Winners and Losers

No defence for Letwin and Young ?

Of course he isn't evil, what a strange comment!

You may call him lots of things if you like, but evil... It really doesn't fit the bill.

What does one call a man who has had the best education money can buy and a privileged life style and calls the poor - the lower class ?

Certainly not evil!?

Hitler was evil.

Let's try and use words properly.

Ok not evil for you, but what ?

I agree on using words properly, is calling the poor the lower class acceptable ? I think it was a vile thing to say

Not evil for anyone! Pompous, maybe, arrogant, who knows?

It was/is part of life in Britain to be obsessed by class, upper class, middle class and lower class.

Being Jewish, Letwin should have known better than to make sweeping statements about any particular ethnic/cultural group.

Talk about stereo-typing: his opinion that resources aimed at black Londoners would end up in 'drugs, discos and Rastafarian art'.

I've always found him obnoxious - I wonder if his views have changed over the years - I know that he's apologised for what he said 30 years ago.

Has he given any interviews? I'd be interested to hear what he has to say.

Obnoxious, yes, a better word!

You must know rosesarered, dismissing it as - who knows , is a defence

Letwin doesn't give interviews when he has disgusted people with his views, he vanishes , just as he did in 2002

I meant yer takes yer choice of words, pompous, arrogant or other ( but not evil, that's laughable.) Riverwalk's obnoxious is perhaps the best word.

You do sound obsessed with Letwin ab

Not at all obsessed with Letwin, just find anyone who holds his views on the poorer in society and black people to be vile and racist. I despise him and anyone who shares his vews

My choice is evil.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iain-duncan-smith-is-offering-140000-a-year-for-someone-to-take-charge-of-his-troubled-universal-a6791046.html

One winner here to make lots of losers.

Dictionary d3efinition of evil; not good morally, sinful or wicked. Causing discomfort or repulsion. Disagreeable or harmful.
Hence Letwin is evil. What he says fits all those categories.

Obnoxious from the Latin, ob + noxa, meaning harm.
Therefore both obnoxious and evil mean harmful.

Thinking of it more, Hitler was evil for the final solution but he started with the same views of Jews as Letwin has of the poor and black people, lesser human beings

Personally I think it is crass stupidity to say I cannot use the word evil to describe someone who certainly has had evil intent over the last thirty years.

I would called him an arrogant, contemptuous, pompous prick idiot

Evil is a bit strong imo, I don't think he wants to exterminate a whole lot of people.