Britain - The Official Thread
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On the plus side, it makes a change from the 'PUTIN IS BAD, WEST MAKE THREAT TO RUSSIA' that they seem to have been pushing since MH17. That said, it is quite a bit more important than a 'devil child', even if it is likely rather exaggerated.
Looks more like a crosshair to me anyway, considering the vertical line is dead centre. Maybe he's been on Call of Duty?
Looks more like a crosshair to me anyway, considering the vertical line is dead centre. Maybe he's been on Call of Duty?
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The Sun - where sheer greed and utter stupidity meet.
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I went to find the story (somehow today's Sun was accidentally never, ever ordered). The Huff aggreports a "backlash" from the responsible public, and MPs.
I have to say I was astonished to see the boy's face pictured, that seems to be a good way to give a 4-year-old psychological problems.
The Guardian are carrying a bit more detail about how the Sun came to run the story, including a quote from those funny, punny, show-us-them-honey Sunsters;
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So the Sun's front page is recycled from Facebook. A definitive improvement in their sources after the Levinson Inquiry.
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They omit the part where a national "news"paper reprints the photos with the headline MARK OF DEVIL!!!, which seemed an important bit of the story to me.
Britain, 2014. Brilliant, isn't it?
EDIT: Has he just fallen asleep on a piece of a toy gun, or some kind of board-game counter? It so obviously looks like that to me... or maybe even been wearing some kind of kids-toy-necklace thing made of cheapy nasty-inium?
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This was my immediate thought on the matter.
Christ, I'd never have heard about this if I hadn't stumbled into this thread. The Sun is not on my list of read newspapers, surprisingly enough.
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@Dennisch - Pfft, I know a bunch of folks that can get 20 caravans parked for nothing, wherever you want, they even do special offers on a bank holiday 
@MUSC4EVER - Aww I miss the SWEP being delivered to my parents, and it's website crashes works IE8 so it's rare I make the effort to read it these days. I should point out I've featured in it quite a few times, even my own words at times, but doesn't mean I like it.
In fact they've seriously annoyed several people quite close to me to the point legal action and written apologise have been issued.
Guess that's par for the course when you're a regional Daily Mail.
@MUSC4EVER - Aww I miss the SWEP being delivered to my parents, and it's website crashes works IE8 so it's rare I make the effort to read it these days. I should point out I've featured in it quite a few times, even my own words at times, but doesn't mean I like it.
In fact they've seriously annoyed several people quite close to me to the point legal action and written apologise have been issued.
Guess that's par for the course when you're a regional Daily Mail.
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Two sides to the story though; it's a Tory office which provided the wreaths. Nick Clegg got the same treatment in the same handwriting ("From the Deputy Prime Minister"), as did the soon-to-be-ordained Arch-President of Scotrealm;
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Arguably the disrespect is from DavCam, it seems to be a casual, careless and schoolboy-ish way of getting at everyone-who-isn't-in-his-gang at the expense of a genuine and serious occasion of remembrance.
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It seems someone messed up the wreath messages. I guess you can look at it two ways but either way someone should have made it clearer as to whether they were meant to leave a personal message or have them all generic.
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She's standing up for herself and no-one else. She failed as a politician despite multiple reprieves and is trying to latch onto a good cause as the reason she's leaving politics. Expect her to find work in the Respect party or in the MCB.
In my opinion she's about as principled as Diane Abbott
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I don't think, given that Baroness Warsi is a Muslim, that this is a case of popular politics. It's not a bandwagon on whose coattails she is riding, nor is she trying to create a bandwagon. It's very likely that she finds the treatment of her fellow Muslims egregious and isn't happy about a perceived lack of help from her own government. I never said I liked her, there are many things she has done which I don't condone (joining the Conservative party, for one) but it's refreshing to see a politician standing up in a pseudo-rebellious way rather than towing the party line and accepting PR spin.
Not that she being a Muslim is relevant anyway; lest we forget, Robin Cook resigned as Lord President and Commons leader over the War In Iraq and he was particularly Caucasian and Scottish but saw the war as unjust and unqualified, regardless of the belligerents on either side.
Whether you agree with them or not, we need more Dennis Skinners and Robin Cooks*. Thinkers and orators not afraid to speak up on their personal, rather than party, beliefs.
*Yes, both happen to be Labour members but they're the first two who sprang to mind
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Hmm, turns out she's not very 'Warsi' after all.
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He's laughing off suggestions of Premiership but his plan seems quite obvious.
In addition to being on the way to Ministerial eligibility and his eligibility to Presidency I believe he's also eligible to hold the Hungarian throne on some constitutional technicality. God knows where that possi-fact arrived in my brain from.
