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Boris Johnson and his anti-Irish comment
Funny how this hasn't been reported in any non-Irish newspapers... 
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/boris-johnson-calls-london-st-patricks-day-event-lefty-sinn-fein-crap-16116465.html
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/boris-johnson-calls-london-st-patricks-day-event-lefty-sinn-fein-crap-16116465.html
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Its a global left wing conspiracy to bring down Boris Johnson completely ignoring that he is bonkers and has one of his campaign team posting on here to flame anyone who criticises a member of the Conservative party.
This couldn't have come at a better time what with Red Ken getting into hot water over his 'riddled' comments! Now let's see all of Ken's excuse-makers on here be consistent for once and be equally as forgiving to Bojo!
After all, Ken's supporters claimed that his own ill chosen comments were completely reasonable and that their opinions of them were entirely genuine and had absolutely nothing to do with petty political tribalism or bias whatsoever.
Definitely not.
As for the comments themselves.... well Bojo's clearly got it wrong, hasn't he? St Paddy's day is just an excuse for a p*ss up, nothing more. Hardly "lefty Sinn Fein crap" in all honesty!
On a more serious note, I'm genuinely surprised that likes of The Guardian/Observer hasn't reported it because they love this sort of thing....
Oh, and apparently the "Irish community" (tm) are outraged over his comments.... what, all of them? :rolleyes:
These are the two leading candidates we have for London Mayor - and they both like to shock. So lets drop the faux outrage when both do what they do best.
PS The Irish hardly celebrated St Patricks day themselves until a few years ago - it was very much an expats thing in New York/London. I always assumed it was one big effective marketing campaign for Guiness - as it seems to be entirely about drinking yourself into a stupor and nothing to do with St Patrick at all!:D
I could be argued to be part of the 'Irish community' - and frankly I couldn't give a toss about the St Patricks day event in Trafalgar Square or Boris's comments about it.
"An open letter criticising Mr Johnson's comments was sent to the ‘Guardian’ newspaper ":D Really - fake outrage in the Guardian. Wow! Put it in the Irish Post surely - not the Guardian
And I am sure that's the view of most Irish people (first or second generation. This is just an excuse for a few lefties to throw their arms up in horror - just like the righties do too when Ken talks about gay people getting their willies cut off in Dubai.
Can we not discuss London's problems - gangs, housing, transport, crime - the real things that the Mayoral campaign should be about. Not all this garbage!
I'm a great fan of many thinks Irish but, to be frank, a lot of things associated with St Patrick's Day, are "crap", especially in those countless fake "Oirish" bars which are run by Polish and Romanian staff. The day itself it little more than an advertising promotion by Guinness.
I don't think that's what the 'outrage' is about, it's more to do with his association of something (anything?) Irish with 'lefty Sinn Fein crap', when it had nothing to do with them.
Also the event in question was a self-financing dinner attended by diplomats and other semi-important people, so I'm not entirely sure what he gained by cancelling it.
He's a walking joke though, so I can't say I'm particularly bothered by anything he says. I doubt there are many people, Irish or otherwise, who take him seriously.
And he shows his true typical Tory colours by equating Sinn Fein with being Irish. ****..
You're not really though are you.
You're quite right to bump your own thread though as it clearly wasn't getting the attention that you hoped it would!
Maybe because it's a non-story...:yawn:
And what Boris said IS disgusting. There was nothing wrong with Ken's comments. As with Gordon Brown's "bigot" comment, it's biased media organisations trying to make something out of nothing.