Does Richard Littlejohn have a point?

[pdq1]

For an illegal immigrant to enter the UK an Aghanistan has to travel through at least 8 countries (as the crow flies) before he gets to the UK. So should the castegory of asylum seeker be erased from the book when they could have applied for asylum in one of those countries.

[anotheoldgit]

Answerprancer

/// I wouldn't take anything that richard littleprick says seriously - he's an extremely nasty little man (IMO) ///

Why is such abusive and disgusting language allowed from this ABer?

One can disagree or even go as far as disliking a person (even though one has never met them) without the need to be so insulting.

[emmie]

i wondered that too, seems some things escape the radar.

[bazwillrun]

"he's an extremely nasty little man"

hes not little hes actually quite tall , and hes not nasty, its just he doesnt have your leftie liberal handwringer views on things

[MoonRocker]

All he's doing is referring to current EU law that seems to get ignored.

[emmie]

dare one add i rather like him, at times he is rather strident, but he can be very funny.

[youngmafbog]

yes

[anotheoldgit]

He certainly livens Question Time up when he is on the panel, it makes such a change.

[flip_flop]

He has raised a perfectly valid point.

Just because you don't like his perfectly valid point doesn't make him a prick.

[MoonRocker]

it does to those that can't stand anyone making "inconvenient" points flip flop!

[flip_flop]

Quite

[Answerprancer]

Oh dear, it seems as though AB's handful of fascists are rounding on me because I dared to insult one of their heroes.
LOL Baz: "leftie liberal handwringer" you really are incabable of seeing that there are 'grey areas' in your little world of "left vs right" aren't you.
I'm afraid it's not quite so cut and dried as that - I'm pretty sure it's you I said this to before - as far as you're concerned anyone who isn't just a little to the right of Ghengis Khan is a "leftie liberal handwringer".

I stand by what I said and I'll elaborate further: RLJ is a loud-mouthed narrow-minded bullyboy (IMHO) and whether I used language that *really* offended some a relevant opinion was given.
Mr Git, you are no stranger to insulting language so please don't be a hypocrite, there's a good chap.

[Answerprancer]

Flip-flop, my comment was not based on this one incident, it was based on my past experiences of listening to him on TV and reading his comments in various journals. Now *my* opinion, "abusive"/"disgusting" or otherwise made a point and I think we're grown up enough here to rise above what could be seen as offensive language. My suspicion is that those who shouted loudest about my choice of language are copping out - using foul language as an excuse - simply because I insulted someone they revere.

[Duncer]

But why not deconstruct his argument rather than insult in the manner of the playground?

And why are people who like him/read his stuff necessarily fascists?

[Answerprancer]

Ok Duncer - maybe 'fascists' is an exaggeration but people like RLJ make me feel insensed. I seen and heard him on chat shows and read some of his rantings in newspapers and my opinion is that he is as I described earlier.
For that reason, I felt that entering a debate based on the opinions of somone for whom I have nothing but contempt was pointless.

[MoonRocker]

Is it not the current law of the EU that asylum seekers must apply in the first safe country?

[craft1948]

This is the second recent thread where I've seen AP refer to the people who disagree with him as fascists and I rarely visit news.............is this normal behaviour?

[Answerprancer]

Probably not craft, but who *is* normal anyway ? ;-)

[Answerprancer]

..btw it's not just "anyone" who disagrees with me that I label a fascist, just a specific type.

[flip_flop]

I have no opinion on Littlejohn either way - so he certainly isn't someone I 'revere'.

I don't buy the Daily Mail.

But I am grown up enough to realise that if somebody has a different opinion to me it is just merely a difference of opinion. It doesn't make them a prick because I don't like their opinion.

Answerprancer - your answers show an incredible amount of arrogance: not only is Littlejohn a prick because you don't like his views, but anybody who does agree with him is a facist and makes you incensed. Why would somebody agreeing with Littlejohn make you incensed? Agreeing with Littlejohn about the theme in the link is merely to agree that the EU rules are being ignored, so I'm struggling to see why this would make you so angry.

[MoonRocker]

AP, surely whatever you think of Littlejohn, you have the ability to see that he is actually correct here. The current EU law is as stated and is routinely ignored, which is odd because it would actually be quite useful to the UK.