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What's the problem about a house displaying three flags and having a white van parked outside!
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It would have been a foolish thing to do whatever party she belonged to.
I doubt this man has every voted Labour in his life. The Sun has supported the Conservatives in every election (except one) since 1970. And the Dun readership is working class.
The assumption that the Labour Party represents or needs this voter is wrong.
I doubt this man has every voted Labour in his life. The Sun has supported the Conservatives in every election (except one) since 1970. And the Dun readership is working class.
The assumption that the Labour Party represents or needs this voter is wrong.
Gromit
/// I doubt this man has every voted Labour in his life. The Sun has supported the Conservatives in every election (except one) since 1970. And the Dun readership is working class. ///
So by your reasoning all Sun readers are working class, and like this chap have never voted Labour in their lives, simply because the Sun supports the Conservatives.
Couldn't be that regardless of their politics they might be partial to a bit of page three? :0)
/// I doubt this man has every voted Labour in his life. The Sun has supported the Conservatives in every election (except one) since 1970. And the Dun readership is working class. ///
So by your reasoning all Sun readers are working class, and like this chap have never voted Labour in their lives, simply because the Sun supports the Conservatives.
Couldn't be that regardless of their politics they might be partial to a bit of page three? :0)
This is an issue but not one worthy of the attention that it has got in the media. Culminating in possibly the silliest question ever asked a party leader in Britain "What goes through your mind when you see a house with a flag in the window" or some such. And poor old Ed made a horlicks of answering it, not surprisingly.
It was a silly thing for the Labour MP to tweet but I am beginning to wonder if it's possible to use Twitter without being silly.
As Gromit implies, the more the spotlight homed in on the man behind the van, the less likely a Labour supporter he looked. And the days in any case when Labour was merely identified with the "working class" have long gone.
The real issue was the stereotyping of Rochester, not the home owner, as the comment attached to the picture was merely a remark that it was Rochester, with the implication that the whole place is like that when it's actually a nice old historic cathedral city. It's the other residents who should have been offended, not the fat, bald eejit with the van.
And I am allowed to say that because I am not a Labour politician :-)
It was a silly thing for the Labour MP to tweet but I am beginning to wonder if it's possible to use Twitter without being silly.
As Gromit implies, the more the spotlight homed in on the man behind the van, the less likely a Labour supporter he looked. And the days in any case when Labour was merely identified with the "working class" have long gone.
The real issue was the stereotyping of Rochester, not the home owner, as the comment attached to the picture was merely a remark that it was Rochester, with the implication that the whole place is like that when it's actually a nice old historic cathedral city. It's the other residents who should have been offended, not the fat, bald eejit with the van.
And I am allowed to say that because I am not a Labour politician :-)
Perhaps a link might help people to know what the problem is:
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I confess I am mystified by this story, and it's background.
I cannot understand the point this MP was making by tweeting the picture in the first place - but that's not surprising, I fail to understand why anyone bothers with Twitter for anything, but let's go with it for now.
She posts a picture of a house with three flags on its front, the top of which is level with the top of the second floor window, and the bottom of which is level with the top of the first floor window, and she says "... and then I came across a house that was covered absolutely from the roof all the way down to the ground with England flags – they couldn’t even see out of the window. It was an amazing image, so I took a photograph of it and I put it on Twitter.”
I would suggest that she has issues with perspective, or that her vision is defective, since that statement is patently untrue, and also that for a politician, she is curiously easily impressed if she thinks this image is ‘amazing’.
So she posts this image, and suddenly she is accused of being 'snobbish'.
Why? Pointless – probably, delusional – certainly, and overly easily impressed by nonsense – absolutely, but where does the snobbery come in?
Then people are ‘offended’ and Ed Milliband is ‘furious’ – again, why to both?
Milliband says people should be able to fly the Union flag ‘with pride’, but who is suggesting that it is not flown with pride, or that it is, or that anyone cares either way anyway?
And then she resigns!
Why once again?
Could she not have simply said that it was an interesting image, she was not making any particular point by posting it, and let the fuss over nothing die down?
I honestly find myself at odds on all the above fronts, but maybe someone can enlighten me?
I cannot understand the point this MP was making by tweeting the picture in the first place - but that's not surprising, I fail to understand why anyone bothers with Twitter for anything, but let's go with it for now.
She posts a picture of a house with three flags on its front, the top of which is level with the top of the second floor window, and the bottom of which is level with the top of the first floor window, and she says "... and then I came across a house that was covered absolutely from the roof all the way down to the ground with England flags – they couldn’t even see out of the window. It was an amazing image, so I took a photograph of it and I put it on Twitter.”
I would suggest that she has issues with perspective, or that her vision is defective, since that statement is patently untrue, and also that for a politician, she is curiously easily impressed if she thinks this image is ‘amazing’.
So she posts this image, and suddenly she is accused of being 'snobbish'.
Why? Pointless – probably, delusional – certainly, and overly easily impressed by nonsense – absolutely, but where does the snobbery come in?
Then people are ‘offended’ and Ed Milliband is ‘furious’ – again, why to both?
Milliband says people should be able to fly the Union flag ‘with pride’, but who is suggesting that it is not flown with pride, or that it is, or that anyone cares either way anyway?
And then she resigns!
Why once again?
Could she not have simply said that it was an interesting image, she was not making any particular point by posting it, and let the fuss over nothing die down?
I honestly find myself at odds on all the above fronts, but maybe someone can enlighten me?
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