however why protest in England for what is happening in America. why try and pull the statues down especially Rhodes, who really helps blacks even Baden Powell the mind boggles, is it because of leftie teaches pushing their commie agenda ****e on the kids.I was brought up in an era where i was proud to be English and of what we had accomplished as a nation, if we had not defeated Hitler i dread to think where we would be now, and then these twats want to pull down the statue of the man who saved us Winston Churchill, even the Colston statue in Bristol was put there for what he had done for the people of the area, do we pull down the statue of Nelson Mandela as he was a convicted terrorist. They even want to change the name of Penny Lane in Liverpool tossers,
Barbados is the best place in the world to mix with locals in run down joints, the people are fantastic
Little Britain has been "removed from Netflix, BBC iPlayer and BritBox amid concerns that the use of blackface characters on the series is no longer acceptable". Yet I can still watch White Chicks
My sister and her husband normally go every January. They've been face timing Mark the shark during lockdown, all alcohol was banned during it seemingly. Last time they were in contact he was p***ed as they'd just lifted it. Imagine if they banned alcohol here during it.
we stayed near St Lawrence Gap and kept bumping into a Canadian fella living over there. He would grab the mike and sing at every opportunity (he was pretty good) but he was perma-hammered. The locals would egg him on, what a life
You just have to look at Twitter to see some of the weird views that people hold. I wouldn't dream of commenting on politics or similar issues on there. It would be impossible to impart a balanced, moderate view of the situation without being called a racist or bigot, even if fundamentally you agree with the BLM movement. The people with the more extreme views shout loudest and get heard but anyone who tries to be balanced has to keep quiet for fear of unfair accusations.
He was an awful soldier, Wellington kicked him out of the army, most of his time was in admin, not on the 'front' line. He was an appalling mine owner, paid the lowest wages, kicked employees out of their homes regularly, brought scabs in to break strikes, and put strikers in the bishops dungeons, argued for years and prevented legislation outlawing children under 12 working in his mines. On the backs of child labour, built Wynard and restored his ancestral home in Ireland (he was Irish). He built Seaham harbour cos he had a fight with Sunderland about the cost of transporting his coal. A plaque at Seaham saying how he built the harbour on child labour would be about right. Anyhow aesthetically the statue is too big for the space
Yeah we stayed there one time, about the liveliest part. You could get a bottle of rum ,large bottle of coke and a bucket of ice for £4 .... we,d get one for us and one for the locals, absolutely smashed on£40 and that was with scran.
I know he was Lord Lieutenant of Durham and he was bought the Seaham Hall estate. didn’t know about the rest?
He married the Seaham estate I think! I do not have a problem with historical figures. Churchill was obviously a great war time leader, but a right cnut, so voted out as soon as peace arrived. Many of the old time artistos have murky money as their history, slaves, plantations etc. In Jane Eyre it's Mr Rochester background. I like history, but we need to know it all, warts et al, as it were so we can make a true judgement. Washington is revered as a great founding father, but I think he may have owned slaves and 'sired' a few bastards. Of course nobody is 100% pure as the driven snow...but honest appraisal are needed.
When will the idiots start campaigning for the pyramids, Colosseum, statues to Roman Emperors etc to be torn down? They were all built with slave labour. History is just that and attempts to re-write it will always end in failure, apart from in Hollywood!
I'd gamble all I've got that the self same lot were,nt kicking off when ISIS were smashing up priceless artifacts and running around supporting the f*****s. But that was in the name of something else .
Terrorists. And not remotely offensive. It’s a really colourful part of our countries wonderful history. Good on them.
An attack on democracy, a religious bigot and a traitor who fought for Spain ... ... and we celebrate his memory with fireworks, toffee apples and a drink to the Pope.
British eccentricity at its finest Smug. It’s who we are and I would never want us to change. I like that we are different. Lockdown - sold out of hot tubs, beer keg deliveries up 4000%, folk building ‘revolving fences’ to socialise with neighbours etc. I ****ing love that we embrace our quirks. I love our humour, our often misguided moral compass, and our beautiful land. We are alreet you know mate
lord baden powell the true facts Mr Jeal said: "It was all to do with the outward bound life - it was only these references to character-training that he found appealing, not Hitler's hatred of Jews. "Baden-Powell condemned Hitler for being a megalomaniac and for mounting what he called 'huge pageants for hypnotising his people'. "He hated totalitarianism, twice hoped that he would be able to marry Jewish women and chose a Jewish doctor." Historian Dr Andrew Norman said the Nazis vowed to execute Baden-Powell in the event of a successful invasion of Britain. He said: "He wanted to introduce the Scout movement into Germany to foster friendship between the two countries. "His efforts were in vain, and for his pains he was put on a Nazi death list because the Germans suspected that he was using scouts as spies."
