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....

[andy-hughes]

DTC - //How do you confuse an Irish man - give him two spades and tell him to take his pick.....is that racist? //

Just irrelevant to the debate.

[DTCwordfan]

as is half the thread, andy.

[naomi24]

Typical two-faced, spiteful, socialism. As privilege goes, she's not doing too badly.

[Hypognosis]

Meanwhile, back on page 4…

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bazwillrun
anyway back to the OP..

shes just another white hating leftie, envious of anybody thats in a better social position than herself...gotta love these politics of envy lefties
12:06 Tue 26th Jul 2016
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I suppose the opposite of virtue signalling is "money signalling". Baz can say things as offensive as he wants because he's so loaded, he doesn't have to care what people/potential employers think.

This woman has, to her cost, learned what "retweet =\= endorsement" means. Twitter is a public noticeboard, not a private dinner party, with your chums.

Now, if George had been dressed in "fashion victim" designer gear (for three year olds) then the epithet might have been appropriate and fair comment - "looks like" being the way of directing the criticism at the parents, for dressing them in a certain way.

Insulting someone who is not equipped to fight back in a similar manner is contemptible. I don't know if verbally insulting a fellow civil servant is a sackable offence in itself; it has to be a physical assault, for that, which rates as gross misconduct.

This story got the attention of the press *solely* because it was directed at a royal personage. Now that's what I call privileged.

For all that we bang on about democracy, we are not yet a full republic and, clearly, still revere our royals, despite their lack of constutional powers. We are an odd bunch, aren't we?

[Togo]

I suppose we realise that the alternative to the Royal Family is a raft of spiteful, peevish, self elevated. greedy, small minded, "officials" just like her instead Hypognosis.

[Smowball]

What a dreadful thing to call a child!

[Old_Geezer]

The alternative to the royal family is simply no royal family. You don't replace that which has ceased to have a real useful function. Existing government at Westminster would continue much as before.

[Togo]

Geezer it all depends on who you would rather have as the very public World image of who represents us. Have a look at who is the patron and who has been traveling the World as the ambassadors of the British Council. If you think that this hag is a better option, I am sure you can justify your reasoning.

[Old_Geezer]

Head of State doesn't really cover much apart from meets & greets of other equally irrelevant Heads of State, It's a bit of a non-job. The Prime minister is already doing anything that's relevant.

[Old_Geezer]

I don't see how you can consider that the British Council is the public image of the UK. That's muddying the water somewhat. They just get involved in cultural and educational opportunities. There are loads of groups interfacing with the rest of the world.

[Togo]

We are not talking ceremony of state geezer. Tangible travel and admin as Patron and adviser to the British Council,( the body that pays the inflated salary of this creepy chancer) and who has done more good for the British image and esteem abroad than thousand like Gibbon will ever do.(name deliberately misspelt). Her judgement is so suspect that she then insults in a vain post on an internet site the great grandson of the "boss". She is gone.

[Hypognosis]

@Togo

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I suppose we realise that the alternative to the Royal Family is a raft of spiteful, peevish, self elevated. greedy, small minded, "officials" just like her instead Hypognosis.
21:56 Tue 26th Jul 2016
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That is the sad truth about socialism. When it's just words on a page, it sounds like fairness for all and people with talent slotted into jobs tailor-made to suit them but, the minute you bring it to life, human frailties, like competitiveness, sense of status, abuses made possible by being in a position of power tend to take over and it degenerates into corruption (everybody hates equal pay, whatever the difficulty of the work).

On some TV prog, recently, they said even Marx distanced himself from what he wrote in his youth. It was an economics thesis not a design for life but he was unable to stop others picking it up and running with it. I don't know if he predicted that it would be misused but we all grow go understand human behaviour as we age, so it would not surprise me if he did too.

[-Talbot-]

Pol Pot, Hitler, Amin, Hopkins, Stalin...at the age of three, all of these would've just been cute little kids.


Earlier today sp was taken to task for linking David Bowie to the horrific murders in Japan.

So how come it is ok to link someone whose major crime is being a loud mouthed lady dog to people who between them were responsible for millions of deaths?

[Togo]

//So how come it is ok to link someone whose major crime is being a loud mouthed lady dog to people who between them were responsible for millions of deaths?//

But manage to miss out the many African, murderous, despots at the same time.