They could teach British Irish history a bit more effectively, we were told about absentee landlords etc but it was kind of framed as “a few bad people did this” rather than something institutionalised
Start with the Irish famine, it’s just next door. Yeahyeahyeah, potato blight for 5 years running will fuck up any impoverished, systematically abused underclass, but the Empire exported pretty much all the other crops grown here at the time to mainland UK which was enough to prevent the famine happening in the first place. And then did nothing to help afterward.
And then the Biafran war, India in general, anything with countryname Company, Cromwell’s genocidal invasions of Ireland, that kind of thing.
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If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day, you will pay the price if you’re a fussy eater.
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We all know history started in 1066, as the Bayeux Tapestry is the oldest historical document in the world, fact. Then nothing else happened till a fat King wanted to make divorce legal. We kicked the Spanish and French’s arses then beat Hitler single handedly, won a world cup and everything has been brilliant since. The end.
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If they could afford to emigrate then they could afford to eat in a modest restaurant…
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You forgot we won Brexit too
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Cops had just been cancelled. Pretty sure that was the longest running reality TV show.
I ended up hanging out with a couple of off duty cops in Las Vegas one night, who had been on COPS We’d gone to see Mighty Mighty Bosstones play and the frontman, Dickie, was friends with them and hooked us up with them. They drove about, smoking weed, sawn off shotgun in the car and talking about all kinds of crazy stories.
I didn’t believe them at the time, but did see them on the show later on.
I was on the short lived UK version on Sky One.
Woo hoo!
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Fucking Statue Defenders…
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And to think that this man is allowed to breed without state intervention.
https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson_MP/status/1272068051505156096?s=20
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Ah, so Benson and Hedges are to blame?
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Thing is, this guy was likely 12 Stellas deep at this point and would have had no idea where he was pissing - he would have just seen a spot and gone for it.
The problem comes when the police and government make an example of him and then use that punishment as a blanket approach on all protesters, specifically BLM
A protest is no place for getting hammered though, you’re there for a reason and that reason should be important to you enough to stay focussed and coherent. Thing is, when put on the spot people like that cannot form a coherent argument for their ideas even when sober. They are the slime found in the bottom of a wheelie bin of our society.
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And? Pissing in public is an arrestable offence anyway, let alone pissing on a murdered coppers memorial, the things that he was there to ‘protect’. Showing how utterly moronic these people are and what their true agenda was. I’m sure the rozzers will look after him nicely for that, if he doesn’t think police brutality exists.
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The ‘And’ was literally the second part of what I wrote.
Yeah the guy, and all of his kind, are twats. But the government don’t care about that, they only care about silencing protests in general. And it’s easy for them to now punish this guy under the pretext of pissing on a memorial, give him an inflated punishment, and then use that as a blanket approach to deter ALL protesters in the future
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I don’t think so though, the law is till the law and should apply to each case individually. Than a carpet punishment.
That bloke in uniform is most likely a Walt. His stable belt was upside down amongst other things. Makes me ashamed to be associated with people like that being ex REME. From what I can gather veterans went to ‘protect’ things like the cenotaph etc and the EDL, Britain First thought they would all join in to. And there was a video of Tommy Robinson spouting off about something. I’ve only seen clips of it not the whole thing