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		<title>By: Jeremy Clarkson: A 'birther' born yesterday &#124; Left Foot Forward</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeremy Clarkson: A 'birther' born yesterday &#124; Left Foot Forward</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 16:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: More fuel for the fire in the debate over biofuels &#124; Left Foot Forward</title>
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		<dc:creator>More fuel for the fire in the debate over biofuels &#124; Left Foot Forward</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Anon E Mouse</title>
		<link>http://www.leftfootforward.org/2009/11/jeremy-clarkson-and-dont-come-back/comment-page-1/#comment-1465</link>
		<dc:creator>Anon E Mouse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nationalist politics are the same as they&#039;ve always been. It&#039;s why the French protect their culture so well.  It&#039;s why the European Cup works. Who cares?  All jokes are anti something or someone but who cares?

Clarkson is funny. That&#039;s why he&#039;s successful.  He won&#039;t stop what he does and why should he?  Ignore him.

Compared to pompous middle class humour, such as the Now Show on Radio 4 (why do they keep recommissioning that crap - who does it?), he is positively hilarious. 

Most people ignore Gordon Brown and although he won&#039;t go away until six months from now (mercifully) there is always an OFF button on your TV.

&quot;Gaps In The Dialogue&quot; is a great name mind :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nationalist politics are the same as they&#8217;ve always been. It&#8217;s why the French protect their culture so well.  It&#8217;s why the European Cup works. Who cares?  All jokes are anti something or someone but who cares?</p>
<p>Clarkson is funny. That&#8217;s why he&#8217;s successful.  He won&#8217;t stop what he does and why should he?  Ignore him.</p>
<p>Compared to pompous middle class humour, such as the Now Show on Radio 4 (why do they keep recommissioning that crap &#8211; who does it?), he is positively hilarious. </p>
<p>Most people ignore Gordon Brown and although he won&#8217;t go away until six months from now (mercifully) there is always an OFF button on your TV.</p>
<p>&#8220;Gaps In The Dialogue&#8221; is a great name mind <img src='http://www.leftfootforward.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Gaps in the Dialogue</title>
		<link>http://www.leftfootforward.org/2009/11/jeremy-clarkson-and-dont-come-back/comment-page-1/#comment-1463</link>
		<dc:creator>Gaps in the Dialogue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Comments like those of Clarkson are annoying, but he is only relaying thoughts of large sections of the population - otherwise he wouldn&#039;t be so successful. Even more dispiriting was Matt Fry&#039;s casual reminder of an old anti-German joke (comparing German reunification with The Beatles reforming - and &quot;lets hope they don&#039;t go on another world tour&quot;) on BBC news. These two public figures are perhaps not to blame because they reflect wider held attitudes but it is not surprising that Eurosceptism and Nationalist politics is so pervasive at the moment with the prevalence of casual references to them in the media.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comments like those of Clarkson are annoying, but he is only relaying thoughts of large sections of the population &#8211; otherwise he wouldn&#8217;t be so successful. Even more dispiriting was Matt Fry&#8217;s casual reminder of an old anti-German joke (comparing German reunification with The Beatles reforming &#8211; and &#8220;lets hope they don&#8217;t go on another world tour&#8221;) on BBC news. These two public figures are perhaps not to blame because they reflect wider held attitudes but it is not surprising that Eurosceptism and Nationalist politics is so pervasive at the moment with the prevalence of casual references to them in the media.</p>
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		<title>By: Anon E Mouse</title>
		<link>http://www.leftfootforward.org/2009/11/jeremy-clarkson-and-dont-come-back/comment-page-1/#comment-1455</link>
		<dc:creator>Anon E Mouse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Liz, you are mistaking common good manners and a respect for others that is ingrained in the majority of decent people worldwide with laws on &quot;Political Correctness&quot; used to force the views and opinions of others on everybody.

I know of no one who would judge another by the colour of their skin or sexuality or whatever but if they decide they want to do that, they should, in a free society, be allowed to.

When Catholic Adoption agencies decide they do not want children to be adopted by homosexual couples that should be their right. 

Why does Harriet Harman believe she knows better than those agencies? How can she bang on about the poor in her position of great wealth and privilege or complain about women being artificially promoted in jobs because of their sex and not their abilities? Especially since she&#039;s trying to *fix* a safe Labour seat for her own husband, Jack Dromey. 

Freedom of expression can&#039;t be forced - look at the Soviet Union and Cuba -  but when the very tolerant fabric of our society is threatened by the actions  of a stupid incompetent, government(If Labour represented the people properly the BNP wouldn&#039;t have got those votes) then someone has to say something. 

Finally Liz does this &quot;connection&quot; you feel wrt ethnicity extend to not condemning the actions &#039;Caroline Not Happy&#039; finds so disagreeable - &quot;burkhas, woman treated unequally, homosexuals threatened with death, female genital mutilation, “honor” killings, forced marriage …etc etc” or do you just pay lip service and just gloss over and ignore the point?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Liz, you are mistaking common good manners and a respect for others that is ingrained in the majority of decent people worldwide with laws on &#8220;Political Correctness&#8221; used to force the views and opinions of others on everybody.</p>
<p>I know of no one who would judge another by the colour of their skin or sexuality or whatever but if they decide they want to do that, they should, in a free society, be allowed to.</p>
<p>When Catholic Adoption agencies decide they do not want children to be adopted by homosexual couples that should be their right. </p>
<p>Why does Harriet Harman believe she knows better than those agencies? How can she bang on about the poor in her position of great wealth and privilege or complain about women being artificially promoted in jobs because of their sex and not their abilities? Especially since she&#8217;s trying to *fix* a safe Labour seat for her own husband, Jack Dromey. </p>
<p>Freedom of expression can&#8217;t be forced &#8211; look at the Soviet Union and Cuba &#8211;  but when the very tolerant fabric of our society is threatened by the actions  of a stupid incompetent, government(If Labour represented the people properly the BNP wouldn&#8217;t have got those votes) then someone has to say something. </p>
<p>Finally Liz does this &#8220;connection&#8221; you feel wrt ethnicity extend to not condemning the actions &#8216;Caroline Not Happy&#8217; finds so disagreeable &#8211; &#8220;burkhas, woman treated unequally, homosexuals threatened with death, female genital mutilation, “honor” killings, forced marriage …etc etc” or do you just pay lip service and just gloss over and ignore the point?</p>
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		<title>By: Liz McShane</title>
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		<dc:creator>Liz McShane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anon.... I actually feel very connected  and privileged to live in a  multi-cultural city that respects diversity (sexual, ethnicity etc) of others. Nick Griffin&#039;s vision of an all white, &#039;ethnically&#039;??? British country is perverse if not laughable. 

Yes he should not be censored, indeed he should be grilled ad nauseum on his racist and divisive views - even when he got a bit of a soft ride on QT he floundered. A lot of the votes received in the Euro elections were anti-Labour rather than a vote in favour of the BNP and their policies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anon&#8230;. I actually feel very connected  and privileged to live in a  multi-cultural city that respects diversity (sexual, ethnicity etc) of others. Nick Griffin&#8217;s vision of an all white, &#8216;ethnically&#8217;??? British country is perverse if not laughable. </p>
<p>Yes he should not be censored, indeed he should be grilled ad nauseum on his racist and divisive views &#8211; even when he got a bit of a soft ride on QT he floundered. A lot of the votes received in the Euro elections were anti-Labour rather than a vote in favour of the BNP and their policies.</p>
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		<title>By: Anon E Mouse</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anon E Mouse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shamik, 943,598 votes? - near enough a million. 

Brown secretly planned Public Service cuts of 9.3% and ran down Cameron for proposing 0.7% more at 10%. 

You don&#039;t see anything wrong with that Shamik? Really?

For Labour to only get two and a half times the number of votes as the BNP is beyond belief - the Labour Party are horrified by that fact - why aren&#039;t you?

Regarding Browns votes, I meant for the leadership of their respective parties. Brown&#039;s thugs and bullies, McBride and Co, leant on ordinary members to not ask for a leadership election.

People like me also voted for Tony (Full Third Term) Blair. The way Brown and his cronies treated him was also a disgrace.

Finally who did I accuse of making false statements?  Yvette Cooper openly lied this morning on the Today program - even when challenged, albeit pretty lamely, by the presenter she continued to lie. 

What sort of an example is that to send to the public?  Am I to assume you think that smearing and lying about people is an acceptable way to behave in life? Really Shamik?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shamik, 943,598 votes? &#8211; near enough a million. </p>
<p>Brown secretly planned Public Service cuts of 9.3% and ran down Cameron for proposing 0.7% more at 10%. </p>
<p>You don&#8217;t see anything wrong with that Shamik? Really?</p>
<p>For Labour to only get two and a half times the number of votes as the BNP is beyond belief &#8211; the Labour Party are horrified by that fact &#8211; why aren&#8217;t you?</p>
<p>Regarding Browns votes, I meant for the leadership of their respective parties. Brown&#8217;s thugs and bullies, McBride and Co, leant on ordinary members to not ask for a leadership election.</p>
<p>People like me also voted for Tony (Full Third Term) Blair. The way Brown and his cronies treated him was also a disgrace.</p>
<p>Finally who did I accuse of making false statements?  Yvette Cooper openly lied this morning on the Today program &#8211; even when challenged, albeit pretty lamely, by the presenter she continued to lie. </p>
<p>What sort of an example is that to send to the public?  Am I to assume you think that smearing and lying about people is an acceptable way to behave in life? Really Shamik?</p>
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		<title>By: Shamik Das</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shamik Das</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anon E Mouse, if you&#039;re referring to the European election results, the BNP got 943,598 votes, Labour got 2,381,760 votes. Nick Griffin did not get more votes than Gordon Brown. He did not get more than a million votes. You seem more than happy to accuse others of making false statements; maybe you&#039;d like to take this opportunity to correct your assertion that Griffin &quot;got over a million votes&quot; and got &quot;far more [votes] than Gordon Brown ever got&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anon E Mouse, if you&#8217;re referring to the European election results, the BNP got 943,598 votes, Labour got 2,381,760 votes. Nick Griffin did not get more votes than Gordon Brown. He did not get more than a million votes. You seem more than happy to accuse others of making false statements; maybe you&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to correct your assertion that Griffin &#8220;got over a million votes&#8221; and got &#8220;far more [votes] than Gordon Brown ever got&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Anon E Mouse</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anon E Mouse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shamik and Liz - he has a right to those opinions - you may disagree with them - that&#039;s ok - but he has that right. Just like Question Time were right to have Nick Griffin on - he&#039;s got over a million votes - far more than Gordon Brown ever got.

All people saw (not me but comments I hear in the pubs locally)was an elected MEP being picked on by a sanctimonious bunch of bullies. The fascist behavior of those crowds outside was a disgrace.  

If he wants to hold those views as long as he doesn&#039;t incite any trouble then why shouldn&#039;t he? I have homosexual friends but don&#039;t want to see men kissing either - I must have the right to feel like that. 

I heard that awful Yvette Cooper on Radio 4 this morning lying about the Tories (supposedly) cancelling Tax Credits and these lies are allowed to go unchallenged for some reason. It&#039;s why Labour and their cronies are due to be ousted BIG time at the election and rightly so. 

Nick Griffin flourishes because Labour try to shut down conversation they don&#039;t like - the party has become too dogmatic and controlling.

Regarding political correctness I just don&#039;t see it like you Liz - you really are in a minority and it&#039;s dangerous. It may be misconstrued but when a 97 year old man can&#039;t have a cake cooked by his niece in his home in Devon... well you get the point. Playgrounds have no witches hats any more and the roundabouts are all slowed down with soft tarmac in case the kids scrape their knees - goggles to play conkers where has the &quot;fun&quot; of childhood gone? 

It&#039;s why &quot;Caroline Not Happy&quot; above states: &quot;Who asked the folk living there if they wanted Mosques in their communities and all that follows – burkhas, woman treated unequally, homosexuals threatened with death, female genital mutilation, “honor” killings, forced marriage …etc etc&quot;

Tell me Liz, in your Utopian, disconnected from reality world, why I should have respect for anyone that holds those views?

Once these things start there does not seem to be any end and once combined with the control freak tendencies of New Labour there seems to be no way out.

Someone needs to say STOP THAT&#039;S ENOUGH - IT&#039;S GONE TOO FAR but they won&#039;t.

So we get terrorists from Afganistan who hijack a plane, fly it to Gatwick and instead of being immediately deported our taxes are used to give them hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation and we are told we can&#039;t deport them? There are hundreds of other cases like this Liz but get some perspective here.

Jeremy Clarkson has raised millions for &quot;Help For Heroes&quot; - money needed due to the underfunding by this government. You may not like him - I don&#039;t like Marmite - but I find this governments views are snide and offensive - Damian McBride etc are beyond words and judging by the opinion polls I&#039;m not alone.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shamik and Liz &#8211; he has a right to those opinions &#8211; you may disagree with them &#8211; that&#8217;s ok &#8211; but he has that right. Just like Question Time were right to have Nick Griffin on &#8211; he&#8217;s got over a million votes &#8211; far more than Gordon Brown ever got.</p>
<p>All people saw (not me but comments I hear in the pubs locally)was an elected MEP being picked on by a sanctimonious bunch of bullies. The fascist behavior of those crowds outside was a disgrace.  </p>
<p>If he wants to hold those views as long as he doesn&#8217;t incite any trouble then why shouldn&#8217;t he? I have homosexual friends but don&#8217;t want to see men kissing either &#8211; I must have the right to feel like that. </p>
<p>I heard that awful Yvette Cooper on Radio 4 this morning lying about the Tories (supposedly) cancelling Tax Credits and these lies are allowed to go unchallenged for some reason. It&#8217;s why Labour and their cronies are due to be ousted BIG time at the election and rightly so. </p>
<p>Nick Griffin flourishes because Labour try to shut down conversation they don&#8217;t like &#8211; the party has become too dogmatic and controlling.</p>
<p>Regarding political correctness I just don&#8217;t see it like you Liz &#8211; you really are in a minority and it&#8217;s dangerous. It may be misconstrued but when a 97 year old man can&#8217;t have a cake cooked by his niece in his home in Devon&#8230; well you get the point. Playgrounds have no witches hats any more and the roundabouts are all slowed down with soft tarmac in case the kids scrape their knees &#8211; goggles to play conkers where has the &#8220;fun&#8221; of childhood gone? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s why &#8220;Caroline Not Happy&#8221; above states: &#8220;Who asked the folk living there if they wanted Mosques in their communities and all that follows – burkhas, woman treated unequally, homosexuals threatened with death, female genital mutilation, “honor” killings, forced marriage …etc etc&#8221;</p>
<p>Tell me Liz, in your Utopian, disconnected from reality world, why I should have respect for anyone that holds those views?</p>
<p>Once these things start there does not seem to be any end and once combined with the control freak tendencies of New Labour there seems to be no way out.</p>
<p>Someone needs to say STOP THAT&#8217;S ENOUGH &#8211; IT&#8217;S GONE TOO FAR but they won&#8217;t.</p>
<p>So we get terrorists from Afganistan who hijack a plane, fly it to Gatwick and instead of being immediately deported our taxes are used to give them hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation and we are told we can&#8217;t deport them? There are hundreds of other cases like this Liz but get some perspective here.</p>
<p>Jeremy Clarkson has raised millions for &#8220;Help For Heroes&#8221; &#8211; money needed due to the underfunding by this government. You may not like him &#8211; I don&#8217;t like Marmite &#8211; but I find this governments views are snide and offensive &#8211; Damian McBride etc are beyond words and judging by the opinion polls I&#8217;m not alone.</p>
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		<title>By: Liz McShane</title>
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		<dc:creator>Liz McShane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anon E Mouse - Clarkson&#039;s views are snide and offensive. He loves mocking political correctness when all it is, is having mutual respect for &#039;others&#039; - nothing more, nothing less. It is outdated for someone to behave like he does.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anon E Mouse &#8211; Clarkson&#8217;s views are snide and offensive. He loves mocking political correctness when all it is, is having mutual respect for &#8216;others&#8217; &#8211; nothing more, nothing less. It is outdated for someone to behave like he does.</p>
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