B*LLOCKS TO BLAIR!

In the increasingly NuLabour controlled police state that the UK is morphing into - it is now deemed an offense to wear a t-shirt that says, well..you can read, can't you? It seems that a  girl was arrested for wearing her “Bollocks to Blair” T-shirt at the Midlands Game Fair last weekend. Charlotte Denis, 20, a gamekeeper from Gloucestershire, was stopped by police as she left the Countryside Alliance stand because of the “offensive” slogan.

How DARE she poke fun at President Blair! I mean free speech has it's place - but if you are going to attack our wise and glorious leader, well.....pay the price. How I love liberals when they show their totalitarian instincts.

Comments

[DST]

All true... but it was a vulgar and juvenile t-shirt - and the fact that someone feels they can wear such a garment shows how much our culture is coarsening.

Of course it's none of the police's business - *she* should have known not to wear the T.

[Colm]

DST

Agreed exactly, which is I think the point David missed.

Recently I saw a family in the street , mum dad and 2 kids and one of the children who could have been no more than 9 was wearing a T shirt which simply said "Fu**ing C**t" but without the asterix's and I though what sort of parents are happy to allow a child to wear a t shirt like that.

I would have been perfectly happy to see the police arresting those 2 idiots who do not deserve to be parents.

[DST]

Hi Colm.

Yes - and that FCUK thing... Not only juvenile but also not *funny*. At all. Good to see French Connection, which still clings to the FCUK branding, is now doing very badly.

[Madradin Ruad]

What I find galling is that people can wear T Shirts and badges glorifying Terrorism....

[DST]

Well any sloganeering on t-shirts is a bore... And the psychology behind it is pretty weird.

Look at me! I care so much I bought the t-shirt!

Who cares!

If you really *do* care about something... write to the Telegraph!

That's my answer to everything today, of course.

[Colm]

MR

Well it just so happens that the govt. are gojng to introduce laws about that...

[Jo]

...more nanny state laws?:)

[DST]

Jo - you don't strike me as the kind of young woman who'd engage in vulgar or provocative t-shirt wearing.

I see you in a jersey twin-set - very much like myself...

[Madradin Ruad]

Colm - what chance they would be enforced ?
It would upset Sinn Féin and reduce their income from their online shop - heavens to Betsy, the loss of income might even drive them to crime ! ;)

[Jo]

DST:
That sort of thing is too common for me, the sort of thing one sees at Millisle in the summer months.. ;)

[DST]

Millisle?
Standard wear is Farah slacks and a grey polyester v-neck jumper. (Worn over a "Save Larne from Sodomy" t-shirt)

[Colm]

Think I might prefer a "Save Sodomy from Larne" t-shirt myself!

[Jo]

Colm:

You are getting a very bad impression of a town you have probably have never been to. Lucky you, I say ;)

[DST]

After this blog-theme... people will *hear* "Larne" - but they'll *think* "sodomy". (And "Stranraer" too, of course).

Serves Larne right!

[Colm]

I am sure Larne is probably one of the most beautiful picturesque civilised and genteel places in Northern Ireland!

[Madradin Ruad]

Colm - It's on a par with Dundalk. Yes, it's that bad! After all it's where The RC Church exiled Pat Buckley :)

[DST]

At least Dundalk is now by-passable...

And I went to a fun wedding there once. Or maybe that was Drogheda...

[Peter]

DV, perhaps the 82 year old heckler being ejected from the Labour Party conference would give you a stronger argument on the topic of freedom of speech (lack of).

See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4291388.stm

[David Vance]

DST/Colm/Peter,

I do accept your points - it was a vulgar display and we could with much less coarseness in this land.

Peter,

Most definetely. I've been away all day and am too tired to post on it tonight.