Who is the government's most idiotic Minister....
17 January 2013
... Rod Liddle in the Spectator says it the LibDem Lynne Feathestone and I certainly have no reason to disagree with that.
... Rod Liddle in the Spectator says it the LibDem Lynne Feathestone and I certainly have no reason to disagree with that.
Featherstone, above - idiot!
There is something quite satisfying watching these obnoxious left wingers, Featherstone and Burchill at war over something Burchill wrote in the Observer recently. Featherstone called for Burchill to be sacked along with the Obsever's editor over something she said in the paper. Clearly this idiot Featherstone has no time for free speech and demands that we all fall into line with what she thinks people should say and do.
This is a salutary lesson on why there should not be enforced press regulation. Imagine Featherstone being put in charge of that.... goodbye to freedom.
- I've always found liberals to be the most illiberal Barry
- First thing I must do is say, "Thank you Barry." Thank you for using a photograph of the lady, powdered and posed, as she wishes to be seen; this time.
I have seen the hullabaloo headlines and know that this has something to do with trans-gender people and how they should be regarded. A grey area that suits the amorphous and rather indistinct politicos Parliament tends to attract.
As my memories of another politico-press-spat are still fresh in my mind:The issue of the treatment of the duplicitous Mr. Greene and his shady internet get-rich-quick scheme, not to mention his alter-ego, the then Housing Minister, and now Conservative Party Chairman, (or is it Vice Chair?)
Can this be another feather in the Williams cap: A spot of self-regulation, of self denial?
What with Dave's imminent suicide note/Agincourt rabble-rousing speech likely to be more trans-gentry perhaps it is best to steer clear of horse/pig/cow meaty subjects. - there seems to be loads of idiots in westminster lately.but saying that it took idiots to vote them in.
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The Press Complaints Commission is to launch an inquiry into the publication of Julie Burchill's controversial column in The Observer that caused outrage among transgender people. The commission decided to act after receiving 800 complaints.
Though the PCC does not generally take up what are called third-party complaints, it has done so on occasions when it feels there is sufficient public interest in doing so.
Similarly, although the commission has been reluctant to investigate stories that involve groups of people in which no individual is identified, it has done so in the past.
In its 2003 statement on asylum seekers and refugees, the PCC made it clear that it would consider complaints about inaccuracy and the use of "misleading or distorted terminology".
A clause in the editors' code of practice, the one about discrimination, will also surely be relevant in the Burchill affair. It states that the press "must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability".
The Observer's readers' editor, Stephen Pritchard, has announced his own internal inquiry into how the column came to be published and may also touch on why it was later taken down from the website on the orders of the editor, John Mulholland.
Pritchard's inquiry is not affected by the PCC's decision. His commentary on the affair, which will be published in The Observer on Sunday, is expected to be posted on this website later today.
It is likely that the PCC will take his conclusions into account when it looks into the matter."
To read the above with live links...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/jan/18/julie-burchill-pcc - Barry, you should stop giving exposure to these oxygen thieves.