Brighton Council Leader Reports the Spectator to the Police
The leader of Brighton Council appears to have too much time on her hands, as she has reported Spectator Editor Michael Gove and columnist Rod Liddle to the police for “incitement to terrorism” after Liddle joked about nuking Brighton. The Spectator‘s Mr Steerpike has the story.
It seems that some people really can’t take a joke… In the magazine this week, Rod Liddle wistfully contemplated the idea of nuking Glastonbury, pointing out that a small-yield nuclear weapon dropped on the festival “would immediately remove from our country almost everybody who is hugely annoying”. Rod added, for good measure:
I am not saying that we should do this, of course – it would be a horrible, psychopathic thing to do. I am merely hypothesising, in a slightly wistful kinda way. One on Glasto, one on Brighton, and the UK would soon begin its recovery, with only a few chunks of gently glowing cobalt 60 left to remind us of what we are missing.
Mr S is willing to bet that most people reading this did not actually think that Rod or the Spectator were endorsing the use of weapons of mass destruction. Even so, it appears some of our local politicians are taking Rod’s bomb ‘threat’ quite seriously.
This weekend, the Labour leader of Brighton and Hove county council, Bella Sankey (who clearly has far too much time on her hands) tweeted that she was reporting both Rod and the Spectator‘s editor, Michael Gove, to Sussex Police for “incitement to terrorism”:
Oh dear. Another Left-wing sense of humour fail.
Worth reading in full.
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But this is not one of approved jokes as defined by your caring, tolerant, diverse and inclusive lefties.
Westminster should be defined as a place for the criminally insane and have most of the lefties certified.
It will be interesting to compare the authorities’ response to this with their response to the death chants at Glastonbury.
So true.
Good point well made.
We already know the answer of course…
Oh ye gods……. Ms Skankey needs to get a life. Talk about taking yourself too seriously. Head firmly in hands. What do you think Brighton’s “right on” coppers will do?
I would guess she is more comfortable living other peoples lives for them.
Lighten up you dem””ted lefty.
Is she a DEI hire? as she appears not to be very mentally bright, in my day they were called Simple, and were looked after, but didn’t get to be in power, how things have changed the lunatics are really in charge of the asylum.
Hopefully she has been relieved of her post, and something with more intelligence has been put in her place, like a plank of wood for example
Are you sure it is a ‘she’? It is Brighton one of the leading alphabetty spaghetti perv cities after all.
She looks like a demon from Hades. Oh my, she’ll get the police to waste even more of their time knocking on my door.
Will the great copper Sir Mark Rowley send 6 plods to Liddle’s house while claiming he doesn’t have enough plods to police non-crime, non-hate non-incidents?
I’m diagnosing a particularly virulent case of f*cktsrditis.🩺 Make lobotomies great again.⛏
You can’t fix stupid. Hope that’s not too hurty….
not even with duct tape?
“Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough”
Can Sir John Betjeman be posthumously stripped of his knighthood?
(Perhaps I shouldn’t give the Brighton Council leader ideas!)
come friendly bombs and fall on Brighton,
they haven’t brains to switch a light on
their council’s always been a sh*te one
swarm over, death
While I think this is a ridiculous course of action by the council leader, imagine what would have happened, had Jeremy Corbyn ‘jokingly’ suggested that nuking Jerusalem would greatly increase the chances of people from Gaza to sleep henceforth undisturbed.
The Spectator would almost certainly have gone totally ballistic over that.
Ballistic? That’s so last millennium. Remote UAVs these days, doncherno?
But read what he said. He clearly says it would be a stupid thing to do therefore clarifying it as a joke immediately.
Why do you believe this would contradict anything I wrote?
I don’t think the Spectator, with its 150% pro-Israel position, would accept such a joke as “just a joke”, especially not when coming from an “antisemitic” left-wing politician. In my opinion, they’d be exactly as humourlessly offended – or at least pretend to be – as this Labour politician.
It’s probably not worth replying to supposition.
I hope she has not read the late Sir John Betjeman’s poem about Slough…..!
Ms Sankey is what you get when you combine a complete lack of a sense of humour with weapons-grade stupidity.
Bella Sankeytimonious shirley ?
“Come friendly bombs and fall on Sodom on Sea” after Betjeman
I want to know where Rod Liddle keeps his stash of small battle theatre nuclear warheads? I hope there in a locked cabinet!
Personally, I wouldn’t mind people like Rod Liddle being nuked purely because of their anti vaxxer stance.
What a horrible piece of work he and his ilk are.
Your true personality was shown when it came to covid insanity and he was one of the worst. A human being utterly beneath contempt.
-Only joking about the nuke bit. Honest.
Never forget. Never forgive.
A stance which has been proven correct time after time; except in the minds of fools.
Do you mean a man that had courage of his convictions and didn’t bow to the lies and deception. I didn’t realize that there are still people like you around. Do you live in Brighton?
Although physiognomy is supposed to be a bogus science, I have to say that she’s got a very leftie face.
Likewise Bob Vylan whatisname Pascal looks like a right thug.
Bella Sankey (who clearly has far too much time on her hands), and too few brains in her head.
It’s alright for you lot – I have to live under that shower. They’re marginally better than the Greens they replaced, but that’s like saying Stalin was marginally better than Hitler.
Coordinates please. You wouldn’t believe what I’ve got in my shed.
We are putting chavs and low IQ people into positions they are not suited for. Also, a lot of women are really not up to the rough and tumble of power. Nature knows this and that is why males are usually in the decision making roles.
I’m up for a crowd fund for Rod
Remove John Betjemen’s poetry from the library and burn them.
Bella fits the usual diversity pick for Skunkville on Sea. The previous Green dear leader was a gay called Phelin MacCafferty [Yes. Really]. Bella and others were horrified when one of her fellow councillors expressed doubts about violent transistors really being women. She was sent on a re education course. Brighton police used to send their PR plod to Stonewall meetings. Meanwhile the roads don’t need humping. Cars have to go slow to avoid potholes. Expect Rod to be investigated.
I guess anything said to or about a person could be taken as hateful, so I think we should embrace the idea and report every minor infraction to the police. The reasoning being that it is impossible for a layman to interpret the spirit of the law, especially laws made by people with single brain cells or less.
She looks like she has a speech defect and a mind defect.