareholder directors cannot furlough.

Like you, from a sample of many.

 

[OzMike]

I put him in the same camp as that Hopkins woman and Piers Morgan, he talks bollax.

 

[Klaas]

Oh go on, enlighten me.

This really could be fxxkin hilarious.

I'm quoting you.

 

[trueblue]

Exactly right. For him to say 'hundreds and thousands of small business owners face ruin' is simply not true. I'm amazed at the government's attitude to SMEs,. They've given out all sorts of grants and low cost loans and although it's going to be really tough on a scale I don't think we've expereinced before they seem to me, at least, to have done their very best in quite appalling circumstances.

The truth is that all of these grants and loans weren't available to businesses who couldn't show any sort of trading record - simple things like an established banking record.

The bad bit is that our children - and probably their children - will end up paying for all this, much as happened after WW11

Ah good. As a freelancer, I feel better now I realise how well the Government has looked after me.

Oh, hang on. Turns out I was just suffering some sort of lockdown delusion. I’m managing to beg 2 days work a month - just enough to disqualify me from any help at all, which would only have amounted to about £150 a week anyway.

And my work will come back... ermmmm.... maybe never, as my industry moves on fast. Every colleague I know is in the same situation.

Just to top things off, if/when I do get back to work (probably on vastly reduced rates) it’s already been made clear that I’ll be right in the front line for tax rises because, you know, self-employed freelancers are all tax dodgers. And we’ll all be ‘employees’ too if the Govt gets its way, a status amply demonstrated by us sitting at home on our lavish £0 of employee benefits per month.

It’s not easy for anyone right now - even those lucky enough to have safe jobs and £2500 per month for doing sod all have probably taken a wage cut - but some of us have not so much fallen through the cracks as disappeared into a Grand Canyon of Government scapegoating.

Not much reward for 34 years as a law-abiding taxpayer. But ‘they’ve done their very best’ so that’s fine then.

 

[rogersix]

Ah the 'voice of reason ' returns. The last time we spoke I asked you if you would go into a Glasgow pub pub and call the drinkers 'sweaties' (As you've called Scottish people on here before) I received a deafening silence in return but hey now you are back eh?? Oh how I would love you to walk into the Spoons next to Glasgow central station and say 'allright sweaties' then you could look up and say 'i am the voice of reason'

you need to stop masterbating and get a hobby

 

[wellquickwoody]

I'm quoting you.

Somewhere in this thread you mention my username, along with a reference to ‘Jewish propaganda machine’. Firstly you could not be further from the truth, secondly there is nowhere in this thread that I have made any reference to the Jewish faith. Care to explain what the blue blazes you are on about? And maybe try not to be so patronising with a when you are just making yourself look stupid.

 

[Beach Seagull]

you need to stop masterbating and get a hobby

You need to learn how to spell.

 

[Beach Seagull]

The is Beach Seagull still a massive knob test.

Wow you really know how to debate don't you. Is that all you've got name calling?

 

[Beach Seagull]

I’ve regularly called Scottish mates, and team-mates by that term. None have ever taken any offence. Why would they?

It’s ryhming slang (sweaty sock / jock). No offence meant, nor in my experience, taken.

Back to the thread in hand. What ‘worked’?

That's akin to 'I'm not racist one of my best friends is black'

'Worked?' Provoked a lively debate on north chat STAND? Stands back and waits for the inevitable 'troll' reply.

 

[Beach Seagull]

I don't know why people are giving Littlejohn stick.

A column phoned in from his house in Florida is bound to have the finger on the pulse on what it happening in the UK.

He live's in North London, he is a Spurs ST holder, his mum lives in America.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Ah, Mr Littlejohn. Master of the hypocritical statement:

His opening lines, copied below exactly as he has written them, could so easily be turned straight back towards him:


"With depressing predictability, it's politics as usual again. The temporary 'we're all in this together' truce didn't last long.

The opportunist, finger-pointing blame game is in full swing"


As he then spends the rest of the article finger-pointing in his usual way.

Finger-pointing in his biased right-wing Daily Mail intolerant way. I have two daughters and their partners all in the public sector and all of them working their socks off right now in very stressful conditions. My son-in-law works for HMRC and has been diverted with all his department to deal with furlough advice, having to deal with lots if very worried and stressed people. When Littlejohn mentions town hall "box-tickers", he is talking through his intolerant right-wing backside....... and i know plenty of informed Tories who would disagree with him too. He's just ignorant.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

That's akin to 'I'm not racist one of my best friends is black'

'Worked?' Provoked a lively debate on north chat STAND? Stands back and waits for the inevitable 'troll' reply.

If you say so.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

You need to learn how to spell.

He live's in North London, he is a Spurs ST holder, his mum lives in America.

hmm

 

[highflyer]

He live's in North London

You sure about that?

Not that it makes much difference. We live in an inceasingly digital world and it is possible to make your money as a sh*t-stirring rent-a-tw*t for the extreme right media from pretty much anywhere these days I'd imagine. It's not like any actual research is required.

 

[Beach Seagull]

You sure about that?

Not that it makes much difference. We live in an inceasingly digital world and it is possible to make your money as a sh*t-stirring rent-a-tw*t for the extreme right media from pretty much anywhere these days I'd imagine. It's not like any actual research is required.

Obviously I can't be 100% sure but in his column he sometimes references 'when I was visiting my mum in America' and 'when I was at Spurs last saturday' he also sometimes refers to incidents / situations near his home in North London so from that I would make a fairly educated guess he resides in England.

Is it 'sh*t stirring' etc just because you disagree with it? Aren't others allows to express opinions without getting name called?

 

[Bakero]

Wow you really know how to debate don't you. Is that all you've got name calling?

I can also advise on punctuation if you like.