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Tom Harris resigns as Labour's New Media Adviser after Nazi video
Is this another sense of humour failure?
Labour MP, Tom Harris, has been forced to resign as the party’s new media adviser after creating a spoof video comparing Adolf Hitler's final days with Alex Salmond’s machinations over the referendum on Scottish independence.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/9017295/Labour-MP-Tom-Harris-forced-to-resign-as-Twitter-tsar.html
There have been dozens of these Downfall videos produced featuring politicians of all parties and nobody really complained about them. Are we now being told that joking about Salmond and the SNP is not allowed in the New Scotland?
Labour MP, Tom Harris, has been forced to resign as the party’s new media adviser after creating a spoof video comparing Adolf Hitler's final days with Alex Salmond’s machinations over the referendum on Scottish independence.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/9017295/Labour-MP-Tom-Harris-forced-to-resign-as-Twitter-tsar.html
There have been dozens of these Downfall videos produced featuring politicians of all parties and nobody really complained about them. Are we now being told that joking about Salmond and the SNP is not allowed in the New Scotland?
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I don't really know much about Tom but forcing him to resign over this is way, way over the top. Hell, he shouldn't even need to apologise for it because as you say, there are hundreds of cheeky 'Der Untergang' videos for goodness sake!
It's no big deal, or at least it shouldn't be. Harris should still be in his post imho.
Ironically, Diane Abbott has said far worse recently and yet paradoxically she remains in her job.... I wonder why?
- Harris is a prolific user of Twitter (with over 25,000 tweets to date, more than twice as many as famed Twitophile Stephen Fry), and followers of his timeline can observe behaviour that's less in line with a prospective international statesman and more akin to that of an internet message-board troll. He's been caught peddling flat-out lies (making no apology when proven wrong), getting involved in juvenile slanging matches, implying that the SNP are racist, and advocating bizarre policy positions that would likely horrify most Labour supporters. Below we highlight just a handful of randomly-selected examples, from the last month alone.
http://wingsland.podgamer.com/?p=12184
There were certainly some good lines in it. I especially liked "My Biography 'Thatcher: my part in her downfall'"
I saw that debate - the Scottish parliament is now becoming quite vicious and partisan. The SNP and Labour crowd seem to hate each other more than ever.
I thought Westminster was bad until I saw that. Holyrood used to be so civilised and polite in the early years - the whole independence debate seems to be tearing Scottish politics apart.
But then the Presiding Officer is an SNP MSP.
regards jack
To put it mildly. It's ridiculous that he was forced to resign. I mean, it's not even as if he's the first person to do a Downfall parody. It's pretty much an internet meme at this point.
As this article in the Telegraph says, there will inevitably be a video coming along soon portraying Harris' firing
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100130131/how-long-before-the-downfall-spoof-of-ed-miliband-firing-tom-harris-comes-out/
It's already up............
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4AHbikkm1E&feature=youtu.be
Funniest line: "anyone who thinks that we can't win the next election, leave the room"
Exactly about as funny as a boil on the pecker yeah ok films for fun but top people in government?
regards jack
Allo Allo ?
Laughing at and using them as a joke is very different to thinking what they did was humerous.
Thank you, geordiejackie. Both Harris and Burley http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-16299035 fully deserved their sackings and, as adults and high profile public servants, they should really have known better.
Or the excellent film Life is Beautiful.
What a wonderful movie that is; genuinely amazing.
Probably a better example than Allo Allo, too!
It depends how you look at it. If one looks at Hitler and the Nazis, if it was not for the fact he was a dangerous mad individual, he would have made a perfect comedy act.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYJ5F8ctyus&feature=related
The above was made during the war, they had more sense of humour than we do now. if you Google you can find many more, all taking the "p".
There are very few who find what Hitler actually did was funny but look at his mannerisms together with that ridiculous Nazi goose-step march certainly were funny. It is easily possible to separate one from the other, if one has got just any sort of humour at all.
The trouble many people these days look at humour and just try to find fault with anything.
Take any subject one likes and it is highly likely it would upset someone somewhere, we are slowly getting into a nation of humourless, politically correct, namby pamby, miseries. Direct being insulting to a person is wrong, but hell, we as a nation have to just lighten up an bit and see the difference between a direct insult and humour,
But Labour did a lot to create this culture, the idea that it's not what you do but whether you get caught saying "incorrect" things.
Can't say I have much sympathy with either this bloke or Abbot.
Looks that way. Sadly it probably won't be the last
You make a good point caxton fair do's but i'll refrain from laughing along with the Nazis but i tell ya this gets me giggling like a demented schoolboy every time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ7wTAHdFYs
regards jack