Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Is this snobbery?
PERHAPS the most lasting image and memory of last night's Rochester & Strood By-election, will be the effect of a Parliamentary Opposition front-bencher's use of that most risky of political tools, the "tweet" ...
Was image from #Rochester, snobbery?
Here's the image. Unlike the original tweeted image, I've obscured the resident's vehicle registration number. The issue of privacy was later cited by Mr Ware.
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Permalink Reply by Sharon on
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Snobby and foolish. The flags were up for the football according to the home owner who can't remember the last time he voted.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Can't understand why people in the public eye use twitter. It generally ends in tears
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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John, do you reckon this incident reflects solely on the individual MP responsible, or do you think it reflects more widely on New Labour, their claims as to who they represent and the character of some of their leaders?
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I think it reflects badly on self-important people who believe that the most trivial details of their life must be of interest to the wider public. And also on those of the wider public who take offence at the least little thing.
But think of the man's neighbours. How long ago was the World Cup ?
Rather spoils the effect of the grandiose pillars
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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The England football match was on Tuesday. They beat Scotland 1-3.
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" The owner of the Strood house, Dan Ware, 36, a father of four who works in the motor trade, said the flags had been on his house since the World Cup "
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Then he's a lazy f***
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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New Labour?
@Clive You might think it will help your party's dire prospects nationally by harping on about the past. But NL is long gone.
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But NL is long gone.
Stephen the name has reverted and you may well wish it "long gone". However, that branding was used for for perhaps half-a-generation.
And it was more than a brand-name: arguably it was an ideology and one that held sway for years. Some young career politicians were influenced by it and they inhabit posts today. Though the title may have reverted, from time to time we will hear the voice of New Labour.
IMO, some things that "NL" did were for the better, but that surely cannot include their gambling legislation that paved the way for the wretched Fixed Odds Betting Terminals. This was anyway morally reprehensible, but worse, it preys most on those people that one imagines the traditional Labour Party would have most wanted to protect.
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Clive, your obsession with Labour is heartening, proves that the polls are right about Labour's lead. But I'm afraid the polls don't look good for your lot.
A once leftie Party** in bed with the most radical, nasty, toff run Tory party for years and you try and preach on morals. Of course, it was only done for the good of the country.
Gordon Brown was certainly a fool to refuse a coalition with the LDs, I suppose it was his hurt pride. But we are where we are.
**even more left than Labour..
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Don't know about snobbery but I do feel unease when I walk through places where the St George flag is displayed on houses. Maybe it's because I'm ancient enough to have associations with why that was often done. Perhaps I'm wrong and it's being hung to show that the home owners believe in hard fought for English values; tolerance, fairness and equality.
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