I…don’t…what?!?
Is that genuine or a joke? I can’t always tell with the British.
But that was just so… so Monty Python, you know?
This cannot possibly be a real thing in the world?
Any UKians willing to help, like, please?!?
Duncsays
The Sunday Sport is a notorious spoof tabloid, so it’s kind of a joke… Presumably they’re satirising the equally notorious (but unfortunately serious) Daily Mail article which described Ralph Miliband as a “man who hated Britain” trying to drive “a hammer and sickle through the heart of the nation”.
I would assume that Ed’s response to the Sport article is not intended to be taken seriously. It’s a humorous way of hitting back at the tabloids without actually dignifying the scum with a serious response.
resident_aliensays
Ah,so! Thanks a lot Dunc, I genuinely wasn’t sure. Because some tabloid rags
(British or otherwise) sometimes print crap that is indistinguishable from satire.
And some of their editorial staff probably do think Belgian is a language.
So that’s your good deed for today, LOL!
I hadn’t realised The Sunday Sport still existed. For a while it was taken seriously by some people, but it didn’t take long for most of us to realise it was a spoof. About 20 years ago it had a front page story with the headline “WWII bomber found on the moon.” A week later it ran the story “WWII bomber on the moon disappears!” with quotes from spokespeople from NASA, Jodrell Bank etc. saying that there were no signs of the bomber being there.
It was his videoed acceptance/thank you speech for The Spectator’s politician of the year awards.
He’d won best political speech, which makes me think it wasn’t a great year for speech’s.
Also, the Sunday Sport always claims to be a real newspaper so the “satire” tag above is misplaced.
This is a real story that has appeared in a real tabloid newspaper, much to my shame.
Silisays
I would have thought “Singing in Belgian” was the giveaway. But then I remembered tabloids …
I…don’t…what?!?
Is that genuine or a joke? I can’t always tell with the British.
But that was just so… so Monty Python, you know?
This cannot possibly be a real thing in the world?
Any UKians willing to help, like, please?!?
The Sunday Sport is a notorious spoof tabloid, so it’s kind of a joke… Presumably they’re satirising the equally notorious (but unfortunately serious) Daily Mail article which described Ralph Miliband as a “man who hated Britain” trying to drive “a hammer and sickle through the heart of the nation”.
I would assume that Ed’s response to the Sport article is not intended to be taken seriously. It’s a humorous way of hitting back at the tabloids without actually dignifying the scum with a serious response.
Ah,so! Thanks a lot Dunc, I genuinely wasn’t sure. Because some tabloid rags
(British or otherwise) sometimes print crap that is indistinguishable from satire.
And some of their editorial staff probably do think Belgian is a language.
So that’s your good deed for today, LOL!
Ohhh – I didn’t get that either. *snort* I’d never heard of the Sunday Sport.
If it weren’t for the giveaway reference to the Sunday Sport it would be hard to tell it was satire, seeing as this is an example of a genuine Daily Mail headline: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2041518/JAMES-DELINGPOLE-How-BBC-fell-Marxist-plot-destroy-civilisation-within.html
Can anyone here speak Swiss?
I hadn’t realised The Sunday Sport still existed. For a while it was taken seriously by some people, but it didn’t take long for most of us to realise it was a spoof. About 20 years ago it had a front page story with the headline “WWII bomber found on the moon.” A week later it ran the story “WWII bomber on the moon disappears!” with quotes from spokespeople from NASA, Jodrell Bank etc. saying that there were no signs of the bomber being there.
It was his videoed acceptance/thank you speech for The Spectator’s politician of the year awards.
He’d won best political speech, which makes me think it wasn’t a great year for speech’s.
Also, the Sunday Sport always claims to be a real newspaper so the “satire” tag above is misplaced.
This is a real story that has appeared in a real tabloid newspaper, much to my shame.
I would have thought “Singing in Belgian” was the giveaway. But then I remembered tabloids …