How to offend everyone, with Ian Hislop

and if you tell trump supporters that you know that donald trump is orange um and his attitude towards women is a little archaic, they're fine, i'll vote for him um that doesn't hurt, you have to say he's a useless business failure um and the reason he didn't pay taxes because he didn't make money now they hate, yeah so we're talking about lack of humor in politics, people who think that an attack on their criticism of political party support is like a personal insult , the survey shows that this is what 33 percent of reform supporters in the United Kingdom take as an insult. 32 of the Greens, 31 of the SMP support the Lib Dems, apparently they don't care at all, only 15 of them are

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jobs we hire hi matt hi so the number of times you put different leaders of the Party, particularly in my guesses about the front page with a joke at their expense and then you get letters saying that as a result they are going to cancel their subscriptions, give me a sentence, does it fit the Reform Party brexit and smps are the least prone to laugh at themselves? um yeah that sounds absolutely right um it used to be ukip um they were always very very very angry um and I guess it's a reform now that most of the letters I get from people who describe themselves as viewers of GB news um and I'm scared We've had a bit of a laugh at the GB news and they don't find it funny at all, and we've had a wonderful letter from many councilors last week saying, um, your constant criticism of the traditional Brexit fouries.

Marriage and the GB news have led me to cancel my subscription, that's all. Now here's a question when someone says it has led me to cancel their subscription. Do they cancel? They tend to wait a number to see if their letters arrive and then cancel. sometimes they just want to vent but generally people get very angry at the SMP Furious any criticism of Nicola Sturgeon particularly on the private poems of William McGonagall the worst poet in the world but I've gone a bit quiet recently so it's funny that it's funny isn't it because I did it a couple ago when she retired over a column back in the day that was rude to the SMP and had an absolute tolerance for anger on social media. and then the other day I described it as a fried banana republic and again I was in a nice I think xenophobic apparently yes, they don't like it, they don't like it, they actually use a phrase no and they're I'm very used to feeling superior to British politics. , you know, which is understandable, but this time, I think our photo bubble of Nicholas Sturgeon saying she had no idea she was married tomorrow may get them going again, we'll see. and um you when you do those calculations because sometimes I think you know when we talk about I don't know if it's Scottish politics or Northern Ireland politics.

I feel like in England and Wales you might not be as interested in how Is that a calculation when you're thinking about putting Nicholas Sturgeon in or is he just sort of a celebrity in the private detective world? No, I mean, I'm always aware of it because, um, one of the other criticisms is you never cover Scottish politics and then if we do they say why do you cover so pathetically, but I have to say in your poll that I mean the left, who has very, very thin skin, and I think the further to the left, the thinner the skin and We did a book review of Bernie um Sanders' biography about him and I've never seen it.

I mean, someone wrote in saying, um. Our Daily Express journalists now write as a private detective. This is the most pathetic Hatchet work I have ever read. the writer is about 15 years old and uses the word Trot as an insult he is 20 years past his sell by date Jolly 50 at least yeah come on so no they get really angry too. I'm the Liberal Democrats, I can't. you remember a letter, i think they are happy if you put something about it, how quiet the news would have to be for you to put ed davey in the flood, i think the magazine should have closed, it's interesting because when i wrote about the sp and then I did another column on Jeremy Corbyn and I had actually been doing a Twitter poll asking who was the least uh most sensitive because the kind of cold weather Corbin Easters encounters the SMP out there. that kind of very tribal stuff, yeah you get the same thing with Boris Johnson, because the people who like the Boy Scouts who really like Boris Johnson got really close, yeah, they were phenomenal and the most complaints we had was when, maybe you remember.

I put a release of an overflowing toilet. I remember this is the legacy of Boris Johnson, yes and uh no, they were outraged by this treatment, but again people accepted this cult a little bit and then the same thing happened with Corbyn and the same truth about the sturgeon. and farage uh uh people from other parties think well, we may not like our leader very much and we don't give a joke, but we'll probably vote that way anyway, there's a more normal attitude, a healthier attitude, I think They are politicians. outside of these groups, so I thought your survey was absolutely brilliant and it's interesting when you know that no one would say that there is a cult of personality around Rishi Sunak or Kirsten.

Yeah, I mean, they don't use the word personality much, do they? that's good, I think we're in a new era, um and I think that's partly why the attack, I think that's probably why the attack ads went down so badly, it was just a suggestion that politics wasn't going to be boring, um and people. Do you want to be bored now, yes, and it is? Do you have to work harder when you're working in the notoriously clean and tidy private detective offices? Do you have to work harder when you have Rishi Sudak and kissed armor instead of Jeremy Corbyn? versus Boris Johnson no, I think it's easier when the characters are a little more boring because almost any exaggeration is funny, so no, you have to work harder when the characters are extreme and also find out what really

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s the people, I mean, if you say that you What I know for Trump is that Donald Trump is Orange um and his attitude towards women is a little archaic, they're going well.

I will vote for him. That doesn't hurt. You have to say it's a useless business failure. And the reason why he didn't pay any taxes because he didn't make any money now they hate, yeah, they really hate that, so it's an equivalent here and um, and I have news for you, did you get in trouble last time you I noticed? Last week, when you were talking about the SMP thing, I immediately saw people on Twitter accusing you of being biased and dismissive, of course, and all kinds of things, you know? Is it harder on the T?

Do you have to have equal opportunities? in your impartiality in your mockery um um I hope I'm quite um unbalanced at best uh no, the pleasure of the BBC is that I'm not paying the good eye, that's serious, you're in trouble, but if it's the B already You know, if you do what do I have, I have news for you, yeah, no, I guess, I guess the potential legal action goes somewhere else, I hope so, no, uh, and I, no, I guess I'm sorry, Karen, no, I'm sorry. Okay, um and just in terms, actually, if I have these few, sometimes you have politicians, I mean, you had me last season, it was very nice, uh, it was nice, who, if you could have any politicians , I have news for you?

Now, who would you have? um um I think Blair would be good as a host or as a teammate uh friend yes yes what you're seeing would be very good it would be very very good well Ian good luck I hope. that, all of this, all subscriptions are being canceled next week, presumably, they're actually doing phenomenally well, isn't that a private detective? Actually, despite all the many canceled subscriptions, yes, until last week, I think we were fine. but you never know, I mean, there were a lot of letters last week, so, um, yeah, we hope all the letters about Nicola Sturgeon, uh, no, no, are very angry, so let me get this one, yes, yes, in the current Issue, I mean, there are a lot of letters, there is one that is upset, it generally says that, David Armitage considers you a left-wing organization, and Laurie Harper says that you are not interested in the left, come on , decide, there it is.

There's definitely something there about if you're annoying

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, you're doing something right. I can't tell you what the most complaints we received were in the last issue and this is what our readers really care about. politics was the derivation of the phrase let's scopper was slang that rhymed uh with scarper flow go or came from an old Italian word and if you think and if you think that political correspondents are angry, you should see the penitence that Ian always loves to talk about with your private detective editor thank you very much for joining us