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[atrollope]

Jerk ! Clown ! Without ! My @rse ! Confused Loudmouth Motorhead (6,8)

[joggerjayne]

Am I the only one who's heard the whole of what he said?

He was introduced as the man who always says something controversial.

Humorously playing up to that role, he said the strike was good because the roads were quiet.

Then he parodied the BBC's compulsion to present both sides for fear of being seen as biased, by giving a mock "opposite of the strikes are good" ... by saying the strikers should be shot ... thus parodying the BBC's tendency to state a diametrically opposite viewpoint, just to artificially "balance" its programmes.

I wonder if he overestimated the audience who (a) took him literally, and (b) ignored the context of the previous 60 seconds of the programme?

He also hadn't banked on Ed Balls, who has a tee shirt saying "I want to feel offended. Please offend me. If you don't offend me, I will find some way of feeling offended. I SO want to be offended."

Just a thought.

[sandyRoe]

So, JJ, you think he made a right Balls of it?

[craft1948]

Hang on you say it's okay to shoot a few bankers but then say Clarkson should be had up for what he said...............

[sandyRoe]

Remember, Craft, I'm not a public figure detested by millions, paid to pontificate on the television.

[atrollope]

I think sandyRoe was being tongue in cheek with his comment on Bankers...whats wrong with you...got a sense of humour bypass?

[craft1948]

so Sandy was tongue in cheek and Clarkson wasn't............oh what a larf.

[atrollope]

Clarkson is a Buffoon with a political agenda(a Cameron crony)..like Bozo Johnson

[sandyRoe]

I wasn't being 'tongue in cheek'. There's a phrase, Nuclear Winter' which gave a gnomic description of the aftermath of an atomic war. We're on the verge of an economic meltdown, an economic winter, all the fault of the bankers.
If a few had been shot on the steps of the bank of England the rest wouldn't have had the nerve to be looking for bonuses, or expecting us to bankroll their casino operations for at least another 7 years.

[craft1948]

So if Clarkson had said "Shoot the bankers" everybody would have been cheering him..........

[sandyRoe]

Not everybody, but I would.

[atrollope]

He has been called to China..coo..think Jezza knows its hit the fan

[sandyRoe]

Might the Chinese ask his advice on industrial relations?

[atrollope]

lol @sandyRoe