Paul Gascoigne is being investigated for a hate crime.
The inquiry follows an allegation that the 48-year-old made a racist joke during a show at Wolverhampton Civic Hall on 30 November. During the event – An Audience with Paul Gascoigne – the former footballer allegedly told a black security guard, standing against a black background: “If you weren’t smiling, I wouldn’t be able to see you.”
So, idiot says idiotic thing. Nothing to see here, move along. Oh, no, apparently the West Midlands Police have cleared up all the real crimes so have time to investigate a made up one.
The former England football star Paul Gascoigne is at the centre of a hate crime investigation by West Midlands police, according to reports.
So if you live in the West Midlands, do hope you don’t get burgled, for plod is far too busy investigating an idiot making an idiotic remark.
The Civic took an audible gasp as the laughter instantly dropped from raucous to nervous.”
And that, frankly, is all the opprobrium needed. Idiot says something idiotic and the audience passes its own verdict there and then.
The incident casts a cloud over Gascoigne’s Black Country tour.
Snork.
You’d have thought that by now Brum’s finest would have found out that it’s much more fun chasing real crims (sorry, victims of circumstances beyond their control)and feeling collars. No, they can’t do the job they were employed to do because their masters are too busy giving them PC non-crimes to chase – along with the reams of associated box-ticking, of course.
Errm, in a dark room a person with tons of melanin is a tad difficult to see against a dark background.
Maybe the room wasn’t dark, in which case that would be strange at such a show.
But maybe, just fucking maybe, telling the actual truth is a hate crime these days.
This kind of thing is why I’m starting to think that people like Tyson Rage or whatever he’s called and Donald Trump are like a breath of fresh air. Yes their opinions are often stupid and misguided but I for one enjoy hearing them just because it pisses off the free speech butters.
Trump has now said that more UK Muslims had run off to join ISIS than had joined the armed forces. My first thought on hearing this was to think ‘is it true?’ If it had not been true it would have been an easy matter to debunk it. The TV talking head brought up loads of irrelevant ‘facts’ about Muslims joining the police force or contributing to the economy in lots of different ways. So I’ll take that as a yes then.
I know a black guy who says he doesn’t like to have his photograph taken without flash as if there’s no flash you can’t make out his features. Should I report him for hate crime or is it just a hate incident?
This really is one of the most pathetic PC chunterings by plod this year. If anyone is interested, the comments under the local (Express and Star) rag’s reporting of this shows the utter contempt the local Wulfrunians have for the ‘Senior’ gauleiters in their thin blue line.
Had to sit through the screening of the Royal Variety Show and wonder why the PC Squad didn’t abseil down the sides of the RAH at Jack Whitehall’s ‘ginger’ jokes if they are so concerned about such things. Someone once wrote that the first casualty in a totalitarian regime is not freedom, but humour. So, get your Cameron, Corbyn and Abbott jokes in now before ‘they’ come for you.