Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah stuck two fingers up to the anti-mixed race, anti-Muslim Mail and bigots like Aidan Burley MP with their Olympic golds last night.
.
So how’s that for an “absurdly unrealistic” representation of a mixed race girl and “plastic Brit” Somalia-born black Muslim male, Daily Mail? How’s that “leftie multi-cultural crap” schtick working out for ya Mr Burley?
What a sublime riposte to the haters, the racists, the bigots, to the Griffins, Mails and Burleys of the world, British athletics’s finest hour, a golden night to end the perfect day for Team GB – a night that not in our wildest dreams could we have imagined when awarded the Games seven years ago.
An evening, a day, to bring the country together, showing once the more the power of sport to unite, the power of the Olympics to showcase the best we’ve got to offer – with the prospect of more to come today, from Ed Clancy, Lewis Smith, Christine Ohuruogu, Ben Ainslie, Iain Percy, Andrew Simpson, Laura Robson and Andy Murray.
Alex Gregory, Pete Reed, Tom James, Andrew Triggs Hodge, Katherine Copeland, Sophie Hosking, Dani King, Laura Trott, Jo Rowsell, Jess Ennis, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah, we salute you all…
One Britain. New Britain. GREAT Britain.
69 Responses to “Olympic-tastic: Jess and Mo stick two fingers up to the anti-mixed race, anti-Muslim Mail”
mikhailabakunin
I agree with the sentiment of the piece, any chance to expose the bigoted fascists is welcome, but it was corporate and lottery money that put them there.
Q. Where is the funding for talented 10 year old’s in state schools?
A. Being used in Afghanistan.
Fred
If they’d used the real one it would have proved that the article was a load of c**p. So much for an evidence based blog.
Billb
The Daily Mail may have a point, but are unlikely ever to point to the root causes. Those countries that refuse to invest in the talents of their own people resort to poaching people from other countries. This lack of willingness to invest in people is rife in the UK and can be seen not only in sport, but in the NHS and manufacturing.
ivandenisovich
As long as the political classes keep banging on about race an religion, they will remain issues. Trying to claim the success of these people as some sort of victory for the left or the right is simply sad. Your failure to mention the fact that Greg Rutherford won a gold medal alongside these two is I assume a result of him being white and therefore not helpful to your cause. I suppose that the same principle also applies to the other 11 gold medals won so far. I am no fan of the Mail but I find this post nauseating. I would hope that both of the athletes you attempt to use to score your political points are big enough not to use their great success for political purposes. I suspect that they are.
Matthew
If you read the caption on the picture of the mock up, you’ll see that they are using it to bring Aidan Burley’s tweets to mind (and the general anti-immigration stance of the mail)…