Godfrey Bloom
Too quick to quip
To a waiting room
Upset UKIP
But much worse -
And infinitely seedier,
Is the "outraged" curse
Of a modern media.
Manipulating words like 'sluts'
Removing proper context,
Minus any 'ifs' and 'buts'...
Who knows whatever's on next?
You cannot hope
To bribe or twist - (they say!)
The British journalist
But seeing what the breed will do
Unbribed - there's no occasion to. (with acks.)
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I'll bet a new pound to an old penny that the
media were assuming that modern sensibilities
would equate "sluts" with "tarts" or "whores".
Enough said!
Harry - thanks for the comments and the observation on the stanza in question.
Lads,
If `slut` means means doing the housework - un-beautified from last nights dance - as nearly all women still do (besides being a nice little outside earner) then I`m all for it...Call me a chauvinistic pig.
I`m all for it!
For pete`s sake boys, how do you think we`reall able to exist!
(so long as she doesn`t make too much noise as I`m watchin` this derby)
By the way M.C. that third stanza`s a metrical little corker!
Bloom behaved unlike the politicians we have
become used to - but I wonder how a certain
John Prescott (or George Brown of old) might
have reacted?
The BBC ran a ticker-tape news item on a continuous thread along the bottom of its News
24 screen accusing Bloom of describing women as
sluts. This misleading generalisation was the subject of my dissatisfaction with the type
of misleading reporting we get - less so,
the childish stuff about the cover of the UKIP brochure. Bloom should have merely smiled
and remarked how good the pictures were!
As for "sluts", he was speaking in the context of the conversation IN the room he occupied when
badinage/banter was understandable, albeit not
usually heard from a "politician". Slut, of
course, is defined as an untidy or slovenly
woman. He could have used the term "slattern"
and had the reporters scratching their heads!
All parties attract "fruitcakes". That's par
for the society we have created for ourselves
today, when we are so quick to take a position - and take offence...yet are so concerned about
giving offence we let kids and old folk die in vile circumstances because we don't want to challenge others for fear of being labelled this or that type of person. Baaaa!
It wasn't the media that sacked Bloom but the Ukip hierarchy, MC. I actually agree with you that the 'sluts' remark was taken a tad out of context. But he was on borrowed time after his 'bong-bongo land' remark, I would imagine, from a party leadership trying to appear more mainstream, and not crammed full of fruitcakes, even though, of course, they still are. Anyway, I hope you don't include the hard-working operatives at Write Out Loud in your poetic assault on the media. I note that Bloom was unable to bottle it up any longer and laid into one reporter with a copy of the Ukip brochure. Your kind of guy?
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Cynthia Buell Thomas
Tue 1st Oct 2013 12:33
I totally agree that the word was taken out of context within 'social banter'. It wasn't smart. but it wasn't dreadful either, in the circumstances. The women in the group probably laughed. You'll notice the actual clip appeared very fast and only once, that I saw. In the correct meaning of the word 'slut', most of us girls (and guys) qualify at some time or other. I do have a problem with whether or not Bloom knew the difference between 'slut' and 'whore'. Maybe that's really where the UKIP gang had the inner knowledge, and needed to cut their ties asap.