When this practice was recently challenged as racist, David Cameron, Britain's prime minister, chimed in with an argument that probably resonated with fans: there is "a difference between Spurs fans self-describing themselves as Yids and someone calling someone a Yid as an insult".
During a speech that challenged the prime minister's argument that the bloc is a guarantor of peace on the continent, Mr Johnson highlighted problems allegedly caused by the EU having its own independent foreign policy.
He said it was right that the "priority" was children in those regions, saying that he backed the prime minister's argument that other European countries should be a safe place for refugees.
Simmonds said it was right that the priority was children in those regions, saying that he backed the prime minister's argument that other European countries should be a safe place for refugees.
In a direct challenge to David Cameron, the former work and pensions secretary, who resigned in March over the government's proposed disability cuts, contradicted the prime minister's argument that Turkey was decades off joining the EU and therefore irrelevant to the debate.
Their prime argument--that an equitable and feasible agreement is best reached by meeting the needs of both sides--is a convincing one.
Yet when the prime minister set out the first of these two arguments, there was a glimpse of an argument that could well be deployed against UKIP - even though he did not mention the party by name.
The former oil man is the prime exhibit for the argument that the Bush administration is more interested in producers than consumers.
He also denied allegations that it had been added to the document to embellish the findings and support Prime Minister Tony Blair's argument that Iraq represented an immediate threat.
To that, the prime minister added the argument that The News of the World scandal was the product of a wider malaise in the relations between Britain's newspapers, police and politicians, which he said had ill served the public for years by creating a "cozy" compact in which all of those involved collaborated to serve their personal interests while tolerating a pattern of press abuses.
