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Beso
13-09-2021, 05:29 PM
https://youtu.be/bPL2oC0Z9Fk

A 5 minute clip of gove being homophobic, racist and sexist.
Beso
14-09-2021, 08:27 AM
Not interested?
arista
14-09-2021, 08:30 AM
Yes he was Young, then
even worked for the BBC as a reporter

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9987121/Michael-Gove-racist-sexist-gay-jibes-Oxford-University-student.html


[Elsewhere, the Cabinet Office minister described
Margaret Thatcher's policies as a 'new empire' where
'the happy South stamps over the cruel,
dirty, toothless face of the Northerner'.]
arista
14-09-2021, 08:50 AM
Younger Gove in 1991


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50sLS2T-zzc
Alf
14-09-2021, 08:56 AM
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arista
14-09-2021, 08:59 AM
Fantastic Clips Alf.
Oliver_W
14-09-2021, 11:00 AM
Not interested?

The non-descriptive thread title and a link presented without comment isn't particularly interesting, if I hadn't seen people talking about it I'd assume he was talking there in the capacity as a (former/) minister.
user104658
14-09-2021, 11:14 AM
It's just, sadly, completely unsurprising. This is only what one of them was caught saying on tape.
arista
14-09-2021, 01:38 PM
Reported on Politics Live BBC2HD

Late 1980's he Gove joked
"it may be Moral to keep the Empire as the Fuzzy Wuzzies
can not look after themselves"


Baroness Chakrabarti (Labour)
demands to hear from Gove himself.................
user104658
14-09-2021, 01:44 PM
Reported on Politics Live BBC2HD

Late 1980's he Gove joked
"it may be Moral to keep the Empire as the Fuzzy Wuzzies
can not look after themselves"


Baroness Chakrabarti (Labour)
demands to hear from Gove himself.................

Yes, a racist joke. I don't think that's much of a defense arista.
arista
14-09-2021, 01:57 PM
Yes, a racist joke. I don't think that's much of a defense arista.


Of Course
but in the Late 1980's it was common
Beso
14-09-2021, 02:38 PM
The non-descriptive thread title and a link presented without comment isn't particularly interesting, if I hadn't seen people talking about it I'd assume he was talking there in the capacity as a (former/) minister.

I hope that suits you better :notimpressed:
thesheriff443
14-09-2021, 02:59 PM
Most of it is like listening to a stand up routine or something you would hear on have I got news for you

The fact that people were laughing means it was seen as a series of jokes
user104658
14-09-2021, 03:42 PM
Most of it is like listening to a stand up routine or something you would hear on have I got news for you

The fact that people were laughing means it was seen as a series of jokes

The laughter is all men and given that it was Cambridge in the late 80's/early90's, you can be pretty sure it was a room full of white blokes. Not the best measure of whether or not the racist and sexist jokes being told would be "seen as jokes" by everyone else.
thesheriff443
14-09-2021, 04:13 PM
The laughter is all men and given that it was Cambridge in the late 80's/early90's, you can be pretty sure it was a room full of white blokes. Not the best measure of whether or not the racist and sexist jokes being told would be "seen as jokes" by everyone else.

Speculation as to who was there!, and it was over 20 years ago maybe he has read a lot of books like you and changed his views on things.

But if people want to get all worked up over something from 20 years ago that didn’t personally involve them then that’s up to them.