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The slogan B... to Blair....whats the offence
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The girl was local t me and the story just appeared in the local paper. She was arrested for telling another girl wearing the same t-shirt to avoid the police. She was told it would be offensive to 70 and 80 year olds. Her theory is that the police were anti-hunt and she is pro-hunt so they just found any excuse. I am inclined to agree.
What is perfectly clear, is that it could have said "B0ll0cks to Bumble Bees" and it would still have been 'offensive'.
This had nothing to do with Blair, but then, any excuse for a political rant, eh?
I would expect to be pulled if I had a t-shirt on that said "ball0cks to Jews" or "ball0cks to islam" so why would i not be for your pet slogan?.
re: the dictatorship thing? had you tried walking around baghdad with a "ball0cks to saddam" t-shirt on i doubt you still be on this earth i take that comment with the pinch of salt you intended.
Only if they include swear words.
Surely you get it now. You're a smart person Dom Tuk. I know you hate Blair, but this issue is actually about whether or not it's ok for people to walk around with the word "b0ll0cks" written on their T-Shirt. It's not about politics or a dictatorship.
And, if you'd care to read my post that I wrote earlier this morning, (0751) the girl in question believes the whole thing was about hunting anyway, not about Blair).
The 'B to Blair' slogan has got nothing to do with Iraq. It's one of a set of slogans that are printed on jumpers, shirts etc which are aimed at the hunting community. I've got one that says 'Liberty and Livelihood', only narrowly deciding for that over 'B to Blair'. Although the 'B2B' slogan may initially seem crude, if you have observed the fight hunting has had with this Labour government over the last 8 years, it is very apt. The government has again and again promised a decision based upon fair research and evidence, for example its own Burns Report, and then ignored it when it is pro-hunting. The epitome of this was Tony Banks, on the morning of the final vote in the House of Commons, declaring quite openly on the Today programme that the ban was note about hunting but a class thing. In the face of a government that announces its willingness to listen, but blatantly display nothing of the sort, the '********' response seems to be the only thing appropriate.
What amuses me is the way that anti-war protesters, many of whom have little or nothing in common with the pro-hunting lobby, can still be united with them by antipathy to Blair.
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