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When did Britain lose the plot?

Mr. Cooper, I have clearly upset you and for that I am not sorry.
To debate an issue such as this on a public forum takes a level head, a grasp of the facts, and a willingness to appreciate views other than your own.

I stand by my views. Unlike you, I will also not let this get personal and resort to insults.

Whilst you may feel you can intimidate and belittle others from behind your keyboard; I am not one of them.

To quote you:
The incident, if it has been accurately reported is a sad indictment of the muddled thinking of chumps like you, who seem to forget what the security staff at airports are trying to do - and trying to prevent. Creating a culture of being too afraid to comment is hardly a shining example of diversity training doing its job, is it?

No, the incident has been reported to sell a newspaper. The incident is totally one sided as such we only have Fireman Sams word as to what actually happened. And you, like all the other mischief-makers chose to take that as gospel.

He has claimed to have said “If I was wearing this scarf over my face I wonder what would happen?”
Really? Why would you wear a scarf over you face? It is not a symbol of his culture or religious belief. What a stupid comment. What is it, if it’s not to provoke a reaction?

Why does Sam feel the need to single her out. A proud Muslum woman minding her own business passing through security. Is it to let off some steam perhaps, because the world is changing. It is no longer ruled by the British Empire and we are no longer living in the dark ages.

Now for a lesson in diversity – which you so openly detest.
If she was wearing the Hijab, her face would have been there for all to see. However the inaccurate and misleading report to which you base your crusade on makes the mistake of claiming she was wearing a hijab ‘without showing her face’.

This sounds more like a Niqab. But then you’d know that had you been given some diversity training by those you refer to as ‘gormless chumps’.

If I were to be constructive about your post, from it’s tone, you appear nothing more than a firebrand. A politically incorrect attention seeker who’s clearly after some kind of cult following on a message board.

Pathetic.

so calling me an attention seeking firebrand who is politically incorrect - is your way of not insulting me?

I wasn't insulting you per se, just people who look for offence at every turn, and who think that giving some patronising diversity speech will cure me of my cancer.

People like you (as this is how you appear from your posts) would rather get murdered, than train security staff to do the job they are employed to do, as you would happily see them act as diversity police, when someone (clearly a racist diniosaur from a misbegotten age) actually asks a relevant question.

There is a word for people who think like that - and its a very rude word.

I'm happy to live my life my way - and I would do everything in my power to protect it from people who think like you.
 
What's insane is to use such a comment in these sensitive times we live in.
Granted Fireman Sam may be old and set in his ways but it was a totally needless and irresponsible thing to say.

I assume you are winding us up? Covering the face is profoundly un British. It belongs in the past when women were possessions. It disturbs many British people, and I find it incredibly creepy myself. Making comments about a fellow passenger with a covered face at the security gate of an airport is wholly appropriate, and "Fireman sam"'s creator comes over as a normal, well adjusted person who is neither a bully nor prepared to be bullied. End of story
 

Brain dead

Socialists really don't get it.

If you increase taxes, the total revenue take WILL decrease.

Surely, even the most cretinous of socialist simpletons understand this?

Example: If you tax at 100%, then people will leave the country. There will be ZERO revenue.

Then How do we then fund welfare, NHS, local councils etc

You are better off LOWERING taxes for the wealthy. The total revenue will INCREASE.

It has been proven time and time again.
 
I'm sorry I must have missed the bit in my post where I made reference to the male being racist or racially ignorant.
So I re-read it. I still can't find it....


You're touchy aren't you mate...

I personally think that this was an old man who was pretty cheesed off at being put from pillar to post by security staff at the airport who, let's face it, often lack civility or person ability, who saw someone with some form of covering over their face, and who made a frustrated comment based on what he saw NOT on what said-covering represented.

The problem lies with those who immediately perceived it to be a racist, or cultural, slur. Ridiculous. In context it is absolutely the sort of thing anyone might say. Indeed, being someone who flies frequently, I have often passed comment (albeit in a low grumble) at the way these poor, often ill-trained buffoons go about their 'duty'...

Whilst blown out of proportion, I genuinely cannot see how any reasonable person could view Fireman Sam's comments as anything other than a frustrated observation based on the ludicrous nature of his own, immediate circumstance!
 
Not britain but this story on the irish from the guardian made me foam at the mouth but then i hate the EU and as someone with an irish wife i found it a bit offensive on behalf of irish people.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2012/mar/02/ireland-eu-fiscal-treaty-vote-football

Even some of the posts on the story show how out of touch the guardian is.

I'll see that and raise you this....

http://www.thecommentator.com/artic...n_bashers_cash_in_on_uk_aid_programme_edition
 
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