Can't believe we haven't covered the Grenfell effigy furore.

[Sir C]

It isn't funny, really, is it?

Who goes to all that trouble of making the thing for 'a joke'? Then records it and posts it on social media?

Pondlife imo

Hundreds of people work for months on the various effigies burnt at Lewes every year. They can't all be pondlife.*

* Maybe they are, how would I know?

[Burney]

Hundreds of people work for months on the various effigies burnt at Lewes every year. They can't all be pondlife.*

* Maybe they are, how would I know?

Yes, but those people are middle-class and their targets are usually those it would be considered acceptable to lampoon on a Radio 4 panel show. This makes them exempt from such criticism.

These perpetrators were working class, white, had estuary accents, probably left school at 16 and - worst of all - were mocking brown people whom the media has effectively canonised.

[Sir C]

Yes, but those people are middle-class and their targets are usually those it would be considered acceptable to lampoon on a Radio 4 panel show. This makes them exempt from such criticism.

These perpetrators were working class, white, had estuary accents, probably left school at 16 and - worst of all - were mocking brown people whom the media has effectively canonised.

I confess I find it all rather troubling and not a little frightening.

[Burney]

I confess I find it all rather troubling and not a little frightening.

I must admit I do wonder whether people will eventually realise that the risks engendered by being on social media are not matched by its rewards and will start to desert the platforms in droves. Then maybe we could return to a sane society?

Probably wishful thinking, of course. People are fùcking idiots.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

I must admit I do wonder whether people will eventually realise that the risks engendered by being on social media are not matched by its rewards and will start to desert the platforms in droves. Then maybe we could return to a sane society?

Probably wishful thinking, of course. People are fùcking idiots.

We are all peoples b, including you.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

I must admit I do wonder whether people will eventually realise that the risks engendered by being on social media are not matched by its rewards and will start to desert the platforms in droves. Then maybe we could return to a sane society?

Probably wishful thinking, of course. People are fùcking idiots.

Shared amongst a private group on whatsapp supposedly - one of whom decided it would be a great idea to share it further, whether for shìts n giggles or to stir things up it isn't clear.

[IUFG]

Hundreds of people work for months on the various effigies burnt at Lewes every year. They can't all be pondlife.*

* Maybe they are, how would I know?

I don't know. Maybe people that have bonfires in the back garden of their terraced house qualify as pondlife?

[Burney]

I don't know. Maybe people that have bonfires in the back garden of their terraced house qualify as pondlife?

Of course. This is a class thing. Nobody, of course, wants to see it as a legitimate expression of contempt for and exasperation with the way in which the media and political classes have cynically weaponised Grenfell as a tool for furthering a broader and unpopular pro-multicultural, pro-immigration agenda. It is that, of course. But nobody wants to acknowledge that.

[redgunamo]

Hundreds of people work for months on the various effigies burnt at Lewes every year. They can't all be pondlife.*

* Maybe they are, how would I know?

I'd never heard of the festival. Impressive, I thought, like Carnival, Hoppediz.