Get The Kettle On....

[agchristie]

What planet is she on?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/12199570/British-soldiers-should-have-cups-of-tea-with-Islamic-State-terrorists-says-Jeremy-Corbyn-ally.html

[Baldric]

'And a little fruitcake perhaps?'

[bazwillrun]

the original swivel eyed loon...luckily most sane people will just treat her with the contempt she dserves...stupid old bat that she is

[webbo3]

Im going to ask for this thread to be removed as it is hazzaedous to peoples health, I just choked on my glass of red and almost hurt myself falling on the floor and my sides were splitting from laughing so much.


Dave.


Just in case you were unsure I was being sarcastic.

[tonyav]

Christine Shawcroft (left) is one of Jeremy Corbyn's key allies on Labour's ruling body



Say's it all really.

[agchristie]

Well it might prevent further trouble brewing....

[naomi24]

:o/

[sandyRoe]

Would tea with the Taliban be out of the question if they came to play a role in the government of Afghanistan?

[Noe-schitt]

I think she said the sky was green on her planet

[naomi24]

That this woman has any influence whatsoever on anyone at all is quite worrying.

[jim360]

I suppose she could have had in mind a cup of tea with milk, sugar and polonium-210...

[Gromit]

She didn't actually say that, she said if you believe misleading reports in the press (ironically like this one) then you woyld think Labour Party policy would be to have a cup of tea (which it isn't).

// She warned that media stories about Mr Corbyn’s non-interventionism were having a negative impact and imagined a voter saying: “That Jeremy Corbyn you know, faced with terrorists he'd sit down and have a cup of tea with them or something.” //

She wasn't saying that is the policy, she was saying because of misleading repirts, the voters might mistakenly think, that is the policy.

She then expanded by joking, maybe we should try it, because airstrikes haven't worked....

// “Now I mean, you know, maybe we should try it! Bombing them and attacking them has got us nowhere, why don't we get the teabags out? //

So what we are discussing has been wilfully and grotesquely beem misreported, mangled and bastardised to say something which was the opposite of what she said.she was complaining that Corbyn's views are being misrepresented, and the rightwing press taken her words and misrepresented them in the same wY.

Cynical and totally untrustworthy reporting - and you people fall for it.

[jim360]

Oh my... the media has twisted the words of someone to give a completely false impression of what they actually said? Shocking.

[Mamyalynne]

It doesn't surprise me that the quotes are skewed, the lady looks like a coffee drinker to me.

[agchristie]

Gromit > cynical and totally untrustworthy reporting - and you lot fall for it...

Poor journalism so why would you write this last July?

' I have been a Daily Telegraph subscriber for 30 years!'

[Gromit]

Jim360,
That is what the rightwing press do.

Not sure what the excuse is for the reader lapping up the nonsense, when her words are printed? Maybe they believe everything they are told to believe, without reading the words themselves and understanding the meaning.

As it is, there are two people on another planet. The writer, and the person who chooses to believe such nonsense.

[Gromit]

Agchristie,
The Daily Telegraph has been my preferred newspaper for over 30 years. It has, in my opinion, the best reporting for news (not opinion), in this country. But like everything you read and see, you should not take it for granted that the words are true, and you should ask yourself why they are saying such things.

A good example is the right wing press attacking the BBC. Everything written about the BBC in the Telegraph, Mail, Express, Murdoch has to be read with a certain amount of Skepticism because those organisations are direct business rivals to the BBC. They have something to gain by the dismantling of the Beeb. The news might be, Jeremy Clarkson thumps somebody, and we might tut. The media groups with something to gain will add Clarksons salary from the license fee and how it is all a disgrace.

Not sure how recent that quote of mine is. The Telegraph recently has been trying to compete head to head with the Daily Mail, and as a consequence, it has been writing some pretty dumb things.

[Mamyalynne]

They all write dumb things on a regular basis.


Quote is from - 5th July 2015

[Gromit]

Thank you Mamyalynne, I have just read the context of why I wrote I have read the Daily Telegraph for 30 years, on the tread in question. Another ABer accused me of hating the British press, which of course I don't. But I do object to reading lies, disinformation, manipulation (such as the one in this OP), ans ommissions.

[naomi24]

"I think we should bear in mind that having cups of tea might actually be the best kind of system of defence and national security that you could have"

Her words haven't been twisted. She's potty!

[youngmafbog]

Exactly Naomi, her words no press spinning there.

She is a nut.