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Tweeters are twats says Tory twit
THE LEADER of the centre-right British Conservative party, David Cameron has labelled incessant tweeters "twats" in an interview on breakfast radio.
During the interview with Absolute radio breakfast host Christian O'Connell, Cameron also said the British public were "rightly pissed off with politicians". Cameron then quickly apologised for his bad language at such an early hour, but failed to say sorry for such an appalling understatement.
The twats comment occurred when O'Connell asked Cameron why he didn't use micro-blogging site Twitter to spread his party's message. "Too many twits might make a twat," replied Cameron.
Cameron's spinners later pointed out that 'twat' is not considered profanity according to the arcane rules of public broadcasting in the UK.
But somewhere in deeply conservative middle England, such language is probably thought of as unbecoming of the leader of Her Majesty's Opposition who is widely expected to be the next Prime Minister.
However, the INQ is sure that such 'slips' are merely cynical efforts by the Old Etonian to slyly endear himself to all us British commoners by attempting to camouflage his inherently snobbish, elitist roots. µ
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Have you ever seen somebody lick the chutney spoon in an Indian Restaurant and put it back? This would never have happened under the Tories.
http://www.the-twat.blogspot.com/
I hope Mr Cameron sees fit to respond to my measured concerns
mmm....
I thought the remark was quite amusing. You managed to take a website joke and turn it into a boring and IT unrelated article. Rather than run with it. Not what I expect from Inq.
Andrew, come on man, are you so anti-Conservative party that you can't enjoy a good joke? I'm as left wing as they come, and I laughed at it. Twitter is a bit of a rage right now, but it's hoola hoop stuff.. for the current younger generation with a 10 second attention span it's fantastic. But even I have to agree that it's a bit silly.
TWEET: "going to buy some groceries now.. Hopefully there won't be a very long queue."
Lotsa love, stop being a killjoy.
I too thought Cameron's remark rather funny, although I'm sure it was carefully planned in advance - like all politicians' jokes.
But why do the politically correct focus on a Conservative politician? And Dave in particular? On the Today programme this morning I just listened to a whole article about Dave's "faux pas", immediately followed by another piece on drugs in which Ian Duncan-Smith said "hell" quite distinctly. No one mentioned it!
Why is it wrong for David Cameron to make a joke involving the word "twat" when it is fine and praiseworthy for a woman to stand on a stage for over an hour delivering "The Vagina Monologoues"?
Zoinks.
Anyone using Twits is a twww....
140 characters of self-serving, ego-boosting twats...sounds like MPs are perfect for this
ZOMG!!!!111
I cannot believe he said "twat" in the context that twitter works a bit too fast for politicians that have to weigh their words prior to speaking publically thus; "too many twits might make a twat" cause when you don;t think of what you are saying in the long run it might come back to bite you inthe arse...which was precisely the point he was making you daft cvnts.
I personally couldn;t give a rat's ass are Mr. Cameron, but this media hyperdrama is utter rubbish.
God forbid a person say "twat" in a humoristic context to make a point, what will our poor innocent yoofs might think?!?
Now children everywhere will be saying "twat" WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT?!?
The press will next say that people that say "twat" have no moral compass, and people with no moral compass are not fit to lead, as they might not care for the consequences of their actions...
Bollocks.
This simply demonstrates that too many twits do in fact make a twat.