No, it’s because you turned up looking like a bum.
A black MEP claims he was asked to leave the European parliament building in Strasbourg by an official on his first day.
Magid Magid, 30, who represents Yorkshire and the Humber for the Green party, said he was “visibly different” but would not “try to fit in”.
The former lord mayor of Sheffield, who wore a baseball cap and T-shirt reading “f**k fascism”, claimed he had been asked to leave the parliament building during the opening day of the new legislature.
But, in Magid’s imaginary world where everything is about his skin colour, it was because he is black. Nothing to do with him showing up looking like a bum who wandered in off the street looking for a handout. This bloke has always been a race hustling arsehole, now he’s an international race hustling arsehole.
“I know I’m visibily [sic] different. I don’t have the privilege to hide my identity. I’m BLACK & my name is Magid. I don’t intend to try fit in. Get used to it,” he tweeted.
Perhaps if you had dressed in accordance with the place you were entering – it is a parliament, after all – the official wouldn’t have mistaken you for a bum. You know, impressions count. But it’s got bugger all to do with the colour of your skin and everything to do with the attitude and manner in which you choose to present yourself. I’d have chucked you out wearing that get up too.
Magid suggested his physical appearance made “people feel uncomfortable”.
He added: “MEPs don’t reflect the people that they represent, Europe-wide and I know i’m gonna stick out like a sore thumb.”
Oh, do fuck off you self-righteous, self-indulgent bore.
However, the European parliament said no member of staff was involved in the incident. “We investigated the matter immediately after our attention was brought to it and can safely say that no member of parliament staff was involved,” a spokeswoman said.
Oh. Right. So, he made it all up in order to draw attention to himself, then? Sounds fairly likely given his form.
Shall we call it doing a Smollett?
Or maybe they did not understand his broad Yorickshar accent.
Yes definitely an arsehole !
It’s coz I is a count.
Damn autocorrect!
One wonders, with this kind of attitude, how it can possibly be that “people of colour” are disproportionately poor, eh…?
DK
It isn’t just him. I don’t think that the Brexit party MEPs did themselves any favours by acting like spoiled children during the opening of the EU parliament. Surely their beef is with the utterly useless UK government rather than the EU. Yes they presented us with a completely unacceptable withdrawal agreement but it was May’s job to roll it up and shove it up Juncker’s behind.
Yeah, can’t say I was too impressed by that. Gave entirely the wrong message.
Yet the illiberal undemocrats get a completely free pass for wearing bright yellow tshirts with bollox to Brexit written on them.
I actually like Majid. seen him on a few things now and funnily enough he comes across as very much an eccentric Englishman and he also has a point about those that supposedly represent us…they are nothing like the ordinary man/woman in the street. Majid on the other hand is very much so. Also, if comes down to believing the word of some EU mouthpiece and Majid…I’d believe Majid. I wouldn’t trust anybody that works for the EU to be able to tell the truth about anything really.
No Green politician can be trusted to tell the truth, no lie is too big to push their agenda.
My impression of greens is that they have no clue how stuff works. They take all the benefits of life in the modern industrialised world completely for granted with no knowledge of how things are produced and distributed. Hence they are completely unaware of how disastrous their policies would be if they were ever actually put into practice. This also seems to be more and more the case with politicians generally.
They don’t want to know either!
I’ve always suspected that the more fanatical the particular cult member, the more understanding they actually have and the greater the cognitive dissonance that results.
But like all cults, how do you leave?
I have sometimes argued with these people out of sheer morbid curiosity.
They all behaved badly, frankly. However, Majid is a professional race hustler. The most likely explanation is that someone mistook him for a mere member of the public and treated him accordingly. Most people would shrug it off and forget it, but for Majid, this was another opportunity for race hustling and he took it.
What this narcissistic non-entity seems totally incapable of grasping is that he has been sent there to represent constituents.
That said, the European parliament” is a cynical rubber stamp talking shop and you really do have to be soft in the head to believe it is anything else.
If the brexit party had broken out onto “springtime for Hitler” I doubt if it would have attracted any sneering contempt than they have been getting.
Another clown in a circus makes no difference. We don’t need serious engagement with this apehouse just as much disruption as possible.
The idea of service is as beyond his comprehension
I disagree. You only stand for a country’s anthem, as the EU is NOT a country but a political construct I wouldn’t have stood either, but standing and turning my back on the anti democratic bastards would have sufficiently shown my utter contempt for them and their project. Fuck ’em!
Talking of which, didn’t Ann Widdecombe give the fuckers what for!
Quite, the fact that the EU has an anthem tells you all you really need to know about it and why we shouldn’t be members.