TV licence rises to £154.50!!

I reckon this restriction of my account BS will bring my

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Nobody is suggesting that Ms Brand would do9 that herself but some idiotic extremist - and there are plenty of those around - might, upon hearing her words, have a lightbulb moment, steal a car battery and lob it at someone. Why do you think that Luciana Berger and other MPs - not all of whom were Jewish - employed bodyguards to protect them at last year's Labour Conference? The threat of violence becoming more than a threat is very real.

My preferred brand (not Jo) of comedy is dark comedy. The racist stuff (Jim Davidson, Fat Bernard, Chubby etc) not so much. The slapstick was ok when I was 12 years old. But today I'm happy to laugh along at other dark matters.

I found Jo Brand funny when she came on to the scene in the mid 90s, but she lost her edge. Like The Simpsons, I suppose. This joke didn't register. But I still think you need to contextualise just like Oss suggests.

She made the joke on Radio 4. That hotbed of fanaticism. Others, such as Nigel Farage, threaten violence with a rifle when he actually has a committed following. Yet people would support that monster into parliament, whilst demanding some mid-card comedian is banished from TV. I don't get it.

Let's not forget that it was someone radicalised by the Right-wing who committed the last murder, and *shock horror* another radicalised Righty sent to jail for plotting to kill Rosie Cooper.

Don't get me wrong, I know there is a sinister element on the extreme left. The milkshakes don't bother me too much, but it's probably time to stop chucking these or eggs or tomatoes in the current climate. I don't support people slagging off Mogg to his own kids (even though Mogg is a total fanny). I don't support people painting swastikas on Brexit members' houses. But the problem today is the extreme right. They have moved alongside radicalised Muslims as the joint #1 problem group in the UK.

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Not even comparable in the UK.

In my earlier post I wrote: "Nobody is suggesting that Ms Brand would do9 that herself but some idiotic extremist - and there are plenty of those around - might, upon hearing her words, have a lightbulb moment, steal a car battery and lob it at someone." I deliberately used a generalisation rather than try to distinguish between left and right wing fanatics, so I'm at a loss to understand why you have chosen to do so and why you appear to believe that right-wing extremism is a greater danger to society. Both are equally bad and both need to be rooted-out. Maybe your left-leaning affiliations preclude fair-mindedness.

Brand has, at last, made an attempt at an apology whilst the BBC has remained silent, the offending segment is, I believe, no longer publicly accessible.

I still just find it odd that people cannot make the distinction between a comedian and a high profile politician (who continues to have huge support).

This applies to both the right and left which is why lots of the stone age comedians such as Jim Davidson still have a platform.

You really don't get it, do you? It's not a case of who they are but rather who will act on their throw-away remarks.

I would believe your sincerity expressed in the first half of this sentence had you gone on to say "which is why lots of the stone age comedians such as Jim Davidson and David Baddiel still have a platform".

This is a societal problem, not a political one. But I also happen to believe that extremism will die-back quite considerably once Brexit is delivered but I am not going to expand on that thought here.

Which do you think is most irresponsible.

Jo Brand, a B list celeb, makes a duff joke on Radio 4 and immediately follows it up by saying she doesn't mean it (not the best disclaimer, I agree).

Or.

Nigel Farage tells people to pick up their rifles it Brexit isn't delivered. This is in light of Jo Cox's murder. A man who is probably in the Top 3 of most influential politicians in the current age. A man who is fully aware that there are a bunch of deluded hate mongers hidden away in society.

Which is worse.

Who is still leader of a major political party supported by millions? Who is still idolised by the same old crowd on this site?

This is NOT a pissing contest. Both are equally irresponsible.

You are, however, guilty of over-egging in that you claim that "Nigel Farage tells people to pick up their rifles it Brexit isn't delivered". But that isn't what he is reported as saying at all. According to the Independent:

In other words, if May fluffs Brexit, he will be forced to re-mobilise and, unusually for a politician I grant you, he has kept to his word. But, to put this into context, he spoke those words at a private function some two years ago and we only got to know about it after someone posted about it on that most reliable of news sources, Facebook. As I say, that was two years ago, the mood in the country has become somewhat more febrile since then.

But I do recognise the irresponsibility of his words. And I can split hairs just as plainly as you!

Is she? I agree with @oss who considers her to be rather unfunny apart from the occasional appearance on HIGNFY. However the show's "celebrity" host's lines are closely scripted and fed on autocue; nobody is allowed to be funnier than the shows two "stars", Ian Hislop and Paul Merton.