Rod Liddle's least favourite countries 2019

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Every year during Easter Week Rod Liddle draws up a chart of his least favourite countries and distributes the list to close friends and relatives...

My least favourite countries in the world

Rod Liddle
19 April 2019
The Spectator

Every year during Easter Week I draw up a chart of my least favourite countries and distribute the list to close friends and relatives. I’ve been doing this for thirty years now and I’m sure it has proved helpful to those close to me. So sure, in fact, that I intend, from now on, to post the same chart here. I hope in time my hate list will come to be seen as a familiar herald of summer, like letters to the Times about the first cuckoo or Christian names given to children.

I never explain my reasoning: in most cases there is no need. And where there is need it is a case of pure, blind, prejudice. When I say “country” I dislike, sometimes I mean merely the government of that country, sometimes I mean the awful people who live in it and most usually I mean both.

This year’s is interesting, I think, for the newish arrival of many non-Muslim countries. I have put last year’s placings in brackets, so that you can see the trajectories. As for the definition of country, I have drawn on the 196 states properly recognised by the United Nations and United Kingdom Government (which of course means no Palestine).

(1) Turkey
(9) France
(2) Pakistan
( -) Canada
(3) Somalia
(20) Ireland
(-) Netherlands
(4) UAE
(17) Luxembourg
(10) South Africa
(7) Afghanistan
(-) United Kingdom
(6) Zimbabwe
(7) Spain
(-) Latvia
(5) Argentina
(6) Iraq
(19) Tunisia
(-) Belgium
(10) China

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/my-least-favourite-countries-in-the-world/
 
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Blackleaf said:
Why? For having countries which are his least favourite?
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For being a bigot ...

The British have THE WORST newspapers in the English speaking world. A flight attendant friend of ours brings us the Brit newspapers left over when she works a trans Atlantic flight, do we get to see them fairly regularly. My gawd, they're cover-to-cover junk. The only half-readable one is the Telegraph. No wonder your politics are a joke, if base your decision making on the opinions from your cheesy tabloids.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
A joke that long since ceased to be funny.
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From what is supposed to be a journalist, this piece is utterly classless. I'm not arguing about which countries should and shouldn't be on the list, I'm saying that for a journalist, this "article" doesn't even cut it as an opinion piece.
 
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Jinentonix said:
From what is supposed to be a journalist, this piece is utterly classless. I'm not arguing about which countries should and shouldn't be on the list, I'm saying that for a journalist, this "article" doesn't even cut it as an opinion piece.
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Blackadder posts his articles from time to time. He's a Kipper Ezra Levant type.
 
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It's not surprising he's put Ireland and the Netherlands in that list, what with two anti-Brexit gobshites running those pointless places: the queer Indian clown who runs the former and the mouth almighty who runs the latter, who's recent belittling of Britain made Liddle write: "Great Britain should not be demeaned by the leader of a large swamp next to Germany."

The UK is in that list because, according to Liddle:

"There are krill, living in the darkest reaches of the Atlantic Ocean, that would have made a better job of managing Brexit than our politicians.

I don’t think there has been a more intellectually challenged regime in the world since the famous — and fictitious — Dermot The F***wit presided over part of Ireland in the 12th century. "
 
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