tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post6079555777635429318..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: The Telegraph’s Racist UnderbellyTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-68058412106974224682013-02-22T21:50:37.699+00:002013-02-22T21:50:37.699+00:00The 14th of last month was the proudest day of my ...The 14th of last month was the proudest day of my life. I was finally banned outright from Telegraph Blogs. I drank to Mabel Thompson that night. Although nowhere near as much as she will have done.<br /><br />The ban came within hours, possibly minutes, of its most-read contributor's having become my follower on Twitter. The previous night, I had posted the following comment in reply to Thompson's lashings and lashings of Sour Old Fruit (or was it Bitter Lemon?) about Owen Jones:<br /><br />"<em>One from your own era:<br /><br />Along the boulevards he'd cruise,<br />And all the old queens blew a fuse.<br /><br />If Owen Jones ends up like Rod Stewart's Georgie, then we shall all know whom to blame.</em>"<br /><br />Add in my pointing out of the fact that that very site, which makes no claim to be uniformly right-wing (that would be a perfectly valid excuse), carries not one but two veteran Trotskyists, one of them of staunchly neoconservative views and thus exposing the true nature of neoconservatism, plus a bitter old Blairite who is only there in order to annoy the <em>New Statesman</em>. As I ought to have added, plenty of hope there for anyone preparing to join the ever-lengthening dole queues when the <em>Socialist Worker</em> goes to the wall. Watch that space.<br /><br />When I wrote about this on my blog, a comment read:<br /><br />"<em>Regularly pointing out that the site was illegal because it was fishing above the line for people to post racist material below, that cannot have helped.<br /><br />Calling for Thompson to be prosecuted and asking who he had paid off to avoid being, that cannot have helped in the least.<br /><br />Keep up the good work.</em>"<br /><br />I do and I will.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-36558252989904571112013-02-20T02:32:42.014+00:002013-02-20T02:32:42.014+00:00The thing which amazes me is that they haven't...The thing which amazes me is that they haven't deleted the antisemitic ones. I thought the general memo was that post-Adolf, racist lunatics had to pretend that they didn't include Jews in their hate list. Or does that change when the leader of the Labour Party is Jewish?<br /><br />"The Government allows Indians who are not British citizens to vote in our elections"<br /><br />This one is true, as long as they are legally resident in the UK. Same for all Commonwealth citizens, based on that Empire thing that Telegraph readers are normally so fond of...john bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13784096180652522939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-78012222588065255322013-02-19T18:26:58.727+00:002013-02-19T18:26:58.727+00:00Made sure I picked up another container of liquid ...Made sure I picked up another container of liquid hand wash while in Aldi earlier, thanks ;-)Tim Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-5719792636048867532013-02-19T18:13:48.195+00:002013-02-19T18:13:48.195+00:00I just hope that you washed your hands well after ...I just hope that you washed your hands well after visiting the sewer!Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09638895424858977693noreply@blogger.com