The Mail went all Aidan Burley last night with an unsubtle race-baiting attack on the Olympics opening ceremony, reports Shamik Das.
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The Mail went all Aidan Burley last night with an unsubtle race-baiting attack on the Olympics opening ceremony.
The paper said the Nazi party Tory MP was “right to point out on Twitter that it was a load of ‘leftie multicultural crap'”, hitting out at the “absurdly unrealistic” representation of a “mixed-race middle-class family in a detached new-build suburban home”, the “politically correct agenda in modern Britain” and the “multicultural equality agenda”.
They then amended some of those offensive lines – within 20 minutes of the initial post – but not before freelance writer John Walker had screengrabbed the initial article.
Here are the original despicable paragraphs in full – printed by a national newspaper, in Britain, in 2012:
“It was the absurdly unrealistic scene – and indeed one that would spring from the kind of nonsensical targets and equality quotas we see in the NHS – showing a mixed-race middle-class family in a detached new-build suburban home, which was most symptomatic of the politically correct agenda in modern Britain.
“This was supposed to be a representation of modern life in England but it is likely to be a challenge for the organisers to find an educated white middle-aged mother and black father living together with a happy family in such a set-up.
“Almost, if not every, shot in the next sequence included an ethnic minority performer. The BBC presenter Hazel Irvine gushed about the importance of grime music (a form of awful electronic music popular among black youths) to east London. This multicultural equality agenda was so staged it was painful to watch.
“And Conservative MP Aidan Burley was right to point out on Twitter that it was a load of ‘leftie multicultural c**p’. Yet predictably he has been castigated by Twitter’s Guadanista [sic] brigade.
“Unfortunately the kind of politically driven multiculturalism we saw last night is the kind of social engineering we have come to expect.”
Just. In. Credible. Just when you might think the Mail couldn’t possibly get any worse.
• Wrong again: The Daily Mail claim wind farms change the weather 2 May 2012
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• The Mail’s rent-a-rev called for gays to be tattooed with health warnings 27 Oct 2011
• Coogan: “If the Daily Mail went to the wall tomorrow I’d be delighted” 13 Oct 2011
• Exposed: The Mail-inspired Dispatches hatchet job on Blair 26 Sep 2011
As someone tweeted on Friday night in response to Burley’s outrage (and even more so in the case of the Mail given their history):
“Did you prefer the opening ceremony of the Berlin Olympics?”
106 Responses to “Mail back Burley in attack on opening ceremony’s “absurdly unrealistic” mixed-race family”
Stephen Wigmore
It was noticeable that there were a lot of Black performers but very few Asian and East Asian performers. But I presume that’s just a function of the fact they were recruiting in East London rather than some deliberate multiculturalist conspiracy. People need to calm down, it was a glorified variety show, not a political manifesto or a sociological tract. Both the Daily Mail and Aiden Burley should calm the fuck down.
Anonymous
Of course we can. The Government has refused to build housing even with zero-immigration, has refused to utilise nuclear power, has refused to stop the City from edging out other areas of the economy… refusal is NOT inability.
The vast, vast, majority of the workers you’re referring to are White British, your agenda against the poor is clear. Typical far right attempts to cover up your attack on White British people by screaming “immigrants”.
BiggertiggeR
*weary sigh* i DO listen…that’s why i know the difference between fact and propaganda. please look at the true figures and truths behind them before you comment on them…it’s very tiring LISTENING to ill informed rants… your focus on ‘state dependent families’ etc highlights your AGENDA…so too does your ‘impending doom’ tone…..i’m sure the word ‘swamping’ bounces around your alarmist mind too often too….
These ‘tells’ TELL us where you are coming from….and of your prejudices…..
Anonymous
No, they should have their citizenship stripped because of them, if they hate this country so much.
Anonymous
I assume your suggestion is to construct habitations on farm land, such a genius proposal. I’ll repeat myself, England is SMALL.