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the Sun reacts to Zephaniah applying for a Cambridge visiting fellowship (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by snacks@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Kelvin McKenzie, what a despicable arsehole.

Things like this dont happen in a vacuum. The latest episode of News Agents has an interview with John Bercow who spent a good few minutes explaining his roots in the Monday Club, a white supremacist Tory lobbying group who supported Apartheid and was set up by Enoch Powell.

I dont think the Sun is quite the same organisation today, but it helps to see the journey. McKenzie was a regular political commentator until fairly recently and his legacy was in the news this week: Hillsborough.

They should paint it on his grave when he dies and rots in hell

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[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago

I dont think the Sun is quite the same organisation today

The Sun wants us to pull out of international human rights laws so we can send genuine asylum seekers to Rwanda. They are every bit as despicable as ever.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Scum indeed.

I'm from Liverpool and one of my classmates died at Hillsborough (I remember the news came through at a school disco). We don't forget.

[–] ThePyroPython@feddit.uk 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fuck the Sun.

Fuck the Tories.

Fuck London.

How about Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and the rest of the north secede from England and create Neo Mercia.

[–] obelix@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Fuck the S*n.

[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you're concerned that your college age "offspring" can't be trusted to choose what they learn and who they learn it from, you've failed as a parent.

[–] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

He turned down an OBE, I will always respect him for that. RIP Benjamin

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If hes nice yeah, is the only answer that civilized people give.

[–] lemonflavoured@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Kelvin McKenzie is a cunt, film at 11.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

The Scum*