[parmnion]

https://youtu.be/bPL2oC0Z9Fk

A 5 minute clip of gove being homophobic, racist and sexist.

[parmnion]

Not interested?

[arista]

Yes he was Young, then
even worked for the BBC as a reporter

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-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]

Younger Gove in 1991


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50sLS2T-zzc

[Alf]

Youtube video

[arista]

Fantastic Clips Alf.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by parmnion

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.

[Toy Soldier]

It's just, sadly, completely unsurprising. This is only what one of them was caught saying on tape.

[arista]

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.................

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by arista

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]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

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

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

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

[thesheriff443]

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

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

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]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

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.