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georgenorman said:
Jo Brand said to a vast audience (not a handful on Twitter) that acid should be thrown at Nigel Farage - should she have been imprisoned?
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Jo Brand, whether you find her funny or not, earns her money as a comedian. This was said as a follow up to Farage being hit by a milkshake with the idea that battery acid rather than milk was what he deserved. It obviously wasn’t a serious suggestion.

It was though a poor joke, held to be inappropriate by the BBC and in bad taste.

By the way the audience on Twitter was far from a handful. It was several hundred thousand, many of whom would have been following her because they hold similar political views. They were likely to take the words seriously and react. Not treat them as a joke in bad taste.
 
Wisbech Eagle said:
Jo Brand, whether you find her funny or not, earns her money as a comedian. This was said as a follow up to Farage being hit by a milkshake with the idea that battery acid rather than milk was what he deserved. It obviously wasn’t a serious suggestion.

It was though a poor joke, held to be inappropriate by the BBC and in bad taste.

By the way the audience on Twitter was far from a handful. It was several hundred thousand, many of whom would have been following her because they hold similar political views. They were likely to take the words seriously and react. Not treat them as a joke in bad taste.
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Surely the other way around or it was an incitement to violence.
 
georgenorman said:
Meanwhile you simply dismiss calls by a black South African President to machine-gun white people. If you didn't have double standards you would have no standards at all.
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If ever there were such calls then I would condemn them unreservedly.

As there aren’t, I cannot.

An individual singing a song from the days of apartheid which to some retains a place in their cultural heritage, is not making a call today for violence. Added to that is the fact that the government has recognised that the song is now offensive and inappropriate and has banned their members from using it.
 
Wisbech Eagle said:
Do you think anyone would take this from Jo Brand seriously?

It was bad taste, but come on! It was a joke based on her intense dislike of Farage. Little different to suggesting someone should fall under a bus, or take a long walk on a short pier.
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No more than I think anybody should take seriously much that any celebrity says but suggesting someone should have acid thrown at them, particularly at a time when it has actually happened to others, is different to a generic dismissal. Excusing one case while endorsing a lengthy prison sentence for another seems contrary.
 
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Wisbech Eagle said:
Jo Brand, whether you find her funny or not, earns her money as a comedian. This was said as a follow up to Farage being hit by a milkshake with the idea that battery acid rather than milk was what he deserved. It obviously wasn’t a serious suggestion.

It was though a poor joke, held to be inappropriate by the BBC and in bad taste.

By the way the audience on Twitter was far from a handful. It was several hundred thousand, many of whom would have been following her because they hold similar political views. They were likely to take the words seriously and react. Not treat them as a joke in bad taste.
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So it would have been ok if Lucy Connolly had said throw battery acid at people in the hotels.
 
Wisbech Eagle said:
If ever there were such calls then I would condemn them unreservedly.

As there aren’t, I cannot.

An individual singing a song from the days of apartheid which to some retains a place in their cultural heritage, is not making a call today for violence. Added to that is the fact that the government has recognised that the song is now offensive and inappropriate and has banned their members from using it.
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It was literally what he chanted - the President of South Africa. Very similar to the broadcasts made in Rwanda that triggered the massacres in 1994.
 
georgenorman said:
So it would have been ok if Lucy Connolly had said throw battery acid at people in the hotels.
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No because Lucy Connolly is, apparently, an unapologetic racist, whereas Jo Brand is a left wing “ commediene” so her comments should be taken as a joke.
WE last few posts on here sums up what I had previously said. How anyone can make an excuse for JB comments when he has admitted she has an intense dislike for him, beggars belief
 
Teddy Eagle said:
No more than I think anybody should take seriously much that any celebrity says but suggesting someone should have acid thrown at them, particularly at a time when it has actually happened to others, is different to a generic dismissal. Excusing one case while endorsing a lengthy prison sentence for another seems contrary.
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Except that one of those involved is a comedian, the other a political activist with hundreds of thousands of followers.

Neither is excused. One though is more dangerous than the other.
 
georgenorman said:
It was literally what he chanted - the President of South Africa. Very similar to the broadcasts made in Rwanda that triggered the massacres in 1994.
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He is an ex President of South Africa who now leads a minority party. The government, and the ANC, have moved on from those sentiments which are rooted in the dark days of apartheid. The song now being classified as hate speech and banned from use by the ANC.

Neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Nigel Farage speak for the UK so why should any songs they might sing at rallies be seen as reflecting government policy?
 
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