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John Ivison: Advice for Tory foes: Shut the #!*% up

NDP MP Pat Martin made news when he Tweeted “This is a f---ing disgrace…closure again. And on the Budget. There’s no democracy in the world that would tolerate this jackboot s----.”

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Pat Martin’s use of the F-bomb on Twitter has provoked the same kind of outraged reaction that greeted Kenneth Tynan, the English theatre critic, when he was the first person to drop the four-letter verb on British television 46 years ago.
Since then, the Brits have progressed to Malcolm Tucker in the parliamentary satire, The Thick of It. The NDP MP is a rank amateur in the art of great swearing, when compared to the fictional and fantastically profane spin doctor — check out Tucker’s Law on YouTube for a true professional at work.

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