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  Nope. Still unable to see a problem with his tweets.
  He described the demonstrators in slightly vulgar words but surely it works both ways. The other day Rod Liddle wrote a piece in the Sun newspaper (oh oh expect brickbats like the Sun is a comic and not a newspaper etc etc) about those with disabities and the flak he received was, frankly appalling. So it cuts both ways.
  Is it that he is a councillor or is it that the comments are held to be offensive?
  As I say it cuts both ways.
  So bankers are "evil" and "fascist". Those who don't believe in the global warming religion are "evil sceptics". The tories are "toffs". Sun readers are stupid. Mail readers are curtain twitching middle Englanders. George Bush is a war-mongering maniac. We all have our pet prejudices and express this in words which will eventually offend somebody.
  It's rather like those who complain to the BBC as soon as, say, Jeremy Clarkson says something construed to be offensive by serial complainers.
  Why does everybody have to be a victim nowadays.
  Why don't people just grow up and learn to take flak without crying like children?
  It's bonkers.

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