Tories - Parts of Britain Like the Wire

[Dillinger4]

Dominic West and David Cameron were at Eton at the same time.

 

[JHE]

Not really, there is a hell of a lot more to the wire than inner city drug deprivation, a lot of it relevant to UK political debate. Target culture for example, or elected police chiefs...

I'm sure you are right and I bet that the Tory doesn't appreciate that because, like me, he's not really watched enough to understand.

But that needn't stop us understanding what he means.

 

[kyser_soze]

I wouldn't trust the Tories an inch and doubt that much good will come of this politician's perception, but it doesn't seem to me to be a bad thing that politicians notice the state of impoverished areas. I think I prefer them noticing to their kidding themselves that everyone is prosperous and imagining that the whole population is similar to their party members.

It would be even better if it was possible to believe he actually gave a shit beyond the goal of winning the next election...

 

[moon23]

sorry, but i thought that plot line was in the original already

Yes but it wouldn't work if set in the UK.

 

[The39thStep]

What was more intersting was the speech he made on Monday which sets out the uncomfortable truth that ' all of the top twenty deprived areas in Britain are in the top 10% for crime, and within individual local authority areas the poorer parts are experiencing much worse crime than the prosperous parts'

The Tories of course won't be doing anything about this but it hits home that New Labour have no record to stand on even in their 'natural' constituency.

 

[danny la rouge]

charlie big potatoes (or charlie big spuds) = giving it the large one

And "giving it the large one"?

 

[DotCommunist]

And "giving it the large one"?

acting the big man, blustering and talking tall.

 

[danny la rouge]

acting the big man, blustering and talking tall.

I see. Thank you. Being the "big I Am"?

 

[JimW]

Well, there's the Wyre Valley; only one letter off.

 

[danny la rouge]

Well, there's the Wyre Valley; only one letter off.

Hay on Wire, too, I understand.

 

[DotCommunist]

I see. Thank you. Being the "big I Am"?

synonymous

 

[kyser_soze]

Hay on Wire, too, I understand.

I now have this image of the attendees of the HoW literary festival fighting it out for turf...

Guardian literary critic Tristan Knob-Jockey ('Tee')arrives at HoW and is forced to slum it in a really nasty B&B, having just been demoted for insulting a guest writer for the Review on Saturday. When he arrives he meets several intern students...

Or something. I'm too excited about holiday to be creative...

 

[nightbreed]

I pissed myself laughing this morning watching him on the news..

Presenter: 'Which particular episode do you think is most like Britain?

Politician: 'I've only seen one, I can't remember which one though'

Presenter: 'Why do you think Britain is like the wire?'

Politician: 'I spent an ENTIRE evening on an estate last week, it was just like the Wire, believe me'

As Clay Davis would say

'...sssshhhheeeeeeeiiiiiiiiittttttt....!'


Mind you Clay Davis would make an ideal Tory, corrupt as fuck.

 

[Wolveryeti]

Twat politicians. Should be made to spend a month in a proper ghetto as penitence for this kind of shit.

 

[trevhagl]

Is it just me or has Chris Grayling rather spectacularly missed the point about The Wire's attack on the whole system, including the opportunistic and exploitative politicians who would seek to run it?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8219482.stm

Maybe he only watched the first two series.

and has he forgot who caused mass poverty in the first place?

 

[onemonkey]

it's bollecks.. i don't think the british police are anywhere as near as intelligent, humane or competent as those found in fictional baltimore.

 

[scifisam]

I pissed myself laughing this morning watching him on the news..

Presenter: 'Which particular episode do you think is most like Britain?

Politician: 'I've only seen one, I can't remember which one though'

Presenter: 'Why do you think Britain is like the wire?'

Politician: 'I spent an ENTIRE evening on an estate last week, it was just like the Wire, believe me'

An entire evening? How brave! Hope he had bodyguards!

 

[agricola]

Guido's take on this:

http://order-order.com/2009/08/25/finishing-the-war-on-drugs/

 

[nightbreed]

Guido's take on this:

http://order-order.com/2009/08/25/finishing-the-war-on-drugs/

Spoken like a true Libertarian (Guido not you agri!). Look at the comments box.

 

[Orang Utan]

haha:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/28/baltimore-mayor-tory-the-wire-comment

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...es-grayling-of-dishonouring-city-1778388.html

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2009/08/mayor_takes_on_british_pol_on.html


ironic, considering the storyline in S5

 

[krtek a houby]

I've never been to The Wirral

 

[gosub]