WTF?

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Top Tory axed over Army race rowA Tory MP has been forced to quit his frontbench role after making comments on race in the Army which party leader David Cameron called "unacceptable

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[rosiedoes]

Is this Liberty-Belle? Either way - hey! :)

I'm glad you agree. I'm glad someone does, anyway.

I was in the Air Training Corps. I was going to join the RAF. Out Cadet Warrant Officers talked to us like that. Our adult Warrant Officers talked like that. To teenagers. If you're joining the Army, or the Navy, or the Air Force, you're going to have people trying to fucking kill you, man. Why worry about someone calling you kiddie names?!

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I added you.

Yeah, I mean - aren't soldiers supposed to be coarse? Why would they be sensitive to each other's feelings? Really?

It's fucking pathetic that people would react like that. We've made the world so hypersensitive and litigious that there's nothing left people can say to each other without fear of repercussions.

I hate that. I want people to say what they mean, y'know? Pretending to be nice to everybody all of the time is false and redundant. People need to be allowed to express their actual opinions, again.

[rosiedoes]

Well, I think there are times when lines need to be drawn, but this problem is in an entirely different flaming drill square.

*head desk* People are so stupid. And this very clearly is all about votes.

[rosiedoes]

It's really not. I hate that man. He's such a fraud.

[rosiedoes]

*groans* I really, really hope not. I remember how bleak everyone felt in the last years of the Tories in the nineties, and it was awful.