Behold another economic migrant
And Ms Platell would have sailed on, untroubled by such niceties as awkward questions and criticism over her output, had it not been for her singularly rash act when commenting on the Bibby Stockholm barge controversy. Her paper has wasted no time in presenting the accommodation for refugees as flawless and luxurious; others have presented a more realistic and critical view.
One of those in the latter category was Kolbassia Haoussou, a survivor of torture and yes, a former migrant, who has been in the UK long enough to have been awarded the MBE for his campaigning efforts. He had declared that the “legionella-hit Bibby Stockholm reminds him of [an] unsanitary ‘refugee camp’”. Ms Platell was not having any of that, thanks very much.
So, without further ado, and indeed, without bothering to research or perform the most basic of fact checks, in she went with both feet. “Illegal migrant Kolbassia Haoussou says the Bibby [Stockholm] barge was like being in a filthy unsanitary refugee camp … Another illegal migrant who was on the Bibby says he was treated like an animal”. Could she go more wrong?
But you know the answer. “If it’s so bad staying in the UK on the barge with three meals a day what’s stopping them from going home?” James Neil tried to break the bad news to her. “Kolbassia Haoussou MBE is NOT an illegal migrant. He's a refugee, and torture survivor. And yes, an MBE. Give your head a wobble, Amanda. Then delete your post. And account”.
Kolbassia Haoussou MBE. Not illegal
And evidence free misinformation at that: “While 4.2million Brits live in food poverty those aboard the Bibby barge eat til their hearts content.. One in ten British children don’t even have breakfast while illegal migrants fill their bellies like a Cruise holiday buffet … Eggs, cheese, meat, cereal, toast and jam - Enough to make you sick!” They aren’t illegal, what is provided for breakfast is speculation, and the food poverty is down to Governments she backed.
There is the obligatory smearing of the Sussexes, with “Is King Charles quietly erasing Prince Harry?” (QTWTAIN) and “Hold the front page … Harry looking happy? And cracking jokes. Maybe because on his trip to Japan he wasn’t being suffocated by Meghan?” Go on, just keep making it up. You’ve got your instructions, and it’s a free hit, as it’s another Not White Woman.
Maybe someone at Northcliffe House should explain to her that seeking asylum does not make a refugee “illegal”. But perhaps she knows that already and doesn’t care. In any case, one theme runs through the litany of hatred, and that is racist bigotry. Which the Mail titles are more than happy for her to keep pumping out. Because racism helps them sell papers.
She did eventually delete the Tweet defaming Kolbassia Haoussou. But that is hardly sufficient atonement for the initial outburst. Amanda Platell needs to say sorry, and do so under pain of being suspended by the inmates of the Northcliffe House bunker. But she won’t do so - not without the prospect of legal action - and Associated Newspapers don’t discipline bigots.
Cos they think there’s an acceptable amount of racism. Which there isn’t.
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7 comments:
Enough of Old Hat crackpot Patel, already. She'll only get worse or she'll find herself dispensed with at Heil<>
Transport her to Australia.Oh wait a minute that's where she swam from to get over here. As you say Tim there's all sorts of refugees and she is an economic one indeed.
I wasn't aware she's an antipodean. I thought she was just your standard model ranting rightie.
So now she's set alongside that babbling male loon "business correspondent" occasionally (on BBC TV "News", plus the latest addition to its wimmin propaganda clerks - a strange individual with the look of someone suffering severe haemorrhoids, which she seems to think projects "sincerity".
Send them all back I say. Soon there'll be swarms (copyright, D. Cameron esq.) of them here to destroy the English language, despoil our fair virgins (male and female), and sell us their dog piss lager. As if Rolf Harris and Sir Les Patterson weren't bad enough..... and don't get me started on that nazi twat Murdoch......
When we of the Democratic Ruthless Bastards Party lead the Panzers down Whitehall both Platell and the equally vile Dan Wootton will be on the first garbage scow service from Falmouth to the Antipodes.
Plattel only came to prominence as Willy Hagues' failed spin doctor in the early 2000s. A pity she did not sail off into obscurity as her failure otherwise demanded.
Amanda Platell is an Australian resident of the UK and I am very offended when she talks about "British Values" and "our NHS".
Unless she becomes a British Citizen (which she did say she has considered doing when writing in her Daily Mail column) she is still a foreigner and has no right to see herself as British.
How dare anyone call me a racist? Platell article from Evening Standard of 13 April 2012. One quote below:-
As an Australian, I have lived here for 18 years, and have always viewed living in another country as a privilege, not a right.
For someone who holds such a view she is very hypocritical about immigrants considering she is one herself.
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