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(Not satire. Or is it? I don’t know any more.)
The right-wing press has been getting its collective knickers in a twist recently over the large numbers of British people wanting to celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher – and they’ve decided to focus on one person in particular – namely one Romany Blythe who set up a Facebook page called The Witch Is Dead Party.
And what angle have the right-wing press taken to express their outrage?
That Romany apparently admits to once having had a boob job.
I promise you this is not satire, here’s the Daily Mail’s bizarre article from today:
Drama teacher who organised Thatcher death parties reveals she had NHS breast implants
I am outraged.
Because the original idea behind this blog was to juxtapose real political stories with satirical ones in order to highlight just how ridiculous most UK politics and the coverage of it by the mainstream press can be.
But I ask you – how on Earth am I supposed to compete with genius self-satirisation like that?
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Rot in Hell, Thatcher!!
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I sympathise with your outrage, Tom: it seems that these days satire is being sold to the lowest bidder and I blame Mrs T. for THAT as well 🙂
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Romany Blythe “they danced in the streets when Hitler died too”, well there are a lot of little hitlers in politics at the moment so plenty of partying to come, yeah!
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This is why Tom Lehrer retired from satire when they gave Kissinger the Nobel peace Prize.
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the mail is a boob job, because of all the tits who run it..
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Yeah, blue tits!
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And……..???????
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radio 5 1am this morning…richard holdsworthy….
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soo sorry richard longsworth
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You couldn’t make this up. She used the NHS for a medical procedure and thereby committed herself to life long silence. I’ve got an outpatient appointment soon – need to get the glue out!
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my point is once all of substance is destroyed….that there is nothing left to occupy their tiny minds with….except to nitpick…
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Oh the outrage! I bet she’s even drank wine on the occasional Friday too. I’d mark her down as a potential terrorist!.
Strange how the Mail doesn’t give the same distasteful media coverage to the much larger fake tits that reside in our Cabinet…..
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What?
No fatuous farts from “matt”?
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guy fawkes: Romany ( nice name) may have a point, but Hitler’s victims numbered in the higher millions. Incidentally, Hitler didn’t much like gypsies, either! –I would make a distinction though between professional gypsies (Dale Farm), New Age Travellers ( Young Mystics), Hippies (Peace and Love Outdoor Music worshippers) and Greenham Common women (anti- Nukes) protesters; does anyone still remember what happened at Stonehenge in 1985 when New Age travellers in coloured buses descended on a field for a free music festival and Maggie ordered in her strong arm police to violently turf them away? It became known as Battle of Beanfield, and is still on Youtube. Romany Blythe would perhaps be too young to have been there.
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