Glenfaba & Peel

[Sheldon]

5 hours ago, TheTeapot said:

There's a video kicking about fb of Boot telling one of his electorate to go back to Ireland.

Pretty much what you'd expect from an English Tory.

[Mr Helmut Fromage]

It’s official as now on Wiki

[Uhtred]

2 hours ago, Sheldon said:

Pretty much what you'd expect from an English Tory.

Ironic indeed that it’s a term derived from political activity in Ireland and reflects an Irish Gaelic word for ‘brigand’.

[Mr Helmut Fromage]

1 hour ago, Uhtred said:

Ironic indeed that it’s a term derived from political activity in Ireland and reflects an Irish Gaelic word for ‘brigand’.

Let’s not argue over dialogue or dialect - the human named Geoffrey Boot is an insufferable self indulgent twat 

 

[Max Power]

21 hours ago, Amadeus said:

You mean this one? 

 

 

Not the best sound clip but I heard 'Ireland then!' Hard to make a judgement as he may have been getting provoked, as is usually the case in these things. 

[Banker]

No matter what Boot says on door steps, if he gets back in then Peel voters are more stupid than last time!!

[SleepyJoe]

Last time they had very little choice

[code99]

21 hours ago, Sheldon said:

Pretty much what you'd expect from an English Tory.

True. But, I still think that in the UK Baron Boot of Little England would have come under significant pressure from his own cohort to withdraw his candidacy - no party, even the Tory party, can tolerate negative publicity tinged with bigotry. Unfortunately, here we can only hope that he will do the honourable thing of his own volition and decide to "spend more time with his family" instead.

[Mr. Sausages]

i hate it when people provoke me into being xenophobic 

[Chef Raekwon]

3 hours ago, code99 said:

True. But, I still think that in the UK Baron Boot of Little England would have come under significant pressure from his own cohort to withdraw his candidacy - no party, even the Tory party, can tolerate negative publicity tinged with bigotry. Unfortunately, here we can only hope that he will do the honourable thing of his own volition and decide to "spend more time with his family" instead.

Sorry what?  Have you been paying attention to the Tory party over the past few years?  You can virtually get away with anything and keep your role with them.  Only Hancock resigned and even then that was fairly obviously something that was orchestrated by the Tory leaders themselves.

On another note, I would really like to hear that full exchange to fully get the context.  Obviously his comment is unacceptable, and obviously he's a useless bellend.  But that clip is so blatantly edited to remove the context so it would at least be nice to know what was said to him to provoke it.

[code99]

15 minutes ago, Chef Raekwon said:

Sorry what?  Have you been paying attention to the Tory party over the past few years?  You can virtually get away with anything and keep your role with them.  Only Hancock resigned and even then that was fairly obviously something that was orchestrated by the Tory leaders themselves.

I take your point (and I loathe the Tory party). I made that comment in the context of our GE. When a country is having the GE, the image that each candidate creates is more sensitive than it is at other times. In the UK right now the Tory party are firmly in power. Therefore, they have a greater capacity to withstand scandals, but if they were in the midst of an election campaign, like we are, they would be much more watchful of their candidates’ behaviours.

[Amadeus]

So is the media going to drill him on this or not? Next to Tesco Value, this is the best election story so far. 

 

 

 

[TheTeapot]

Just now, Amadeus said:

So is the media going to drill him on this or not? Next to Tesco Value, this is the best election story so far. 

Richard Butt tweeted before that Boot is front page news on tomorrows Independent.

[bozinko]

hear harmer is telling everyone that the shit plant is deffo going to be built at glenfaba.... Total need for one, i totally agree. What i dont agree with is these assholes thinking they are above the law. Planning was turned down. build is somewhere else. This knob will deffo not be getting my vote. 

 

 

[Annoymouse]

12 hours ago, Chef Raekwon said:

But that clip is so blatantly edited to remove the context so it would at least be nice to know what was said to him to provoke it.

Unfortunately I have to agree, for all we know he might’ve been told to fuck off back to England first, obviously he shouldn’t have engaged in any conversation whatsoever, let alone say go back to Ireland.

Still it was nice to see him sent away packing regardless, hopefully after this incident we might see a few more similar occasions.