Conservative Britain has taken a pasting at the Olympics

[xoggoth]

Assume that's tongue in cheek. Lefties do sometime have a sense of humour, honest! Unfortunately, those who never check facts will still take it seriously and parrot it for years to come.

Otherwise as daft as an article can get. One gold medal winner really cancels out the cost of approx. 43000 Somalis on welfare, 85000 in social housing and 150+ in prison doesn't it? (Figures few years out of date, will be higher now)

PS He is right about cyclists though! Bloody nuisances! Adoph ( or Clarkson) would know how to deal with them!
PPS Seem to recall (though can't be a*ed to check figures) that at the last election the Tories made a better job of recruiting women & minority candidates than other parties too.

[Spacecadet]

Since when has being a cyclist precluded someone from being a conservative?

Boris being a famous Tory and he's a keen cyclist!

Anyway, according to the BBC, most medals when to ex private school athletes, which I guess means the toffs win

[NotAllThere]

That's the one - the billy bragg of comedy

But not as funny.

[vetran]

he tried doing history, good job it wasn't an article on communism, Stalin would be portrayed as a very nice man.

completely biased, but occasionally insightful, a few pearls in the commie swine.

[PorkPie]

Anyone remember Mark Miwords or however it was spelt - Sheffield lad...

No, next

[BrilloPad]

That's the one - the billy bragg of comedy

Ah. It was a comedy article? Well it cannot be serious. Random ideas, badly written.

Maybe he is the atw of the media world?

[stek]

Anyone remember Mark Miwords or however it was spelt - Sheffield lad...

[PorkPie]

Mark Steel - is he that class warrior comedian with the half baked estuarine nasal whine? Didn't know he was still around.

That's the one - the billy bragg of comedy

[wurzel]

Mark Steel - is he that class warrior comedian with the half baked estuarine nasal whine? Didn't know he was still around.

[Robinho]

Political parties should be selected on the number of Golds the Olympic teams will choose under their reign.

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

Mark Steel in the Independent:
link

Paraphrasing here but his gist is basically that there should be 2 medal tables showing the number Britain has won and one showing the number Conservative Britain has won which, omitting cyclists, asylum seekers and people forced to move abroad to train because of the cuts, would show one for the dressage - which they're welcome to.

Since when has being a cyclist precluded someone from being a conservative?