His comments were nothing short of racist.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/12/nkelv112.xml
2007-10-12 10:06:32 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Whoops - 'his' as in Kelvin McKenzie.
2007-10-12 10:06:59 · update #1
He still writes a coloum for The Sun which, funnily enough, isn't featured in the Scottish edition.
2007-10-12 10:16:30 · update #2
Well I am a Scot and quite frankly what he thinks or says matters to me not a jot. The Sun is for morons anyway and lets face it here are people talking about it, so the guy has done his job.
I should imagine with a name like McKenzie he may need to look at his roots but as I say, who cares? He is entitled to his opinion and one element of what he says is true in that we are not the land of great industrialists and entreupeneurs that we once were but then again hardly is any part of Britain. We have a nation that manufactures practically nothing, with a large proportion of wealth built on services and the such like, which is funded in the main by foreign companies. Though interesting that the Royal Bank Of Scotland are one of the major players in that game.
I think getting our underwear in a bunch over it is just stupid and whilst it may technically be racist, I don't judge it as such as it demeans what is a real and serious problem. It is just stupidity a bit like the bloke from Kent above and let's face it the only worthwhile thing that ever came out of Kent was the channel tunnel.
2007-10-12 11:04:31 · answer #1 · answered by ShuggieMac 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Kelvin McKenzie is a chauvinist who looks down his nose at anyone else who dares to hail from a part of the British Isles which is not in London and the South East.
2007-10-12 10:22:13 · answer #2 · answered by nic_ess 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
the Sun is owned by RUPERT MURDOCH, a **** i say, i never buy the sun because of Mr. Murdochs relationship with G.W.Bush, but i watch Question Time every week and i like the show, Kelvin McKenzie was making some good anti-Labour points but his comments on the Scots did ruin his contribution
2007-10-12 10:11:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I've been going on about how I dislike the Barnett formula where south English taxes go to Scotland for ages, but even I would not say the things he said
2007-10-12 13:54:51 · answer #4 · answered by Julia Peculiar 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's all very interesting. Apparently half the employed Scots in Scotland work, for want of a better word, in the Public sector so they certainly ain't entrepreneurs adding to UK's wealth. And I dare say that a large %age of them are slothfully engaged in administering the 'brew for the ones that don't work at all. I don't expect many of them would have watched 'Any questions' anyway and even fewer would have known who whateverhisname was.
2007-10-12 10:30:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
He's not a nice man, is he! I'm not a Scot and I still felt offended with his remarks.
No wonder he worked for the Sun - no other rag paper would have had him.
2007-10-12 10:10:02 · answer #6 · answered by Sal*UK 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
the sun has been saying things like that about scotland for as long as i can remember.
i don't think scots will boycott just because of one comment on tv. they will boycott it because of many many commetns said voer time. i imagine
2007-10-12 13:37:32 · answer #7 · answered by tons'o'fun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mothers a Scot and she is far too hardy and intelligent to be upset by the remarks of this pompous twit. The Scottish are a proud people and do not suffer fools.........and this man is a fool.
2007-10-12 10:14:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
You needed last night's rant to tell you that you shouldn't be reading The Sun?
2007-10-12 14:33:12 · answer #9 · answered by politicsguy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I don't buy the sun anyway, it is full of yesterdays news and tory, but I am not surprised by the link you gave
2007-10-12 10:13:21 · answer #10 · answered by Chris 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋