Time was when buying a
record, or a book, or whatever, meant that you owned the copy to which someone
else might have been listening, or that someone else might have been reading,
or whatever.
The most offensive
thing about Mike Read's UKIP calypso is that he has adopted an imitation
Jamaican accent. Calypso is from Trinidad.
Harry Enfield
and Paul Whitehouse know what they have to do. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet for Christmas Number One, say I.
It's nothing like a Jamaican accent, it is definitely more like a Trinidadian accent (although far from perfect).
ReplyDeleteWe know you hate UKIP but stop making up stuff just to have a go at them.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, there you are.
DeleteNewsnight has just said it is a fake Jamaican accent.
DeleteWinston's on. I met him at the House of Lords earlier this year. It was a private meeting. This is not an act.
DeleteWinston MacKenzie should have a newspaper column.
DeleteAs should Mike Read.
DeleteFor all I know, they already do have. On the Express, perhaps?
Only a few months ago, Patrick O'Flynn was its Political Editor, and thus a member of the Lobby. Is he still a member of the Lobby?
Godfrey Bloom, of course, is already one of the more regular contributors to The Lanchester Review.
1400 children raped in Rotherham and Labour is upset because Mike Read did a Caribbean accent. There's your problem, right there.
ReplyDeleteThere's yours, all right.
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