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Because the 74 year old "doesn't reflect" its values.

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By:
terry mccann
When: 30 Oct 19 11:02
So a few now decide who we can go see and who we cant see
By:
terry mccann
When: 30 Oct 19 11:12
"Values" that have comtempt for freedom of speech and its citizens right to choose. Can you see the way its going?
By:
dambuster
When: 30 Oct 19 11:57
It only makes normal people turn against the few who think they're the majority. , keep it coming,They'll all be voted out on 12th Dec
By:
HGS
When: 30 Oct 19 12:19
He may not be everybody's cup of tea, but surely the right remains to the customer whether they pay to see him or not. Outrageous decision imo. He or his  management should never have been told he could attend there in the first place if they didn't want him there. Hope he sues.
By:
Dr Crippen
When: 30 Oct 19 12:32
This is a good example of what the ruling Labour council are all about.

Censorship is what you vote for when you vote Labour, certainly in Wales.
By:
Dr Crippen
When: 30 Oct 19 12:34
If it doesn't break the law then it's none of their business what the show is about.
By:
cooperman
When: 30 Oct 19 12:51
When I asked University of Missouri law professor Frank Bowman about McCarthy's "fruit of the poisonous tree" argument, he immediately began laughing.

He continued laughing for at least 10 seconds, then calmed himself long enough to ask if I wanted a more...scholarly answer.

"It's just comical," said Bowman, who is the author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump. "Their demand was for a resolution, and now the resolution isn't good enough.

"It doesn't matter what the Democrats do or don't do, certain members of the House Republicans are going to complain… they're not talking about substance at all. The evasion is so transparent as to be pretty comical."

When I asked him about McCarthy's suggestion that there was "no quid pro quo" because the military aid which the White House had held hostage was eventually released, his answer was similar to how he'd reacted to my first question.

"Wrong," he exclaimed. "If I hold a gun to your head and say 'give me money or I'll blow your brains out,' and the police happen to arrive before I've either blown your brains out or you've given me the money, that doesn't mean I haven't committed a crime."

I decided I needed to check in with another impeachment scholar, this time one with practical knowledge of how to investigate a rogue president.

That scholar — former deputy Watergate special prosecutor Nick Akerman — was just as blunt as Bowman had been when I asked him about McCarthy's "fruit of the poisonous tree" defense.

"That is the dumbest argument I've ever heard," he said, adding that this latest Trumpworld defense was "nonsense."

"The fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine only applies when someone's constitutional rights have been violated," said Akerman, now a partner at Dorsey and Whitney. "That's like saying every indictment issued by a grand jury has to be dismissed because the defendant didn't have a chance to be in the grand jury room to defend himself. I mean, that is just off the wall, it comes from outer space."

When I told Akerman about McCarthy's other argument — that there had been "no quid pro quo" because the White House eventually released Ukraine's military aid — Akerman was equally candid in his assessment of the defense's legal merit.

"Oh my god, it's just dumb and dumber," he said.

Akerman noted that the only reason the money was released was because of the demands made by Congressional leaders: ”The fact is, they caught [Trump] right in the middle of the thing. If they hadn't found out about this, Trump would've been pounding away at Ukraine to this day."

"If you take it in the context of the criminal law, an attempted bribe is bribery, you still can convict somebody for the attempt. One is just as culpable for the attempt as for committing the actual crime itself.

"They're grasping at straws. They have no idea what they're talking about and every defense they've come up with is just dumber than the next — I mean literally, it's so stupid it defies belief that this is all they can come up with."

Akerman said the "insane" arguments Republicans have made in defense of Trump so far underscore the fact that Trump has no defense.

"The Republicans have no defense here and Trump has no defense. If this goes to a trial in the Senate, this kind of stuff is going to go absolutely nowhere, and they're going to be made to look awfully foolish.

"You either vote to convict or you look like a fool.” Wink
By:
UBLE/REGY
When: 30 Oct 19 13:11
Swansea Council don't reflect my values

Of freedom of expression and peoples right to choose

Very poor Swansea CouncilSadSadSadSadSadSadSadSad

I would vote you out if I lived in Swansea
By:
Do wah Diddy
When: 30 Oct 19 15:51
I liked bernard maning a fantastic comedian in my mind .
,But I don't like this type of gutter so called comedy he takes it too far .I don't like so-called comedians who can only get a laugh by using guttersnipe talk and filth .He's too much for even a man's audience
By:
peckerdunne
When: 30 Oct 19 16:00
Bernard a ledge.
By:
Crisp77
When: 30 Oct 19 16:22
Swansea just announced the replacement Cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxFqv1QDI3Q
By:
Ramruma
When: 30 Oct 19 17:52
For the benefit of one or two chit-chatters who obviously know damn all about comedy ... Chubbs is a far better comic than Manning ever was.

Mind you, 74 is knocking on a bit. I thought he'd retired a few years back.
By:
elise
When: 30 Oct 19 18:21
I thought he'd retired a few years back.

might have, it's been the same act since the 70s, he might just be sending out random fat blokes in a biggles hat to do the material
By:
flushgordon1
When: 30 Oct 19 18:34
Shower of ****g sheepshagging welsh **** boyo!
By:
macarony
When: 30 Oct 19 23:02
back in the 70s we used to laugh at the USSR and say that could never happen here
By:
MALAY
When: 01 Nov 19 16:04
yesterday's man, funny as the toothache.
By:
dunlaying
When: 01 Nov 19 16:53
Absolutely , not at all funny but should still be allowed to work .
By:
HGS
When: 01 Nov 19 17:06
Nowt to do with whether we like him or not. Nobody has to attend. They took the booking and should honour it.
By:
SlippyBlue
When: 01 Nov 19 18:09
Each to their own of course but I just find him to be very crass and uncouth and that's not something that floats my boat personally.
By:
peckerdunne
When: 01 Nov 19 18:15
Bernard didn't do filth..............
By:
Coachbuster
When: 01 Nov 19 18:39
Swansea council have gone up in my estimation  Silly 

Chubby Brown about as funny as piles
By:
Coachbuster
When: 01 Nov 19 18:40
Manning would have been funny for his time but far too malicious with his humour imo ...he couldn't help himself .
By:
peckerdunne
When: 01 Nov 19 18:44
No malice in his humour at all, he wasn't racist and it was expected in those days..
By:
Percy Filth
When: 01 Nov 19 19:12
Manning was far funnier than Chubby Brown
By:
macarony
When: 01 Nov 19 19:32
Didn't know Chubby Brown was from Cardiff
By:
Coachbuster
When: 01 Nov 19 19:48
disagree pecker ,Manning was otherwise  funny -could have been massive  , certainly very sharp  with his humour
By:
Coachbuster
When: 01 Nov 19 20:03
some of his stuff pure classic ... 'Jimmy Tarbuck is about as funny as a burning orphanage' Laugh
By:
Coachbuster
When: 01 Nov 19 20:08
'he (Tarbuck) used to charge a fiver at the embassy in the old days ...i'd still give him a fiver cos he's still doing the same f:k:ng  act ' Laugh
By:
DenzilPenberthy
When: 01 Nov 19 23:55
Chubbs is one of the best if not the best imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_skF__cao0
By:
DenzilPenberthy
When: 01 Nov 19 23:58
Nowt that can be considered racist or offensive on the above video (when he was in his pomp) he tells jokes and that's pretty much about it,
By:
Facts
When: 02 Nov 19 04:16
Totally crass, utterly lacking in any hint of cleverness, subtlety or irony.
Pure unadulterated and aggressive  crudity. And as such totally unfunny.

Same goes for Jim Davidson.
By:
MALAY
When: 02 Nov 19 09:28
he's bad but nobody is as bad as Davidson surely.
By:
terry mccann
When: 02 Nov 19 11:40
Facts and some others are missing the point.If a very few can decide who we can watch and who we cant watch where does that lead too? Whether you like him or not really doesn't matter.
By:
The Dragon
When: 02 Nov 19 12:03
dreadful man but fos is what this is about
By:
The Dragon
When: 02 Nov 19 12:03
sad decsion
By:
moisok
When: 02 Nov 19 14:50
you can blame William Wilberforce and the abolishers like hannah moore - they wanted to stop all our fun in the uk circa 1800  ho ho 

mind you they were well into their booze too in those days
By:
saddo
When: 02 Nov 19 15:07
facts probably thinks HIGNFY is still amusing despite using the same gags - sorry, cleverness subtlety and irony - week after week for the last three years.
By:
Mikael D'Haguenet
When: 02 Nov 19 17:47
Why would you watch it week after week for the last three years if you don't find it amusing, saddo?

(Not saying it is, btw. Angus Deayton was still hosting last time I watched it!)
By:
----you-have-to-laugh---
When: 02 Nov 19 18:25
ive never seen chubby brown, but know plenty of his gags

his flagging career will doubtless get the boost he requires from this ban.
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