An apology to the Rt Hon John Redwood MP
Regarding my blogpost: TORY MP CLAIMS DATE RAPE JUST “DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO LOVERS” of 24th October, 2017.
It has been brought to my attention (please see email correspondence below) in a post on my blog “Pride’s Purge” on the subject of the Rt Hon John Redwood MP claiming that DATE RAPE IS NOT REALLY RAPE BUT JUST A “DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO LOVERS” , that I made an untrue and defamatory statement about Mr Redwood, when he stated DATE RAPE IS NOT REALLY RAPE BUT JUST A “DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO LOVERS”.
In particular, in the course of writing the blog post about Mr Redwood’s assertion that DATE RAPE IS NOT REALLY RAPE BUT JUST A “DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO LOVERS”, I would like to unreservedly and sincerely apologise for stating Mr Redwood is a director of NM Rothschild bank.
I now acknowledge that in my article on Mr Redwood saying DATE RAPE IS NOT REALLY RAPE BUT JUST A “DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO LOVERS” there is no truth whatsoever to the statement that Mr Redwood is a director of NM Rothschild bank and I am happy to correct the position as follows:
Mr Redwood WAS not IS a director of NM Rothschild bank.
I would therefore like to offer my sincere and unreserved apologies to Mr Redwood for suggesting he is still a director of NM Rothschild bank and for any inconvenience and damage which this untrue statement on my blogpost about him saying DATE RAPE IS NOT REALLY RAPE BUT JUST A “DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO LOVERS” may have caused to him or to his reputation.
I am also happy to correct any impression I may have made on this blog that Mr Redwood IS A BIT OF A TWAT.
According to the Oxford English dictionary ‘twat’ is a vulgar synonym for a vagina.
As vaginas are rather nice and Mr Redwood quite clearly isn’t, I am sorry for any inconvenience and damage to his reputation which this untrue implication in my blog post may have caused him.
Thank you.
Thomas Pride
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MP claims date rape just “disagreement between two lovers”
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Ha ha ha ha I see what you’ve done there. I also noticed in the email replies from Redwood’s office that they say he’s a has been LMAO
Keep up the good work Tom
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Wow Tom….excellent put down! I love it!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
As ever you are on the ball.
I can visualise the author of the letter….it must have been a toffee-nosed Tory twerp
and a woman at that….to call you ‘sweetie’ in such a patronising ‘tone’.
Well done you!
John Redwood epitomises the Nasty Party for me.😱
Kindest regards,
Pat ❤️
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Can’t stop laughing.
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I would just like to apologise on behalf of Redacted of Posh. When Ms/Mr Redacted wrote, ‘learn to read sweetie’ that should have read, ‘Learn to read, sweetie’. Or, alternatively, if there is a magazine of that name, then perhaps, ‘Learn to read Sweetie’. In either case use of capital letters and commas is crucial to one’s understanding. However Mr Pride is now forever Sweetie in my heart.
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So the main concern was to correct the assertion about his banking associations? They don’t actually care that he said that date rape isn’t really rape? They should seriously get their priorities in order.
Also, Redacted of Posh is actually Missie from Doctor Who? I mean, I knew the Tories were scary, but wow.
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Should be apologising to vaginas, not the unspeakable turd and member for Wokingham.
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Haha, I just love your style!
But what was Yewtree saying above me, that Miss Redacted of Posh is Missy? I rather like Missy, as evil aliens go, but it would make sense for it to be her since our Right Dishonourable Prime Messer-Upper is, in fact, a Dalek.
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Well done Tom, you “sweetie” – please don’t be offended by such a condescending, sarcastic and totally inane comment from a senior parliamentary assistant. Good help is hard to find these days and intelligent ones almost impossible, especially in the parliamentary offices.
Either it’s a silly woman replying to you or a an even sillier effete and petty man(princess) of singularly diminished intellect. So a “wannabe” (something, anything at all), would be describing him(or her) in the future perfect tense? Or would it be simply a stated observable fact?
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what would Laura Branigan say?
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Gold. Fucking Gold. That’s just made my day. Thank you Tom.
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Hahaha ,brill 😀
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Due prominence; it’s not that difficult after all (for non-IPSO shareholders).
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The ability to take down the pompous with their own words – delicious. I think I’m in love.
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I take great offence to this use of a Twat, a vagina is a handy bit of a female anatomy, where as Redwood is a waste of space ..
As for the rest of the statement we all know what these pompous Tories are like full of shit.
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Oh this is so genius. Made my day.
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As a matter of fact Tom, as far as I can see, you didn’t actually say that he IS a director at Rothschild.
The word “fellow” does not assume concurrent activity. Redwood’s office manager seems to be a bit foggy about both grammar and vocabulary, as well as having an unfortunately patronising manner.
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By the way – “He has been a director at Rothschild for 20 years” is correct present perfect tense, but “He has been a director at Rothschild, but is now a reactionary and unfeeling bastard” is not. Of course I use these simply as grammar examples.
[Actually, both examples of “He has been …” are the present perfect tense. They are just different uses of it. You’re right in that the first expresses length of duration of a present activity and the second expresses life experience at some time in the past. Both present perfect though. I’m a grammar nerd so I can get VERY boring about these things!] – TOM
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According to this, I’d think authoritative, source:
https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/55
his directorship at Rothschilds was between 1985 and 1989, quite a long time ago Nevertheless Wikipedia says “He is employed by N M Rothschild & Sons” and this remains unchallenged by Mr Redwood or his minions.
It’s a puzzle. I suppose it’s possible that he’s still employed by Rothschilds but not as a director (and in an unpaid capacity since it doesn’t appear on the Register of Members interests). Or is it just that he thinks Wikipedia gets less traffic than you do, Mr Pride?
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“Have been” is the present perfect continuous tense, used to talk about a prolonged action that happened in the past and is still being carried out until present, or was just finished not too long ago.
[Not so simple I’m afraid, as @postageincluded explains below. “Have/Has been doing” is the present perfect continuous tense. “Have been” by itself is the present perfect simple tense of ‘to be’ or of ‘to go’.
“I have been living in London for 10 years” = present perfect continuous tense.
“I have been to London twice” = present perfect simple tense.] – TOM
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This week I ‘a’ been mostly eating sweeties, Sweetie.
Or was that ‘sweet tea’?
(I do know that ‘proper tea’ is theft. But I’m not blaming John Ridwood. Sorry, Redwood.)
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There’s some contested terminology concerning the tense system in English but I don’t think it’s at all usual to call “have been” a continuous tense. The continuous form would be “have been being” as in “I’m being a pedant about this now and I’ve been being a pedant about it for a very long time”.
“Have been being” is a pretty ugly construction and isn’t coding a particularly useful or common distinction so we tend to say “have been” even when logically we should say “have been being”. Some people would never use “have been being” at all as a verb, and I doubt it’s ever used as an auxiliary to form the passive, though it could be so used and the colloquial replacement “have been getting” is common enough.
In effect this makes “have been” ambiguous – it might be simple or continuous in meaning so the listener has to interpret the construction pragmatically according to context and experience. In the Redwood example I can only interpret “has been a director” without context as meaning “but isn’t now”, because otherwise he would definitely say he “is a director”. However because no dates are given I’d also expect the directorship to have been recent otherwise he’d state the dates or use the past “was”.
I think this is a sort of cultivated ambiguity. He wants to crow about his bank job without letting on that it was decades ago. You might say he was trying to have his cake and eat it.
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Where does ‘strong and stable’ fit in? Grammatically. Is it ‘future conditional’?
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Tom – Are you up for a grammar nerd-off? See http://www.ef.co.uk/english-resources/english-grammar/present-perfect/
Besides, real nerds don’t realise that they’re nerds.
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Your response is fantastice. Too funny. Keep it up – please. #JC4PM
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The Tories: leadership you can take to the bank — the Rothschild bank!
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Redwood’s a LOT of a twat.
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