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Chris

30-10-2010 16:40

Harperson: Equality apparently doesn't extend as far as gingers

Quote:

Originally Posted by BBC

Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman has apologised for branding Chief Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander a "ginger rodent".
Ms Harman - a former equalities minister - made the comments at the Scottish Labour conference in Oban.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...itics-11658228

At least her personal spin doctor had the good sense to send out a press release telling everyone Hattie has apologised. Although I don't imagine she's going to get up in front of the Party faithful in Oban and make her apology as loudly as she made her original comments.

Silly person.

martyh

30-10-2010 16:54

Re: Harperson: Equality apparently doesn't extend as far as gingers

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35115566)

I heard this on the news this afternoon driving up the A19 from work and nearly crashed the van :D .

Ignitionnet

30-10-2010 16:56

Re: Harperson: Equality apparently doesn't extend as far as gingers

He's male. Enough said.

Mr_love_monkey

30-10-2010 17:14

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he _does_ look like a rodent though...

martyh

30-10-2010 17:15

Re: Harperson: Equality apparently doesn't extend as far as gingers

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Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey (Post 35115587)

he _does_ look like a rodent though...

and he's definately ginger

Pierre

30-10-2010 18:20

Re: Harperson: Equality apparently doesn't extend as far as gingers

He's a ginger chinless wonder

Maggy

30-10-2010 18:24

Re: Harperson: Equality apparently doesn't extend as far as gingers

I should imagine that he has a thicker skin than most MPs if the bullying he has endured growing up matches up to some of the comments already posted here.

Tezcatlipoca

30-10-2010 18:29

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http://twitter.com/dannyalexander/status/29188404196

Quote:

Originally Posted by Danny Alexander via Twitter

I am proud to be ginger and rodents do valuable work cleaning up mess others leave behind. Red squirrel deserves to survive, unlike Labour

martyh

30-10-2010 18:33

Re: Harperson: Equality apparently doesn't extend as far as gingers

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Originally Posted by Matt D (Post 35115622)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Danny Alexander via Twitter
I am proud to be ginger and rodents do valuable work cleaning up mess others leave behind. Red squirrel deserves to survive, unlike Labour

http://twitter.com/dannyalexander/status/29188404196

class answer :D

Chris

30-10-2010 18:42

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Yes ... alexander has taken the comment in good humour. Sad that the comment clearly wasn't offered in good humour. It made for unpleasant viewing to be honest, with Hattie lapping up the sychophantic cheering from the floor.

Although the two decidedly gingerish women on the platform are clearly not as amused as their colleagues:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1288464093

Tezcatlipoca

30-10-2010 18:46

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...-ginger-rodent

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guardian

The joke about Alexander, the MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, was greeted with laughter in the hall. However, it backfired as Harman found herself accused of insulting all Scotland's redheads.

George Lyon, Scottish Liberal Democrat election chair, said: "There are no depths to which Labour will not stoop. They aren't fit to be in opposition, let alone in government."

The SNP also hit out at the Labour deputy leader over her "childish abuse" of Alexander. Nationalist MSP Shirley-Anne Somerville said the high number of redheads in Scotland meant the "silly remark isn't anti-Danny or anti-Lib Dem, it's anti-Scottish".

Ms Somerville, herself a redhead, said: "It's a gaffe that is overshadowing what Iain Gray thinks should be his big day. Coming from the doyenne of po-faced political correctness, these remarks show she and Labour have lost the plot since losing the election."

Stupid enough comment to make anyway, but to say it in a country in which the hair colour in question is rather common was even more stupid.

Maggy

30-10-2010 19:17

Re: Harperson: Equality apparently doesn't extend as far as gingers

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Originally Posted by Matt D (Post 35115636)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...-ginger-rodent

Stupid enough comment to make anyway, but to say it in a country in which the hair colour in question is rather common was even more stupid.

Twas a stupid comment in view of how many are citizens across the UK as a whole as well as in her constituency.:rolleyes:

Osem	30-10-2010 20:55

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Harman is just as obnoxious and bigoted as any of the MCP brigade the behviour of whom she claims to despise.

Paul	30-10-2010 23:58

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Seems rather like a whole bunch of people, totally unrelated to the comment are (as usual) getting offended on behalf of the actual target - who seems to have taken it on the chin and replied rather well.

Maggy

31-10-2010 00:46

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Originally Posted by Paul M (Post 35115790)

Well coming from a stand up comic maybe Paul..but not from an MP and to be honest having seen how youngsters who are ginger get bullied relentlessly about their hair colour I can't help but be offended on their behalf.Substitute black for ginger or even the N word and it might make some sense of how it is offensive.

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