The beginning of the end of political correctness - The Telegraph

StevieJ

SingleSue wrote: »

Aww come on guys, we had a nice thread discussing something and then you have to divert it to talk about sockies, slights, who someone may be etc.

Worse than my kids!

Shall we investigate the source

Exactly my thoughts... waiting patiently for StevieJ (aka Jonny Bravo) to respond...

SingleSue

Well, as I say to my children, ignore it!
We are all grown ups aren't we?

kennyboy66_2

bendix wrote: »

So tell us, StevieJ, are the actual things he is doing wrong or is it his general political philosophy that you object to?

How do you feel about reducing his own salary, suggesting that council taxpayers don't want to fund jaunts to meaningless twin cities, or contribute towards a Gay Pride event?

Great idea to reduce his salary and get did of his car.

However, I can't be the only one who thing that stopping funding £3k towards a Gay Pride event and not providing funding for black history month, is more about showing his bigot friends that he is "showing those qu**rs and blacks, whose boss".

Or will the council also cut funding to the myriad community groups is currently supports as well ?

Harry_Powell

Yes, my fault. StevieJ had been making snide remarks about sock puppetry on another thread in much the same vein and style as Jonny Bravo does and so it made me wonder. I checked to see if JB was online and he wasn't. I therefore did that post as an experiment to see what response it would elicit. The result was that JB logged on seconds after my post (or rather after StevieJ read it), came immediately to this thread and posted a remark.

Busted.

Harry_Powell

kennyboy66 wrote: »

Great idea to reduce his salary and get did of his car.

However, I can't be the only one who thing that stopping funding £3k towards a Gay Pride event and not providing funding for black history month, is more about showing his bigot friends that he is "showing those qu**rs and blacks, whose boss".

Or will the council also cut funding to the myriad community groups is currently supports as well ?

Perhaps he did and the paper didn't report it? Reporting the cutting of a subsidy to white, middle aged morris dancers who turn up to the village fete once per year probably wouldn't sell as many papers?

StevieJ

kennyboy66 wrote: »

Or will the council also cut funding to the myriad community groups is currently supports as well ?

Good point Kenny, be interesting to see what funding remained.

Andy_L

kennyboy66 wrote: »

However, I can't be the only one who thing that stopping funding £3k towards a Gay Pride event

I wonder how much "pink pound" a gay pride event brings into the town's hotels, pubs & resturants?

Harry_Powell

Andy_L wrote: »

I wonder how much "pink pound" a gay pride event brings into the town's hotels, pubs & resturants?

Surely enough that the town's hotellier's, publicans and restraunter's could pay the £3k instead of the local tax payers, who incidently will already be picking up the tab for policing the event and for the cleanup afterwards.

bendix

StevieJ wrote: »

I am very happy if it is for the public good, populist and public good are not always the same as I am sure you know.

Ahhhh . the traditional Labour reprise.

We'll give you what you want, dear votes, so long as our middle class sensibilities thinks its good for you. We know best for you, after all.

Patronising to the nth degree, as always.

Could you explain the public good of spending £80,000 a year to be twinned to several obscure towns on mainland Europe? I'm genuinely curious.

manchesterred

bluey890 wrote: »

The public sector ministries will do eveything in their power to stop, blackmail or discredit him.
I have seen the Yes Minister series, I know how the decision making process works.

Indeed, there are too many with a vested interest in keeping the gravy train rolling along