Talk About Guarantee Bojo For No 10!

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-48689834
if this annoying litlle pipsqueak is having a go at Boris then he's a shoe in! Oh the irony, PMSL!

[anneasquith]

It can’t be defended, it’s hatred .

[Old_Geezer]

I thought ministers weren't supposed to hurl insults at each other in the House, even if they try to claim honest opinion.

[THECORBYLOON]

Neither Johnson nor Ian Blackford is a minister and the Speaker did not insist the word "racist" be withdrawn.

[Old_Geezer]

Jolly poor show in any event.

[ToraToraTora]

who's the author?

[THECORBYLOON]

The author is James Michie who also worked for the Spectator.

[ladybirder]

Michie was a Scot and the poem was supposed to be satirical.

[Jackdaw33]

I fail to see how anyone could see this poem as racist when it is clearly biting satire.

[THECORBYLOON]

'Reacting to the poem at the time, Maureen Fraser, director of the Commission for Racial Equality in Scotland, described it as "very offensive and the language is deeply inflammatory..."

She added: "Some of the language, such as 'comprehensive extermination' and 'polluting our stock', is completely and utterly unacceptable. It cannot be tolerated.'''

If it were genuinely satirical, why is it no longer in their archives?

[Spicerack]

The Globalist choice, Florence of Arabia, was knocked out of the race today so they've reverted to Plan B. Demonise Boris Johnson.
Why the Useful Fools always weigh in on the side of Global Capitalism I've no idea.

[Khandro]

//Michie was a Scot and the poem was supposed to be satirical.//

No he wasn't Scottish, and the poem WAS satirical. He was a friend of mine, he was a good poet and editor of The Spectator's Humorous, weekly 'Competition' feature under the name of 'Jaspistos'. RIP

[vetuste_ennemi]

(Who's on the graveyard shift tonight?)

[vetuste_ennemi]

(More malice than moderation one might think.)

[vetuste_ennemi]

Oh, by the way, and if you check back in, Khandro, my removed posts made the obvious point that some people do not understand what satire is.

That somebody without a sense of humour can ever acquire it, or, at least, imagine why the less disadvantaged laugh at things is very unlikely, isn't it?

[Jackdaw33]

I don't know why they are prolonging the agony. It would take a mass defection of seismic proportions to deny Boris a [lace in the last two and he will win handsomely in the wider party.

[Jackdaw33]

^place

[vetuste_ennemi]

Does anybody trust Boris ("Out in October" v "eminently feasible") Johnson?

Looking at the ship of fools in last night's "debate" conducted by Witless, would anybody trust any one of them?

[david small]

I thought it blindingly obvious that it was humorous satire, with tongue very firmly in the cheek. Blimey, he’s even Scottish. Lighten up.