You couldn't make it up.
It's hypocrisy gone mad don't you know.
Jon Gaunt, if you don't no, is a monstrous tit and an awful bore of a man, a vile mouth on a stick perpetuating myths and faux man-in-the-street bigoted ideologies and passing them off as entertainment. He also works for the Sun, on their Sun Talk radio station, which is billed as, I fucking kid you not: "The home of free speech."
What kind of home I wonder? A care home? A mental home? Anyway, I digress...
Back in 2008 he called a Redbridge councillor a Nazi and was sacked, something that surprised and upset him a great deal, indeed he was so vexed he came over all bemused by it all. The daft racist, being a sore loser and no doubt believing his listeners fevered sycophancy awarded him some kind of special status, decided to challenge the ruling and failed.
Not one to be deterred, Gaunty (as the rabid bigot is jauntily titled) went to the High Court in order to challenge the OFCOM ruling, perhaps rightly sniffing some sort of martyrdom status amongst the particularly thick and myopic individuals that make up his fan base.
Jon Gaunt was crying freedom of speech and here is where the hypocrisy comes in.
His defence of his ridiculous outburst was centred on Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, a piece of legislation created by the Council of Europe, a precursor to the very European Union that Gaunty despises and a body that strives for similar goals with regards to European unity and integration. Goals that Jon Gaunt spends a great deal of time frothing at the mouth at and hectoring.
So let me get this straight Mr. Gaunt. You hate Europe with every inch of your corpulent frame but when it suits your own aims, you thrash about in its legislation like an oil stricken whale?
You'll be glad to know that he lost the case but no doubt, hiding behind yelps about freedom of speech, he will keep appealing.
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The HRA switcheroo performed by every wingnut ever to find out the hard way that having human rights is quite nice, actually, has never been summed up better than this:
http://lolgriffin.blogspot.com/2008/11/first-i-was-like.html
Indeed, it's quite staggering chutzpah, cloaked in the fact that those that want to steal away our human rights need them to carry out the theft in the first place.
BTW the Council of Europe was indeed a precursor to the EU but the two were started and run separately and continue to be so.
Indeed and I never said otherwise.
More importantly, one cannot doubt that the aims of the Council of Europe are not ones shared by Jon "Nazi" Gaunt and thus, hypocrisy on a vulgar scale ensues.
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