Olympics opening ceremony was 'multicultural crap', Tory MP tweets
Source: The Guardian
David Cameron will face pressure to remove the Tory whip from the Conservative MP Aidan Burley after he tweeted that the Olympics opening ceremony was "multicultural crap".
Burley, who was sacked as a ministerial aide last year after he took part in a Nazi-themed stag party in the French Alps, described Danny Boyle's work as "the most leftie opening ceremony I have ever seen".
Downing Street sources moved quickly to distance themselves from Burley's tweets. "Clearly we don't agree," one source said.
The row erupted just after 10pm when Burley tweeted twice within a few minutes as the Olympic athletes started to enter the stadium after Boyle's staging.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jul/28/olympics-opening-ceremony-multicultural-crap-tory-mp?newsfeed=true/
I discovered this story through a Twitter post by Rhys Morgan, a 17-year-old Welsh atheist blogger.
Unfortunately, some think tanks in the US actually take Burley's idea seriously and as a result, "multiculturalism" is a dirty word to most Americans.
Snarkoleptic
(5,995 posts)gordianot
(15,226 posts)He would fit very well.
klook
(12,134 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)12 years in and the best they can come up with to preserve their hold on the culture is voter supression.
noamnety
(20,234 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Sig Hiel Lumpy, Fox Noise, and every disgusting R the USA has to
endure on a daily basis.
newspeak
(4,847 posts)of brown uniformed goons goose stepping with an arm pointed in his direction. Of course, all of those doing the high step would all look the same.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)Cameron's Tories are. He should be sent to the back bench with a coloring book and crayons.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)Besides, they'll lose his seat if they don't. (And even if they do: it's close.)
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)A-hole.
RoseMead
(1,014 posts)Unfortunately.
crimson77
(305 posts)Tabasco_Dave
(1,259 posts)greiner3
(5,214 posts)Reminded me I haven't seen the entire movie in years.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)underpants
(182,279 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)But it is a good reminder that every country has its backwards arch-conservative bridge trolls, and that those poltroons speak for their countries just as inarticulately as ours do.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)in the Olympics?