Comments by "Horizon" (@Horizon344) on "ThamesTv" channel.

  1. This journalist talking to him in the creepy patronizing tone is totally forgotten, even his name is not recorded, whilst Powell remains a legend.
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  2. Watching these interviews from the 1970's & the intellectual calibre of them, you see how much journalism has deteriorated on English television today.
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  3. Fascinating film, seems like quite a nice life to me old Siddiq had in that nice old station, regardless of what the narration says. I'd bet it was 10x better than the alternative in India.
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  4. Amazing how high quality the current affairs/news reporting was back than, particularly when compared for the dumbed down quality of tv news today.
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  5. 100%, there's been a real dumbing down in England's public life
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  6. Interesting fella, always worth watching & listening to.
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  7. We should have been out of it 3 years ago.
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  8. Death knell of England's car manufacturing industry.
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  9. Well, they got "their Zimbabwe" ... for any good it did them =/
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  10. The UK still has the meanest state pension in the 1st World almost 40 years on, whilst MP's pensions are extremely generous. That's the Liblabcon for you.
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  11. It's taken 50 years for this to come about & is only possible due to IT tech. These fellas were visionaries but trapped in the mechanical age still.
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  12. This was only 1975 - nothing in terms of time, but every one you see here is now dead. ... You don't have long in this life everyone, make as much of it as you can, while you can.
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  13. They chanced their arm & lost.
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  14. Blast from the past, this is the Kingston of my childhood. Most of the river frontage on display here either side of the bridge was demolished & replaced in the late 1980's with new retail buildings. I wonder who all these people filmed were, & what went on to happen to them over the next 40 years?
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  15. Ah! the good old 80's, when no 1 gave a toss about the environment, or much else for that matter.
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  16. Early Brexiteers in evidence here.
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  17. This is typical of the "British" media in the war in Ulster that I grew up with. They always presented it as a conflict between "Catholics & Protestants", that was bewildering & hopeless, & the troops presence was merely aggravating the situation & they were in an impossible position & should be pulled out. The media never - to my recall - presented it as it actually was, a revolutionary insurgency against the Ulster-Scots people & the British Kingdom by a pack of Irish ethno-nationalists & Marxists using paramilitary terrorism as a political strategy. The media coverage of the whole conflict as I remember was useless, gutless & bordering on treasonous, designed to sow defeatism & despair in the United Kingdom when it was facing a bitter, determined murderous enemy, who was only defeated in the end by the Ulster-Scots people's refusal to kow-tow to them & the dogged courage of the Crown forces, which were hamstrung for most of the war by a political order in Westminster which was generally useless & ignored it hoping it would "go away somehow".
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  18. England virtually nationally collapsed financially in the late 1970's, as some of this film reflects.
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  19. Journalism back in the 1960's - 80's was far more serious than the lightweight pap it is today
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  20. To get away from what London was turning into courtesy of the Liblabcon's foreign immigration invasion.
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  21. crawler
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  22. England hit rock bottom in the mid 1970's in so many ways, it was lively tho & produced good pop music.
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  23. Got turned down for a job making them in Kingston-upon-Thames' Eden Street branch in 1987. What an ill tempered cow that manager was.
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  24. eu-Quisling rat.
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  25. Nothing changes much, everything you're hearing here is what people are saying about the trains today, main difference is the stations look more gloomily lit than the v. bright lighting & white paneling & glass they have today.
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  26. A time when you put something in the post & you were virtually guaranteed it would get there, unlike the foreign migrant worker thieving free-for-all that's going on at the RM's sorting offices now.
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  27. 0.25 - That's me!
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  28. Londonistan.
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  29. London looking attractively grim coming out of the economic crises of the 70's. & the beginning of the ethnic invasion becoming increasingly evident.
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  30. 17p for a can of Heinz soup, that's more like it
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  31. Clever move to shift away from the New Romantic style after being one of its leaders for 2 years, but his career faded away after this when he failed to break into the US market after an all or nothing expensive tour there, & had to rely on music more than image.
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  32. before the Liblabcon's stealth "invasion".
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  33. Getting a bit sick & tired of hearing about the "Windrush Generation", personally =/
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  34. Tony Bastable standing on an ex-RAF WW2 airfield trying to get people to take seriously a toy car with 3 wheels - welcome to the death of England's car industry in the 1970's (& Shaw Taylor knew it).
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  35. The USA launched a badly planned war in continental Asia, using 1/2 measures against a determined opponent, in terrain that limited its key advantage of superior firepower, & in consequence it was defeated, that's what went wrong.
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  36. Platform #1, I slipped down that entrance to the underground at the start of the film on the right 100x to dodge the ticket gate guard at those red doors at 0.34 in the 80's/90's. Noticeable lack of ethnics in the passenger crowd too back then - unbelievable what the Liblabcon has done to London with its foreign immigration policies over the last 30 years.
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  37. No wonder the British car industry collapsed in the 1970's.
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  38. A cheque for £75 meant something back then, unlike the inflation ridden monopoly money Sterling has been reduced to today through government money printing & debt everywhere. Don't know what happened to this fella, but there's no trace of him doing anything publicly after this, & this toy doesn't ever seem to have gone into commercial production.
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  39. The company closed this factory 7 months after this was filmed in 1980, dismissing the workforce, & withdrew production from Glasgow after almost 150 years there. The building was demolished in 1981.
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  40.  @markofsaltburn  The terrorist army of darkness was defeated in 1994 when it stopped its murder & wannabe ethnic cleansing campaign primarily because it was faced with military defeat, you trying to present that as "winning" is ludicrous. As for playing a long "game", well 1/2 a millennium is quite a long time, go on trying & see where it gets you, which is more of the same if it's wanted, you evil bigot.
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  41. They couldn't have imagined when filming this that it would take another 50 years before this tech would become commercially viable.
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  42. England's roads are being worn out today at huge expense to the taxpayer to repair by the massive increase in the population using them due to foreign mass migration into it. ... Keep 'em peeled Shaw
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  43. @John Ross 300,000 more foreign people arriving for settlement each & every year, by the Government's own figures = a 3 million+ increase in population density each decade, with the increased pressure on road usage that comes with that fact. It's called logic & "commonsense", why don't you try it sometime.
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  44. Amazing to think that from when this was broadcast it would take another 44 YEARS for England to break out of the eu.
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  45.  @markofsaltburn  Yeah, been hearing that for around four centuries now & still waiting; as for Irish terrorism having "won", you clearly haven't got a clue about what you're mouthing off about, get lost.
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  46. This fella's journalistic/broadcast career was much bigger than a silly interview with a pop band swearing on tv in 1976, clearly.
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  47. A lot of "stars" back then had lived quite hard lives before they became famous, & had spent years building up their careers before they attained public recognition in their 30's - 50's, compared to most actors now who are presented as "stars" in their 20's, who generally have had sheltered middle class lives of comfort, & haven't "lived" by comparison & had a chance to developed character. It's very noticeable that pre-1960 most of the film stars were in their late 30's-50's, but now generally they're in the 20's-early 30's. It's the "youth" thing that came in in the late 1950's-60's with pop music led by Elvis, & the film industry copied it in late 1980's, to its detriment.
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  48. Harrison died in 1989, his medals were sold at a commercial auction in 2016 in London to the highest bidder. Such is life.
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  49. IMMIGRATION REFERENDUM required on foreign population-replacement
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  50.  @carlarrowsmith  Google: 'Business for Scotland UK state pension worst in developed world and has the highest retirement age', big mouth.
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  51. Heseltine betraying England even back then as he is now.
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  52. mid-late 1980 judging by the car models.
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  53.  @donaldellis3609  Billions of pounds of taxes not being paid to the eu but spent on ourselves is a pretty good benefit. We're not waiting still for that, are we mate. Have some faith in your country.
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  54. Went over that bridge a few thousand times in the 1980's, walked over it an hour ago too.
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  55.  @johnbull1986  Change yr username, yr not English any more.
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  56.  @johnbull1986  Mass foreign immigration that's deluging into England is a problem because ultimately it leads to ethnic wars in the British Isles in the future, as for the rest of it, yr talking untruthful nonsense, blinded by an ideology that's lobotimized yr common sense.
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  57. Quality journalism & tv presenting, unlike the 4th rate stuff you see on tv today.
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  58. God there clearly wasn't much to do for fun in 1982, was there =/
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  59. Mad as a bicycle
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  60. Apparently he was an MI5 agent operating within the Trade Union movement.
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  61.  Robert Johnston  It's Marxism that's bewildered them really mate, not Liberalism.
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  62. This is where importation of foreign populations into other population's territory usually leads.
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  63.  @juliusseesaw5450  Define what u mean exactly by 'some1 else's soil'.
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  64. Yes the PIRA were. Glad you've realized it.
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  65. The Irish mass migrating into Ulster from the South & West to join them fleeing the famine, & then looking for work in Ulster's industries more like.
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  66. Still keeping 'em peeled, Shaw.
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  67.  @YorickReturns  The English have been here a little bit longer than the Africans mate - about 1500 years, & it's their tribal territory, not theirs. That's why they shouldn't be coming here in such numbers, it will end in serious trouble that's not good for either side.
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  68. The days when men were men!
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  69. Viners now makes its cutlery & kitchenware in China.
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  70. The use of the word 'maybe' tells me what I need to know. I've nothing against the Paddies as a people, & constitutional nationalism, and Republicanism, etc., is fair enough, but the PIRA were little more than packs of ethnic murderers & 1/2 arsed Communist revolutionary wannabes, who preyed upon their neighbours, & were a total disgrace to Ireland. No mealy-mouthed excuses for it.
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  71. There was no "genocide", Ulster was a sparsely inhabited wilderness when the English/Scottish farmers moved into it, after the Irish lords that held suzerainty over it at that time lost hegemony to the British Crown in alliance with other Irish lords. The bulk of the Irish population that lives there today migrated into it during the famine in the South, & during 1870-1950's era seeking employment in Ulster's industries.
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  72.  @jasontodd201  Very few native Africans fought for England in WW1/2 mate, & their "help" wasn't vital in the least post-war, they deluged in in the 1950's, & the country went bankrupt in the mid-1970's. You're talking rubbish.
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  73.  @YorickReturns  The fact of its bankruptcy disproves the other idiot's point that all the Africans flooding in in the 1950's/60's was "completely vital help getting the UK back on it's feet after WWII".
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  74.  @Piarás.Ruairí.McGroggan.420  Try ethnicity + revolutionary Marxism, & yo might be more along the right track
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  75.  @pandora8478  & now it's not because of foreign people living in it??
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  76. Brilliant
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  77.  @johnbull1986  Socialism, how very 20th century. No one supports the foreign migrant demographic invasion more than the "Old Etonians" yr referring to, & their pals in the Square Mile, but yr so blinded by a red eyemask that you can't see it.
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  78.  @markofsaltburn  Who's "they"?
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  79.  Megalodon Unlocked  The Crown.
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  80.  BemusedBarfly  If you think locking up 1 million+ angry Ulster Scots up in a foreign republic filled with simple-minded savages like you who detest their existence & slabber for their annihilation is a good idea, be my guest. See what happens when there's no British police force & British Army to hold them back any more.
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  81.  @SeanQuinn-IrishMarxist  Most of the PIRA foot soldiers were ethno-nationalist, whilst most of its leadership was Marxist - a marriage made in hell. The Ulster Scots are the descendants of what you refer to (when you're talking honestly among yr Irish Nazi pals online in the places you hang out at - usually PIRA fan boy uploads) as the "Planters", & they're not assimilating with the Irish, any more than you assimilated with the British identity. Respect Orange culture if you want your own respected. The founder of Irish Republicanism was a Frenchman, whose loyalty was directed towards Paris more than Dublin. How sad is that for an "Irish national hero".
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  82.  @jennytaylor3324  thanks, I called it the Fluffy Mohican
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  83. Old Ship is still there
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  84. It was, in the 90's
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  85. It was cunningly sold as an economic trading block, & the EEC supporters played down its actual political agenda.
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  86.  @Godisnotjesus1967  The USA also strangled Rhodesia to death with sanctions.
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  87.  @toby9055  Possibly true!
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  88. If that community hadn't gone out and attacked the local police stations in rabid packs unprovoked, the counter-attack from their neighbours wouldn't have come either, & you signing yourself with the PIRA murder gang nom de plume, that used to be appended to a variety of laughing insults after an atrocity, doesn't give a very good impression of who you are either, mate.
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  89. Badly designed bikes, & incompetent management caused the company's collapse
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  90. There was no genocide, & the land was confiscated by an alliance of British/Irish lords from Irish lords.
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  91. No mate, I'm not, now fuck off (& stop thumbing up your own posts like an idiot).
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  92. @MM - Well I can see that you're interested from all the ? marks. They were never able to build up enough numbers concentrated in one area in England to do it, if they had it would have happened there as well. If you want to see some signs of it look at the behaviour of the Irish immigrant population in Glasgow supporting PIRA atrocities at Celtic football matches, and hit "IRA parade Liverpool", & also "IRA parade Glasgow" into youtube search to see what comes up. If they had enough numbers in those places it would have kicked off there too.
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  93. @MM - Answered you're question a little too well did I, so now you try to change the subject? - Predictable on your part.
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  94. @MF - They would of if they could have pulled it off, as those vids I indicated in my previous posts on this thread show, but the couldn't as they didn't have the numbers to try it.
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  95. What makes you think the marchers in those vids in Liverpool & Glasgow are football hooligans, I didn't see a single Celtic jersey among them, just Irish terrorist paraphernalia? As for the "Irish Empire" stuff, it's popped up on Sinn Fein comments debates that I've had several times, I can't refer you to it specifically as it was months back the last time it happened & I haven't got a record of which vid threads it was on, but it exists in the fringes of the Irish politics, & those fringes have a habit of becoming influential in that population when it's in close proximity populations that are not of its own, hence the translation of "Sinn Fein" in English.
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  96. What do u think it was about mate?
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  97.  @anthonywalsh7613  Marxist revolutionary politics in combination with Irish Republicanism, on top of an ethnic societal fault line
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  98.  @johnbull1986  The Stock Market overwhelmingly supported Remain in the Referendum, & so did the wider financial sector that yr referring to, including the American banks in New York (they funded Remain in the campaign), that's why speculators buy the £ whenever the media suggests we might not really leave the eu, & they dump it trying to put pressure on the government whenever they think we're leaving it. Yr red eye-mask is blinding you to reality.
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  99. lol
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  100.  @whynotagain3639  Fair point
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  101.  @Dustshoe The heart of the conflict was a fight over land between the Irish vs the Ulster-Scots.
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  102. Haven't seen her for years - blast from the past.
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  103. Kingston has been having the character ripped out of it by retail development chasing shopping trends for almost 100 years now. Much of its character has been destroyed. The Council are responsible for encouraging it chasing retail revenue. Only the ancient markets precincts are off limits. It's disquieting what's been lost by this means & replaced with poor standard retail boxes. The curse of being a shopping centre town, Croydon town centre has been harmed in the same way.
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  104.  @zeddeka  Fair point, high inflation back then I guess
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  105. @MF - Those vids I've indicated prove otherwise unfortunately for the point you're making. Those are descendants of the Irish who immigrated to England, & I've debated with some Irish fellas on Sinn Fein uploads who wax lyrical about wanting an "Irish Empire" once they "re-conquered" Ulster, that covers the whole of Ireland, North-Western England & South-West Scotland.
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  106. @MF - Sinn Fein means 'Ourselves Alone' dummy, & I didn't say "I forgot where I saw the "Irish Empire" commentary, I said I can't refer to the specific vids on the Sinn Fein Youtube channel as it was some time ago when they were made. Now fuck off (again) & stop thumbing up your own comments you muppet.
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  107. @Psychedelia So 'educated people' ignore problems & threats & just think about nice things, according to you?
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  108.  @fasthracing  When?
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  109.  @fasthracing  Dawn constitutional walk.
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  110.  @fasthracing  U too mate.
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  111.  @andrewrobinson8305  That's pre-1960's yr thinking of
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  112. ​ @Anticommunism99 Чуждестранната имиграционна инвазия е извършена от торите, те не са по-добри от лейбъристите, приятелю.
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  113.  @petermead8229  I didn't say foreigners were a cause of all societal problems in England.
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  114.  @petermead8229  No, but I don't blame it for everything that's wrong in England either. I'm more concerned about people's ethnicity than the geographical location of their birth, & - steady yourself for a bit of a shock here Peter - the reason that I sound to you like a "racist", is probably because, well, ... I am one.
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  115.  @petermead8229  Ethnicity, or tribality & its influence is an inherent element to the human condition, it determines culture, & civilizations that arise & fall from culture. My outlook on this issue is a philosophical one, it wasn't taught directly to me or inherited.
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  116.  @petermead8229  I am continually self-critical, & have thought in depth about the issue for years, & your preference to go off into cod-psychology rather than engage in philosophical logic is slightly patronizing, although you may not mean it to be so.
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  117.  @SteveGoossens  & there was already the Bickerton available as I seem to remember?
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