tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post1933739039237285768..comments2024-03-13T15:35:30.839+00:00Comments on Tabloid Watch: Carole Malone and the BNPMacGuffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894506410560858668noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-41020300393184033762009-08-28T13:15:02.184+01:002009-08-28T13:15:02.184+01:00Well done for highlighting this. There may be a lo...Well done for highlighting this. There may be a lot of lies out there, but the truth will out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-40354805135771859672009-08-24T12:30:13.443+01:002009-08-24T12:30:13.443+01:00My own mother spouted an "immigrants get free...My own mother spouted an "immigrants get free cars" story to me the other day, about the time that this story about "free cars" appeared.<br /><br />Someone she knows is selling a car, and someone came to look at it, accompanied by an interpreter. For some reason, she said the man was an asylum seeker. Has she been so hammered by The Telegraph that she thinks people with interpreters are automatically asylum seekers? Presumably the person telling her this story said that the person wanting to buy their car was an asylum seeker "and it's all paid for with OUR money." But I don't know where they got the idea from that the bloke was an asylum seeker. It didn't sound as if the interpreter told them. <br /><br />Isn't it plausible that it was the bloke's own money and that he can speak English but because he's buying something expensive, took an interpreter with him to make sure he didn't get conned into buying a heap of crap?! No, he's got an interpreter, we must assume that he's an asylum seeker and it's OUR money paying for the car and OUR money paying for the interpreter.<br /><br />Of course, I did wonder if he was an asylum seeker who was perhaps a politician who'd been kicked out of his country by an undemocratic regime and so he was being bought the car to work with his exiled parliament.<br /><br />It just seemed like such nonsense that anyone getting £43 a week would even want a car. The whole thing mystifies me and when I said I didn't think that was true and maybe her friend had got the wrong end of the stick, she said I was a liberal and a red and that I didn't know what I was talking about. :-0Helen Highwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08087854313840436307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-8987584473666836732009-07-30T18:28:35.230+01:002009-07-30T18:28:35.230+01:00check out Carole Malone's Wikipedia page (whil...check out Carole Malone's Wikipedia page (while it lasts): http://is.gd/1UH2Jbat020https://www.blogger.com/profile/07101410408576442591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-77745779177255047212009-07-27T20:48:45.670+01:002009-07-27T20:48:45.670+01:00According to Wikipedia and various sites that focu...According to Wikipedia and various sites that focus on her Celebrity Big Brother appearance, she is married to a Bosnian.<br /><br />The irony.MacGuffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01068286622218492768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-77156427397064427682009-07-27T20:31:53.463+01:002009-07-27T20:31:53.463+01:00I happen to know where she lives. The only immigra...I happen to know where she lives. The only immigrants legal or otherwise she would have contact with, are the cleaners.Dippyness.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03074617995848289735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-5472018583547064322009-07-27T12:19:19.141+01:002009-07-27T12:19:19.141+01:00I commented, but I bet they don't publish. I j...I commented, but I bet they don't publish. I just had to vent at them. <br /><br />I finished by saying 'Your article did make me angry that someone was getting loads of money for not doing a proper job and telling made-up stories. You.'AJ McKennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978034654265028416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-15732266502047194082009-07-27T01:03:26.013+01:002009-07-27T01:03:26.013+01:00I agree. I was set for an early night until I read...I agree. I was set for an early night until I read it and just had to post on it!<br /><br />I'm afraid there's very likely no point complaining to the PCC. They will probably say as it's an opinion piece, she's allowed to say anything she wants (within the law). <br /><br />Here's part of the PCC note on reporting refugee and asylum issues:<br /><br />"The clear majority of complaints – including those stemming from partisan comment and campaigning – raise no breach of the Code of Practice."<br /><br />Although there are clear factual errors in what she says, I can't see they would do anything.MacGuffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01068286622218492768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-11003209274889810092009-07-27T00:48:36.265+01:002009-07-27T00:48:36.265+01:00This is the most depressing thing I've read in...This is the most depressing thing I've read in ages. How do we stop this? Is there any point making complaints to the PCC?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com