Just spotted this post by LabourHome founder Alex Hilton which surprised me a little. It's about the Sion Simon video and Hilton is defending it. What's I found surprising though was the rather bizarre argument he uses. Essentially he says that if one is outraged, or perhaps just mildly annoyed, about the video, and one is also a Tory then the annoyance and outrage is melodramatic. Why is it melodramatic? Well because of the level of unemployment in the 1980s of course! Seriously, being annoyed that an MP would make a video in which he pimped out someone's wife and suggested that the viewer take one of their children too is melodramatic if you're a Tory, because of the Tory Administration of the 1980s. It makes me wonder if Alex Hilton has ever heard of just plain decent manners and decorum.
The idea that the video can be defended on the grounds that those annoyed with it are responsible for things that happened 20 years ago and thereby don't have the right to be annoyed is - well - bollocks.
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It is the most festering scrotum of an argument I have had the misfortune to read of late. I have seen stronger defences from my 3 yr old niece. It does however piss me off ever so slightly that the best that Nu-lab can still only come up with is the same sad little mantra of:
A. The Conservatives did it as well
B. It's Maggie's fault
On the plus side at least he is not telling his readers to "shut up and let me finish". (well not yet anyway)
Dizzy, I hear you're on 18 Doughty Street with Hilton on Monday. I hope you have the time to ask him about his constant references to ethnic minorities as 'Brown people' on his blog.
Recess Monkey: "So will the Tories have a brown candidate in Watford or not? What does Francis Maude’s Interracial Adviser Rehman Chishti have to say about this?"
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Recess Monkey: "David Drew (Lab, Stroud) may not be a Tory harbouring fears of brown people taking over but ... "
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There's a fine line and Hilton is very close to it.
How long before we hear the "cos i said so argument" by nulab.It would be about their level
Alex should bear in mind Blair's view regarding any publicity surrounding their children. Do you remember Cherie's refusal to confirm whether Leo had had the MMR job, which the whole nation wanted to know? Can you imagine Blair's reaction if such a video had been made about them?
Seen the rest of the thread?
Hilton's written this: "And allowing 2 million children to slip into poverty? Someone ought to gave gone to prison for that".
Bollocks is the word I'd use on a polite day. And now he's expanded that "thought" on Comment is Free. More of the same garbage.
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