No one really. But I do find acts of stupid but harmless football fandom to be quite entertaining. You could include the likes of Speedo Mick with that (although, in fairness, he has raised a lot for charity in the process).
Slightly off topic sorry but Iāve been looking at what is happening in the US, ( canāt think why) and this is exactly what happens there, albeit on a much larger scale. Big business getting huge government payouts (Musk for example or Panasonic) for their own investment, that the tax payer pays off through energy bills, taxes or whatever etc.
Yeah, I read what he said and in which context he said it, and find the outrage manufactured. Surely, he is well within the realms of civil opinion to say what he did ?
Itās not as if what he said was particularly controversial. If what he said is āwrongā, if people cannot even tolerate that someone says that you cannot have an economy so and so and at the same time have the high number of immigrants etc. And that this would in practice be some sort of self colonisation. That is a legitimate political opinion surely ?
Because if that is unaccetable (why should it be?), then meet Reformās non-civil immigration criticism.
PR is amusing though. You cannot ruffle even one feather. So he was probably silly being honest.
Anyway, there is no āhate speechā here:
Imo, if one cannot tolerate such an exchange of words and opinions in the immigration debate, then you have lost, as the outrage will in time be counter productive and usher in Reform with a far more damning rethoric that does not focus on the economy but on culture. Itās always better when such debates circle around the economy as regard to the far more explosive cultural bracket.