Rod Liddle and 'Righton'

[Barrel of Fun]

He seems to be very amused by his Righton gag.

 

[Gwylan]

If Aleister Crowley had lived in Righton and summoned His Infernal Majesty Satan via a pentacle in his bijou beachfront apartment, some local would have pointed out to him that calling up the devil was a “negative lifestyle choice”.

Actually, Crowley did live in Brighton for a while - before moving to Hastings, where he died. He was cremated here though.

I really think that someone who is from south east London and who was brought up in Middlesbrough has little grounds to make fun of other places.

BTW, I think the OP mixed up Rod Liddle with Kelvin Mackenzie. Liddle, I'm pretty sure does still support Millwall, but Mackenzie moved from supporting Millwall to follow Charlton but moved again when Charlton got relegated ... to QPR. I wonder who's next?

 

[Comedy Steve]

The article in full (apparently Brighton is a "ghastly seaside pit"):

There’s a language everyone has to use these days and it is very difficult to get the hang of. For example, members of Brighton and Hove city council are debating about creating “safe rooms” in their ghastly south coast seaside pit to let heroin addicts use their drugs cleanly and comfortably.

Righton — that initial B has become superfluous — has one of the country’s highest proportions of drug users, with almost one in four admitting having used illegal substances and a large tranche using the hardest drugs they can find. This is unsurprising. If I lived in Righton, without doubt I’d be injecting skag by the end of the first week and then I’d move on to the antifreeze and glue.

Anyway, they have a plan for these safe smack rooms where addicts can shoot up in a warm, consensual manner — subsidised by those few Righton residents who eschew illegal narcotics. But some local drug campaigners have suggested that this might “reinforce a negative lifestyle choice” among users. This is what I mean about language. These people are not low-life criminals — they’ve simply made a negative lifestyle choice.

If Aleister Crowley had lived in Righton and summoned His Infernal Majesty Satan via a pentacle in his bijou beachfront apartment, some local would have pointed out to him that calling up the devil was a “negative lifestyle choice”.

This is Righton’s latest contribution to the national debate; collude with hard drug addicts and make it easier for them to kill themselves. The benefits-funded bed and breakfasts should do a roaring trade as addled addicts from all our provincial cities descend on the place, delighted that they might shorten their lives in a clean, non-prejudicial environment.

Most of the evidence suggests that these sponsored safe rooms do not work — but never mind that: Righton will stride forward into its own never-never land regardless of evidence.

For example, we’ve had the terms Mr and Mrs for centuries, but last year Righton proposed doing away with them after deciding they were “meaningless”. Some bloke from the council pointed out that almost everyone in the borough was sexually weird and didn’t like being demarcated in such a fascistically limiting manner, so it was time to get rid of Mr and Mrs. And even Ms, for that matter.

Righton does indeed have a high proportion of lesbian, gay, transgender and something called “intersex” people; there are — I believe — vibrant communities of hermaphrodites and a small contingent of elves. So it is only right that these old and discredited terms be overthrown in the name of modernity and progressivism: there are only two people left in Brighton who wish to be called Mr and Mrs — and they keep their heads down.

The city also splashed out on installing charging points for electric cars all over the place. A recent study suggested that electric cars were not half as green as their manufacturers claimed and, in any case, nobody was actually bothering to use the charging points. But this still didn’t deter Righton from attempting to become a real-life Balamory.

The skag room idea, by the way, is partly the brainchild of a chap called Mike Trace. You may remember Mike: he was Tony Blair’s deputy drugs tsar and later had to resign from a UN post because of his liberal approach to drugs. He’s ended up where you might expect: Righton. It’s a close call, but I would marginally prefer to live in Pyongyang.

Wow. Thanks for posting that.

What a colossal CJTC - or my new word for that - 'Liddle'.

 

[Leighgull]

I would rather be a drugged up lesbian than an impotent Viagra guzzling jo brandalike who left his wife while she was pregnant.

His exwife wrote the most damning indictment of this prick you will ever wish to clap eyes on.

 

[brightn'ove]

What an Ucking Unt.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

He's actually a very funny writer who makes me laugh out loud most Sundays. About five years ago he wrote a piece for the Albion programme and that was funny too. He specialises in corrosive insults against pompous politicians and most of today's were really aimed at the local up-their-own-arse Greens.

 

[abc]

BTW, I think the OP mixed up Rod Liddle with Kelvin Mackenzie. Liddle, I'm pretty sure does still support Millwall, but Mackenzie moved from supporting Millwall to follow Charlton but moved again when Charlton got relegated ... to QPR. I wonder who's next?

No, I haven't mixed them up. Def written by Rod Little the Millwall supporter. He oftens mentions Millwall in his weekly articles. In fairness he, as the last poster implies, often writes quite good and amusing anti establishment articles. But I thought this one went way over the line. You could put Jeremy Clarkson in the same journalistic bracket but I can't recall him being either racist or homophobic which Liddle has an occasional history of.

 

[Gwylan]

No, I haven't mixed them up. Def written by Rod Little the Millwall supporter. He oftens mentions Millwall in his weekly articles. I.

Exactly.But you said he no longer supports Millwall and I'm not sure why you think that - as you say, he mentions them quite regularly.

 

[Pevenseagull]

a grubby bore of a man. In fairness I haven't read any of his tripe for the thick end of decade. I can't remember why I read any of his tripe before, I must have been a bit thick or something innit.

 

[abc]

Exactly.But you said he no longer supports Millwall and I'm not sure why you think that - as you say, he mentions them quite regularly.

Your right, sorry. Misuse of the word erstwhile!

 

[Diego Napier]

Smug, self righteous, self promoting bore who's too far up his arse to be remotely funny

 

[Biscuit]

If someone like him feels unwelcome in Brighton then Brighton is doing something right.

What a horrible way to make a living.

 

[kevo]

He's actually a very funny writer who makes me laugh out loud most Sundays. About five years ago he wrote a piece for the Albion programme and that was funny too. He specialises in corrosive insults against pompous politicians and most of today's were really aimed at the local up-their-own-arse Greens.

To me, he reads like Richard Littlejohn.

 

[Paris]

9:10 - I thought his name rang a bell. Apparently he left his wife for.....

 

[kevo]

I left a comment on the Sunday Times website, simply asserting that he was wrong about our fine city. And they have deleted it! So it seems there is no right to reply. Pathetic.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

B-b-b-but that's Lord Bracknell without the beard ...

Why do you think I have a beard?

 

[Gullys Cats]

Says the man who looks like a middle aged Lesbian

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Laugh out load, this has tickled me, Rod supports Millwall, he posts on north stand banter.

 

[Frutos]

Smug, self righteous, self promoting bore who's too far up his arse to be remotely funny

Indeed, what a complete and utter anker.

 

[BLOCK F]

Actually I thought it was quite funny, but many on NSC are so touchy and precious that they can't bear it if anyone takes the gentle piss out of them!

 

[User removed 4]

No, I haven't mixed them up. Def written by Rod Little the Millwall supporter. He oftens mentions Millwall in his weekly articles. In fairness he, as the last poster implies, often writes quite good and amusing anti establishment articles. But I thought this one went way over the line. You could put Jeremy Clarkson in the same journalistic bracket but I can't recall him being either racist or homophobic which Liddle has an occasional history of.

Liddle isn't racist , he just tells it like it is without any of the ridiculous patronisation of most other journalists , lets be frank , if you mention blacks Or Asians in a sentence without also adding the words "majority , law abiding,hard working" there are people who will accuse you of racism.