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THE LAST DITCH

Harriet Harman is as daft as a brush

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Discrimination against northerners to be banned under Harriet Harman plans – Telegraph.

Indeed, lads and lasses, if brains were gunpowder, she wouldn't have enough to blow her bloody hat off.

I grew up "oop North" among just the kind of hatred to which she is now pandering. I remember a new boy whose father had moved from St Albans to work at a local factory being bullied remorselessly by cretins (including teachers, sad to say) with nothing better to be proud of than their local roots. He ignored them disdainfully, made such friends as he could and eventually wreaked an elegant revenge. He worked his way one by one through all the most attractive girls. His elocution did not seem to be a problem to them.

The hatred of "soft Southerners" is childish and pathetic. It's not worthy of attention. For a government minister to promote it by giving credence to the ludicrous notion that Northerners are unfairly discriminated against is to sow more division and mutual hatred in a country already riven by discord.

A decent government would strive to bring harmony and unity. This indecent one doesn't care how much inter-communal damage it does, if by pandering to ignorance and prejudice it has any faint hope of saving its sorry electoral hide.

I hate Harriet Harman and all her ilk. I plan to discriminate against them at every opportunity. I recommend, dear reader, that you do the same; especially when it comes to elections.

9 responses to “Harriet Harman is as daft as a brush”

  1. Welshcakes Limoncello Avatar
    Welshcakes Limoncello

    Mad, mad, mad!

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  2. jmb Avatar
    jmb

    Northerners? Is that some new distinct group that needs protecting/promoting by the Equalities Ministry? The mind boggles. It even boggles that such a ministry exists. Does it exist in other countries?

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  3. Tom Paine Avatar
    Tom Paine

    I imagine that Harriet Harman will want to send in special forces to any poor oppressed country that does not have an Equalities Minister.

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  4. Nigel Sedgwick Avatar
    Nigel Sedgwick

    I have finally found need to use the word “phantasmagorical”.
    Best regards

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  5. Moggsy Avatar
    Moggsy

    When there is no other justification for supporting some group. When it’s clothes are in tatters and it has nothing to cover it’s embarrassment it falls back on and stirs up the old good “us” and bad “them” prejudices.
    Look at the sidelined rag end of the IRA stirring the troubles again. Or some of the stuff rabid Islamicists come out with.
    Labour is just doing it too because they have nothing else.

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  6. john miller Avatar
    john miller

    Divide and conquer by the ultimate toff.

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  7. jameshigham Avatar
    jameshigham

    There’s definitely prejudice against northern accents though in the workplace.

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  8. Tom Paine Avatar
    Tom Paine

    Really, James? Are you sure? I recently had occasion to exchange notes with one of my business partners from a similar social background. She has a broad Lancashire accent and prospers mightily on the basis of undoubted talent and drive. No-one in our London-headquartered business gives a damn, frankly. She performs. She pleases our customers. End of discussion. In my experience, if someone is held back by such considerations it’s a function of their own lack of confidence. No business is prepared to squander expensive talent for such stupid considerations. People who fear they will face unfair discrimination are usually making excuses in advance for failure. The problem is that such prophecies are self-fulfilling. No-one is ever assessed more highly than they assess themselves. If they are making preparations to fail, the obvious conclusions will be drawn. That may be “unfair” but no Equalities Commission in this world will overcome such basic psychology.

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  9. Max Normal Avatar
    Max Normal

    Keep it up Harriet! I thought I was not an ethnic minority and therefore scum and to blame for absolutely everything. But the evil doers are no longer the “White Heterosexual Anglo Saxon Man”, The “Northern White Heterosexual Anglo Saxon Man” is now an opressed ethnic minority, opressed by the new evil, me, the “Southern White Heterosexual Anglo Saxon Man”. Soon I hope this to be further distilled to the “Southern White Heterosexual Anglo Saxon Man from Brighton” at which point I will be an ethnic minority myself. Then I can finally have my own day-room at the University of Sussex where I work, like the wimmin’s, gay men’s, muslim men’s, muslim women’s, lesbian’s and black people’s rooms. I can have unemployment benefits without question, my crimes will be ignored by the police and unreported by the BBC for fear of stirring racial tension with the “Northern White Heterosexual Anglo Saxon Men”, I shall have a personal interpreter, a free council house with no waiting list, and my very own festival in Brixton every year, where I will be spoonfed vegan food by hairy-armpitted middle-class, middle-aged white feminists of average IQ inexplicably wearing ethnically African clothing.

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Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

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