Insulting Tom insults us all
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EU BOSS Ursula von der Leyen becomes more ridiculous by the day. Instead of apologising to the EU’s
446 million inhabitants for her incompetence over the vaccine rollout scandal, she’s now claiming the EU (her) didn’t move too slowly in authorising and ordering vaccines – it was the UK who moved too fast, ignoring safety and efficacy requirements.
Apart from the fact that not a single credible scientist supports that lie, Ursula also claims HER way with vaccines (the snail’s pace way) is safer.
Seriously, this woman shouldn’t be in charge of a supermarket let alone the EU superstate. Her incompetence over the vaccines means that, as we speak, thousands more EU citizens are dying that didn’t need to. And while they’re dying, all the woman who could have saved them is doing is desperately trying to save the bloc’s tattered reputation along with her own sorry backside! ■ I’D NEVER heard of Rufus Hound until a couple of weeks ago. Now me and everyone else know him as the idiot from Dancing On Ice who was nearly chucked off the show because of racial and anti-Semitic slurs he’d previously posted on Twitter.
He survived that but this week was photographed out in a park with his two kids while he was supposed to be isolating at home waiting for the results of a Covid test – which proved to be positive.
So how many people has he infected, I wonder?
In recent days Dancing On Ice bosses introduced a rule change that said anyone testing positive was off the show. Many believe that was to get rid of the liability that is Hound. It’s a smart move. The man’s a dangerous combination of selfishness and stupidity!
HARD to know where to start on clergyman Jarel Robinson-Brown. This is the vicar who dismissed the commemoration of Captain Sir Tom Moore as “a cult of white British nationalism”, and said: “I will offer prayers for the repose of his kind and generous soul but I will not be joining the national clap.”
So at a stroke this so-called Man of God has insulted the work and the memory of a man who, with humour, courage, modesty and stoicism, united our nation in these desperate times. He also insulted those of us who chose to clap for him, slating us as “white nationalists”.
And don’t let his use of the words “kind and generous soul” kid you that this cleric might himself be in possession of either. Yes, he apologised but only because he was told to.The Diocese of London called his remarks “unacceptable, insensitive and ill-judged” and said: “His apology does not undo the hurt he has caused, not least to Capt Sir Tom’s family.”
Too right it doesn’t. He insulted the memory of a man brimming with goodness who, in one short year of his remarkable life, achieved more than this toytown activist ever will.
His real vileness was using Capt Sir Tom’s achievements as a political weapon to wield his own prejudices and bigotry and to air his grievances about nationalism and white people in general. An organisation called OneBodyOneFaith – of which he is vice-chairman – said of him: “He is committed to a church which truly includes all of God’s people and offers embrace and welcome to everyone without reserve.”
Well, his Church might, but he doesn’t – at least not to the people HE’s decided are white nationalists. Robinson-Brown was entitled to disagree with the national clap – many did (albeit for petty reasons). What he’s not entitled to do is use it to push his own (some would say racist) agenda or to insult those who did clap. It’s not the job of a 29-year-old supposed holy man to make political
■ capital off the back of an old man who tried, with every ounce of his remaining strength, to do some good in this world.
Perhaps if this gay, black activist had spent more time among parishioners, he’d have understood Capt Sir Tom wasn’t just about walking or raising money to them. He represented something much bigger, something more godly and holy.
He represented kindness, humanity, decency, selflessness, all of which the clergy is supposed to be about, although clearly not in RobinsonBrown’s case. And for a man whose job it is to help, connect with and work with people, he seems to have zero idea about how the masses feel or about the national mood.And the mood about his vile comments has been one of rage.
He embarrassed himself, his Church and he’s undermined the role of the clergy and all the good work they do.
Robinson-Brown just doesn’t get that Capt Sir Tom was a better human being than he will ever be (he didn’t judge for a start) and that people are, and always will be, proud of him. He doesn’t get how badly he has insulted decent, ordinary people – of all colours – whose crime was to celebrate this incredible man.
Perhaps if he spent less time trying to make a name for himself and more on working out why the Anglican Church now attracts less than two per cent of the population to regular worship (although with vicars like him, it’s clear why), there might actually be a point to him.
But, nah, trashing 100-yearold national heroes and insulting the people who loved him is more his style!
VERSACE is selling a travel mug for £765. It’s a crystalencrusted aluminium mug emblazoned in red and gold, which the company says, “epitomises Versace’s glamour”. No, it epitomises the gaudy, garish tackiness
Versace has become famous for
AND the gullibility of those willing to pay nearly £800 for a travel mug!
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BILLIE Piper has made her Hollywood directorial debut in a movie called Rare Beast – due out in May – which she also wrote and stars in. Well, here’s hoping it’s better than her last offering, I Hate Suzie, which she co-wrote with Secret Diary Of A Call Girl writer Lucy Prebble and was the biggest load of tripe I’ve seen in years.
It revolved around Ms Piper’s life teetering on the edge after compromising photos of her were leaked on to social media. It also involved her having lots of sex. Much the same as in Secret Diary and, it seems, in Rare Beast where, as one reviewer says, her life is “teetering on the edge” (yawn – again) and she’s having problems with her sex life.
Change the record, luv...