Has Everyone Seen This…?
This is union boss Tony Woodley ripping up a copy of the Sun last week during his conference speech.
First the London Paper went belly up and now this.
I bet Murdock is shitting himself.
Yep, that’s the general secretary of the Unite union Tony Woodley letting those guys at the Sun know just what he thinks of them all right. Apparently speaking on behalf of Liverpool, Woodley confidently rips up the paper with ‘Labour’s Lost it’ emblazoned on the front page. It’s very powerful. Especially the bit about 26 seconds in when it’s revealed that Wooders is talking to about 15 people. Magic.
However, putting rhetorical impact aside for one moment, riddle me this: how monumentally funny would it have been if ole Woodster hadn’t managed to rip through the paper? Like, if it had been just a little bit too tough for him. I know it’s not the Yellow Pages, but do you reckon he had a sneaky practice backstage? Because it looks like it’s one of those things that looks easy but is, in actual fact, a damn sight trickier. Like licking your own elbow, or golf.
If it were me, I definitely would’ve had a practice. Or, better yet, I’d just whip out a few of the centre pages. No one’s going to know, are they? Couple of double pages out the middle, make it that little bit easier –In fact, I bet that’s what old Woodsy did, the rascal. That is so like him.
Okay, so Tony Woodley didn’t like the Sun’s front cover, he’s a Labour man and that’s fair enough I suppose. But now the big guns have got involved. Harriet Harman hit back at the paper’s decision by saying that her party “won’t be bullied”. She went on: “Let’s face it, the nearest their political analysis gets to women’s rights is Page 3′s news in briefs.”
That’s the spirit Harriet, you give it to those sexist turkeys. She didn’t stop there, though. No, no, no, she was only getting warmed up. Come on Harmers, what pithy insult you going to come out with next? “I say to you”- this going to be good- “I say to you don’t get bitter, get better. Don’t get outraged, get out there. Don’t get mad, get mobilised.”
Oh. Not exactly rap-battle standard, is it? Where the hell did you get that from, a church poster?
Tuesday Lunchtime
She didn’t even stop there though. She went on about how she was going to talk about “something the Sun knows absolutely nothing about – equality”. Oh God, has she been at the sherry? I can imagine her being the last one at a party, relentlessly going on: “And you know, you know, hic: we may be the hic underdog but we won’t be bullied… this underdog is bi, is bi, is biting back! hic” (all hics have been added by myself)
What a lovely way to describe the governing party of Great Britain, as mangy little mutt-hound with a plucky temper. Practically Churchillian.
Basically the whole thing is just grubby, isn’t it? Some sleazy paper decide they’re the voice of the nation, whack something utterly seditious on their front page and the powers that be shit themselves into some blind panic.
Of course, Cammers was on this scene in a heartbeat to scoop it all up. Said to be “delighted” by the development, Cameron insisted it showed that his party was “setting the agenda” in the country. Oh really Dave? And what agenda is this? The one where you just kowtow to popular opinion every five minutes? Or the one where you disagree with every government decision on fiscal policy and hypothetically land the country in economic doo-dah for 35 years?
Do you know who I think the winners are in this bloody mess?
That’s right, the people.
