Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "How Stonewall crumbled | The spiked podcast" video.

  1. When it comes to the women's football it's the absurd paradox that's being reflected across wider society. Much like the dreadful Stonewall's efforts this is little more than a divisive grift. When black women were over-represented in the previous decade of English football it was not an issue. In this current era they're apparently under-represented and it warrants serious consideration. Maybe how much melanin you have in your skin isn't the sole indicator of how proficient you might be at something? Just a thought? The late, great Martin Luther King must be turning in his grave at this seemingly interminable virtue signalling pantomime we're enduring today.
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  2. No fan of Starmer but my estimation of him went up by virtue of the truly awful, poisonous Owen Jones's vitriolic attack alone.
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  3.  @Justanotherandy63  Ditto NHS. Similarly, in the US, there is massive 'over-representation' by black players in the highly lucrative NBA and NFL. No-one bats an eyelid and nor should they. No sane person would say racism doesn't exist and no self-respecting person would say that it was ok, but the current environment only serves to sow division and give fuel to those who still believe that it is ok to hold and propagate those views.
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  4. Certainly no fan of Truss, but Sunak's fingerprints are all over this self-inflicted sh*tstorm.
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  5. And the history of lobotomies is particularly relevant and interesting here. The guy who 'invented' them won a Nobel Prize despite these procedures turning many into little more than vegetables, including Kennedy's already troubled sister. Whilst they're still used today in rare circumstances, their ubiquity in the 50s, 60s and 70s was horrific.
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  6. Too many white, middle class, metropolitan, over-educated so-called Lefties with saviour complexes out there I'm afraid.
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  7. Tarry was sacked because, as a frontbench MP and minister ie in shadow government he rejected the fundamental, long understood principle of collective responsibility that he signed up to. Right or wrong has nothing to do with it. Once acceptance of collective responsibility by aspiring goes then it's Game Over. Simples.
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