Not All Of Us, John, Not All

“Labour MP John McDonnell has said he was “sorry” if he caused offence with his remarks about former Tory PM Margaret Thatcher.”

“I’m sorry if I have caused offence to anyone. It was a joke and in that audience it was taken as a joke… it was taken out of context, I can see if people are upset about that and if I have caused offence to anyone of course I apologise.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10263076.stm

Nile Gardiner – who worked as an aide to Lady Thatcher after she left office – wrote in his Telegraph blog that Mr McDonnell should apologise “for his disgusting, undignified and menacing words” and attacked them as “a sickening disgrace and a stain on his party”.

“It is vicious language of the lowest common denominator that would shame even the worst preacher of hate,” he wrote.

Really, Nile?

Would it be the kind of joke that General Pinochet would find tasteless?

"And I murdered another political opponent like this..."

Remember General Pinochet, Nile?

You know, the former dictator of Chile who replaced the democratically-elected and popular Salvador Allende by coup, mass internment, mass torture and thousands of political assassinations.

You remember, Nile, the same man who often had tea with Thatcher and who Thatcher lobbied to have released when he was arrested for his crimes against humanity.

Maybe Nile Gardiner is more disgusted with people that make jokes about political assassinations. I mean, he has had tea with real assassins.