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Beso
24-12-2023, 08:32 PM
Xmas gave us the dali Lama last year. This year we have James Cleverly.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/24/james-cleverly-facing-calls-to-resign-after-joke-about-date-drug
bots
24-12-2023, 08:35 PM
he was joking, it may not have been to everyone's taste, but it's still a joke. Can people really not say anything these days without everyone taking it literally
Beso
24-12-2023, 08:37 PM
Oh I appreciate the humour, but joking about using a date rape drug to drug your wife isnt very becoming of a leading politician.

What next, Mary berry acting out the squating nuns joke?
bots
24-12-2023, 08:43 PM
i don't have a problem with it at all. Should there be no jokes from this point forward about anything that is a bit tasteless?
Beso
24-12-2023, 08:48 PM
No not at all, but you would expect the person making the law changes about the date rape drug to be a bit more sensible when discussing it to the press.

Its not the joke per se. (If that's your real name bots) but the person and the seriousness of his position that made it. It should never have been made, and never would have by an intelligent person.
bots
24-12-2023, 08:58 PM
No not at all, but you would expect the person making the law changes about the date rape drug to be a bit more sensible when discussing it to the press.

Its not the joke per se. (If that's your real name bots) but the person and the seriousness of his position that made it. It should never have been made, and never would have by an intelligent person.

so politicians are not allowed to have a sense of humour? I disagree, a joke is a joke is a joke
Beso
24-12-2023, 10:32 PM
so politicians are not allowed to have a sense of humour? I disagree, a joke is a joke is a joke

A **** one. So it should be called out as such.:shrug:
Mystic Mock
24-12-2023, 11:58 PM
he was joking, it may not have been to everyone's taste, but it's still a joke. Can people really not say anything these days without everyone taking it literally

This.

If anybody has an issue with a joke then that's on them at the end of the day, there is no need to control what other people can and can't joke about.
Beso
25-12-2023, 12:15 AM
This.

If anybody has an issue with a joke then that's on them at the end of the day, there is no need to control what other people can and can't joke about.

I've an issue with him for trying the joke.
bots
25-12-2023, 01:06 AM
I've an issue with him for trying the joke.

you just don't like him. You didn't even hear the joke, just relied on a far left labour rag reporting about it.
arista
25-12-2023, 06:31 AM
https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/lc-images-sky/lcimg-76df5427-ae22-4385-8fb2-389952f3d663.jpeg

Yes yesterday.
Became a typical Front Page.
Was also posted on the Sunak thread.
joeysteele
25-12-2023, 07:17 AM
I think member Kate summed him up better than I could.
When she calked him James Stupidly.

It's a very odd thing to joke about as in any setting by a Minister in high office in government.

Had a Labour or Lib Dem MINISTER of the realm said it, the hard-line Cons would be screaming disgrace from the rooftops .
bots
25-12-2023, 07:43 AM
oh, i think it was very ignorant of him to tell a joke like that, but i defend his right to joke
Oliver_W
25-12-2023, 09:09 AM
Going from Cruella to Stupidly was definitely a step sideways.