An attempt by a rightwing politician in the UK to “own the libs” has earned him widespread ridicule.
Paul Golding is the leader of the Britain First party. It’s a fringe, extremist political group that campaigns almost exclusively on anti-immigration policies and against multi-culturalism within British society. It has no MPs in the UK Parliament.
A couple of weeks ago, a local ambulance service revealed a rainbow-decorated ambulance. We’re guessing that healthcare workers with the South East Coast Ambulance Service took part in the big Brighton & Hove Pride festivities over the first weekend of August, and hence the decoration.
Golding, a former councilor with the racist and fascistic British National Party (BNP) before he joined Britain First, was unimpressed.
He tweeted a video of the ambulance with the caption, “Sorry, but if this ambulance turned up for me, I’d tell them to sod off.”
“Sod off” is British slang along the lines of “f*ck off.”
If Golding was hoping his followers would applaud his latest dumb tweet, he was wrong.
Many applauded his decision for reasons he probably didn’t intend.
Cya Paul, probably not the smartest way to go out pic.twitter.com/wtXa99C9LO
— Pupsker (@Pupsker) August 10, 2023
And we would be so happy with your decision. 🙏🏻
— Zaqueo (@ZaqueoDeLeon) August 10, 2023
You totally should! Especially if what’s going on is life threatening!
— ZeusHamilton (@ZeusHamiltonSV) August 10, 2023
And nothing of value would be lost.
— Critical Cupcake 🌈 ♿ ⚛️ (@CriticalCupcake) August 10, 2023
fellas is it gay to get medical help https://t.co/Cj4QyOhykp
— Hurt CoPain (@SaeedDiCaprio) August 10, 2023
Feel free to suffer then. If you’re more upset about a paint job celebrating diversity than your health or life you need to seriously re-evaluate your life choices.
— Joe Oakley 🏳️🌈 (@JRLOakley) August 10, 2023
Others pointed out that healthcare workers within the UK’s National Health Service often experience homophobic and racist abuse from some patients and their relatives. Despite this, they continue to do their best to provide care.
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Mister P
It’s easy to think that only American republicans are that stupid. There is some comfort in knowing there are idiots everywhere.
lather
Yes.
PubisHairus
Yeah, it’s pretty universal, even if some Americans have cornered the market on belligerent and willful ignorance.
abfab
@lather Everytime I see your name I think of my favorite Jefferson Airplane song….
[Intro]
(Child)
[Verse 1]
Lather was thirty years old today
They took away all of his toys
His mother sent newspaper clippings to him
About his old friends who’d stopped being boys (Paper dolls)
There was Howard C. Green
Just turned thirty-three
His leather chair waits at the bank
And Sergeant Dow Jones
Twenty-seven years old
Commanding his very own tank
But Lather still finds it
A nice thing to do
To lie about nude in the sand
Drawing pictures of mountains
That look like bumps
And thrashing the air with his hands
[Bridge]
But wait, oh Lather’s productive, you know
He produces the finest of sound
Putting drumsticks on either side of his nose
Snorting the best licks in town
But that’s all over
Child
[Verse 2]
Lather was thirty years old today
And Lather came foam from his tongue
He looked at me, eyes wide, and plainly say
“Is it true that I’m no longer young?” (Mommy?)
And the children call him famous
What the old men call insane
And sometimes he’s so nameless
That he hardly knows what game to play
(Anyone for tennis? Backgammon? Hari kari?)
Which words to say?
And I should have told him
“No, you’re not old”
And I should have let him go on
Smiling baby-wide
Brian
Huh? If bigotry were rare, it would be easy to avoid. The whole reason it’s a problem is that it’s widespread, its systemic, and some of the most powerful people in society are bigots. Everyone knows how common bigotry is.
dbmcvey
I support him refusing life saving aid.
lather
I’ll second that.
dbmcvey
Conservatives are so easily triggered.
lather
Bless their little hearts. 🙂
abfab
LONDON will RESIST this bus when one finally comes calling to his hovel.
Kangol2
Conservative snowflakery, British-style!
Cato
This is no different from all the nutjobs who refused to mask during covid so they could “own the libs”.
Lots of them are pushing up daisies now.
abfab
And/or they joined the Church…to diddle around.
Dr Sarah
Well, it has the advantage that it won’t involve him spreading life-threatening infection to others as the result of his own stupidity.
RoyM
Not nearly enough of them.
monty clift
Interestingly, he still got ratio’d, despite Elon allowing a free-for-all bigot fest on the bird app.
dbmcvey
You have a point. An idiotic one, but, you have a point.