Scullionbait

It should have been Jezza

A neutral and unbiased guide to persecuting the problematic

On the eve of an election landslide where Keith will outshine even the Iraq warmonger at his zenith, I want to pay tribute to the man who always stuck it to the man — or boy. Jeremy Corbyn has plenty of campaigning years left in him, still being younger than both US Presidential candidates, but I fear, like a woke Napoleon, he’ll be exiled to some remote windswept island like Islington, where he’ll be forced to lecture his vegetable patch on Palestine and the English sense of irony. After David Cameron resigned following the Brexit referendum, I was representing the York-based MSM scum radio station Minster FM and was the first to collar Jezza and dare to ask him a question. He did a long “shhhhhhhhhh!” and put his finger to his mouth like I was a 9-year-old, which in fairness to the great man I probably looked like, and then walked all the way from College Green back to Parliament in silence whilst the baying mob of zionist so-called “reporters” followed him, asking the leader of the opposition so-called “questions”. You’d never get Keith doing that, which is why he’s going to win, and why he really deserves to lose.

Hate mail

Try to hide 5 a day

Hats off to the Royal Mail employee found writing “racists” on Reform UK leaflets before posting them, although please don’t literally take your hat off, because if the scum find out who you are from doorbell camera footage they might do you for offences against racism. It reminded me of that time-honoured democratic tradition of hiding all the S*n and Daily Mail newspapers in supermarkets on polling day so the ignorant masses won’t be tempted to vote for the kind of fascists that promise to take away cherished media freedoms like the BBC’s right to tax you for watching Eastenders. 

Queering prevent

Prevent — don’t let them go off the rails

Isn’t it good when things finally work the way they shouldn’t? Prevent, an Islamophobic group set up by the Tory government in 2011 to disrupt mostly peaceful terrorist cells, is actually catching some real perps like the 12-year-old schoolboy who declared “there are only two genders” and “there is no such thing as non-binary” in a series of online hate-videos he made. The child gender-jihadi was probably radicalised by reading through the extremist training manual The Chronicles of Narnia and watching video-nasties like Great British Railway Journeys — media which Prevent believes is a gateway drug to goose-stepping across the Sudetenland in a Hugo Boss designed uniform. (Why are the fash always so stylish?!) The boy’s mother was visited by Northumbria Police and Prevent, in a meeting she described to the Daily Mail as “an interrogation”. Well, I hope so. He was asked if there were any groups that shouldn’t exist, and he answered that Hamas should be “wiped out” — a viewpoint that puts him in line with notable brownshirts like Foreign Secretary David Cameron, who set up Prevent in the first place.

Playing the race game
“A videogame set in a divided America starring a cast of diverse characters was always likely to ruffle feather,” says BBC children’s reporter Tom Richardson with classic understatement. We’re not told exactly what level of hate was committed against the new comic-book inspired videogame Dustborn for having a diverse cast, but the allusion to “some negative feedback” and the BBC alerting us to the existence of “those who believe developers are being pressured into making their games more diverse” leaves us with a distinct impression of KKK rallies and daylight lynchings. Actress Dominique Tipper who voices the in-game character “Pax”, earnestly asserts that no-one forced them to make a game with a diverse cast — which I totally believe! (please don’t refer me to HR again). Her character is the leader of a group of “anomals” — who can “weaponise words via superpower-style abilities.” What an exciting superpower “weaponising words” would be to have in real life. Totally different topic, but I bet the makers of Dustborn could never have dreamed that after their dramatic setback, the racist words that were so damaging to their product could have led to such an important front-page advertisment  journalism from the national broadcaster.

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The authorities washed off the words “was a racist” on Winston Churchill pretty quickly after the mostly peaceful BLM marches in 2020, but now London’s Camden council have figured out a clever way to write it themselves without getting into trouble — via the technological genius of a QR, or “Quick Racist” code. If you see the black and white squares on a statue, you’ll know that the issue is black and white, and that the iron-cast figure (e.g. Virginia Woolf) should be cancelled. If you really need to, you can scan it to read a lengthy explanation of her unacceptable views. Boringly, Virginia Woolf’s great-niece armed with “facts” about the writer’s life, had the cheek to try to argue with armchair historian @NigelXXX5 on Twitter about it, but he calmly pointed out that whilst he himself is neutral, he only need refer her to Wikipedia to show that her great aunt was actually antisemitic, homophobic and a misogynist. Check Mate.

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