Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Victoria Coren called my joke RACIST - here's my response" video.
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@0:49 It was an unpaid debt the UK owed Iran; Kearse conveniently omits to mention this key point. @0:55 So only working-class people go on hunger-strikes? Staggering inverted snobbery. @1:15 Kearse again talks of the £400 million pounds like it was a ransom; it wasn’t; to repeat, it was a debt we hadn’t paid for 44 years, and although this was unable to be paid due to EU sanctions relating to Iranian nuclear weapons, this doesn’t absolve the UK of money they should have returned to Iran at the earliest opportunity decades ago. @1:53 For the third time Kearse talks of the money as a kind of ransom; it wasn’t, but that for him to admit that would be to let the facts get in the way of his tendentious narrative. @2:32 Yes, she was kidnapped by Iran but they made it explicitly clear from the outset that the price of her release would be the money the UK owed Iran; so, technically she’s being held in Iran, but because the UK didn’t pay a debt they should have decades ago, and if they had paid this debt, she would have been released. Ergo, the UK is actually very culpable here. @6:19 I think that’s the 5th time Kearse repeats this as if it wasn’t money we already owed the Iranians - it’s a bit like me lending Kearse hundred quid back in the day, requesting my loan back, him refusing, so I kidnap his mother until he pays me what I’m due. If he pays me my money back, he can have his mother back. Simple. @6:30 Yes, but why Leo? You’re really not very good at this, are you? @6:52 And again. @7:18 Wow! Spectacular case of patronising your audience there, Leo. You might not know what Farsi is, but don’t presume that for the rest of us. @7:32 Hypocrite alert! ‘Classism’ in others, when Kearse has just laid into Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband for his ‘fast’. Pot, kettle, black doesn’t cover it. @10:14 This point is Kearse’s Achilles Heel; with a script he’s like a C-rate Frankie Boyle without the real insight; on GB News he comes across as laboured, uninformed and clearly not able to operate well without a script; ad-libbing wittily seems to be beyond him. Even on stage he embarrassingly reads about 10 minutes of a routine which is on YouTube; someone with 23 other hours in the day who can’t be arsed learning his lines smacks of laziness at best, cocky arrogance at worst.
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