British Council Boss Attacks Prince George

[mushroom25]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/25/british-council-boss-attacks-prince-george-for-white-privilege-a/

fair comment on UK culture by a representative paid to promote it? after all, many UK citizens hold the same republican view....

[Prudie]

Hannibal Lechter wasn't real Sp :-)

[andy-hughes]

Prudie - //Hannibal Lechter wasn't real Sp :-) //

True - but I can't find him in SP's post either - have I missed something?

[Prudie]

loosely yes, my attempt at some lateral humour

[andy-hughes]

Prudie - //loosely yes, my attempt at some lateral humour //

Lechter - apart from being fictional - was a serial killer, not a genocidal maniac - so that's a bit too lateral I think!

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// she is calling a spade - a spade. Well
done. ///

I don't think it is "well done". one can at the least be called a racist for saying that, and at the most thrown in jail.

[Prudie]

oh dear..no-one else knew who he meant by Hopkins, it was just a suggestion that he meant Anthony,obviously a poor one.

[andy-hughes]

Prudie - //oh dear..no-one else knew who he meant by Hopkins, it was just a suggestion that he meant Anthony,obviously a poor one. //

Got it - thanks - apologies for being a bit slow!!

[andy-hughes]

AOG - //Gromit

/// she is calling a spade - a spade. Well
done. ///

I don't think it is "well done". one can at the least be called a racist for saying that, and at the most thrown in jail. //

I must concur with muh colleague on this - calling a child by an insulting description is not calling a spade a spade, it is being nasty and small minded.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

In your Republican World, who would you think would make a great British President?

[jno]

andy hughes, I think you'll find aog has spotted an imaginary racist reference in the old English word spade.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - //andy-hughes

In your Republican World, who would you think would make a great British President? //

Ringo Starr!

[andy-hughes]

jno - //andy hughes, I think you'll find aog has spotted an imaginary racist reference in the old English word spade. //

I know, I thought I'd skip past it, and hope no-one else picked it up!

[ummmm]

I picked it up :-)

[jackthehat]

///Isn't it refreshing in these days of Political Correctness and free speech being attacked by the right on brigade, that someone is prepared to say loudly what she thinks.
No sanitised language, she is calling a spade - a spade. Well done.///

Cracking post, gromit...... :o)

It's gone completely over the heads of those most often given to remarking the same.....LoL

[andy-hughes]

ummmm - //I picked it up :-) //

Oh heck! LOL!

[mushroom25]

//Ringo Starr! //

"The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Douglas Adams.

on that basis, Ringo Starr would indeed be perfect.

[Hypognosis]

Re: "Living off public money", she should look into the Royals' history. I gather Victoria traded in a large amount of land & country residences, in exchange for the Civil List money. She was very shrewd.

[mikey4444]

I am far from being a Monarchist but to attack a little boy like this is beyond the pale.

[grasscarp]

..... or even the pail

[grasscarp]

Sorry Mikey you are correct it is the pale!!!!!