Rod Liddle: What's his problem with Brighton?

[mona]

Rod Liddle has always had an extremely funny turn of phrase although he does overdo the word 'halfwit'. He will attack anyone and is strongly critical of the Muslim establishment. I don't think he is right wing actually - he'll attack all signs of pretension and clearly regards us as pretentious. Oh, and he was very cruel to his wife but that's probably irrelevant.

He claims to support Labour. Like a lot of journalists he writes to get a reaction. I think his Brighton articles are like his rants about Islington. Aimed at the wealthy liberal elite. At least he doesn't come and live down here and lecture us like Julie Birchill.

 

[JC Footy Genius]

He can be very entertaining and he certainly isn't right wing.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

The Wadsworth dullard loves him (she does have a habit of promoting trolls). This was the best response.

A stupid old bint supporting a stupid old c**t.

 

[carlzeiss]

Now suspended from the labour party

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...semitism-as-visceral-for-many-muslims-a703747

'Rod Liddle suspended from Labour party for describing 'antisemitism as visceral for many Muslims'

'Liddle believes his suspension was the result of his blog post about antisemitism within the party.

Rod Liddle has been suspended from the Labour Party for a blog post about antisemitism within the party.

The Labour Party confirmed the news to The Independent but said they could not comment on why he has been suspended. “Rod Liddle has been suspended from the Labour Party pending an investigation,” a spokesperson said.

The controversial British journalist, who is associate editor of The Spectator and former editor of BBC Radio Four's Today Programme, said the party had cited the "language" in his 3 May blog post as the reason for his suspension but had not specified which bit of the piece they objected to.

Liddle believes his suspension was triggered by comments about antisemitism being rife among Labour Muslim activists and councillors.

“Perhaps it is my suggestion that many Muslims are not favourably inclined towards Jews that provoked my suspension from the party,” he wrote in The Spectator today. “Or perhaps it was my assertion that if the Palestinians were given Israel they would turn it very quickly into Somalia that enraged these new commissars,” he later added.

Liddle’s initial post prompted controversy on social media, with left-wing commentator Owen Jones describing it as “rampant unashamed racism”.

Liddle weighed in the ongoing debate over antisemitism in the Labour Party in his controversial post. “For many Muslims the antisemitism is visceral, an ingrained part of their unpleasant ideology,” he wrote.

“If you handed over Israel to the Palestinians they would turn it into Somalia before you could say Yom Kippur,” he also added.

Liddle also argued antisemitism was a problem rooted in the far left of the party and among Muslim Labour activists and voters.

“It is absolutely endemic within two sections of the Labour Party - the perpetually adolescent white middle-class lefties, and the Muslims - the latter of which now comprise a significant proportion of Labour activists and voters in parts of London and the dilapidated former mill towns of West Yorkshire and East Lancashire,” he wrote. “And Luton. And parts of the midlands.”

Liddle said he had been a Labour party member for 37 years bar a brief spell during the Iraq war - a policy he did not agree with.

Liddle has been called in for an interview as part of the party’s inquiry into antisemitism. “I see this interview as an opportunity…” he wrote today. “And also a chance to apologise for having dared to suggest that any Muslim anywhere could ever be accused of anti-Semitism and to insist that my reference to Somalia was a dreadful mistake, for which I am terribly, grovell-ingly, sorry — I meant that they would turn it into Switzerland. I sometimes get countries beginning with ‘S’ confused.”

 

[AmexRuislip]

Liddle was born in Sidcup, Kent the son of a train driver. From the age of eight, he was brought up in Nunthorpe, a suburb of Middlesbrough, in north east England.
Supports Millwall, well what more can you say, a complete ****wit...

 

[Dick Swiveller]

The Wadsworth dullard loves him (she does have a habit of promoting trolls). This was the best response.

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The Jo Wadsworth that hires Timmy likes a click-bait troll? Surely some mistake?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Middle aged middle class overweight cockwomble, chasing young skirt to make himself feel more alive. But . . . . he's just dead inside.

Hang on - according to some, that was me a few years ago . . . .

 

[mona]

Liddle was born in Sidcup, Kent the son of a train driver. From the age of eight, he was brought up in Nunthorpe, a suburb of Middlesbrough, in north east England.
Supports Millwall, well what more can you say, a complete ****wit...

But Sidcup is Charlton/Millwall territory. Thankfully he's not a Boro fan or else he'd be on here.

 

[Spicy]

Never heard of him before today. Has he got any significance in anything?

Sight of his ugly mug and 70s hairdo in Sussex would make most people wish they had jumped off a cliff.

 

[Seasidesage]

If he tried to jump off Beachy Head he'd probably be stopped by a blanket stretched over the seats rather like the rest of his muppet mates from the Wall...

 

[8ace]

The Jo Wadsworth that hires Timmy likes a click-bait troll? Surely some mistake?

I can't find it but she started a thread on here once...

 

[jimhigham]

He has a problem with everything and everyone. A tedious bore who was excellently lampooned in the last series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.

5 whole minutes of lip smacking...

 

[tinycowboy]

Rod Liddle gave me a mint last week when his team beat mine at the school quiz. He doesn't know his Wilfred Owen from his Siegfried Sassoon. His team only won because, for some bizarre reason, they'd bussed in the captain of the winning University Challenge team from Trinity College, Cambridge. A strange night. We did laugh at his stained (and somewhat threadbare) jacket though. There was also a bit of food on his face.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

I can't find it but she started a thread on here once...

Think it was her who asked for people to post opinion pieces on the Argus website. I fancied testing my writing skills so sent her a sample piece. She told me I was too similar to Naylor. I nearly sued for libel.

 

[McTavish]

Rod Liddle said: “It is a mild surprise that there any people left in Brighton predisposed towards procreating in the normal manner.”

At least Boro fans don't feel the need to dress their homophobia up in fancy words.

 

[BLOCK F]

He is not right wing, he will have a go at anything and anyone.
Often had pops at Brighton and those that live there. Some of his comments have been pretty accurate and amusing.
I always read his column in the Sunday Times, but for Christ's sake, don't take anything he says too seriously!

 

[fat old seagull]

Rod Liddle gave me a mint last week when his team beat mine at the school quiz. He doesn't know his Wilfred Owen from his Siegfried Sassoon. His team only won because, for some bizarre reason, they'd bussed in the captain of the winning University Challenge team from Trinity College, Cambridge. A strange night. We did laugh at his stained (and somewhat threadbare) jacket though. There was also a bit of food on his face.

Egg no doubt....quite a lot of it I imagine.

 

[NooBHA]

Rod Liddle has always had an extremely funny turn of phrase although he does overdo the word 'halfwit'. He will attack anyone and is strongly critical of the Muslim establishment. I don't think he is right wing actually - he'll attack all signs of pretension and clearly regards us as pretentious. Oh, and he was very cruel to his wife but that's probably irrelevant.

The thing I take issue with people like him or Katie Hopkins is that you cannot group people the way he does

You cant say all Muslims are this.......All Brightonians are that and all white or black people are something else.

You can make the statement and in some instances your observations will no doubt be correct but you can't judge any particular group en mass whether it be religious, regional or ethnic origins. So what needs to happen is that there needs to be less journalists writing so frequently because when they run out of meaningful articles, they start talking out of their arse just for the sake of it and get paid for it.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Columnists are there to provoke. The worst thing a columnist can do is to bore the reader. And they have to be able to string sentences together with a bit of panache so that what they write is at least interesting, and not confusing. So, job done by the boy Liddle. We read to the end, we know what he thinks and it annoyed the heck out of us.

Julie Burchill is hugely irritating but she (or whoever ghosts her stuff) can certainly write. When she had a column in the Guardian on Saturdays I made a point of reading her idiotic, half-baked, juvenile, usually ill-informed nonsense before anything else, just to get my blood boiling. It worked a treat.

 

[Brovion]

Rod Liddle is not right-wing. He's former SWP and he's been a Labour Party member for many years (although he has just been suspended). He hates pretentiousness, stupidity and intolerance in all its forms - so the city of Brighton is too juicy a target to pass up. He does tend to write a bit like Julie Burchill though, so no surprises he ruffles feathers.