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No probs Stella. :-)

oh sorry ..i didn't see it :-(

very true, Cyn ...... that is indeed as it reads, and is so obviously a wrong interpretation of what was actually said.


Much as many media headlines or politicians misinterpret what others say ........... or "twist" to fit their own agendas, as some would think.

Stella......the heading is as I have posted above @ 12.27......Gins following statement in her OP was about folk from Yorkshire.

I can't see where Gin said Cameron hated Yorkshire people?

Ahhh I see now!

Sorry, it was meant as 'me' hating you all but I can see what you mean

:-)

Gins....when you look at your OP, you have headed it

"I hate you all......according to David Cameron".


:-S

Thanks Pers

That could be one explanation

David Cameron is like every other politician he talks in "we" speak. You listen to the Americans running for office etc , it is all, we can do it, yes we can lower the taxes or we can up the ante. We will fight them on the beaches.. Hilary is doing the we thing, Trump is doing the we and the I thing.. but all of them do it in some shape or form.

One of our politicians had his platform "Can we fix it , yes we can" to the tune of Bob the Builder.

I think we have crossed wires Cyns, maybe I didn't explain myself very well

I do not think Cameron said 'he' hated Yorkshire people, I don't think I actually said that.

It was the 'we thought' that I was questioning. Who is 'we'

It isn't my opinion really Gins.........I simply looked at what had actually been said and no way did he say he hated Yorkshire people.

We can all read into what we want

I personally took it in very bad taste just as I took Gordon Brown's slur about Mrs Duffy in bad taste

My opinion of course, just as yours is yours

:-)

A voice of reason as always Cynthia - some people just see and hear what they want to and comments are taken out of context. :-)

If you re-read what you have put in your OP Gins......

“We just thought people in Yorkshire hated everyone else, we didn’t realise they hated each other so much.” D Cameron


He actually hasn't said that HE hates Yorkshire people whatsoever. Not at all. It needs to be kept in context.

Agree Gins...it certainly would..

Personally, I think it was just an attempt at humour......obviously not hilarious, but tongue in cheek humour, with a twist of wit. I don't see it as a slur on the good people of that wonderful county.

It's the sort of thing I could be tempted to say about some church folk in fact - and probably have - somewhere down the line :-D

Yes Cyns it would

Being Yorkshire doesn't come under the 'protected charichateristics' of the 2010 act but it's wrong to single out anyone

If he'd said the same thing about say, women/men/muslims/gays etc....it would have been taken more seriously, I'm sure

Would this thread have been started if the Leader of the Labour Party (when there is one), had made these remarks?


Just wondering. :-D

Oooerr, I've lived in the Northernmost part of the UK and the Southernmost (well, Cornwall), but never 'oop North! I've had to learn to speak different accents and dialects to survive. I have an 'Ampshire accent now.
I can honestly say, the people in one area were not 'worse' or 'better' than those in another. Different, yes, but that's all to the good, and half the fun! :-D

As a child the idea of 'belonging' anywhere was totally alien to me, but I enjoyed learning different 'ways'.

Methinks Cameron may have lost a few votes. It's okay for a Yorkshireman to say such a thing as a joke, but not a 'sooth moother' (as they say in Shetland.)

Still puzzled - i embrace people of all persuasions, backgrounds and opinions (believe you me I have had to in the past few years!) so obviously someone takes umbrage - is it petty minded? Possibly. Is it small minded? Probably. They are happy.