Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "History Debunked" channel.

  1. But didn't Winston Churchill himself say 'Never in the field of postal history was so much mail sorted for so many by so few?'
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  2. For the BBC, mere viewing figures matter little. It is not a commercial company, and can produce whatever propaganda it wishes funded by the despised little people who pay the Licence Fee.
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  3. In 50 years time, people will say, 'that play about 20th century Britain showed white people on the streets of London. How historically inaccurate can you get?'
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  4. In some areas, corruption isn't seen as a a bad thing, but simply as one of the perks of power or authority.
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  5. What did Marie Antoinette win her Nobel Prize for, and when? If you don't know, I could always ask David Lammy, I suppose?
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  6. In the interview on NBC, Trump was asked it DEI was responsible for the crash. His reply was that it could have been, not that it was.
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  7. My own CV says that I was an International Cricketer, who played over 70 Test Matches for England, scoring 22 centuries and retiring with a Test Average of 56.34 It sounds so much better than stating that I was merely quite a good club player, doesn't it?
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  8. I believe that the BBC are about to produce a new documentary about the Bismarck action, in which Churchill is portrayed by Lenny Henry, and Admiral Joan Tovey by Helen Mirren The pilot of the Swordfish which delivers the crippling torpedo hit is from the Nigerian Air Force, and is played by Idris Elba.
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  9. Ed Miliband was telling the truth when he said that bills would go down £300 per year. What he didn't mention was that this would only happen after they had gone up £1400 per year first.
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  10. Indeed. Boots have just been given the boot chez moi. It seems that my family do not meet their standards of what an acceptable customer might be.
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  11. Give it time. He will be so described soon.
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  12. Ironic that you should produce this at about the same time that Johnson said that Ukrainian refugees would be welcomed by Britain. Presumably, they would have to queue behind the South Coasters and the Hong Kong Chinese?
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  13. Don't worry. Once Sir Keir persuades the EU to accept Britain as a faithful subordinate province of the European Empire, that big island off the French coast will make an excellent place to send these 'refugees.'
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  14. Ironically, Michael Bates was born in India. Bates spent his early years in India, speaking Hindi and Urdu as his first languages before learning English, and remaining fluent in the former two languages for the rest of his life.
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  15. Surely, when a series of politicians have apparently decided that Britain would be better off as a Third World country, then diphtheria, polio and tuberculosis are simply some of the concomitant benefits we should expect?
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  16. The idea that the wonderful David Lammy might be involved in any discussions fills me, and probably most normal, rational, people, with unmitigated terror.
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  17. If Trump does prevail, doubtless be stern faces, black armbands, and solemn martial music.
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  18. As is doubtless painted up in large letters in the BBC newsroom, 'NEVER LET A FEW FACTS GET IN THE WAY OF THE AGENDA.'
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  19. Why are you reading from a recent 'Doctor Who' script?!
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  20. 'The Grauniad?' The Guardian of today would have reported the sinking of Bismarck in May 1941 under the heading ' Innocent German cruise ship brutally destroyed by British navy without warning. - Many civilians feared dead.'
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  21. I assume he can claim substantial expenses for turning out at the week-end. He might even be given a new suit by Lord Alli for the occasion.
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  22. The odd thing is that no-one in the media seems willing to consider the possibility that the increase in population largely due to immigration has any connection with the increasing pressure on every public service you care to name.
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  23. Nothing. But those planning any potential disruption are becoming more and more confident as little or nothing is done to challenge them. The maxim 'the squeaky wheel gets the most oil' applies. 'Appeasement' is another relevant term.
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  24. Do keep up. There was recently a demand to have the statue of Robert Peel in Manchester removed, by 'eminent' historian(?) Ana Lucia Araujo on the grounds that 'Him big raycist!! man!'
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  25. Except as the hero or heroine of the srory, of course.
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  26. Bro, de photos. av been doctored by de white raycists, innit?
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  27. But the 'British' government, on almost a daily basis, tells us that it isn't.
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  28. But it doesn't matter. The Dear Leader has a herd of robotic automata, otherwise known as his MPs, who are willing to support anything he does, in order to protect their £91k per year salaries, largely unchallenged expenses, and their ability to make many profitable 'contacts.'
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  29. A couple of years ago, the NMM asked a Woke Queen, Lucy Worsley, to 'reassess' Nelson. As, when applied to Worsley, what 'reassessment' really means is well known, this is probably one result of her efforts.
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  30. If it isn't deliberate, then his efforts have been almost heroically inept.
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  31.  @KemetledAfrica  Did the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason totally pass you by, or do you simply deny both?
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  32.  @whitelines3097  'Should we wait until Islamic army’s are at the door.' Some would say that, in Britain at least, it already is.
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  33. In 20 years time, there will be a sensation when it is announced that a performance of 'Henry V' in Stratford upon Avon is to be in Whiteface.
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  34. "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go". I can barely conceal my pride at being from the family of Major General John Lambert, one of Cromwell's commanders at the Battle of Preston, and the victor of the Battle of Inverkeithing, when I read statements like that.
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  35. I believe that 13 women had complained up until yesterday. By the time I write this, the number will probably have risen beyond 250.
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  36.  @candy-le4nh  Perhaps you might explain this statement in Mr. Lammy's magnum opus, 'Tribes' then? The book was written around four years ago. “An ethnic Englishness, tied to toxic assumptions about group supremacy, has put down deep roots in recent years.” Better yet, plough through the whole book to fully inform yourself about Lammy's overt double standards, and his open dislike of 'Englishness,' by which he means the white English.
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  37. Personally, I don't really care whether the Dear Leader is a homosexual or not. I do care that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is a conscienceless liar and a total hypocrite, however.
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  38. I do enjoy the use of the word 'Progressive' in modern politics. I wonder if the arrival of Gothic tribes within the borders of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, resulting in the gradual collapse of Roman civilisation, was similarly viewed as 'progressive' at the time?
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  39. I have been remarkably fortunate, so far. I missed the entire Opening Ceremony. With a little effort, I hope to miss the entire Olympics.
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  40. Not the most gifted of thespians, is she? Much like the person to whom she was talking.
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  41. David Olusoga would certainly be the presenter of choice for it.
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  42. I wonder if the British government funds their holiday trips?
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  43. I believe that the new theme of the British legal system in certain areas is 'Guilty until proven innocent, but then still assumed to be guilty anyway.'
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  44. Any young man considering a career as a primary school teacher should be very careful before proceeding with the idea, given that the law as it currently stands says 'guilty until proven innocent, but then assumed to be guilty anyway.'
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  45. Don't worry. Angela will sort it all out, and still have time to go clubbing.
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  46. Perhaps, as these people wish to be referred to as 'they' then they should serve a double sentence?
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  47.  DIFESA_RAZZA_BIANCA  Good heavens! I never knew that Alfred Hitchcock ever said anything like that.
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  48.  @JAMESLOONEY-kd1nu  Whose land was ever 'grabbed by force?' Do tell of any actual assault landings the British made during the expansion of their Empire. Perhaps the accepted explanation of 'The Flag followed Trade' escaped your notice?
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  49.  @michael.darracott  Correct. To be honest my wife pointed the advert out to me. Generally, I blank most of the adverts, but this one particularly annoyed her, in view of the leading figure in it.
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  50. As someone said to me last week, 'If the first Britons weren't black, how do you explain how they managed to build Stonehenge?'
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  51. I wonder if Lord Alli bought the jacket for him?
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  52. Or at least receive the William MacGonagall Prize for Bad Poetry.
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  53. I expect David Lammy to proclaim white snow RAYCIST!!!' in Monday's newspapers.
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  54. It is very difficuilt to be patriotic when your government constantly tells you that such a concept is right wing at best, and fascist at worst.
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  55.  @markhenry192  Perhaps his clothes supplier of choice, Lord Alli, comes from the Muslim side of his family and has instucted the Dear Leader to get rid of pubs, or there will be no more nice freebies for either him or Lady Starmer?
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  56. I'm a radiologist. I often listen to the radio in my car. This is what a radiologist does, isn't it?
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  57. Grossly unfair. I know a student who attained a First in Ethnic Dance in 2023. I meet her often, as she stacks the shelves in our local supermarket in a very professional manner.
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  58. Bet of luck, you might get a spare camper van out of them.
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  59.  @draoi99  I wonder how many of these gallant people received Purple Hearts for receiving agonising wounds, such as paper cuts? Not to mention the injuries caused by the need to lift extremely heavy letters?
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  60.  @candy-le4nh  Aren't you aware that the Transatlantic slave trade was only made possible because Arab slavers and African tribal leaders were enthusiastic supporters? That it would not have been possible had they not made a ready supply of slaves available? Or that, compared to the Portuguese, the British were merely amateurs, or that, where slavery was concerned, the Ottoman Empire were Premier League performers? No, of course you aren't. You would much prefer to impose the morals of the 21st century onto events over 200 years ago.
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  61. I imagine that in the early fifth century AD Romans saw not the slightest problem in allowing large numbers of Goths across the borders of the Western Empire, to do the jobs that the Romans did not wish to do. After all, the Roman Empire was a more advanced civilisation, and under no threat at all, wasn't it?
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  62. Indees. I believe that it was recently appointed to a junior ministerial position. When asked about the current economic situation, it replied 'ruff' and became an advisor to Rachel Reeves.
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  63. The idea of the poppy came about because of a poem written by a Canadian Medical Officer, Lt. Col. John Macrae, and published in December 1915, called 'In Flanders Fields.' The last line, which Charles has forgotten, if he ever knew it, reads :- 'If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.'
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  64. Simply the shape of things to come in the future British caliphate, I expect.
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  65.  @HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb  Perhaps the BBC might consider doing a six part serialisation of it? Narrated by Sir Lenny Henry, with David Olusoga as historical advisor?
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  66. Unfortunately, it appears that, in the near future, saying 'NO' will not be permitted.
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  67. I have never understood why the term 'Do-Gooder' is applied, when what is actually done is usually far from good.
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  68. The sad thing is that the genuine volunteers are suffering because of the antics of their full tim managers, most of whom, doubtless, have never even seen a lifeboat.
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  69. I have been boasting to friends and neighbours that I survived the entire Olympics experience without seeing a moment of any of it.
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  70. When Neil Dudgeon decides to step aside, I wonder who the next in line might be?
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  71. But then he would have to pay the bus fare, as well as the bill for the meal. Have you no respect at all for his Yuman Rites?
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  72.  @jimmycampbell78  With the First Past the Post electoral system, the number of seats in the Commons is as follows, with the bracketed number being what it might have been, based on the percentages of those who bothered to vote, and ignoring the rest:- Labour 411 (219) Conservative 121 (154) LibDem 72 (79) Reform 5 (93) Green 4 (42). This is what happens when a system designed to cater for two parties, Tory/Liberal and later Tory/Labour, remains in place when politics, and the number of parties, becomes more complex. Of course, in the past, the Tories, similarly, have benefitted from this outmoded method, but as early signs suggest that the 2024 General Election may well be the last, isn't it ironic that a party which dropped some half a million votes between 2019 & 2024 should become so all-powerful?
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  73. In Britain it will become standard viewing for schoolchildren, as a vital part of the history curriculum.
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  74. Perhaps, in the mind of the author, the British in the Crimea were the enemy?
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  75. Indeed, but what applies to a political titan should not equally apply to the inconvenient peasantry.
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  76. Unfair. David Lammy would at least provide diversion & entertainment. Similar to the band on the Titanic, perhaps?
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  77. Even get the feeling that the British are in the same state as the Anglo-Saxons in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest? Being increasingly subjected to the authority of invaders from elsewhere? Prehaps my analogy is inappropriate? William's Normans did, at least, have many cultural similarities with the people they conquered.
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  78. Lammy is somewhat disingenuous with the facts about his ancestry. His forebears were never enslaved by anyone British.
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  79.  @yagsipcc287  Yet the Republic did not allow allied escort vessels to use ports on the west coast of Ireland, which would have closed, or at least reduced the size of, the Air Gap much earlier in WW2 than was historically the case. Nor were similar facilities accorded to allied aircraft. Certainly, a number of Irishmen joined the allied cause, but as private individuals, without the approval of de Valera's government. Indeed, many were actively persecuted by that government after 1945.
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  80. Indeed. Some would have us believe that slavery practised by anyone other than the English/British was an early form of welfare, undertaken entirely for the benefit of the people enslaved.
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  81.  @HistoryDenied  Wasn't it lucky for them, then, that large numbers of Africans were readily available, and were delivered to the ships by African chieftains and Arab traders, who had been profiting from the business for centuries?
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  82. Inevitable once Starmer starts pandering to the Islamist wing of his part.
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  83. Grossly unfair. I have been to Longleat. The animals there behave with far more dignity.
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  84.  @ConradAinger  It is a well-known maxim that 'the squeaky wheel gets the most oil.' The more aggressive the Faithful, or at least some of them, become, the more the Authorities back down. Neville Chamberlain took the same approach to Adolf. It didn't end well.
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  85. Remember the brilliant line in 'The Producers' about him, delivered by the writer (wearing a coal scuttle helmet) of 'Springtime for Hxtlxr?' 'Now there was was a painter. He could paint a whole apartment in a week-end. Two coats!!' I admit it is better heard when delivered in a faux German accent, rather than read, however.
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  86. Those who head the police appear to have bought into the policy of population replacement, tacitly accepted by most politicians for many years. This inevitably influences the quality of officers they seek to recruit.
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  87. I had the misfortune to visit Londonabad a few months ago. It appears to have degenerated into a huge freak show, and Euston station never seemed so welcoming.
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  88.  @HistoryDenied  I didn't suggest that it did. However, are you trying to argue that, when slavery was widespread at the time, the English/British should have refrained from the practise? It was, and to a degree still is, endemic in Africa. Moreover, compared to the Ottoman Empire and Portugal, the British were mere amateurs. They were, however, among the first to condemn and abolish it. Alas, you are naively trying to impose 21st century values on people from an earlier time. Would you, for example, condemn Marcus Aurelius for not introducing Old Age Pensions into the Roman Empire?
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  89.  @sebastianguerre6868  'Our government's first duty is to protect its own people.' Why? It hasn't been for 25 years or so.
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  90.  @Paratus7  'They had three options; sail to Canada to sit out the war, scuttle their fleet or join the Allies.' The third option was to take the ships from Oran to the French West Indies, where they would be placed under neutral US supervision. The probability is that Admiral Darlan would have accepted this, but he never had the chance because Admiral Gensoul at Oran, for reasons he never explained, chose not to inform Darlan of this option.
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  91.  @4legsgood  Really? Explain which wars 'he mongered?' Then read up about the actual facts surrounding Gallipoli. You might learn something.
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  92.  @carolebarker2195  I think you mean 'have become?'
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  93.  @PhilTaylor-eg9nl  But was it invented, or was it a sincere belief? That was simply a judgement call at the hearing.
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  94.  @truth.952  Respect for the Fallen is far more important than showing contempt for a politician cynically pretending to be sincere. Turning backs on the Dear Leader would be completely inappropriate, and would defile the day.
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  95.  @jimjones-bk2is  Perhaps because the enthusiasm for mass immigration demonstrated by successive governments, without any attempt to ensure the construction of sufficient new housing, has produced an accommodation cricis, and a serious rise in the cost of what housing is available?
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  96. Unfair. Wasn't it the Great David who educated us about the famous Black Emperor, Septimius Severus, and the well-known Sub-Sarahan skeleton known as 'Beachy Head Lady'?
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  97.  @candy-le4nh  'Your quote just torpedoed your claim!' As someone who has actually read the book, I have no intention of debating it with someone who clearly hasn't.
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  98. Even though Fred died some time ago, the Dear Leader would surely be appalled at the very idea of giving a knighthood to a working class northern person, who probably never even wenr Islington, let alone attended a dinner party there.
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  99. Probably not. That would infringe their YUMAN RITES!!!
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  100. I understand that Mr. Lammy has been allowed to visit Africa ON HIS OWN!! As Sergeant Wilson often remarked, 'do you think that's wise?' Heaven only knows what he might agree to.
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  101.  @PaulGoman-jm2sv  The difference being that the US was directly attacked.
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  102. But I doubt that the average churchgoer rates all that highly in the minds of Church grandees.
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  103. Alas, my son took the Home Office entrance examination recently, but failed it. His academic qualifications were fine, but his pronunciation of 'Allahu Akbar' was deemed not up to the required standard. I an not, of course, being serious. At least, I don't think I am.
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  104. Personally, I always thought that Davros looked more like Vince Cable. Or is it the other way round?
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  105. Breaking news! Lord Peter Carrington is to be recalled as assistant Foreign Secretary. A Spokesman for the Prime Minister said that, 'although Peter died in 2018, he would still be a valuable member of the Noble Lord Camoron's team. There is nothing in the Prime Minister's understanding of the British Constitution which demands that, in order to hold a senior post in the government of the United Kingdom, the individual appointed was required actually to be alive.'
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  106.  @alexmorgan3435  Yes they did. The (now) Dear Leader frequently said 'Vote for us. We aren't the Tories.'
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  107.  @petergibbs1683  The same argument could be used for Savile or Harris, equally absurdly.
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  108. I believe that the BBC's tame propagandist, David Olusoga, remained equally quiet about his celebrated 'Beachy Head Woman' who in his mind was of Sub-Saharan African origin, when DNA analysis demonstrated that she almost certainly came from Cyprus. Still, I suppose Cyprus might have been moved since Roman times?
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  109. As politicians of all parties, the legal system, and government, tend to unite in their conviction that the white working class are a nuisance and an inconvenience, it is entirely understandable that as little money as possible should be wasted on this underclass.
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  110.  @TheVideoLounge  Ah, but African cars were anti-gravity vehicles, with no need for rubber tyres.
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  111. I doubt Britain could survive were we to lose this beloved Political Titan. Oh, sorry. Haven't taken my medication today.
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  112.  @yolandabrinkman2653  The British representative was the captain of HMS Ark Royal, Captain Holland. Somerville sent him because he spoke fluent French, having been at the British Embassy in Paris, and he was known to be a Francophile, who knew several of the senior Admirals in the French Navy, though not Admiral Gensoul. Obviously, Somerville needed to remain aboard his flagship in order to maintain contact with the Admiralty, but Gensoul does seem to have been peeved that an officer of a rank equal to his had not been sent to negotiate with him. As a result, he failed to send the full details of the British ultimatum to his own government.
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  113.  @smogthehorse9409  I believe that he has a BA in History, but his main qualification is in something called Broadcast Journalism. That, frankly, does not a History Professor make.
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  114. In essence, from the late 1960s at least, politics ceased to involve principles, where individuals with widely differing opinions based on their different experiences of life could argue their cases against a background of mutual respect, and evolved into a profitable career which could be exploited by those with little or no such experience. Basically, get a degree, become a researcher for an existing MP, then get parachuted into a safe seat. Ingratiate yourself with those already in authority, and before you know it you are a minister. As most of this breed of MP had little or no understanding of the real world beyond the occasional undergraduate debate, they had no concept of the idea that opinions other than their own might just possibly be valid. Hence, the politics of enmity that has arisen. Add to that, the fact that modern politics has become a nice little earner, with numerous extra sources of income, and it is understandable that these now well heeled individuals will put self interest before national interest' I believe that either Plato or Aristotle argued that anyone who sought public office should be excluded from it for that very reason. It seems he was right.
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  115. I always understood that in English Law there could only be two pleas, Guilty or Not Guilty. When was the third one, of 'I'm a nutcase, I am,' introduced?
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  116. I wonder if the reality is that the Dear Leader is unable to come to terms with the differences between being Leader of the Opposition and being Prime Minister? He has always, in Opposition, been able to say more or less anything he liked, as no one paid much attention, much like dear Angela, with her chants of 'Tory scum' etc. (whatever happened to Angela, by the way?) Now he is realising that, as Prime Minister, his words and actions have consequences, and he seems not to like the idea much. Perhaps the quality of people around him, such as Reeves, Rayner, Cooper, Lammy, and Miliband, are not much comfort, either?
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  117. True. How many people of today know that William the Conqueror was born in Nairobi?
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  118. Be fair. As she has pointed out, 83% of people agree with her, and only 67% do not.
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  119.  @fredmercury1314  Which, by the way, was 500,000 down on the number which voted for Labour in Corbyn's catastrophic campaign.
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  120. I assume you have never heard of the Ottoman Empire? Compared to that organisation, the worst European 'atrocities' were simply those of talented amateurs.
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  121. You are being unfair about the Dear Leader. Hasn't he already said that he & his Ministers will no longer accept clothes from supporters. It seems that, from now on, all backhanders for favours must be strictly cash ones.
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  122. Perhaps he envisages his own personal version of Hitler's Sturm Abteilung? A paramilitary force intended to suppress any opposition, and to keep the peasantry in their place?
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  123. In one sentence - Because the Dear Leader thinks that they will vote Labour.
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  124. The British Secretary of State for Air at the time, Sir Kingsley Wood, when it was suggested to him that the Black Forest should be bombed, replied '"Are you aware it is private property?... Why, you will be asking me bomb Essen next!"
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  125.  @gipgap4  The West Africa Squadron of the Royal Navy intercepted slave ships between 1808 & 1867.
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  126. Arr. 'Tis the Black Spot, Jim Lad!! There you are. Blatant RAYCISM!!!
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  127. I understand that Border Force had expressed 'profound disappointment' at this number. They were hoping for 1,000 per day.
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  128.  @possumyx  What a shame. Had it not been for certain revelations, it could have been Paula Vennells.
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  129. I fear that you mean 'Ministry of Propaganda.'
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  130. I suspect that enthusiastically trying to get herself arrested at every opportunity, and desperately trying to look fourteen when she is actually twenty, represent her attempts to convince herself that she is still relevant.
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  131. More seriously, my wife was looking through a toy box from her youth, and found a certain brooch made by Robinsons. She showed it to me, and I immediately reported her to the Police, who came round in eight vans within ten minutes, tasered her and took her away. Her case, of extreme right wing racism, is due to be heard next week, and she has been told to expect a custodial sentence of at least ten years. I mentioned to the senior Police officer that this was unfair as it meant that I would now need to make my own meals, and I too have now been arrested by the local Misogyny Squad. Those tasers don't half sting.
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  132.  @stephenwride5695  John Betjeman wrote a short poem, in 1937 :- 'Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now.'
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  133.  @CommissarBarton.  I do apologise. I didn't realise that some people on here have no sense of humour. You have my sympathy.
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  134. Perhaps 'a common culture' might have been more apposite, but the point is still valid.
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  135. The Theory of Relativity could be credited to a man of Sub-Sarahan African origin, if it can be suggested that Einstein bought a notebook from a shop where one might possibly have worked. Come on, Doctor Olusoga. Time for a BBC documentary?
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  136.  @HaleyChain-vw8rr  Alas, as Mark Twain, the famous Black writer, once said, 'Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt.' Sadly, no-one mentioned this to you.
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  137. I believe that the Empress Valeria Messalina is alleged to have done something similar, and it didn't end well for her.
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  138. I doubt that Trump will ever get over the trauma of reading your comment. I imagine that, even now, he has locked himself in a darkened room and is sobbing uncontrollably. Out of interest, do you actually know what a fascist really is?
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  139. I believe that Kim Jong Un is one of his pen pals.
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  140.  @Odysseuss.  Don't you mean 'Dame Jacinda?' Further proof of the debased nature of the British Honours system, at least at the highest levels.
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  141.  @jiggsborah7041  Put simply, because the Anglo-French treaty with Poland provided than they would declare war in the event of an invasion by Germany, but gave no similar undertaking in the event of a similar action by the Soviet Union.
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  142.  @sylviadrummond7293  Apparently a possible replacement for Rachel Reeves?
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  143.  @ma55382uk  Really? Please name any assault landings by the British as they 'invaded' these places.
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  144. A mate of mine used to watch the BBC 'Father Brown' series. He tells me that, when a middle-aged, middle class, white man turns up, you know immediately 'who dun it.'
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  145. Isn't this not the first time that a member of a Labour Government has taken the approach that 'This is a good day to bury bad news?'
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  146. Unfortunately, even if there were only four surviving Tory MPs, they would still split into two factions and squabble with each other.
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  147.  @mannylikestoanimate  Really? Five English regions (four from the South plus the West Midlands) failed to build enough homes to meet their housing need in 2023, when measured against the Standard Method (SM). London was again furthest short, building only 40% of what is needed.
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  148.  @barrygreen9341  Anyone with an assault rifle and body armour tends to look menacing.
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  149. After a rough couple of weeks, at last some good news for the Dear Leader to hear about.
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  150. But also worth noting that the mob behind him cheered and applauded the comments.
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  151. Isn't that what he is actually doing?
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  152. To be fair, wasn't that Winnie Mandela?
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  153.  @Trumpthegreatest  Using statistics to make assumptions is simply not valid. An early example of this. When the British army introduced the Brodie helmet from September, 1915, statistically the number of soldiers with head wounds increased. Concern was expressed about the usefulness of the new helmet, until it was realised that the reason for the increase was a simple one. The soldiers, had they not been wearing the Brodie helmet, would have been dead,
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  154. Not at all. They behave exactly as people assume that they will.
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  155. What? Arthur wasn't born in Nairobi? Please don't say that, as it might upset the BBC's historian of choice.
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  156.  @draoi99  Certainly it would be merely symbolic, but the nauseating manner with which these creatures, every year, line up and say that 'we really don't want to accept this rise in our pay, but the figure is determined by an independent panel, and it would be inappropriate not to accept it' is rather annoying. Especially when they say it without the slightest trace of a smirk, of course.
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  157.  @Moonuuu  Are you living in the world of 200 years ago?
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  158.  @Johnarry  As every CEO at every NHS Trust seems to say about events more than once during a very lucrative career, 'This is a tragedy lessons have been learned look how big my performance-related bonus was this year.'
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  159.  @4legsgood  Really? Expound your thesis in rather more detail. As I asked, which wars did Churchill monger? Then explain what you actually think Gallipoli was all about, and why Churchill was to blame.
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  160. Actually, what the skin colour of Cheddar man was or was not is unknown. Scientific techniques are not yet advanced enough to determine such details as yet.
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  161.  @candy-le4nh  'How humiliating for you!' Upvoting your own comment is rather bad form, old chap. Not quite the done thing, don't ya know? Still, probably all that one should expect of so overt a troll. Goodbye.
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  162. 'Injuring the nation' is something governments of all coulours are extremely proficient at.
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  163.  @Harry-v6b7l  I suspect that you neos don't actually understand that 'legends' are not always good. But there again, I also suspect that you neos don't actually understand anything.
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  164. Throwing around words like 'Fascist' or 'Racist' only demonstrate a desperate attempt to shut down debate.
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  165. It isn't as if freedom of speech is acceptable any more, isn't it? I don't agree with some of his comments but, seemingly unlike you, I would never oppose his right to express them.
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  166.  @jbradshaw7  I expect he will be looking on the bright side, however. He will be claiming additional expenses because of the tedious need to work both Saturday & Sunday, and perhaps Lord Alli bought him a new suit or two so that he could pretend to look sincere.
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  167.  @Starsnbars.  What is particularly 'chosen' about someone whose ancestor, Major General John Lambert, was Cromwell's second-in-command at the Battle of Preston, and who defeated a Scottish army at the Battle of Inverkeithing? Good of you to say so, however. Perhaps you might say where and when Churchill made such a comment? Before you polish your collection of SS daggers, perhaps?
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  168.  @mbroitt  I had occasion to visit London for work around a year ago. It was an absolute madhouse, with the inmates, seemingly, running things. The train back north from Euston was a massive relief.
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  169.  @jimjones-bk2is  Oh, but some were.
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  170. Sorry I missed it, but I had been decorating and had some paint which I urgently needed to watch dry.
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  171. The great philosopher and historian of the Enlightenment, David Hume, wrote :- 'who first said such a thing, and how was he in a position to know?' It seems that the principle has been abandoned by certain modern historians, who seem to believe more in the principle that ' If no facts exist to support a favoured hypothesis, simply make some up.'
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  172. Odd how Welby has remained uncharacteristically silent about these events, and about issues such as the Winter Fuel Payment, isn't it? Normally, he doesn't need any encouragement to pontificate on such matters.
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  173. Perhaps you are unaware of this, but the Island of Ireland had existed for quite some time prior to 1922.
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  174. Of course you can. You can indulge in all sorts of fantasies.
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  175. It doesn't matter. With the British system of elective dictatorship, even if 50 million signed it, it would be totally ifnored.
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  176. Apparently, there were only two candidates for the post of Chancellor. Rachel from Accounts got the job when the other candidate, Diane Abbott, turned up a day late for the interview, wearing odd shoes.
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  177.  @gijgij4541  Was the Police Federation report produced by 'silly little kids' or do you simply have a vested interest in denial?
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  178. But the Union leaders do very well out of them.
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  179. My local bookshop has it readily available. You can buy one copy for £19.99 but, as a special offer, two for £45.00
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  180.  @mikebellis5713  Or because he allowed his personal prejudices to allow him to invent a few facts, and 'adjust' others?
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  181. You surely must have a degree of sympathy for Reeves. She looks to have aged ten years in the last sixth months. Perhaps realising that you are in a job utterly beyond your capabilities, yet seeing no clear way out of it, does that to a person.
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  182. Then at least Britain is still a World Leader in something!
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  183.  @CharlesBabbageTheThird  Grossly unfair. As was explained in 'The Producers' 'he could paint an entire apartment in a week-end. Two coats!'
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  184. Why do you think? It is a deliberate policy, akin to the attacks on the reputations of people like Churchill, Nelson, Livingstone, etc., intended to cause the maximum offence to the bulk of the population. The Cenotaph, in particular, is an emotive site, and therefore considered fair game.
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  185.  @CigarettesAndAlcohol.  'I think that James Anderson will take over seven hundred Test wickets before he retires.' The Austrian Painter. You see, I can invent totally imaginary 'quotes' as well.
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  186. But isn't a great 'get out' for Rachel from Accounts? She now has a brilliant excuse for the failure of her budget.
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  187. But the Muslims invaded and conquered a part of the Byzantine Empire in the first place.
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  188.  @tappym9141  He is. He is probably well aware that obedience to the project is necessary, or the BBC will simply discard him.
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  189. Perhaps a return of the Window Tax?
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  190.  @Cute_Maxi  I suspect that the concept of sarcasm might have escaped you?
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  191. It was also full of troops and factories, and was a route centre. Stailin had also requested the raids in order to assist the advance of the Soviet army.
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  192.  @MavenWalsh  Whereever did you get the idea that Europeans sought to prove that they founded/ruled Ancient Eqypt? Actually, almost all current knowledge of the history of Egypt is based on European scholarship. Who, for example, decyphered hieroglyphics? Europeans ( Macedonians and then Romans) did, however, rule Egypt from the time of Alexander the Great.
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  193. Worryingly, the Dear Leader seems to agree with her.
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  194.  @robertlough1685  Have you considered that those who choose to insult others as a first response may not actually be intellectual giants themselves?
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  195.  @Starsnbars.  I'm sure you have a source, herr obergruppenfuhrer? You haven't? Oh dear. Still, never mind. Made up quotes are so much more entertaining, aren't they?
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  196. I think it probably says more about OfCom, who seem to have made it their mission to close down any right of centre site.
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  197.  @stuffanthings  What did Churchill 'exactly do?'
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  198. But the same Charity which supports such architects will take care to establish their own headquarters in a nice, large, Regency building, of course.
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  199.  @Excession-h6e  Fifty Destroyers, and at a time of war, in order to provide breathing space until new RN escort construction became available. Moreover, the bases were leased, not handed over. What crisis is the Dear Leader facing (apart from obvious ones as a result of his own venality), and who gains anything from this action, except, probably, China?
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  200. You remember when MPs were honourable? You must be very old!
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  201. But to suggest any comparison with the German Death Camps is not tenable. Was there any camp in Britain, ever, which could be considered remotely similar to, for example, Belsen?
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  202. Of course such a thing can be argued. But not credibly. nor by Badawi, who is not an historian, but a journalist with an 'agenda.'
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  203. Insults are always a poor substitute for arguments.
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  204.  @doglover31418  Realistically, there is no limit on what Starmer can do anyway, The ECHR has very little actual authority, but, rather, it is a profitable talking shop for a gang of already well-heeled lawyers.
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  205. £91,000 p.a., plus expenses claims which are largely unchallenged and access to a number of 'contacts.' A pittance. One can barely afford three houses and the necessary domestic staff on that!
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  206.  @hittitecharioteer  Personally, I wouldn't have been surprised if he thought Syria was next door to Chile.
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  207. If Trump does win, wouldn't it be fun to be a fly on the wall of the Oval Office the next time the British Foreign Secretary pays a visit to the President of the United States?
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  208. No. Probably 'Wakanda Studies.'
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  209. To be fair, Lammy only got the job after the first choice, Larry the cat, turned it down.
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  210. Given the unscientific nature of your language, I would suggest that, if you are really an 'actual scientist' then I am the 'actual' Holy Roman Emperor.
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  211.  @derekowens1817  Thank you for a sensible comment. The whole reason for the Dardanelles/Gallipoli campaign was far more complex than some of these people seem able to grasp.
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  212. This was especially odd, given that the trial was about criminal damage, not about the history of the Slave Trade. Olusoga was an expert in what, precisely?
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  213.  @stephfoxwell4620  Then the competence of the Judge needs to be investigated. An ancestor of mine, Major General John Lambert, was a Parliamentarian commander at the Battles of Preston & Inverkeithing during the Civil War. Would that be taken into 'historical context' were I to deface the statue of Charles I in Charing Cross?
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  214. Mr. Webb is simply repeating a news item which had previously appeared on other news outlets. However much you may not like the fact.
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  215.  @Azrael1BC  Quite possibly.
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  216.  @Ubu987  Grossly unfair. The bombs dropped on Britain, like the invasions of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, & Belgium, were meant with the kindliest of intentions.
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  217. Please don't refer to 'The Witchfinder' as 'fantasy comedy.' I viewed the first episode, and found it to be absolute dross.
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  218. Probably enthusiastically promoting all the convictions?
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  219. Unfortunately, once they are given firearms, how can anyone be sure which way they decide to point them?
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  220. Indeed, Alois Delug had much to be said for him. Especially his rejection of the application of a talentless dauber for membership of the Academy of Fine Arts.
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  221. Careful. Say that to Sir Keir, and he will send the guys in blue round.
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  222. I believe that the assurance only applied until 2025.
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  223. Some two thirds of the population didn't vote for his party either. That's democracy in action.
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  224. I started off as slightly left of centre, probably a left-over of my time at University. My views haven't changed, but now it seems I am extremely right-wing. All movement is relative.
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  225.  @robertlough1685  You are quite right. A museum which claims to depict life in London through the ages by excluding those who have represented over 95% of the population during that time is certainly 'racist,' or at least those who manage it are.
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  226.  @ef2718  If you really believe in free speech, then you must, ipso facto, accept that people have the right to say things that you may not wish to hear.
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  227. The person who did object was probably dismissed for 'Hate Speech' perhaps?
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  228. I am surprised that you can hear it, given all those other voices that must regularly pop into your head.
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  229. But not into sub-Saharan Africa.
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  230.  @Starsnbars.  Indeed. If diplomats had listened to him earlier, the carnage and horror he generated might have been minimised.
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  231. You might read about Verdun in WW1 before being so dismissive?
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  232.  @BillBeeby  Just like many of the innocent Sub Postmasters and mistresses coerced by the post office. 'Plead guilty for something you haven't done and we might not send you to prison.'
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  233.  @KemetledAfrica  You proceed upon a false premise. Where have I suggested that I 'hold everything that Simon says to be the truth?' Actually, I suspect that I know rather more about Hume's writings than you do.
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  234.  @owenarnold7611  You don't think that the cheering crowd is a matter of some concern? The subsequent response of the Labour Party and the Police, whilst welcome, is not the issue. The fact that a mob, including, ludicrously, a woman in an Amnesty International tabard, were supportive, is.
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  235.  @SMITHSONIAN33  The Lion was used as a symbol from the time of Henry I onwards, and the three Lions was introduced by Richard I, 'The Lionheart.' Lions in the 11th & 12 Century were encounted in the Middle East, and probably came to the notice of the Plantagenets from the time of the Crusades.
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  236. Please do not be so rude about the House of Commons.
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  237.  @candy-le4nh  Which slaves brought back to Britain? Perhaps if you choose to comment about the slave trade, you might find out a little about it? Start by reading about the Middle Passage.
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  238. Just an observation. It will not be allowed to be.
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  239. Grossly unfair. Everyone knows that Catesby's forebears lived in Sub-Sarahan Africa, until travelling to England with the Black Emperor Septimius Severus and Beachy Head Lady.
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  240. In ships, of course.
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  241. No the 'police' would identify that as a hate crime.
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  242. I don't think that dear Nicola is First Minister any more. Didn't she drive off into the sunset in a splendid new Camper Van stacked high with money?
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  243. Not really, the question posed was the following :- 'The Government has announced the results of the renegotiation of the United Kingdom's terms of membership of the European Community. Do you think the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community (the Common Market)?' The reference was to a trading organisation, not to a political entity. I doubt anyone whould have had serious misgivings about such an idea, but the gradual evolution into, effectively, a European Empire ruled by unelected officials in Brussels & Strasbourg, and taking political decisions out of the hands of 'independent' nations is a totally different, and perhaps even sinister, issue. Rather like voting for 'Assisted Dying' only to find that it has morphed into 'Euthanasia for the Good of the State' a few years later, some might argue?
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  244. In many cases, because their grandparents did, I believe.
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  245.  @ian-fm2xc  I believe that David Lammy was the first to reveal to the general public that Henry VIII was succeeded by Henry VII.
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  246. Isn't that what tends to happen when someone whose only skill involved kicking an inflated pig's bladder up and down a field decides that he is qualified to comment on things far outside his knowledge or understanding?
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  247.  @nihilistlivesmatter  Another newsflash. The Dear Leader's Party lost 500,000 votes compared to Jazzer's efforts in 2019. Further information. Less than one in five of the electorate voted Labour in 2024. The British people haven't spoken, but the First Past the Post system certainly has.
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  248.  @Time.Bomb.  Eventually, people did, and then dealt with the maniac.
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  249. I believe that Yvette Cooper intends to introduce driving on the right into the UK. It will be done in two phases, with lorries and buses switching over in 2027, and cars two years later.
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  250.  @goaheadskinit  Cywir iawn, hen ddyn.
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  251. @HaleyChain-vw8rr Indeed. The BBC is particularly culpable here.
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  252. @HaleyChain-vw8rr Feel free to demonstrate what is bias.
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  253. Give it a few years. Then, anyone who cannot speak Urdu will not be permitted to vote.
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  254.  @NapoleonGelignite  You mean that they travelled to what became England in advanced dirigibles or aircraft, built Stonehenge, and then returned home? Perhaps it has excaped your notice, but Stonehenge was built in numerous phases, over a very long time period.
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  255.  @candy-le4nh  Doesn't freedom of speech permit the correction of manifestly false, or at best questionable, claims?
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  256. Be fair. Without David's enthusiasm for one of the first black people in Britain, Beachy Head woman, we would never have learned the facts, which were that she actually came from, er, Cyprus. Who previously knew that Cyprus had been moved since Roman times? Still, as an alumnus of Manchester University who used to make financial contributions on a regular basis, when I read that, upon appointing him as a professor in 2019, the University of Manchester described him as an 'expert on military history, empire, race and slavery, and "one of the UK's foremost historians," ' I was able to cease those contributions. Thank you, Professor David, for saving me money.
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  257. Or brought in BBC Verify to 'correct' it?
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  258. Well, in this case, the jury certainly is.
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  259.  @Mary-lx3zs  How exactly did the events of 1939-45 lead to events unfolding this many years later? You might as well blame the Thirty Years' War for the French Revolution.
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  260.  @heathercooper6043  I met many when taking my late father to reunions. I don't recall any such comments. In fact, they seemed rather proud of their efforts. So no, I don't believe you.
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  261.  @stephfoxwell4620  So, if there was a murder trial, and the accused brought in a witness unconnected with the event, who said that the murdered man, or woman, was a 'bad person' that would justify the acquittal, would it?
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  262.  @christophermonahan8571  Of course there was. The population of Bristol is around 483,000 The number surveyed was 14,000. Ask the right people, and you get the answer you seek.
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  263.  @jeddward9464  Don't blame the 30% who voted Labour. Blame the 48% who didn't bother to vote at all.
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  264. Show some respect. Don't you mean Lady Nugee?
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  265.  @TheJsholladay  I know. Perhaps my example of British humour (humor) hasn't crossed the Atlantic as well as I had hoped!
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  266.  @thomasreed49  You sure about that?
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  267. Quite correct. If there had been more diversity, England might have won the World Cup in 1966. Oh, hang on a minute....
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  268. Wasn't Allahu Akbar an off break bowler and a 'more than useful' number eight batsman in the late 1960s? I believe that he took four for sixty-two in a touring match against Middlesex in around 1968 or so. I must dig out my copy of Wisden to check.
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  269. I believe that they are slowly deciding which serial loser should replace Sunak. Sunak himself is probably in the United States, seeking a suitable mansion or two into which to relocate.
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  270. Don't forget the traditional 'The comments were taken totally out of context' one. It generally also seems to work.
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  271.  @yiguanas812  Do you really think that Musk has any need of publicity?
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  272. No. The only photo. the BBC chose to use was of a charming young man in a nice clean shirt. Just as the BBC also repeated that he was about to become a father, and was unarmed. Presumably, a car driven at people is not considered a weapon in BBCworld. It seems also that the BBC had already pre-judged the policeman as guilty until proven guilty, as the barely suppressed anger shown by their presenters at 6.00 p.m. made abundantly clear.
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  273. Isn't amazing how brilliant, intelligent, dynamic, female executives tend to resort to the 'I'm just a nice, innocent, sweet little girlie who is being bullied by these rough, rude, men,' when their half-baked decisions are challenged?
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  274.  @janicetaylor7516  Haven't you read the new rules? Penicillin, electricity, trains, telephones etc etc etc etc were all things invented by people of sub-Saharan African origin, and stolen by white villains. Just like Aborigines in Australia had a highly advanced civilisation, and had discovered the secret of flight.
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  275. Unless, of course, the expert was worried that asking more detailed questions of certain candidates might leave him/her open to certain allegations?
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  276. But surely, saying that Marie Antoinette won a Nobel Prize came close?
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  277. One wonders what Lord Beveridge would make of the monster into which his recommendations have evolved?
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  278. @BobWilkins4090 Why should he respond again to a false allegation? It is, of course, entirely his own choice.
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  279. Isn't it generally a fact that, when a Report is proclaimed to be 'Independent' that is precisely what it isn't?
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  280. I think that sums things up quite succinctly!
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  281. More accurately, people got tired of his son, Richard, known as 'Tumbledown Dick' who was totally unfitted for the position of Lord Protector.
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  282. Trouble is, some are written by people like Mr.Olusoga.
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  283. The idea that the wonderful 'Windrush generation' came to Britain in order to help rebuild the mother country, at the invitation of the government, is simply false. THe ship was returning to the UK almost empty, and heavily discounted tickets were offered by the operators. Those who booked them were smart, in leaving an area where employment was hard to find, but the portrayal of them as the saviours of Britain is not credible.
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  284.  @williams4434  You trip yourself up by making false claims, mon vieux. I simply stated a fact. Please feel free to prove that the Roman Empire did reach into Sub Saharan Africa, of course. 'I've already debunked you twice.' Only in your imagination, perhaps?
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  285.  @stephenspence1192  Didn't Himmler have something similar?
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  286.  @AnthonyMcCaul-c9g  But the Romans, Vikings, & Normans did not simply arrive. They raided, or invaded.
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  287.  @TheAsa1972  The point is that not all 'legends' are good ones. Like the Time 'Person of the Year.' To clarify what Kennedy thought of hitler, you really should look at what he actually said:- Nearly two decades after 1945, Kennedy would address crowds in West Berlin as US president. He gave Ms Henderson, his Research Assistant when he was a Senator, his diary in order to inform her of his views on foreign policy and national security, she said. She subsequently auctioned it. In a description of the auction, she wrote: "When JFK said that Hitler 'had in him the stuff of which legends are made', he was speaking to the mystery surrounding him, not the evil he demonstrated to the world." "Nowhere in this diary, or in any of his writings, is there any indication of sympathy for Nazi crimes or cause," she continued. The diary also contains JFK's thoughts about the British election and Winston Churchill, who Ms Henderson called his "idol".
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  288. The things an MP will do in order to keep his job. Perhaps the basic annual salary of £91,346, as of April 2024, and the ability to claim allowances to cover the costs of running an office and employing staff, and maintaining a constituency residence or a residence in London, as well as seemingly limitless 'expenses' have some relevance?
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  289.  @BunFight  There are some areas which were 'nice' but which now no longer are.
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  290.  @BunFight  So presumably you would prefer everywhere in Britain to be 'not nice?' Who has suggested that there weren't ever 'poor areas' by the way? 'Trying to blame foreigners for the state of the country is ridiculous.' You don't think that an England with a population density the same as that of India is undesirable?
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  291. Knighthoods are given on the recommendation of politicians, not at the whim of the RF. Generally, most 'Socialists' would crawl naked through a field of thistles to get one.
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  292. She has resigned her priestly duties (I believe her parishioners wanted to have nothing to do with her) but she is still an ordained priest.
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  293. I often found cricket to be brutally racist. Especially, as an opening bat, after all those times that West Indian fast (very fast!) bowlers used to knock my off stump back with annoying regularity.
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  294. What? Quakers, as in those who owned most of Lancaster's slave ships?
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  295. Indeed, of course we did. William the Conqueror, for example, was born in Nairobi.
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  296.  @SMITHSONIAN33  Well, one of us needs to do some research, that is for sure. 'The lion symbolism was used right throughout Europe's Royal Houses.' Indeed it was. The Lion has appeared in Egyptian & Greek art from as far back as the third millennium BC, and probably even earlier. Perhaps because at the time, and perhaps until as late as the 4th Century AD, Lions were to be found in Greece, Ukraine, and the Balkans, as well as the Middle East, or, if you prefer it, the area known by Crusaders as 'The Holy Land.' The Lion also appears in Buddhist & Hindu religious texts, and in Babylonian and Egyptian artwork, tomb paintings, and carvings going back as far as c3500 BC. Your belief that 'only place with Lions is Africa' is, frankly, absurd.
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  297.  @HistoryDenied  When did I say that? Of course the British transported slaves to the New World, just as other European powers did. Like it or not, slavery was an accepted fact in the world at the time. Moreover, the slaves were made easily accessible by tribal leaders and Arab traders. Without such complicity, the trade would not have developed to the extent that it did, however unwilling many people of today are to accept the fact.
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  298. What 'colonisation' might that be? How many British people colonised India, for example?
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  299.  @ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511  I simply stated the bleedin obvious in what was intended to be a humorous manner. Don't be so touchy. Seafaring was not restricted to Europeans, A Chinese Admiral, Zheng He, explored the Indian Ocean in the 15th Century, and surely you have heard of Barbary corsairs? The corsairs used navigational skills not significantly different from those of European sailors of the same period.
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  300. Can you digitalise a parcel?
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  301.  @TheMegahusky  As dear Rachel probably thought. 'Good news. We are rid of some people who probably did not vote for us anyway.'
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  302.  @williams4434  As you seem disinclined to give a Biblical reference in support of your claim, let me help you out. The nearest thing to a discription of Jesus' physical appearance is in Revelation 1: 14-15, whic in the King James Bible reads :- 'His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.' Not quite as you said, is it? By the way, the Book of Revelation probably dates from the reign of Domitian, at around 96 A. D. and was attributed to John the Elder, or John of Patmos, an Ephesian Christian. Certainly, no-one who had seen Jesus would have contributed to it.
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  303.  @WildernessofMirrorsN17  The Prime Minister, without whose authority the act would never have been passed, was, of course, Clement Attlee. His parents were "committed Anglicans" who read prayers and psalms each morning at breakfast.
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  304.  @karencarroll1324  Are you? Sorry to read that. Cheer up.
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  305. You missed something. It is probably nearer 6.5
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  306. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that 'Diversity made Britain the country it is today'?
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  307. Is that what you tell yourself, in lieu of any actual knowledge?
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  308. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the theories of Giulio Douhet, an Italian strategise who died in 1930, well before the flaws in his concept became obvious? Douhet argued that bombing of civilian populations would result in, put simply, mass uprisings against governments, and the installation of new ones who would immediately make peace, at whatever cost. The idea was popular with such people as Goering, Le May, and the British Air Ministry. After all, it provided the raison d'etre for the large bomber fleets they craved. Moreover, by mid 1940, there had been plenty of proof that hitler was willing to attack civilian targets by means of bombing. Aside from events in Spain, Warsaw was heavily bombed in September, 1939, on several occasions, as was Rotterdam on 14 May, 1940. To suggest, or even imply, that German bombing of London was merely in response to British bombing of German towns & cities, is questionable at best. I urge you to read Douhet's 'The Command of the Air' as it provided the (false) premises under which both the German & British (and later the USAAF) were working in WW2. Indeed, Arthur Harris, to the end of his days, never managed to rid himself of the idea.
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  309. Quite the contrary. These days stupidity is a requirement for a cabinet or shadow cabinet position.
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  310.  @paulchadwick9419  Perhaps you are unaware that the 4,000 number was a Labour one, when the idea of abolishing the Winter Fuel Payment was first mooted by the 'evil' tories? Of course no-one has died yet. The winter hasn't arrived, has it?
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  311. Relevance to the cellist? None, of course.
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  312. Perhaps a version of the lunatic 'Titanic & Olympic switch' conspiracy fantasy might have been your way out? 'Turner really painted the Hay Wain, but he and Constable were switched by 'them' as part of a secret and nefarious plot?'
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  313.  @Sledgehammer.  Which really doesn't explain why he killed so many, both German & Austrian. Not that an invented quotation like yours means anything at all, little neo.
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  314.  @davidboult4143  I believe that most Chagossians, certainly from those who live in the UK, are appalled that they were not consulted, as they have little love for the government of Mauritius, and the feeling is apparently reciprocated.
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  315. Well I certainly am. Only a Three Star Hotel? I assume the Silver Service wasn't up to scratch. How can people possibly cope with that level of squalor?
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  316.  @AngelBaby-cp6kf  'You think?' That isn't immediately apparent from your post.
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  317. It wasn't this channel which claimed that 50% of the Royal Navy was black, or that 20,000 black people lived in central London during the Regency period, if I recall correctly. Why is responding to falsehoods 'racist' in your opinion? You could, of course, always provide proof of the above claims, if you have it?
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  318.  @alanmarr3323  Can you give any examples of 'countries' being 'overrun' by large numbers of English or British people?
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  319. Microaggressions are widespread. White people constantly steal oxygen from the atmosphere which should be reserved for their betters. Even more shamefully, most do not even realise that they are doing this.
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  320. Having been gifted stylish suits by a backer in exchange for 'influence' he simply wants to show off his sartorial elegance.
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  321. Blind tradition. Basically, the idea that 'My family have always voted for them. So will I.'
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  322. Presumably, you couldn't be bothered actually to watch the video?
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  323.  @angelamary9493  Isn't any fear not of the ideology itself, but of the violent outrages the adherents of that ideology are capable of bringing to the towns & cities of Britain?
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  324. Doubtless she will now seek substantial compensation for the immense trauma and the racist treatment she has suffered. l only hope David Lammy doesn't get involved, as it might involve millions.
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  325. Perhaps Heathcliff was standing in front of a blackboard at the time? I am allowed to write 'blackboard' I hope?
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  326. If I lived on the Falklands I would be rather worried. I believe that David Lammy is negotiating their return to Norway. After all, the Falklands are a few miles north east of the Orkneys, aren't they, David?
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  327. He did, but Carthage was originally a Phoenician colony. Founded by the City-State of Tyre, in modern day Lebanon.
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  328.  @CommissarBarton.  I'm sure you would have been a riot at the old Glasgow Empire. Like beauty, humour is in the eye of the beholder. Perhaps you are simply short-sighted? By the way, upvoting your own comment is rather bad form, old chap.
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  329. Hang on! Aren't people only allowed to vote once in US Elections?
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  330. My father's artillery Regiment first saw action at the Second Battle of Alamein, where it shelled German positions in support of 51st Highland Division's attack. Should I live in constant fear that I might receive a letter from the German government demanding compensation be paid to any German family whose forebears were killed, or at least distressed, when dad's 4.5 inch shells landed amongst them?
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  331. Simple. 'Anyone who has the effrontery to have doubts about the Agenda.'
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  332.  @Seminal_Ideas  The complete headline also suggested that the bus was Imperialist, if I recall correctly.
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  333.  @Get.down.get.with.it.  As a retired Obergruppenfuhrer, does the German government still pay you a pension?
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  334.  @aqua5680  Of course. The neos have a two page A4 sheet of imaginary quotations. You don't think that they are bright enough to think them up for themselves, surely?
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  335.  @KemetledAfrica  Indeed. Hanging drawing and quartering was an extreme sentence imposed for treason. The last burning in England was in 1789. It seems that executing people by disembowelling was still practised in Benin in the 1890s, as a form of entertainment.
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  336. Before David Lammy would show any interest, you would need to prove that you ancestor was black.
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  337.  @julianpetkov8320  The French equivalent of the Poppy is the Bleuet de France. If you seek to ridicule France, you really need to educate yourself about Verdun in WW1.
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  338. I wonder if the mother of the Bedford victim will immediately be elevated to the House of the Living Dead? Also known as the House of Peers?
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  339. Were the Irish noted for colonising places. or are you simply ignorant? I incline to the latter opinion.
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  340. Nonsense. He was involved in a road accident, but after May 1945 was irrelevant in any case.
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  341.  @Bezart34  'I think if you do a fact check, you'll find that he is actually British.' True, but the Duke of Wellington was born in Dublin. A political opponent said of him that had he been born in a stable, he wouldn't have been a horse.'
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  342.  @Bezart34  Perhaps you don't understand the concept of 'analogy?' Wellesley was born in Ireland, but that didn't make him Irish. Just as Sunak being born in Southampton, in Britain, isn't, ipso facto, british as a result. The famous Cricketer Ted Dexter was born in Milan, Italy. Did that make him Italian? Now do you understand what an analogy is?
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  343. @BobWilkins4090 Where did he admit anything of the sort in his response to you?
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  344.  @williams4434  I expect that you have an impeccable source? David Olusoga, perhaps?
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  345.  @granvillekeen  You must be fun to be with at parties.
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  346. Stop it. If it was on the BBC it must be true.
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  347. Africans might well have been in Britannia in small numbers at the time of the Roman Empire, as North Africa was also part of it. However, the unspoken assumption these days is that 'Africa' really means 'Sub-Saharan Africa.'
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  348.  @Starsnbars.  In others words, you haven't got a source, have you?
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  349.  @Avalanche..  As my old history tutor used to say, 'When people resort to insults, it generally means that they have no actual arguments.' In your sad case, even the insult isn't much of one. Your print of 'der bannertrager' needs polishing, by the way.
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  350.  @evolassunglasses4673  Actually, the French & British declared war in an attempt to put a halt to German military aggression.
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  351.  @wjf0ne  Trying to get rational thought from a neo is about as likely to succeed as trying to teach a cat to play chess.
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  352. No, you are wrong. The 'Irish' aren't. The Irish government is, however.
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  353.  @jonathansimmons5353  You mean like other legends, like the Werewolf or the Vampire?
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  354.  @TheAsa1972  You mean like Joe Stalin? Was he called a good guy? Moreover, how is your comment relevant to anything?
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  355.  @Rose-zw2oe  You clearly didn't watch the 'documentary' did you?
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  356. She apparently came from that hotbed of sub-Saharan African culture, Cyprus. Odd that David has never accepted, or even commented upon, the research from the Crick Institute.
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  357.  @daviddavidson2357  Switzerland & Sweden were in a totally different position, in that large German armies were on their borders. That situation certainly did not apply to the Republic. I did not suggest that the Republic should have declared war, but the example of Portugal could easily have been followed. Portugal was officially neutral, but gave the Allies access to bases in the Azores. de Valera could have done exactly the same. The treatment of some Irish citizens who fought for the allied cause was, surely, disgraceful?
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  358. The 'smashing the gangs' project is going well then?
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  359. I wonder how many people were alarmed by the performance of Jonathan Brearley, CEO of OfGem, on Martin Lewis's programme on Tuesday evening? It seems he is just as fanatical about net zero as his leader, Ed Miliband. Indeed many of the comments he made might have been simply echoes of his master's voice. Still I suppose showing loyalty to your boss is probably a good idea if you wish to keep your salary, alleged to be in the region of £300k per year.
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  360.  @EuropesLastStand  Really? I never much rated Ernst Klimt meself.
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  361. Nonsense. It is documented that he was born in Todmorden.
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  362.  @jimjones-bk2is  Look up Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore ... For a start.
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  363. It seems that Magna Carta really did die in vain.
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  364. Don't worry. Tarquin & Jemima will still have daddy's trust fund to rely on.
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  365. 'Bristol in Tudor times was an important port, and there would have been many black sailors in and around the docks.' Really? In Tudor times? Just because you would like to think so? I am sure you can cite absolutely impeccable contemporary sources? Which is more than the bless'ed David ever does.
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  366. And political opponents of the state, the disabled, Slavs, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Jews. Certainly, your hero knew what to do with anti-social types. He recruited them into the Waffen ss.
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  367. ' There's bin a muhda, Mr. Taggart! 'No, just a bus with very sharp wheels.'
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  368. Mell is a bit old now, but 'Blazing Kraals' might make a good working title?
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  369. He has far more videos about other matters relating to WW2.
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  370.  @paullancaster7066  Her gender was never in doubt. Her origins were originally based on a questionable skull reconstruction technique, upon which people like Olusoga and Mary Beard promply seized, perhaps because it suited their prejudices? Once the DNA analysis proved that her origin was much more likely to have been Cyprus, both Beard & Olusoga have stoutly maintained, in Edward Gibbon's words, 'a mournful & solitary silence' on the matter.
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  371.  @FrostSpike  The viewing figures for the last series were dire.
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  372.  @bremnersghost948  Poor old Sean. Since Sharpe, he seems to have a habit in ending up dead in almost every part he plays.
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  373. I am surprised that you had time to post such a comment, Mayor Khan. I thought you were far too busy running Londonabad.
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  374.  @NewRose.  'David Irving?!' Oh dear.
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  375.  @THX-ic8yw  He did get the Dresden death toll wildly wrong. Post-war German research totally discredited his claims.
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  376. I understand that strenuous efforts are being made to 'decolonise' the curriculum. The imperialist concept that 2 + 2 = 4 is to be replaced by 2 + 2 = whatever you want it to be, and the term 'pi' by the less offensive 'goat curry.'
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  377. I don't think that they hate themselves, only the peasantry, as they view us, which they need to keep in order.
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  378.  @MrMjp58  Who will ever forget the climactic scene at the of the BBC documentary about Waterloo. when, just as they are about to overwhelm Wellington's army and march triumphantly to Brussels, the Old Guard is charged in the flank and routed by a Zulu Impi?
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  379. Doubtless, Deputy Chief Constable Jason Hogg, and the Superintendent, will find their careers substantially accelerated by demonstrating their unswerving loyalty to the agenda.
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  380.  @williamtell6750  Perhaps because a series of unsubstantiated claims does not amount to an argument? Especially when they apparently use Badawi's book as a base.
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  381.  @2000lightyears  David Irving? You're avin' a larf, aren't you?
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  382.  @nihilistlivesmatter  Perhaps you never heard his comment about the British alliance with the Soviet Union after Barbarossa? - If hitler invaded hell, I would make at least one favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'
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  383.  @JH-lf4ql  Don't you think that allowing falsehoods to pass unchallenged causes greater division?
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  384. A fascinating but, actually, totally unproven, and unprovable, myth.
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  385. Farage is not a member of the Tory Party, and Robinson is not an MP.
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  386. Grossly unfair. Of course Starmer knows what the working class are. He often sees his domestic servants going about their duties.
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  387. 'Sensible & correct views?' Poor devil. That's him done for, then.
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  388. I believe that it is proposed that the part of Wilhelmina the Conqueror is to be offered to Halle Berry. The last Anglo-Saxon ruler will be played by Emma Thompson, and is to be re-named Ethel.
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  389.  @EllieMaes-Grandad  Do you mean with intellectual giants like David Lammy and Angela Raynor in positions of authority?
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  390.  @HistoryDenied  'British imperialism brought civilisation?!' The fact is that that is a credible argument. Would, for example, Australia have been better off had the aboriginal inhabitants remained at a mesolithic level of development, with a life expectancy of 40 if they were lucky? Or India if she had remained a network of warring Princely States, instead of becoming the largest democracy on earth, and benefitting from western medicine, civil administration, legal systems, transport networks, etc? Oh, and In 1783, an anti-slavery movement began in Britain. That year a group of Quakers founded their first abolitionist organisation. The Quakers continued to be influential throughout the lifetime of the movement, in many ways leading the campaign. By 1833, it had been abolished throughout the British Empire. You seem to have profound difficulty in accepting than any nation other than Britain was ever involved in the practice, and still less ability to accept that Britain led the field in abolition.
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  391.  @paulchadwick9419  Apart from 'Labour good, Tories bad' you haven't really any argument, have you?
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  392.  @halfmoon106  To be fair, he has said many times that he will not censor posts, however half-witted they might be. Where these neos are concerned, however, 'half-witted' is a generous assessment. Looking at some of the neo-posts on here so far, it is evident that a number of mental homes must be having a 'play on the lap top day.'
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  393.  @halfmoon106  'I'm wondering if these are bots programmed to copy paste the same Patton and Irving quotes over and over.' When you are stuck on your own in a one bedroom flat, you have to find something to do after you have polished your collection of SS daggers, lit another candle in front of your print of 'der bannertrager' and sung the Horst Wessel song to yourself. Keeps them off the streets, I suppose.
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  394.  @orvillefindley8117  Pehaps you should read a little about British naval history, instead of emoting about a minor incident which will be forgotten in a week?
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  395.  @orvillefindley8117  Really? Then that makes your comment even more fatuous.
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  396. But would you approve of having next door's dog put down, simply because it barked too much, and you perceived it to be a nuisance?
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  397.  @Hissingsid658  You mistake me, if you think I am an admirer of Mandela. But I do believe that criticism should be based upon facts (and there are a whole host of them) not on erroneous 'facts.'
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  398. Ted Heath made it his life's work to destroy the British fishing industry, and largely succeeded. Your idea would simply finish off what is left.
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  399. Can you actually name a Muslim who has recently been arrested for defacing a copy of the Bible, or the Guru Granth Sahib, or the Mahabharata, for that matter?
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  400.  @user-xd9yo3le7o  If all you can do is dissemble, why do you even bother?
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  401. Mine is the same. He told me when we last discussed it that 'My Great-Grandad was gassed at Passchendaele, my Grandad served in North Africa, Italy, and France. They fought for their country. I am not going to risk my life to protect the lads in the hotels.' I would have argued with him, had I not agreed entirely.
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  402.  @NapoleonGelignite  There is concensus that Stonehenge was built by a variety of different pre-historic societies, over a long period. DNA analysis of bodies buried near Stonehenge suggests that some of its builders may have come from places outside of England, such as Wales or the Mediterranean. There has never been the slightest suggestion that builders came from any further afield. Still, feel free to indulge your amusing fantasy.
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  403.  @Jamie-hv4uk  Don't you mean Lady Nugee? Wouldn't want to confuse her with a mere commoner, would we?
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  404. The thumbnail rather confused me. Which one was the Prime Minister? It wasn't made clear.
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  405.  @BillSikes.  I am sorry that your short term memory is defective. What you actually wrote was 'That's true modern War fought with Napoleonic tactics.' Followed by :- 'squadrons of cavalrymen on horseback armed with sabres and lances, charging the enemy just had they had done at Waterloo, one hundred years earlier.' Both wrong, of course. Are you unaware that the Blackadder idea of WW1 is not an accurate one?
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  406.  @Noticer.  He could paint an entire apartment in a week end. TWO COATS!!!
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  407. Perhaps you are not aware of the role of Achilles at the Battle of the River Plate?
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  408. Since when have casualties in war been required to be 'equivalent?' To quote from George Patton, someone for whom I usually have no time at all, 'The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.'
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  409.  @rodsquad5764  So Admiral Gensoul was more concerned about his prestige and self-importance than he was about bringing about a catastrophe for his fleet?
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  410. Don't worry. I am confident our new masters will be kind to us, and the camps will be quite comfortable.
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  411.  @maciamay1393  Again, the absence of any scientific structure in your post is in itself proof of how 'impeccable' your 'science' is. 'Have you been highly successful in life sturdee? If not was it your own fault or was it someone else's fault? Bet I know that answer to that one too.' Is it part of your scientific method to make assumptions without evidence? As Sherlock Holmes said “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Inevitably one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” As, of course, you are trying to do, although I will now give you some data upon which to work below. Actually, I have been very successful in life. A First in History from Manchester, then a career in logistics leading to Regional Operations Manager level. I am also a published author. Oh, and as Holy Roman Emperor, the heir of Carolus Magnus, you should address me as 'Majesty' of course!!
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  412.  @SashaLea-g5j  I don't know whether he did or didn't, as it is none of my concern. In my case, my publishers paid me a considerable sum for the publishing rights, and I regularly receive royalty payments.
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  413. Actually, the correct term is 'Londonabad.' 'Stan' is more correctly applied to the nation as a whole, as in 'Britanistan.'
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  414.  @Harry-v6b7l  Nonsense. The only British historian who gets his arguments from nazi party archives. As he did, for example, with his nonsense about the Dresden bombing.
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  415. You musr be very old!
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  416. He was even compared to the Bless'ed George by a BBC commentator at 6.00 p.m. Apparently, both were shot by the police. Where would we be without BBC Verify?
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  417. John Blanke was one of many trumpeters at the courts of Henry VII & Henry VIII. A surviving document from the accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber records a payment of 20 shillings to "John Blanke the Blacke Trumpet" for wages on December 1507, with payments of the same amount continuing monthly through the next year. Drake's First Mate? I am sure that you have an impeccable source for that claim. Feel free to provide it.
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  418. Oh dear. I see the future. 'Britanistan - twinned with North Korea.'
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  419. So, you would argue that arresting someone without providing a reason is quite acceptable if the person concerned writes for a right of centre newspaper?
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  420. They will not be permitted so to do. Stringent 'quotas' will, doubtless, be imposed.
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  421.  @Harry-v6b7l  I preferred 'Lord of the Rings.' A much more accurate historical account.
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  422.  @TJspaceman I may be wrong, but I don't think the idea of the black poppy was actually his idea. Don't shoot the messenger simply for pointing it out.
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  423. 'Men of Nairobi' surely?
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  424.  @letsdiscussitoversometea8479  Sorry, but do you really believe that the term 'Sovereignty' can really apply to peoples living a mesolithic level of culture. Basically, hunter gatherers who were lucky to reach the age of fory-five?
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  425.  @christophermonahan8571  Really? How do you know? Were Bristolians ever consulted?
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  426. Actually, the British were outproducing the Germans in aircraft, and especially in fighter aircraft, from June 1940 onwards.
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  427. Ooh look! Another one who thinks that shouting fascist or racist can be used to prevent debate.
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  428.  @Tourist1967  I know of his connection with Manchester. It is meaningless, and can be taken away at any time, as happened to David Starkey, a far more educated and erudite individual, whose opinions simply did not accord with the Agenda. Olusoga's actual qualifications, achieved by examination, are as I stated.
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  429. Only a knighthood? Presumably the peerage will be delayed until he finally either retires, or is announced as Mayor for life?
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  430. Watch it indeed. If you enjoy neo-nazi fantasies, of course.
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  431. Do only the middle-class pay NI contributions, then?
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  432.  @Tourist1967  Possibly from 'The Producers.' 'There was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in a weekend. Two coats!'
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  433. Indeed. After initial misgivings, I wonder if the 'Spoils System' does not have merit in it after all.
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  434. You don't really think that immigration is a result of a shortage of fruit pickers, do you?
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  435. Regardless of your own prejudices, do you seriously suggest that writing for the Telegraph should be considered a criminal offence? Presumably, you would argue that Freedom of Speech is nothing more that the freedom to agree with whatever your own opinions might be?
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  436. I suspect that Badenoch is far more worried about the collapse of her own party than she is about the Dear Leader's destruction of Britain.
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  437. He designed a number of very fine steam locomotives for the old Great Western Railway, such as the Kings & Castles. What? Oh, sorry. I thought you meant Charles Collett.
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  438.  @kategwynne4658  Not yet. But give it time. Eventually, I fear that CEOs of NHS Trusts will set informal quotas for the procedure. Part of their bonuses will probably be based upon reaching targets.
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  439. Of course he does. It is that large body of water to the west of Wakanda.
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  440.  @stephfoxwell4620  Far too right of centre for the currewnt Tory Party. I believe that many would see Harold Wilson as a dangerous right winger.
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  441. Then feel free to debate the issue, but with actual sources and evidence to support your thesis.
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  442.  @LordSnobbington-6776  No, I must admit I didn't. After around ten minutes of the conversation, I was worried that my brain might start to leak out of my ears.
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  443.  @Set-ri6rs  I knew about the 'Battle of Bamber Bridge' many years ago, but there again I come from Bamber Bridge, and my mother knew of the events, as a young girl, immediately after they happened. Acrually, I felt rather sorry for the presenter. She was lumbered with the asinine title. but was left floundering around tryiing, and failing, to justify it. She did, however, manage to compare the segregation in the US Army to German treatment of the Jews, and refer to the cruel treatment of the 'economic migrants' of the Windrush Generation, who apparently came to help rebuild Britain. Oger than that, and the occasional throw away reference to the 'White Supremacist' attitude of the British Empire, she had nothing. Churchill was obliged to accept the American military system, of course. He also accepted an alliance with Uncle Joe and his Gallant Lads. Both out of necessity in order to defeat a greater evil. All the programme managed, however, was to demonstrate that neither Churchill, nor the British people, in any way sought to endorse the US system.
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  444.  @Set-ri6rs  'its just a shame you had to flush how ever long of you life down the toilet, just to find out what most of us already knew.' What exactly does that bizarre comment even mean?
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  445.  @gijgij4541  Indeed. But the title is unjustifiable Channel 4 propaganda. The presenter could find no evidence for any British 'Apartheid' however hard sh looked.
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  446.  @illegalsmirf  Yes it is, but as I wrote, it takes no account of those struggling but just over the limit. Still, as Rachel from accounts probably told Starmer, 'most of them probably didn't vote for us, so why should we trouble ourselves about their welfare?'
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  447. Unfortunately, genuine historians who have researched it, some of whom even know how to spell 'Moor' correctly, would disagree with you fascinating rant.
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  448.  @gijgij4541  But the sources do not justify the title, which is typical Channel 4 propaganda. Did the presenter find any evidence to support it? Actually, No, quite the contrary. Her disappointment was obvious.
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  449. Coincidentally, Nihal Arthanayake was on an episode of Winter Walks on Wednesday evening. He actually treated the few other (white) people he encountered with great kindness. His evident contempt for them did not show through at all. I didn't realise that the BBC still employed many white folk. How intensely galling that must be for their betters.
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  450.  @Godfather-oy2kw  Dammit! I stand corrected.
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  451.  @KemetledAfrica  In the 16th century. Benin was still doing this at the dawn of the 20th.
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  452.  @logicius  The principle is of 'Equality in Death' which has applied since 1918, but which the Chancellor now appears to have chosen, doubtless from simple ignorance, to overturn.
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  453.  @sonnyirish3678  No. But I imagine he will be in the history books of the future.
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  454.  @BernardRex  I must confess that an element of Republican DNA is deeply rooted within me, which does come to the fore every time Charles does or says something less than sensible. Most of the time, these days!
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  455. Alas, these days, no it isn't.
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  456. Good heavens! A trained Parakeet which can work a laptop. Isn't nature remarkable?
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  457.  @Bezart34  You haven't managed to explain why my analogy is either irrelevant or non-constructive. Nor have you managed to point me to any of my posts where I have suggested that Sunak is not 'British.' The relevance of my analogy was that there is more to identity and, indeed, national loyalty, than mere place of birth.
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  458.  @Bezart34  Indeed. It amused me when you attempted to do it. Accusing me of denying that Sunak was 'British' when I did no such thing. Still, I supposed it diverted you from trying to work out what an analogy was.
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  459.  @Bezart34  Just as I am happy to have contributed to your education.
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  460. The BBC Licence Fee structure is apparently being re-assessed. To get the best deal, the Beeb will be eager to protect the back of the current government as assiduously as possible, particularly since that approach already accords with the views of the Guardianistas who infest the organisation.
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  461.  @politicas3361  Yes. Of course you did. Why is it that people of a right of centre persuasion tend to enjoy keeping themselves far from any potential political influence by dividing into a host of splinter groups, perpetually squabbling with each other? Get the idea from Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' did you?
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  462.  @politicas3361  I think that you have missed the LoB referenc, which was to the whole host of different Anto-Roman resistance groups, such as :- The People's Front of Judea (PFJ): The Judean People's Front: (This group is a rival of the People's Front of Judea, and they are also shown to be more interested in arguing with each other than fighting the Romans.) The Campaign for a Free Galilee: (Another group that is shown to be more interested in internal squabbles than fighting the Romans.)
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  463.  @granvillekeen  Perhaps Fylde Council might issue an edict ruling that any birds other than Robins & Sparrows observed eating the food will immediately be prosecuted with the full vigour of the law?
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  464.  @MillieBeal  Careful. You will Upset DIFESA and his carers will need to clear him up again.
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  465.  @on2wheelz28  The nickname was first used during WW1, when the new army resulting from the imposition of conscription was referred to as 'Kitchener's Mob.' The nickname for the Royal Navy is, to the best of my knowledge, the 'Andrew' the origins of which are uncertain.
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  466. Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the current British 'government' more or less openly despises British culture, and has nothing but contempt for much of the population. At least Lammy makes no attempt to conceal this.
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  467.  @gijgij4541  Ignorance of what?
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  468.  @gijgij4541  Indeed. It surprises me that you have such disdain for the concepts.,
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  469. 'What happened?' The Dear Leader happened.
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  470.  @williams4434  'who said anything about Sub Sahara ?' I did, because those whom you describe as 'blacks' come from Sub-Saharan Africa, not fro Africa as a whole. To put that into context, would you seek to argue that Europeans from Norway or Sweden look just like Europeans from Greece or Southern Italy? Good luck trying to make that case. It seems you now accept that only North Africa was ever part of the Roman Empire. Good, that is a start. All you need to do now is grasp the indisputable fact that Africans from North Africa looked, and look, rather different from Africans of Sub-Saharan African descent. Your lumping everyone from the whole of the continent of Africa into the same 'black'' category seems rather like racism to me, and, I suspect, to most other people. ' by description Jesus was black, Bronzed feet who has hair like wool ? black folks, also many believe Jesus was black.' I have already answered this claim elsewhere, but will do so again:- Revelation 1:14-15 ' His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.' Not quite what you are claiming, is it?
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  471. Seeing United's recent performances, I fear that they are desperately in need of assistance, whether divine or other.
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  472.  @Requiem4TheMasses  True. We would be either dead, or in labour camps in the fatherland.
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  473. But does that mean that 'Palestine for the Palestinians' or 'Ukraine for the Ukrainians' also represent far right extremism in action?
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  474.  @petergibbs1683  But you merely referred to 'private life.' Legality never came into your post.
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  475.  @BunFight  Your knowledge of British history seems remarkably lacking. Society in British had shown a steady improvement in housing, education, welfare, and life expectancy, among other things, until as recently as thirty years ago. Now, many areas are presenting a reversal and a decline. That is a simple fact.
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  476.  @BunFight  You don't think that allowing large numbers of economically inactive and unintegrated people into the UK, thus helping to impose increasingly insupportable stresses on all parts of national infrastructure, as well as generating considerable civil unrest, has nothing to do with Britain's current problems? Remarkable. It seems that your educational programming has been very effective.
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  477.  @user-xd9yo3le7o  Actually, although I do not always agree with him, that allegation is simply untrue. His sources, generally, are easy to check.
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  478. It is still assault. The issue is not what was thrown, but what might have been thrown.
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  479.  @speedysteve9121  Perhaps you simply don't understand the concept of Irony?
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  480. @@julianashley9992 No. It is much funnier. Albeit unintentionally.
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  481.  @colincampbell4261  Perhaps you aren't aware that, at the height of the Napoleonic wars, the Royal Navy had around 500 ships in commission, 200 of which were Ships of the Line. In total, the Royal Navy needed over 200,000 men to crew them. Do you really believe that there were 100,000 black crewmen? Actually, I don't know what he does or doesn't know about the RN of the time, although I am sure he knows about press-ganging. Perhaps you might explain the difference, in essence, between press- ganging in the 19th century, and conscription in the 20th? What I am confident he does know, and what I assume you also ought to know, is that the reference to half of the Royal Navy being black is ludicrous. In short, you haven't made a valid comment. You have simply demonstrated your lack of actual knowledge, either of this particular subject or, seemingly, of British & World history in general.
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  482. ​ @jimjones-bk2is  Thank you. Now you have confirmed that, actually, they really were 'arrested for going for a walk or having a coffee.'
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  483.  @jimjones-bk2is  'there's no arguing with stupid is there?' Please do not be so disparaging about yourself or your intellect. This is only a discussion, after all. By the way, I added the ? which you unaccountably omitted.
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  484. Hermann Goering, I believe. He diden't seem to suffer from any butter shortage, however.
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  485. Wasn't the study of history invented by a man of African origin, David Olusoga?
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  486. He would know, He did kill millions of his own people, after all,
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  487. So it is true what they said about Magna Carta. She really did die in vain? Oh dear. Showing my age here.
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  488. No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition!!
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  489. If I didn't know better, I would have concluded that your post was intended to be satirical, rather than simply crazed.
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  490. Was your beloved David correct about Beachy Head Lady? There is more to history than simply making unsubstantiated allegations.
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  491. Missing the point, surely? Only slavery involving England/Britain was cruel and wicked. Any slavery perpetrated by others was simple an early version of Social Service.
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  492. But surely, it was in the 'Guardian' so it must be true. Mustn't it?
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  493. Beware! Haven't you seen the recent antics of what passes for the Welsh Government? Moreover all that choral singing and Rugby Union is very tiring.
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  494. Have you been out of contact with Earth for the last four years?
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  495. Which 'deniers' have been jailed in the UK?
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  496.  @politicas3361  Doesn't Angela's interpretation simply equate to a demand that Muslims are superior, and deserve special treatment?
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  497. Ge'ez is actually a Semitic writing system. 'Palaeography of the Ancient South Arabian script. New evidence for an absolute chronology. In: Arabian archaeology and epigraphy 24 (2013), pp. 186-195.'
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  498.  @owenarnold7611  I am sure Simon can answer for himself. However, I don't think that he claims to be a news outlet.
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  499.  @owenarnold7611  I believe that he does so claim. But commenting on history is not the same as presenting the news. I thought you were more interested in the news? In this case, he is not 'reading history' but simply commenting on an unfolding event. Put simply, is anything he said actually factually inaccurate? Didn't the individual concerned recommend murder, and didn't the people behing him cheer and applaud in support? I fear that your prejudice is showing through.
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  500. Only one in three voted for them. The problem at the moment is not those who vote, but those who don't. I believe that the percentage of people eligible to vote who actually did vote in the recent election was the lowest since the late 19th century.
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  501.  @golden.lights.twinkle2329  The Germans never came remotely close to anything of the sort where the RN was concerned.
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  502. Congratulations on an accurate explanation of the career of the Empire Windrush. She, along with many others, was operated by the Ministry of Shipping, (formed in October 1939) which adopted a standard naming system, applying the prefix "Empire" for all merchant ships built in Great Britain for the Government. This later was named the Ministry of War Transport. With some exceptions, the prefix was also extended to purchased or requisitioned ships and to those acquired as prizes, such as the Empire Windrush. Actual dat to day operations of these ships was, of course, placed in the hands of a host of commercial shipping companies. Doubtless, you may expect a backlash from the usual people.
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  503. Perhaps he might not wish to?
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  504. I suspect they interpreted it as 'To self-serve and to protect their friends.'
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  505. Perhaps she could have asked Rachel from Accounts to have dropped her off, on her way to China?
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  506.  @krazytroutcatcher  Sorry, but that is simply not true. The origins of the Lancaster stem from a twin-engined bomber that had been submitted to British Air Ministry Specification P. 13/36 of 1936 for a twin-engined medium bomber for "worldwide use" which could carry a torpedo internally, and make shallow dive-bombing attacks. 1936. Please note.
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  507.  @Excession-h6e  You certainly don't seem capable of arguing, in the sense of debating, with anyone. Please don't feel under any obligation to respond at all, by the way.
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  508.  @steveturner6770  'This was negotiated by James Cleverly.' Actually, the previous Tory government had indeed been in negotiations with the Government of Mauritius, but no conclusions had been reached, still less any agreement. The current government's style of 'negotiation' seems to have been to say to the pro-Chinese government of Mauritius, 'Would you like to have the Chagos Islands? Here's some money to take them.'
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  509.  @oldboygeorge7688  Perhaps, unlike you apparently, I have actually read the right books?
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  510. It does seem to be something of a Public Sector thing. When there is yet another scandal involving one or other of the myriad of Public Sector agencies, the response habitually seems to be 'But it's only public money.'
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  511. I wonder what the German phrases for the British Police mantras :- 'We ask people not to speculate' and 'This is not a terrorist incident' are?
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  512.  @phildavies6020  Perhaps they all inhabit the same asylum, and are allowed to play with a lap top from time to time, to give their carers a break?:
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  513. He isn't a politician. It is not his role to state policies, but to examine policies put forward by people who, allegedly, are.
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  514. Because any professional person who did is likely immediately to be cancelled for failing to abide by the rules of the agenda.
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  515.  @WilfTompkins5546  A lot of Irishmen volunteered for service with the British armed services in WW2. Many were punished by the Irish government after the war.
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  516. Well, who was correct about Beachy Head Lady? Simon Webb or David Olusoga?
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  517. No. I liked Harry Worth.
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  518.  @jimjones-bk2is  Indeed it is, even though those who did vote for him in 2024 were 500,000 less than those who voted for Jazzer's party in 2019.
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  519.  DIFESA_RAZZA_BIANCA  On a simple matter of fact, something which I suspect you rarely encounter, Churchill held no government post between 1929 and September.1939, when he was appointed, by Neville Chamberlain to the Cabinet of a nation already at war.
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  520. Whereever did you get the idea that Olusoga is a 'renowned historian?' Perhaps from his extensive research into the origins of Beachy Head Lady?
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  521. Rudolf Hess was born in Alexandria in 1894. I wonder why he hasn't been put forward as a prominent African Man of Colour?
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  522. Jesus Christ was a Middle Eastern, Hebraic Jewish man. Where in the Bible is Jesus described as black?
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  523.  @peterc.1618  What the politicians knew or didn't know is not the issue. The fact is that most of them, and Heath in particular, kept any suggestion of political union from the public. Had an extra sentence been added to the original question, stating that 'The ultimate intention is that Great Britain should become a minor part of a much larger European Superstate' do you consider that that might have affected the way people vote? Or do you consider it appropriate that politicians should lie to the peasantry?
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  524. No. Quite a number of us would never have existed, as our parents and grandparents would have experienced short, painful, lives as slave labourers in the fatherland.
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  525.  @richardlewis7498  The one before Lunch on the first day, no doubt?
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  526. Wrong tense. 'Has slipped' is more correct.
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  527. Hardly. Cromwell's undoing was in dying when he was 59.
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  528. Your caps lock is stuck. Perhaps you might ask one of your keepers to have it repaired?
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  529.  @nobby91010  Indeed, I am absolutely terrified! Why would I want to waste my time on someone so obviously 'strange?' I have amused myself long enough, and don't intend to read any more of your demented ravings.
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  530.  @thesoulbrother8636  You mean like such history as The Abolition of Slavery Act, 1833, or the West Africa Squadron, also called the Preventative Squadron, 1808 - 1867? No, of course you don't. You don't mean actual history at all, do you?
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  531.  @HistoryDenied  My argument is simply that it is futile to attempt to impose 21st century beliefs on people from the 17th to 19th centuries. You seem unable to accept the fact that slavery & the slave trade was not unique to England/Britain.
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  532.  @HistoryDenied  Never mind irony. What about relevance. The subsidies applied to Roman citizens, but not to those who were not citizens, by the way.
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  533.  @HistoryDenied  You might as well go forward in time and write 'People in the 21st century knew that eating meat was wrong, but did it anyway.' Again, your need to impose you own values on people from the past lacks any credibility. 'Congratulations on unwittingly rubbishing such claims.' Did I? When & where?
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  534. 'Amazing how the working class people think that political parties care for them.' Do you think that they do? I suspect that the media, which generally consists of individuals who would run a mile rather than associate with the common herd, simply tell people that they do.
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  535.  @paulchadwick9419  Well, it is what the Labour Party claimed. Surely you don't doubt their absolute integrity? Moreover, if there is a severe sinter, and these people do die, won't it be a bit late for Starmer to say, 'Oh dear. What a shame?'
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  536.  @eastsaxon7079  The parallels between the mid fifth century Western Roman Empire, and early 21st Century Western Civilisation are extremely alarming.
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  537. ​ @orvillefindley8117  'Are you denying the incident took place?' Of course not. I am questioning the relevance to the 'Rule Britannia' Proms issue, as any rational person reading my initial post would understand.
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  538. Don't worry. Ursula will probably send European army troops into the Netherlands to suppress this rising by the natives.
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  539. Perhaps you would have been happier if the west had never bothered with Africa, and it had been left to remain at the neolithic, tribal, level of development it had managed to achieve for itself?
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  540. Not very onservant, are you?
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  541.  @tadhgmccain7785  Westminster Bridge began to lose any charm it might have had after electric tramcars ceased in 1952!
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  542. Knowledgeable? Like about Beachy Head Ladt, for example?
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  543. Is 'FASCISM!!!!!' the new 'RAYCISM!!!!' Shout it in an attempt to shut down conversation which you don't like?
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  544. Did the New Orleans Police Department respond as the Met. generally do? 'We have no idea what led to this action. Only that it was certainly not a terrorist incident' I wonder?
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  545.  @bobharmes343  You could start with his fantastical claims about the casualties at Dresden, then proceed from there.
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  546. I doubt that any MP would put a salary of £91k p.a., almost limitless expenses, and the ability to make useful & lucrative 'contacts,' at risk for something as irrelevant (to the average MP) as mere integrity. My own MP, a newly elected one, was, of course, unswervingly loyal to his Dear Leader, did an interview on the local radio station which was little short of a car crash, and then went into damage control mode, putting a cut and paste version of his party's press release on local sites, with the solemn assurance that anyone struggling with the loss of the fuel allowance should contact him, as he 'hoped' he might be able to help. Still, at least he made clear to all constitutents what kind of calibre of MP he is likely to be.
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  547.  @drstrangelove4998  You really don't know much about the extent of German planning & preparation in 1940, do you?
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  548. Apart from in the Times, Oxford has already slipped to third, and Cambridge to fifth.
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  549.  @BillSikes.  Really? Was there much trench warfare at Austerlitz or Leipzig?
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  550.  @BillSikes.  The last cavalry charge by British soldiers against the Germans was on 24 August, 1914. After that, until the front stabilised, British cavalry operated as mobile infantry, using the Short Magazine Lee Enfield Rifle, supplemented by machine guns. I didn't know that old Boney used machine guns, by the way.
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  551. I suspect that, after the next General Election, there will be a significant number of Labour MPs who are in reality Muslim activists, and who will relentlessly promote Islamic issues. I have doubts about whether Starmer and his cronies will have the courage, or the will, to keep them in check. In short, parts of Britanistan may well be stumbling towards the imposition of Sharia Law.
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  552. I have no objection about any reinterpretation of history, providing it is based on credible evidence. Unfortunately, where the BBC's historian of choice, it is generally based on political dogma.
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  553.  @Time.Bomb.  Do stop inventing such infantile 'quotations.'
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  554.  @vincekerrigan8300  Isn't it simply a factual statement, or are you saying that Baroness Lawrence is not really a member of the House of Lords?
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  555.  @strongandco  The point I am making is that 'Achilles' is a far more respected and traditional name for a Royal Navy warship than is 'Agincourt.' Actually, I doubt 'most people' even know what an 'Achilles heel' is, these days, either. A knowledge of Greek myths is hardly a prominent feature of the modern school curriculum.
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  556.  @georgehetty7857  Thanks. You beat me to the draw!
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  557. Actually the National Maritime Museum recently asked a BBC Woke Queen, Lucy Worsley, to 're-assess' the role of Nelson in history, following (contested) allegations that he was an enthusiastic supporter of slavery. Given Lucy's track record, it is not difficult to guess what will be the result of the re-assessment.
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  558. Where in the name of sanity did you get such bizarre ideas?
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  559. Captain Cook's ship's log contains a reference to HMS Endeavour being overflown by Aboriginal drones shortly after his arrival off the Australian coast. He commented to one of his officers, Lt. Bligh, that ' I suppose, William, that we should count ourselves fortunate that they won't invent the Norden Bombsight for two more years.' The log, of course, is hidden by RAYCIST!!!! white imperialists in the British archives, although I believe that the BBC are considering producing a six part drama about these events.
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  560.  @frankielov  Well, it certainly celebrates the neo fantasy of history.
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  561. Perhaps you haven't heard of Zeppelins or Gothas? Or of the Spanish Civil War, Warsaw, or Rotterdam?
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  562.  @tartanmctwisted0218  They still demenstrate the German willingness to use area bombing. Moreover, Warsaw & Rotterdam were bombed in September 1939 and May 1940. Hardly the 'wrong war.'
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  563. Do your carers know that you have pinched the laptop again?
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  564. Steve Dixie is a black boxer who appears in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Adventure of the Three Gables.' Unless, of course, the story has now been removed from the canon, as he is portrayed in what would now be condemned as a 'RAYCIST!!!' manner?
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  565. But what about the 81% who didn't?
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  566.  @RabbiMalahkYah  Wherever did you get the idea that Duke William's 5-7,000 strong army set about trying to exterminate an Anglo-Saxon/Danish population of 2.5 million?
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  567.  @rodsquad5764  You miss the point entirely. How Gensoul should have reacted to the British ultimatum was a political, not a military, decision. Moreover, there was no suggestion of 'surrendering' to a neutral power, but of transferring the fleet to French colonial ports in the West Indies. The fact is that, for reasons which Gensoul never explained, he chose not to provide his own government with the full text of the British document. He thus chose to act totally beyond his authority. The probability is that Admiral Darlan, with his keen concern for the honneur of the Navy, might well have agreed with the West Indian port option. The decision, put simply, was not Gensoul's to make.
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  568.  @rodsquad5764  The actions Gensoul took had nothing to do with 'running a ship. Try to understand, I urge you. Are you even reading my posts? Whether Gensoul's squadron should scuttle, fight, join the British, or re-locate to the West Indies, was entirely a judgement for his political masters, and in particular Admiral Darlan, now, and since 16 June, the Minister of Marine in the incoming Petain government. Gensoul was a career naval officer, not a politician. 'You Saber rattle all you want but you would have made the same decision if you say not your just lying to yourself.' When have I 'sabre rattled,' out of interest? Had I been a career officer in such a position, and knowing that I had a deadline some several hours away, I would have done what any sensible commander would have done, and referred the situation up the chain of command, to the French Admiralty and, through them, to my government. I would most certainly not have chosen to sacrifice my fleet, and the lives of many of my men, on the altar of my personal dignity.
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  569.  @Jugement  Perhaps you might point me to my post where I suggested that the French should have surrendered their navy, as I don't recall saying anything of the sort? The French had a credible alternative, which was that of sending Gensoul's ships to French West Indian ports, where they would be supervised by the neutral United States. Wouldn't that have been preferable to placing them under German 'supervision' as the Armistice/Surrender of 22 June demanded? Unfortunately, Gensoul's refusal to tell his own government the details of the British ultimatum never gave Darlan the chance even to consider it. By the way, France & Britain had not been in conflict since 1815. They had fought as allies in the Crimea, and in WW1. Perhaps you missed those two skirmishes? Indeed, any emnity had largely become irrelevant since the Franco-Prussian war, and the unification of Germany. Miss that as well, did you? Or the Entente Cordiale of 1904? 'The French Navy also did hold their end of the bargain and scuttled much more at Toulon than what was destroyed in Mers El Kebir when the Germans tried to cease in 1941.' It just shows how ignorant of history I must be. I always thought that the Toulon scuttling was on 27 November, 1942. How remiss of me. Moreover, if you think that the war situation had not changed somewhat between July 1940, and November, 1942, then I respectfully submit that it is not my knowledge of history that is lacking.
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  570. How dare you make disparaging remarks about the BBC's official race propagandist of choiuce?
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  571. German bombers had already been used against civilian targets in Spain, Poland, and the Netherlands, in fact.
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  572. For some time now, most Labour politicians would have crawled naked through a field of thistles if there was a Knighthood or Damehood at the other side. Not to mention a Peerage.
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  573.  @derekowens1817  A bit like the Tonypandy myth. Interestingly, there are photographs of a tank in Glasgow. The fact that it was there as part of a fundraising event in January, 1918, doesn't seem to concern these people at all.
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  574.  @Porkypies6m  No, he didn't. Whatever nonsense you choose to believe about Churchill, are you seriously stupid enough to believe that he would have done, or even contemplated, such an action when there were some 2.5 million Indian servicemen fighting for the Allied cause? Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda with which you have been indoctrinated. However, perhaps when you become a little more mature, you might be able to break your programming and learn to think for yourself.
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  575.  @emceedoctorb3022  Yes. Of course he did. Just as I am really Holy Roman Emperor. You do know that, when inventing a lie, it needs to be a plausible one? For one, 11th Armoured Division was not part of XXX Corps at Market Garden, and thus did not provide the tanks which crossed Nijmegen Bridge. Try Guards Armoured Division next time you make something up. If you had sufficient wit, you might have checked that, perhaps?
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  576.  @ShowOfStrength.  ' "Dove" is Dewtroll don't feed him.' What I assume you mean by that is 'Doveton knows far more than you. Don't try to take him on.' You are correct. Actually, I am proud to claim as one of ancestors Major General John Lambert, one of Cromwell's commanders at the Battle of Preston in 1648, and the commander of the triumphant Parliamentary army at the Battle of Inverkeithing in July, 1651. English, and Republican, sentiment is ingrained deep in my DNA.
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  577.  @emceedoctorb3022  Guards Armoured landed on 28 June. I am not disrespecting your father, I am disrespecting your claims, as they do not stack up. Do you always threaten violence when you are questioned, by the way?
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  578.  @elkpaz560  Most were, but if they were anything like to ones I met at post-war reunions when I took my late father to them, they were overwhelmingly proud of what they achieved.
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  579.  @emceedoctorb3022  Aside from my puzzlement about this reference : ' Come on, big brain, come at me. Let us see this supposed superior intellect you have bragged about ' I did reply to your response, as follows :- 'I am not disrespecting your father, I am disrespecting your claims, as they do not stack up. Do you always threaten violence when you are questioned, by the way?' Why would I 'come at you?' As I have said, I do not believe you. What more would you wish me to say?' If it helps, from my own experience, I took my late father (69th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, present at 2nd Alamein, Mareth, & Salerno, among other actions, to several post War Reunions, amd if the men I met there were typical, they were overwhelmingly proud of what they achieved.
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  580.  @emceedoctorb3022  So, you had another pop at me for failing to reply to a comment which didn't appear. 'As to calling you big brain and saying come at me, you are the one claiming a superior intellect towards others.' When did I write that? Please show me. Or rather, please don't. You are getting extremely agitated, and high blood pressure is most undesirable. Indeed, whether I believe you or not is hardly the issue, which is about the feelings of veterans towards their actions during the war, and I remain confident that the opinions I gleaned from many of these people in the post-war era are in the majority.
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  581.  @emceedoctorb3022  Direct quote from you. “What I assume you mean by that is ‘Doveton knows far more than you. Don’t try to take him on.’ You are correct. Indeed. A response to someone called 'Show of Strength' who claimed, falsely, that "Dove" is Dewtroll don't feed him." Not a response to you. I suspect that, compared to Show of Strength, my cat is a towering intellect. As that appears to be the best you can do, I will leave you to your own beliefs from now on, and not waste further time.
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  582.  @emceedoctorb3022  Telling an idiot that I know more than he does is hardly claiming intellectual brilliance, so your point is far from proven. I ignored your claims about your grandad's record because it was entirely unsupported by any evidence. I could claim to be a direct descendant of Richard III, and you could no more disprove it than I could prove it. Goodbye, mon brave.
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  583.  @markcollins7270  About what?
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  584. Teaching black hisrory would be fine were it to be accurate black history, not the fantasies being invented by Henry & his ilk. I doubt, however, that he would like accurate black history.
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  585. It isn't just history. Haven't you heard the case of Azeem Rafiq, a failed cricketer who recalled racist comments being made to him during his time at Yorkshire. Oddly, the comments only seemed to have been made by Test or Former Test cricketers. Even when racist comments he himself had made were revealed, and discrepancies in his claims exposed, no-one was allowed to question his motives. Many staff members at Yorkshire were simply dismissed, and the careers of several eminent cricketers and former cricketers adversely affected.
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  586.  @user-xd9yo3le7o  So you really do believe that not agreeing with you should be made a criminal offence?
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  587. Don't forget that the men who wrote that were overwhelmingly slave owners, and didn't believe it.
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  588.  @Harry-v6b7l  You think that reading drivel like 'Europa - The Last Battle' will help you in that aim? Do these white children need to be blond and blue eyed, as well, herr obergruppenfuhrer?
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  589.  @Harry-v6b7l  And promoting nonsense like that book will enhance your credibility?
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  590. What? Britain bombed Germany before the Zeppelin attacks in 1915? Who would have thought it? Try a few more facts, relating to German bombing of Spanish town in the Civil War, or the bombing of Warsaw in September 1939 abnd Rotterdam in May 1940.
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  591.  @grahamdhv3812  Oddly enough, no I wasn't. That is why transcripts of proceedings are available for anyone interested enough to read. Which I have.
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  592.  @grahamdhv3812  'Hung, drawn and quartered. Ridiculous argument.' What does that actually even mean?
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  593. The obsession is your, I suggest. Did the video mention Jews even once?
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  594. How can you say that? He is the BBC's historian of choice.
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  595. Isn'r this just the same mantra as constantly chanted by Ed Miliband. -- Energy costs will reduce significantly. But only after they have increased vastly more significantly?
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  596. I understand that Sir Kier has issued a warrant for the arrest of the 'Extreme Right Wing Activist' George Orwell on the grounds of hate speech.
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  597. Always good to read comments from respected academics. A pity you aren't one.
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  598. Why do you not think that a Muslim would be suitable? Islamophobia running riot!!
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  599. Equally, we fought a Hundred Years' War against them!
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  600.  @noelsalisbury7448  As I was replying to a comment made by someone else, I am puzzled why you would reply to me in this manner.
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  601.  @noelsalisbury7448  Oh dear, what a choleric little chap you really are.
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  602.  @ANationalAcrobat-qj2dl  No, it isn't. It is the First Past the Post Electoral System, together with the 48% who didn't bother to vote.
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  603. @GretsGarbo I wonder if it is simply coincidence that a Blair lackey, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, is pushing an Assisted Dying Bill in the House of the Living Dead, aka the Lords? Perhaps the first step on the road to a Euthanasia Bill, in which inconvenient people can be removed with the minimum of fuss. For their own good, and for the benefit of society, of course! Presumably, noble members of the Lords will be exempt from any such bill, which would only apply to the peasantry.
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  604.  @Benzknees  What you seem to suggest is that Reform voters should accept the lesser of two evils? The most recent 'Tory' government was significantly to the left of anything Harold Wilson might have believed possible.
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  605.  @Benzknees  Rather than get into a useless argument about old Harold, perhaps you might explainwhy you think I voted Reform. I simply made a comment, shared by many, about a Tory party which had totally lost its way, and you immediately jump to conclusions.
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  606.  @Benzknees  Again, what makes you so sure for whom I voted? Psychic, are you?
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  607.  @Benzknees  No. What I actually wrote was 'What you seem to suggest is that Reform voters should accept the lesser of two evils?' Which is hardly the same as claiming that Labour or the Conservatives were evil in themselves. To refer you to one definition, from the Collins Dictionary :- 'The lesser of two evils.' 'If you have two choices, but think that they are both bad, you can describe the one which is less bad as the lesser of two evils, or the lesser evil.' I am sorry that you do not understand common English usage.
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  608.  @Benzknees  'Pedantry?' As language is the primary means of communication, I consider it important to use it accurately. Perhaps you do not? I do not doubt that the growth of Reform benefitted Labour. It is a cause for sadness that you refuse to consider what generated that growth. I implied nothing, by the way. I simply stated my considered opinion. I value freedom of speech, for however long it may last.
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  609. Although the reference in 'Inherit the Wind' is to the teaching of evolution, one of Henry Drummond's speeches, if applied instead to Islam, seems disturbingly apposite :- “Can't you understand? ............. You may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating, we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind" Have we actually taken the first steps on that path?
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  610. Which certainly explains why Olusoga is the BBC's 'historian' of choice.
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  611. As Jane Austen might have written, had the situation arisen, 'It is a truth universally established that, when a junior clerk is given any authority, however slight, he or she will immediately abuse it.'
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  612. To be fair, Anhela put David right when sahe quickly corrected him by twlling him that Syria is really next to Wakanda.
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  613.  @sergpie  Do you neos all post from the same crumpled sheet of A4? You say :- Churchill 'rejected multiple peace offers by both Italy and Germany. ' Yet you never seem able to provide any source at all which contains details of these offers. Who made them, who to, and when? I assume you won't answer. 'Casualties in Britain during the blitz, were attributable to the misfiring and/or delayed detonation of British artillery shells.' Indeed some were. What alternative would you have suggested? Allowing the bombing to continue unchallenged? Wouldn't that have been good for civilian morale?
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  614. "Carrots are good for our eyes" was certainly a myth, but intended to deceive the Germans about the effectiveness of the radar carried in British nightfighters. Isn't that a valid reason?
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  615. I wonder if the BBC will drop BBC Vilify? I doubt it.
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  616. @VexOoo-x7y It isn't qwll known at all. Geneticist Susan Walsh at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, said that 'DNA testing is not advanced enough to say for certain. She works in the field. Walsh is an associate professor of biology at Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI), IN, where her laboratory focuses on understanding the genetics of human physical appearance, from pigment to facial structure, and its prediction from DNA. Of course, you know better, I suppose?
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  617. @VexOoo-x7y I am not denying facts, but simply pointing out that the skin colour of Cheddar Man cannot be determined, given the current level of scientific research. Why, by the way, do you think that it matters overmuch? Incidentally, a probable descendant of Cheddar man , at least according to DNA, was found living in the same area some years ago. You can even see a photograph should you wish. Not that it matters overmuch in any case. I wonder, by the way, what is your opinion of Beachy Head Lady?
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  618. Frankly, I doubt that most Americans even know where Englandland is.
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  619.  @danielalexandre89  Well, it was certainly spelled differently. But correctly, unlike your version.
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  620. But you cannot deny that almost all the sheep you see in fields are disgustingly white. Blatantly RAYCIST!!!
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  621.  @edmundblackaddercoc8522  Really? Where and when did your hero say that?
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  622.  @edmundblackaddercoc8522  Do you actually know how many firebombs actually hit St.Paul's? Are you really gormless enough to believe that night bombing in 1940 was that accurate? Can you point to any records which state any of these absurdities?
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  623.  @SensibleCentrist  I didn't know Lord Alli was Jewish.
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  624.  @kloot-2084xl  Well, however brutal the idea might be, they need, even this late in the day, to accept that medieval Islam is not compatible with 21st century Western culture, and act accordingly. Unfortunately, with the US still in the grip of an obviously senile President, and a Vice-President with the intelligence of a Gerbil, whilst Britain is under the control of a Dear Leader and lackeys more interested in filling their collective boots with freebies, I doubt that will happen.
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  625.  @The-4th-Mann  We did. As a result, we finally dealt with the monster.
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  626.  @sylviasimpson-n2o  Do you suggest the US should have happily ignored Pearl Harbor and the German declaration of war?
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  627.  @DenisCharette-k5w  THe population of Scotland per square kilometre in 2022 was 70. In England it was 454.
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  628. I had expected the BBC to have started to use the Islamic calendar by now.
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  629. It seems that Justin Welby's determined ambition to destroy the Church of England is gathering momentum.
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  630.  @ExcerptInTime  I can recommend a few local tradesmen. Any of them would be willing to re-decorate your flat without the need to exterminate a few million people at the same time.
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  631. Surely you don't refer to the 'track to hell' started by old Joe & his half-wit sidekick Kamala?
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  632. Are you David Olusoga, by any chance? 'HOLLY ROMAN EMPIRE.' Very good. But presumably only at Christmas?
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  633.  @sentinal2343  Feel entirely free to educate me, then. You could start by explaining which Black leaders? Oh, and please don't say Septimius Severus.
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  634.  DIFESA_RAZZA_BIANCA  Another day, another troll, by the resident half-wit. How you have the time to polish your unrivalled collection of SS daggers, I really don't know,
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  635. His daddy wrote for the Grauniad for some years.
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  636. @TommeahTommeahTommeah 'I don't see that comment as reflective of a dislike of white people.' Oh well, as the saying goes, 'there's none so blind as them that will not see.'
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  637. @TommeahTommeahTommeah 'I think when you are replying to me with that post on the channel of a bloke who wakes up every day to moan about black people the irony is way off the scale.' I read all sorts of sites, and have often disagreed with some of the videos or comments on this one, and on many others. Do you suggest that one should only read a site with which one agrees? What a boring and tedious life that would create. I know about Lammy's wife. How is that relevant to his views? As it appears that you intend to defend his book without actually reading it, further response on my part would be superfluous, I suggest.
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  638. Unfortunately, referring to Grauniad articles for accurate information is about as sensible as writing a history of WW2 based on the reports in Volkischer Beobachter.
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  639.  @MtnBoar  1812? Do you mean the collapse of Boney's Russian Campaign, or the glorious overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky? I don't know anyone particularly upset by either.
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  640. Isn't Suir Keir's cabinet trying to stop the boats? P & O ones, that is.
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  641. As Churchill held no political office between 1929 & 1939, when he became First Lord of the Admiralty of a nation already at war, I think we know what yo think about your opinion.
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  642. If these items do date fron 500,000 years ago, then African humans are not involved, as Homo Sapiens only evolved around 200,000 years ago. The predecessor of Homo Sapiens was Homo Erectus, dating back around 2 million years.
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  643. Perhaps the Dear Leader misremembered, and thought his uncle had served aboard the General Belgrano?
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  644. It seems to be an unhealthy trend in modern politics. Appoint someone of self-evident uselessness because he/she will never be any threat to anyone. I refer you to the serial failure Grant Shapps for further information.
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  645.  @michealhand1001  They didn't need to, as they had already apparently invented flight.
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  646. 'Will they be thinking about us pensioners ?' Probably, but only in terms of 'How much more can we screw out of you.'
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  647. '1930's Germany - Paradise.' Unless you were disabled, a political opponent of the party, disabled, a Gypsy, a Jehovahs's Witness, a Slav, or, worst of all a Jew. of course. By the way, upvoting your own post is not the done thing, old chap. Rather bad form, don't cha know?
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  648.  @Permission2land  Did you know that he could paint an entire apartment in a week-end? Two coats!
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  649. I think you mean 'a political elite that hates you,' and hates the rest of us, alas.
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  650. Not exactly Demosthenes, are you?
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  651. Perhaps by supporting the lie which the Dear Leader promotes, that it is all 'Extreme Right Wing Propaganda.'
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  652.  @user-yh8gx9ng4u  Well, a legend is defined as :- 'An extremely famous or notorious person, especially in a particular field.' You ask for one. I will give you two - 1). Jack the Ripper. 2). Voivode of Wallachia (Vlad the Impaler).
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  653.  @treznik  Your first post on here, and it is an attempt at an insult. How sadly predictable.
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  654.  @johncourtneidge  For an accurate account of the events of WW2, 'Volkischer Beobachter' back copies have as much, or as little, merit.
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  655. Supposing you are one of the many who fall just above the level for benefits, because you were foolish enough to try to save?
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  656.  @rickreid8572  So. You recommend that pensioners, or indeed anyone, should avoid saving at all, in order to claim benefits? Do you really believe that? According to the ONS, in the mild winter (in your terms) of 2020-2021, there were 60,760 'excess' deaths due to cold. Presumably, you don't think that that was enough? Not sure you are the sharpest knife in the cutlery drawer?
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  657.  @TheJsholladay  It wasn't sarcasm. It was based on a scene from a classic American movie of many years ago. 'Inherit the Wind.'
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  658.  @Starmerispureevil  Unfair. 'President' Blair found them useful as things to be expended in one or other of the illegal wars which made him extremely wealthy.
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  659. just look what happens when you drool onto the keyboard. The Caps Lock jams and makes you look crazed!
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  660. Has he ever suggested that the taxpayer should? Do you regard the much larger number of pensioners who are struggling at the moment, whilst being just over the benefits limit, as mere collateral damage?
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  661.  @illegalsmirf  But last time I looked it was only pensioners whose winter fuel allowance had been discontinued.
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  662. Isn't it sad how the brave volunteers who man boats in British waters are being openly exploited by full-time, virtue signalling, managers?
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  663.  @andrejlvov3236  You mean for destroying German industry, which was providing the weapons and materials being used to kill Allied soldiers on both the western & eastern fronts? Really?
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  664.  @MushMushMuscovaMush  Is that really all you have?
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  665. Yet these highly intelligent cannibals were apparently totally unable to determine any ways in which their living conditions could be improved? Or, did they simply prefer living at a mesolithic level of development? You 'recall a discussion' do you? I assume that you can provide a source where it may be read?
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  666.  @wulfhere83  So you preferred Sunak's 'Vote for us. We are useless but Starmer will be worse' to Starmer's 'Vote for us. We have no actual policies, but at least we aren't the Tories.'? You must really be entertaining at parties.
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  667. Would recommend euthanasia as a solution?
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  668. Clearly, the Clacton stick was brought to the area by explorers from what became Zambia. Perhaps people who arrived in large ships, or in their recently-invented aircraft? Please send the PhD to my home address.
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  669. I wonder whether giving weapons training to the lads in the hotels is really a good idea?
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  670. Stop that! You will upset Lord Alli.
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  671.  @TheDayOfTheJackal  ' I like chips with gravy ' James Fenimore Cooper. There you are. I can invent quotations even dafter than yours.
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  672.  @TheDayOfTheJackal  It does seem to be something of an obsession with you intellectually-challenged neos that anyone who laughs at you must be jewish, rather than simply normal, as the vast majority of the population are.
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  673.  @gijgij4541  Of course I watched the programme. The title, utterly misleading, was 'Churchill's Secret Apartheid'. The programme then rather unwilling had to admit that Churchill, and the British people in general, wanted nothing to do with the segregation policy of the US Army., Do you ackually know who Churchill was, or what was his role in WW2?
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  674.  @gijgij4541  Good, but how is that relevant to the misleading title of the 'documentary?'
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  675.  @gijgij4541  Please don't accuse anyone of being patronising after you comment, to which I merely replied. In case you need reminding : ' Or did you just not comprehend its import with regard to Jim Crow / apartheid?'
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  676.  @gijgij4541  Well, if you prefer to categorise your earlier comment as 'snide' then that is entirely your own choice. Don't let me stop you.
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  677.  @gijgij4541  Again, if you wish to describe your earlier post as condescending or puerile, then go ahead. At least you aren't denying that you posted it. Isn't it sad that people like are happy to post such comments, but cannot cope when those insulted actually reply? Instead of going on in this tedious manner, why not simply try to explain why you thought the title of the programme was appropriate? Any other response will simply be ignored.
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  678. I believe that he is urging Scots. to return to their ancestral home, of Cornwall.
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  679.  @candy-le4nh  'Ireland isn't part of The UK, Einstein.' Certainly the Repunlic of Ireland isn't.but can people be sure that David Lammy knows that?
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  680. To be fair, dear Angela has never been one to let principles get in the way of self-interest.
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  681. Unfair. All the photograph shows is one excessively wealthy and very smug man chatting to another, even more excessively wealthy and equally smug, one.
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  682.  @BlackDeff.  Poor Adolf. Long dead, and so many people still ungassed.
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  683. Part of the process of the infantalisation of society which is gathering pace, alas. I think that the science fiction novella, 'The Marching Morons' has been taken as a template. However, how many people know that Neville Chamberlain, Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill, Ernie Bevin and Anthony Eden, in the late 1930s, used to share the same taxi when going to Vera Lynn or Gracie Fields concerts? Doubtless claiming for five separate taxi fares?
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  684. Normal people do not. However is Cooper normal?
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  685. When Ed Miliband said that energy bills would go down by £300 per year, what he didn't say was that that was after first they had gone up by around £900 a year.
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  686. Perhaps it is simple. Gray was given a job to do, and did it. As she knows where the bodies are buried, the Dear Leader needs to keep her placated.
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  687. On my last visit, fortunately a very short one, I found it to be more of an insane asylum run by the inmates. I recall finding Euston station a very welcoming sight.
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  688. My father's artillery regiment was at Second Alamein, and his 4.5 inch medium guns fired a barrage in support of the advance of 51st Highland Division. I daily anticipate the receipt of an invoice from the German government demanding reparations for the distress, both mental and actual, that he must have caused to a number of Germans on 23 October, 1942.
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  689. Relying on Google is extremely unwise.
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  690. @New-Dawn Ignore him, and you end up either dead or in a slave labour camp in the fatherland, you fool.
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  691.  @logicius  Even so, the suggestion that there should be a separate memorial for Muslim soldiers is new. In the over 100 years since the end of WW1, it is unprecedented
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  692. Actually, more mines closed under the previous Labour administration.
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  693.  @BernardRex  I am a distant, not direct, relative. Moreover, sadly, General Lambert was imprisoned on Guernsey, and on Drake's Island, for many years after the restoration.
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  694.  @edmundblackaddercoc8522  Now I understand. You are David Irving in disguise.
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  695.  @edmundblackaddercoc8522  No, herr obergruppenfuhrer. I believe the evidence of my own reading, and that of the German archives at Freiburg.
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  696.  @Occident.  Even more interesting. The Battle was strategically irrelevant.
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  697. More likely, a member of the Supreme Court within four years.
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  698. So, Germany didn't in WW1 then?
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  699.  @corsair919  Sedan was a French town. In 1940 French & British aircraft tried to bomb the bridges over the Meuse after they had been taken by the Germa Blitzkreig.
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  700.  @Trevorsbackdoor  That will probably happen, but doubtless Rachel from Accounts will need to cut the pensions of the 'Extreme Far Right' pensioners in half in order to fund it. Or, at least, of those who survive the winter.
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  701. Please don't be silly. Do you even know where Scarborough is?
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  702.  @liamjq  Is that really the best you can do? Surely the neo songbook has a much more colourful range of insults?
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  703.  @manpreetbrar838  Sorry, but that is not correct. Archaeological and recent scientific evidence suggests that Māori first discovered and settled in New Zealand sometime between 1250 and 1300 AD, on deliberate voyages of discovery, navigating by ocean currents, the winds, and the stars. These settlers were likely from various islands within Polynesia and did not identify themselves with a collective name until the arrival of Europeans, at which time they adopted the name Māori to differentiate themselves from the new arrivals.
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  704. A life peerage at the very least?
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  705.  @Puffball-ll1ly  Nonsense. The idea of a plot against Patton first appeared in a novel by a well-known conspiracy fantasist, Robert Wilcox, many years later.
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  706.  @christinekelly5916  But they were undoubtedly guilty of being white in Londonistan, weren't they?
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  707.  @harryplummer6356  There would probably be many 'brothers' rioting on the streets. The Power that Be have obviously decided that they must be sacrificed as part of the ongoing policy of appeasement.
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  708. Perhaps it is simply to demonstrate that the 'gifts' he received didn't amount to much after all?
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  709. The dates are accurate. Lammy achieved a Second in Law at London University, and graduated from Harvard in 1997. Those are his academic qualifications. Which are these other degrees you claim he achieved.? Perhaps you didn't see him on Mastermind, where he claimed that King Henry VII succeeded King Henry VIII, and that Marie Antoinette received a Nobel Prize? Perhaps you missed his claim that the White Smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney when a new Pope is elected was 'racist?' He could certainly teach about Colonial History, but what he taught was likely to be highly inaccurate. I urge you not to embarrass yourself further.
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  710.  @togarnis8096  Almost certainly not, because it wasn't the 80th anniversary of either battle on 6 June, 2024.
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  711. @BobWilkins4090 No, you asked a 'simple' question based on a false allegation.
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  712. Exactly what has any of that to do with the Judge's bizarre decision?
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  713.  @HousesOfTheHoly.  Indeed. Listening to him and removing him in 1933 or 1934 might have averted a lot of death, pain, & misery.
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  714. Read an old Science Fiction short story called 'The Marching Morons.' It explains in detail.
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  715.  @ericdelf  £91,000 p.a., all the expenses you can invent, lots of profitable 'contacts' and a knighthood/damehood or a life peerage in the House of The Living Dead at the end of it? Just for being a bog-standard MP and walking mindlessly through the correct door when told? It's a tough life, right enough.
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  716.  @BrianPaterson-f3i  Is there a desperate shortage of people who want to become MPs? Are you sure about that?
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  717.  @paulcourt6817  You are wasting your time trying to explain anything to these half-wits. Much better to leave them alone and leave them to polish their collections of SS daggers.
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  718. Unless you believe that Freedom of Speech really means simply the freedom to agree with one point of view, an opinion espoused by the left, then his decision not to censor his site is correct. The more pathetic neos post on here, with their foolish invented quotations and their adoration of their austrian painter, the more the shallowness and the infantile nature of their 'arguments' is exposed for all to see.
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  719. Personally, I don't much care whether the Chancellor is a woman, a man, or a performing chimp. What matters is what is in the budget.
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  720.  @williams4434  Had you done your study, you would have known that Tertullian was born in Carthage. He was of Punic, or possibly Berber, descent although in 'De Pallio' he describes himself as 'Poenicum inter Romanos' or 'Punic among the Romans.'
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  721. It is a truth, universally accepted, that those most in favour of DEI are those least inconvenienced by it.
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  722.  @toekneekerching9543  In fact, whatever the Germans may have called it, the British referred to the North Sea as the 'German Sea' or the 'German Ocean' until 1918. That is a fact, not propaganda.
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  723.  @toekneekerching9543  Then you tell me when I even referred to Mexico? I simply, in a three line reply, stated a fact, that until the end of WW1, the North Sea was called the German Ocean in British maps. That is BRITISH maps, not simply English ones. The term fell out of use because, after 1918, it was politically unacceptable. The part of the North Sea nearest to Germany, by the way, is still referred to as the 'German Bight.' I refer you to the 1493 map by Hartmann Schedel, by the way, on which the Baltic Sea is called "Mare Germanicum", and the North Sea "Oceanus Germanicus" You do know that immediately resorting to insults is the distinguishing feature of someone with a weak argument, do you?
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  724.  @toekneekerching9543  I doubt I could get down to your level, however assiduously I tried.
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  725. I though we were required to believe that they had developed flight??
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  726.  @Harry-v6b7l  Perhaps you don't understand that all legends are not necessarily good?
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  727.  @smogthehorse9409  Why?
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  728.  @jimjones-bk2is  Perhaps you missed it, but the question was whether a memorial specifically for Moslems was appropriate?
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  729.  @howardsanderson2520  You entirely miss the point. When the concept of Memorials for the Fallen was first considered in 1919, the principle of 'Equality in Death' was accepted. British & Commonwealth/Empire War Memorials in all parts of the world list names, and usually ranks, but they do not refer to religions. Now, it seems our Chancellor, without discussion, seems to prioritise one group over another, which is an insult to those Hindus, Sikhs, Gurkhas, Athiests, Christians, and Jews, who also gave their lives in those wars. A shame that you cannot understand this simple fact.
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  730.  @jimjones-bk2is  Try again. You are thinking of American memorials. Those of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission are not made in the shape of any religious symbol. Usually, they contain the name of the soldier, his age, date of death, and his regiment. Some have a cross engraved into the stone, but all headstones are alike in style. I suspect you haven't actually visited a military cemetery, or you would have noticed this feature.
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  731.  @jimjones-bk2is  'some are square, some are rounded.' But as I wrote, the headstones are not in the form of any religious symbol.
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  732.  @jimjones-bk2is  Nor are they buried under a Star of David, as you claimed earlier.
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  733.  @jimjones-bk2is  The relevant phrase being 'on our headstones.' Moreover, separate, faith based, commomeration was never a policy pursued by the British/Commonwealth/Empire until Hunt came up with the idea.
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  734. I wonder if, in the mid 5th Century, educated Romans were beginning to think the same? Too late, alas.
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  735. Is Mr. Webb really, as you seem to believe, a vastly rich American citizen? Or are you simply a berk?
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  736. Careful, or the Dear Leader will accuse you of being a right wing activist, just like everyone else who dares to disagree with him.
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  737. I thought it was little Ed who had the nasal problem?
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  738.  @barbaracleverly9058  Really? The politicians leave before the march past. Do you really seek to disrespect those who march? Moreover, like it or not, the Dear Leader places his wreath on behalf of the nation. Don't you know that?
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  739.  @Raven4508  What gives you the right to speak for the Fallen?
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  740.  @MushMushMuscovaMush  Well, it would certainly insult the veterans who march past, not to mention the memory of the Fallen. Do you really want to reduce Remembrance Sunday to a political stunt?
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  741.  @MushMushMuscovaMush  Like it or not, the Dear Leader is the political leader of this country, however unworthy of the position he might be. He places the wreath on behalf of the British people. The action you suggest would reduce the occasion from a solemn national act of Remembrance to a mere political stunt.
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  742.  @MushMushMuscovaMush  Fine. That is your prerogative, even if you are wrong.
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  743. 'The BBC claimed George Floyd was shot by a policeman.' I spotted that. I expected a statement correcting the claim from that organisation the BBC has set up. 'BBC Vilify' or something.
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  744.  @Coupdetat.  Oh dear. So many people left ungassed. No wonder you are angry.
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  745.  @ef2718  'So the boss of the mafia that says person A must be murdered has just expressed an opinion. 'Not very smart, are you little chap? Your absurd example refers to an instruction. An opinion is not an instruction, but simply a view, which should be open to free debate. As in the famous remark, attributed (probably incorrectly, but never mind) to Voltaire, that 'I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It.' The concept of freedom of speech you, it seems, would like to deny.
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  746.  @ef2718  Yes, they do. Rationable people can then, in argument and debate, easily demonstrate how deplorable and unsustainable these opinions are. Put simply, if you believe in Freedom of Speech' it cannot simply be redefined as 'The Freedom to agree with what I say.'
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  747.  @ef2718  You don't actually seem able to sustain any discussion at all. Deplorable and unsustainable to the vast majority of ordinary people. Can you not grasp that the leaders of the creatures who carried out this attack have exactly the same views as you? In effect - Agree with what I say or you will not be allowed any opinion at all.
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  748.  @jamesmccusker1433  Quite. Mark Twain's remark is particularly relevant where some of the sub-normals, with their invented quotations and adoring references to some Austrian Painter, presumably not Gustav Klimt, are concerned.
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  749. Please get with the agenda. These people were merely white, and thus could not be proper slaves at all, hamstrung as they were by shameful white privilege.
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  750. There is a lesson from Badenoch here. Unless you are able to save a significant amount, don't bother to save anything at all. You will then, when you retire, qualify for a whole host of benefits. Badenoch's speech, to all intents and purposes, said 'It's my foot, and I shoot myself in it if I so choose.'
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  751. One could almost sympathise with the Dear Leader, when it is considered that his closest advisors are Yvette Cooper, Angela Rayner, & David Lammy.
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  752. The strains of Cwm Rhondda are becoming increasingly loud, innit.
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  753. Yet they will still retain authority, however corrupt and debased they might be. That is the beauty of an elective dictatorship.
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  754.  @Occident.  'Used to?'
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  755. Don't demonstrate your ignorance so publicly.
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  756. Unnecessarily offensive. To both planks.
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  757. Hitler initiated it. In Spain during the Civil War, then on Warsaw & on Rotterdam.
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  758.  @z0n0ph0ne  Compared to you, sunshine, I am a mere amateur.
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  759. 'The next Chair of the BBC is to be a Muslim who wasn’t born in Britain.' Well. I am sure he will feel right at home, then..
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  760. So, the RAF sent Lancasters to bomb German cities in 1940, did they? That was clever, as the Lancaster only entered service in early 1942. The RAF was never remotely near running out of aircraft, as aircraft production in Britain exceeded that of Germany from June 1940 onwards. Operation Sealion would have gone ahead? Presumably, until the barges, towed at little above walking pace, encountered the Royal Navy's massed destroyer, cruiser, and supporting vessels, forces, as the barges reached the Channel?
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  761. How many people are aware that Cheddar Man was the ancestor of those who came on the Empire Windrush to save Britain from collapse after WW2? None, actually, but I am sure that a 6 part BBC series on the subject, presented by the usual suspects, will soon forcibly educate us all about these facts.
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  762.  @deanodog3667  'the irish fought in both world wars in their droves , you're full of it !!' Yes, the did. In the First World War Ireland was part of the United Kingdom. In the Second, individual Irishmen did, but the Government of Ireland did not.
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  763.  @rudithedog7534  'I can see why you have a grudge.' Why would you think that making a few factual points suggests that I have a grudge? I wonder if you know what a non sequitur even is? Portugal also traded with Britain, on very favorable terms. U Boats certainly used Portuguese territorial waters, but, inless you believe the kind of nonsense produced by 'Hunting Hitler' style programmes, not Portuguese ports. Lisbon was indeed a hive of spies, but from both sides. 'Whereas Ireland supplied Britain with food supplies, civilian workers, volunteer soldiers military intelligence.' Food supplies, indeed. Had the Republic not done this, the entire economy would have collapsed. Irishmen joined the allied cause on a individual basis, but this with without the approval of the government of the Republic. You don't actually have much of an argument.
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  764.  @rickeypayne1  I really enjoy reading reasoned comments from academics and intellectuals. Sadly, yours is neither.
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  765. Initially yes. Until the Gemans showed the Ukrainians what they were really like.
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  766. If the British did not wish to remind France of such matters, then calling a previous class of nuclear boats the 'Trafalgar' class was hardly diplomatic. Moreover, 'Achilles' is a traditional name for a Royal Navy warship. There have been ten previous ones, named either 'Achilles' or 'Achille.' There were even two at Trafalgar, one on each side, however! The WW2 Achilles played a significant part, particularly at the Plate, as a shop of the New Zealand division of the Royal Navy, and later the Royal New Zealand Navy. 'Agincourt' has been used on five occasions only. In this case, I approve of the change of name.
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  767.  @nihilistlivesmatter  No. Actually a naval historian. However, was anything I wrote actually incorrect? You could check it out for yourself? On google, perhaps?!
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  768.  @nihilistlivesmatter  'The point is Agincourt was decided against to appease the French.' Was it? I would like to see a credible source confirming that claim. Oh, by the way, the loathsome Grant Shapps, the very epitome of a serial failure rising to high office, would not be considered such a source.
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  769.  @nihilistlivesmatter  I asked 'I would like to see a credible source confirming that claim.' You don't seem to have one? Shapps? A failure in every office of state in which he has served. Particularly in Transport, when he failed to do anything about the disgraces that were, and are 'smart' motorways. In effect, the Tory predecessor to the numbskull that is David Lammy. Just look up his record in office for yourself. One of the leading reasons for the Tory catastrophe.
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  770.  @nihilistlivesmatter  Or this is simply the now irrelevant Shapps pining for lost 'glory' and trying to get his name, however briefly, back into the news? Changing the name of a ship furing building is hardly something new. To give a few 20th century examples :- HMS Revenge was originally to have been named Renown. HMS Duke of York - Anson. HMS Anson - Jellicoe. HMS Howe - Beatty. HMS Cardiff - Caprice. HMS Coventry - Corsair. HMS Carlisle - Cawnpore. HMS Vindictive - Cavendish. There are many more.
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  771.  @nihilistlivesmatter  I do not need one. I did not state it as a proven fact, but simply postulated it as a possibility. Hence the question mark.
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  772.  @denisrogers7269  He could certainly explain how King Henry VIII was succeeded by King Henry VII.
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  773.  @Slievenamon  Margaret Thatcher, of course. He received one in 1990. His 'activities' only became known from 2011.
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  774. Perhaps Angela's new 'Imposition of Islamic Values' Act, shortly to be passed through a compliant Parliament, will make the Hijab compulsory?
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  775. Enlighten us all. What was in this video which you considered to be RAYCIST!!!?
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  776. But 'President' Blair did very well out of it. He is today the epitomy of the multi-millionaire socialist.
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  777. Surely, it would appeal more to his target population if he became a Muslim?
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  778.  @sylviasimpson-n2o  Steady on now! You will give me nightmares!!
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  779. @spaceghost4475 He didn't mention Mr. Lammy. I hope you aren't hearing those voices again?
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  780. As a third generation Umited supporter, I wish the club was equally committed to winning the occasional Trophy. Or even match.
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  781. I believe that Lammy is currently negotiating the return of the Falklands to Norway. According to his map, they are just north east of the Orkneys. You know it makes sense. At least, to him.
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  782. @Ambander1 I wonder if you might supply a source where details of this vast number of peace offers might be read? You don't consider that invading Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and Belgium, all without declaration of war, might just possibly have been considered rather bad form in some quarters, perhaps?
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  783.  @englishpatriot9464  You evidently don't read much, it seems? Assuming that you can, of course? When Britain and France declared war on Germany after her invasion of Poland, the British Prime Minister was one Neville Chamberlain. Churchill was not even a member of his Cabinet until the same day.
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  784. Your first mistake was in suggesting that COMPENSATION!!!! is either sensible or ethical, when in reality it is neither!!
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  785.  @benh715  Earlier than that. The 12th century, and the first Normans were invited by Diarmait Mac Murchada, Knig of Leinster, after he had been exiled by a confederation of Irish forces hostile to him.
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  786. The criticism of Tulip is unfair. When appointed Minister for Corruption, no-one told her that she was expected to prevent it, rather than promote it.
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  787. The largest 'race' in the world is the Han Chinese, who represent approximately 19% of the world's population. Ther number of 'black' and 'white' people, both at around 1.2 billion, is approximately equal. Perhaps you seek to lump all non-white races into one homogeneous block in order to make your false claim?
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  788.  @EJisArete  You mean like how Mein Kampf cannot be purchased or read by anyone? Hold on a moment. It can.
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  789. I assume that those lying on benches hoping for urgent treatment for heart attacks or strokes were delighted that someone of such importance received preferential treatment? Next of Kin would have been proud to know that their loved one was allowed to expire in order to give priority to Jess Phillips, I expect. The fact that a government minister can openly say these things, and see nothing wrong in them, makes one question the intellectual capacity of some of them at least.
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  790.  @lookandlisten5740  The poor sod! I would not inflict the misery of Todmorden on anyone!
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  791. But promoting falsehoods (20,000 black people lived in Central London during the Regency period, and 50% of the Royal Navy was black) is not 'awareness of black history.' It is simply telling untruths. In debunking such utter nonsense, what 'racist lies' have been propagated?
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  792.  @martinryan2370  Well, I have never seen it attributed to hime. Do you have a source?
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  793.  @bestcomsystems4458  I am sure you have carried out extensive research, and know this for a fact? Especially since there has been no public vote of any sort.
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  794.  @edmundblackaddercoc8522  Which doesn't actually apply to the bombings in Spain, or of Warsaw & Rotterdam.
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  795. So far, these extreme precautions seem to be largely confined to Londonabad, but doubtless they will spread in time.
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  796.  @iniquity123  Beware! Anyone who thinks for himself will be branded a 'Far Right Extremist' by the Dear Leader and his acolytes.
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  797.  @drbalbon7332  No. Neither was Messalina.
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  798. My daughter and her husband live in Blackburn. She is concerned that the wearing of a burkha may become a requirement before too long.
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  799. Surely, Great Zimbabwe is the remains of an elaborate complex from which, in the years before colonialism, generations of Africans launched advanced manned probes which explored the Solar System? Apparently, the site so shocked the RAYCIST!! monster David Livingstone that he had it almost totally destroyed in the 1860s. Black History Month, anyone?
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  800. At the Crick Institute.
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  801. Which was do you think they would point their guns?
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  802. Didn't Alfred Hitchcock once say that all he expected of his actors was that they should remember their lines and not trip over the sets?
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  803. Ah, but you miss the point. Those who wish to control you need to know where you are, and what you are doing.
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  804.  @iangerahty3422  I suspect we all know who Number 1 is.
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  805. The Dear Leader is proposing to send the whole British tank force. The tank with the working engine will tow the other one which has been partly stripped for spares.
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  806.  @donquixote3927  Rotterdam in May, 1940, as well.
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  807. Get all three into the same Drama, and there is a certain award awaiting you.
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  808. That are already imposing the 5% rule. 5% of people in current adverts do seem to be white.
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  809. Particularly where his nonsense about Beachy Head Lady is concerned. The well known Sub-Saharan African woman who came from Cyprus. I haven't heard that Olusoga has admitted his error.
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  810.  @nicholasmorrill4711  Not yet. But look at Canada.
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  811.  @erongi233  Thanks for the history lesson. Until this moment, I did not know that the United States had actually attacked Cuba.
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  812.  @erongi233  By isn't my sarcasm, 'cheap' in your opinion, or not, actually correct? How is invading the sovereign territory of an independent Nation State merely 'drawing a line?'
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  813.  @erongi233  You must expect sarcasm, whether cheap or not in your opinion, when you equate an embargo with a military invasion. Moreover, the Soviet intention was to base nuclear missiles in Cuba. Have NATO suggested basing nuclear missiles in Ukraine? Indeed, Ukraine is the only nation to have voluntarily given up a nuclear arsenal, and look what happened next. I don't recall suggesting that the US are the good guys, but I do believe that they are less bad than the alternative. If you insist upon your 'Russians good everyone else bad' approach then that is up to you, as, unlike in Russia, freedom of speech does, just about, still exist in the West. I will not, however, bother replying to you again.
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  814.  @joeshmoe7899  Thank you for agreeing with me that Holocaust Denial is not a criminal offence in the United Kingdom. Much appreciated, mon brave.
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  815.  @joeshmoe7899  As holocaust denial is not regarded as a criminal offence in the Uk, it really doesn't matter whether you are speaking hypothetically, or simply from ignorance. You haven't, by the way, yet managed to name anyone in Great Britain who is in jail after being convicted of holocaust denial.
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  816. How could he have 'brokered a deal' with Lord Hamilton? It was a complete fantasy on Hess's part. You seriously want to commence peace talks? Approach your enemy through a neutral Embassy, such as Sweden, Spain, or Switzerland. You could even approach the neutral United States to act as a mediator. You really wouldn't fly to Scotland in an attempt to find an obscure Scots. aristocrat who might have a tenuous connection with Churchill.
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  817.  @Truefaith.  Old AH wasn't very clued up on grammar, apparently?
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  818.  @Truthman1-o3u  He and his family also have an awful lot of money with which to keep themselves safe.
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  819.  @nemo7550  'Yes I know many very well off pensioners who spend the allowance on fine wines.' Yes, dear. Of course you do. Now take your medication and stop annoying normal folk.
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  820. Quite correct. The ship was returning to Britain half empty in any case. Much reduced fares were offered because they made a contribution to costs which already existed. I worked in the transport industry for many years, We referred to it as 'marginal costing.'
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  821. Grossly unfair. Don't you realise how slow the wi-fi is in some of those hotels? A total infringement of their Human Rights.
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  822. Quite possibly the Moslem group of MPs within the ruling party after the next election will insist that she converts to Islam?
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  823.  @adaptivelearner6162  Read the study I recommended, if you seek a scholarly opinion.
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  824.  @redacted461  The first recorded evidence of Arabs, and the first traces od the Arabic language, date from the 9th century B.C. The first attested home of recognisably 'Arab' communities is the Syrian Desert. The Aksumite Empire, centered on the town of Axum, arose in the 1st Century A.D.
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  825.  @redacted461  Presumably, you still refuse to read academic sources, but still cling to generalised references? Arabic is a Semitic language that first appeared in the mid-ninth century BC, in Northern Arabia and Sahara southern Levant. Simply look it up for yourself. Arabic is related to other Semitic languages, such as Hebrew and Aramaic, but unlike these, Arabic is itself a root language, like Latin. Nothing in your last paragraph contradicts anything I have previously written. The issue is not about the Aksumite Empire, but about the origins of Axum.
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  826.  @redacted461  But you referred to 'the first ever Arabic inscription was recorded in the 7th century' which is not the same thing at all. Most languages existed in spoken form many centuries befor they were written. Do you think that a language only springs into existence once it appears in written form? I don't ever recall writing "trust me bro" by the way. Please direct me to where I did. Oh, and you haven't even mentioned any source. I did, if you look back at my comments. 'The Arab script they use today is definitely not older than 5th century and im being generous here.' I agree, but how is that relevant? 'The Ethiopian Bible is literally older than the Quran.' Of course it is, but again, how is that relevant? ' By his logic English doesn't belong to Britain because it uses Latin script.' What a bizarre notion. The immediate ancestor of English, Anglo-Saxon, existed in spoken form well before it came to be written. 'Old English' was written in Runic form before the Latin alphabet was re-introduced by Missionaries from Ireland. 'Even the Quran mentions of Ethiopians ruling Yemen and there is Quranic mythology where an Ethiopian "tyrant" king tried to demolish the Kabba in mecca Again, how is that even remotely relevant to the origins of Axum? To quote a bon mot used by one of my former tutors, 'The only thing more tedious than someone who doesn't know what he is talking about is someone who doesn't know that he doesn't know what he is talking about.' I will leave it at that. My conversation with you ends at this point.
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  827.  @SMITHSONIAN33  No, I don't. However, feel free to explain the relevance of 'Moorhouse.'
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  828.  @SMITHSONIAN33  Remember your first post, mon brave? Didn't you write 'Iconoclasm, ask Mr Webb where did the three lions symbolism came from, only place with Lions is Africa ? Read more talk less ;)' I simply pointed out that Lions were not restricted to Africa, as you apparently fantasised. Heraldry, by the way, is totally irrelevant, as it only seems to have appeared from the 12th Century AD., with the earliest documented example being when King Henry I of England presented a shield with a coat of arms to his future son-in-law, Geoffrey of Anjou, in 1127. Oh, and if you seek to teach others, perhaps you might get a little aid with grammar and spelling, as this might not come amiss?
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  829.  @SMITHSONIAN33  'as for the Lion's , I stand by what is written.' Then you simply admit your ignorance. Oh, and you really need to do something about that ' in Lion's. You still, by the way, haven't explained the relevance of Heraldry to your bizarre claim about lions. Think you for calling me a child, as it is many years since I left university (Manchester), with a First in Modern History.
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  830.  @Moseleyshoals  Lucky Lindy rather messed things up when he killed his own infant son, however.
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  831. Actually, yes you can. DNA analysis is, however, not advanced enough to determine even probable skin colour.
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  832.  @mannylikestoanimate  The Amritsar Massacre was the result of an officer ignoring his orders. He was immediately replaced, sent back to Britain, condemned in Parliament, and never given command again. The Irish Famine was much more complex than you seem to think, and many better-odd Irishmen were complicit in it. The Partition of India was brought about by Jinnah, who demanded a separate Moslem state, and threatened civil war if it did not happen. The Iraqi Revolution was a rebellion against the League of Nations Mandate given to the British for Mesopotamia. The British sought to restore order. The alternative was to withdraw, and allow anarchy. Boer Concentration camps were certainly a failure by the British administration, but It has been argued that "this was not a deliberately genocidal policy; rather it was the result of a disastrous lack of foresight and rank incompetence on the part of the military". Scottish historian Niall Ferguson has also argued that "Kitchener no more desired the deaths of women and children in the camps than of the wounded Dervishes after Omdurman, or of his own soldiers in the typhoid stricken hospitals of Bloemfontein." Still, I am sure that your indoctrinators will be pleased with you for retaining your programming
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  833.  @HistoryDenied  'How does the participation of other countries in slavery justify or mitigate Britain's central role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade? A practice it continued despite being outlawed by its contemporaries' Are you really being serious? Like it or not, at the time slavery was the norm. As to the latter half of your comment. The Act of Parliament to abolish the British slave trade was passed on 25 March 1807. The following year, the Royal Navy set up the West Africa Squadron, whose goal was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa. The Squadron remained in existence until 1867, by the way. After the 1807 act, the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provided for the abolition of slavery in most parts of the British Empire. It was passed by Earl Grey's reforming administration and expanded the jurisdiction of the Slave Trade Act 1807 and made the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal within the British Empire. Your ignorance of the facts is regrettable, but sadly not unexpected.
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  834.  @alanmarr3323  Do you suggest that Doctor Who is 'highbrow?'
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  835.  @EnterSandman.  Indeed, many of us would not be here, after our parents/grandparents enjoyed the joys of short, painful, lives in German slave labour camps.
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  836. Not entirely relevant, but the attitudes of some teachers are interesting, to say the least. A few years ago, my daughter, then in her teens, was given a project to complete about the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. I helped her with it, and was annoyed to discover that she received an average mark. I made an appointment to see the teacher, whose response to my questioning was along the lines of 'I am a qualified & experienced teacher. What makes you think that you can possibly know more than me?' I showed her two books which had been published about the very same subject, of which I was the author, and said ' I have a First in History. Checkmate, I suggest.' My daughter was, of course, furious!
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  837. Whereas dear Tulip is the absolute epitome of integrity?
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  838. Agreed. I aspired to open the batting for England, and to retire with a Test average of 50+. The laughter of my team mates in my club side was both raucous and depressing!
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  839. Did you get the casualty numbers from the remarkable imagination of one David Irving? Did you know that Stalin had requested the attack on Dresden to aid the Soviet advance?
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  840. Don't worry. He is now a marked man. 'Something' will be 'found out' about him soon.
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  841. I refer you to recent events in Los Angeles.
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  842.  @Excession-h6e  Perhaps you don't recall your original comment? 'Churchill did it with a good portion of our Atlantic bases. In return for forty useless destroyers. I say useless, one was. It was nothing short of a miracle they could steer it into the bay, let alone the dry dock gates.' Still less my reply? 'Fifty Destroyers, and at a time of war, in order to provide breathing space until new RN escort construction became available. Moreover, the bases were leased, not handed over.' Evidently not, so perhaps you will enlighten me by explaining which of my facts concerning Churchill was incorrect? Unless you would still prefer to go rambling off at an absurd tangent, of course?
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  843.  @angr3819  Certainly someone needs to find out a few facts about the Chagos Islands. Perhaps you might try?
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  844.  @steveturner6770  There is no need to shift the goalposts so frenzedly. You made a false statement; I simply corrected it. Don't get upset. In point of fact, however, do you really believe that the 'indigenious people' of the Chagos will be better off under a Mauritian government? If you do, perhaps you haven't taken account of the views of the Chagos people who live in the UK, and have made their views abundantly clear.
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  845. Isn't Reeves at least, post election, simply being honest by saying, in effect, 'We have a huge majority, and I can do whatever I want. I choose to look after the Labour core vote, and the rest of you, the ones who didn't vote for Labour, or didn't vote at all, will pay for it. Now, nurses, how much would you like 15%, 20%? Just name a figure, and I will find it.'
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  846.  @pikachu6031  Perhaps because Britain is not a true Democracy, but an elected dictatorship, and has been for over 150 years?
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  847. Perhaps the news about Welby & Lineker is connected. Justin will become the next presenter of 'Match of the Day' whilst Gary is ordained Archbishop of Canterbury?
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  848. Try again! Baedeker. Biederbeck was a jazz musician. I don't particularly like jazz, but not the the extent of bombing poor old Bix.
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  849.  @mattblack3261  The spelling wasn't wrong. You simply used the wrong word.
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  850.  @dertery8724  Not that it matters., The Dear Leader has hundreds of zombie-like lackeys at his beck and call, who will do and say exactly what they are told to keep their excellent salaries, expenses, and 'contacts' for a bit longer. They are called 'Members of Parliament.'
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  851. You really shouldn't stop taking your medication. Look at what happens when you do.
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  852.  @PaIaeoCIive1684  Yet people like David Starkey have professorships removed simply for not supporting the agenda.
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  853.  @stephfoxwell4620  104 capital ship? Whereever did you get that idea from?
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  854.  @aqua5680  Of course he can't. Largely because it doesn't exist.
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  855. There does seem to have been a possibility that the Terracotta Army might have been inspired by Greek sculptors who had travelled to China after the conquests of Alexander the Great had vastly extended Greek/Hellenistic influence.
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  856. Glory to our Dear Leader President for Life Sir Keir Starmer! He will lead the grateful people of the United Kingdom to a future that is akin to Heaven on Earth!! There, that should satisfy any snooper who reads my posts.
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  857.  @PaIaeoCIive1684  Out of interest, what did Trevor-Roper get wrong?
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  858.  @DavidSmith-fs5qj  'Have you read his books? Hitlers War alone is over a thousand pages long, it took him ten years research to write, so have you read i?' Actually, I have read a number of his works. I have also read many issues of 'Volkischer Beobachter' and it is remarkable how similar the political philisophy is which underlies both.
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  859. Pleas tell me it isn't too late to consider Paula Vennells!
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  860. But as the Dear Leader has already explained. They are all Right Wing Racists.
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  861.  @IfUfindthisURlost  From what I observed, he was asked a direct question and, unlikely though it might be for a politician, he gave a diect answer, which did not involve a theory, simply a possibility.
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  862.  DIFESA_RAZZA_BIANCA  'I like chips with gravy' The Famous Eccles.
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  863. Most would crawl naked through a field of brambles if there was an honour at the other side.
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  864. Perhaps for David Olusoga? For services to propaganda.
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  865. These days, isn't it spelled Meeja?
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  866.  @2000lightyears  I assume you haven't heard about the court case Jackie Broome brought, and won, against Irving for the lies he included in his book about PQ17? No, of course you haven't.
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  867. No you cannot. The black person is the one who brilliantly solves the crime, after the gormless white police are baffled.
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  868. 'Britain' doesn't, but certain elites certainly seem eager to encourage this.
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  869. Archeologists working on the chambered cairn of Maeshowe on the Orkneys are rumoured to have unearthed the remains of a large garage and petrol station. Neolithic inhabitants of these islands are known to have been profligate users of fossil fuels. It seems that Just Stop Oil are determined to bring this shameful fact to the attention of we ignorant peasants.
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  870.  @NicoleLBamford  Actually, only 33.7% of those who voted did so for Labour, and around 45% did not bother to vote at all. Oh, the delights of a First Past the Post system. Far better than a democtaric one. Oddly, in the last free elections in Germany in November, 1932, the nazi party only won 33.1% of the vote. How unnervingly similar.
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  871.  @somethingintheair5373  Around 500,000 than Jeremy got in 2019. Oh well.
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  872. Lived in Islington, perhaps?
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  873. You don't actually know much about Cromwell, it seems.
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  874.  @sylviasimpson-n2o  Perhaps not, which is why I did not suggest that the Brownshirts were a political inspiration, just an idea of a means for controlling the peasantry. So far, the Dear Leader comes across as someone totally out of his depth, who sees himself as the new Joe Stalin or Pol Pot.
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  875. Good luck. If you MP is part of the governing party, then he/she will do exactly what the Dear Leader wishes, as mine appears to do. After all, unswerving loyalty, properly demonstrated, may well lead to a Junior Ministerial position, with lots more money and profitable 'contacts.'
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  876. Well, he/she could try.
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  877. Well, why not? It worked well enough for the Stasi for years, didn't it?
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  878. Oh look! A 'socialist' cheering on a party which seems determined to punish the lower orders. How bizarre.
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  879. Except that a similar phrase is in the second line of the US National Anthem.
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  880.  @stuartr2764  I remember you. Didn't we get drunk together in the bar after the BBC Sports Personality of the Year event a few years ago? I let you handle my Duncan Fearnley. ( It's a cricket bat, by the way!)
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  881. Why is Douglas depicted in the form of a cricket umpire? Who is he giving out, and why?
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  882. You shouldn';t post until after you have taken your medication.
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  883. But now, of course, the real concerns of the vast majority of people in this country, who feel that it is systematically being taken away from them, can be ignored by the media, which, with the Metropolitan Police, will eagerly point to the vile actions of a number of genuinely right wing cretins to accuse them all of being 'fascists'. A trap was set for these creatures, and of course they walked right into it.
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  884. Yes, 'they knew Hitler was planning to do the same.' They already had the examples of Spain, Warsaw, & Rotterdam to inform them.
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  885. On the BBC at 6.00 pm., the BBC spokesman made comparisions between the death of Kaba and the death of the Bless'ed George Floyd. Apparently, both were 'shot' by the police, which must have been news to everyone in the latter's case. There were also repeated references to Mr. Kaba being 'unarmed.' Apparently the car he drove at police officers after they attempted to stop him could not be considered a weapon.
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  886.  @nobby91010  Perhaps you haven't heard of the original Doveton Sturdee? It wouldn't surprise me.
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  887.  @nobby91010  I am not attacking you at all. I am merely ridiculing you.
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  888.  @thesoulbrother8636  Be careful not to drool on your keyboard as you type, as repairing such things can be costly.
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  889.  @thesoulbrother8636  Sarcasm? I was simply giving advice. Damage of that sort to laptops can be both difficult and expensive to repair.
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  890.  @thesoulbrother8636  Actually, I am simply having a laugh at your expense, as you are hardly a difficult target.
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  891. How many people today know of the deleted chapter in Wuthering Heights where Heathcliff teaches Edgar Linton the correct way to prepare Goat Curry?
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  892. Unlike the subject of Black History Month. China actually has some history.
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  893. I assume you can explain the rationale behind your opinion?
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  894.  @Kosovar_Chicken  No, it isn't. But current events and WW2 are not connected.
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  895.  @leoroverman4541  Are all you neos fantasists, with sub-normal cognitive skills?
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  896. Irish Christianity was far different from Roman Christianity. Indeed, the Papacy was quite active in stamping it out. Dark Age & Medieval History doesn't seem to be a strength of yours?
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  897. Stop complaining. Such adverts simply represent Sir Keir's ideas about the future British society he wishes to create.
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  898.  @HistoryDenied  Where did I state that? The nearest comment on my part is 'You seem unable to accept the fact that slavery & the slave trade was not unique to England/Britain.' Show me one of your replies to me which makes a single critical reference to any state other than Britain.
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  899.  @HistoryDenied  Well, the Indus civilization, the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent. appear to date from be about 2500 B.C. By the time the British & French arrived, not much progress towards them seems to have been made, compared to the progress made during around 250 years of the British presence. Incidentally, average life expectancy in India in 1800 was 25.4 years. Population in 1800 was 169 million. By contrast, average life expectancy in India in 1900 was 35.0 years. Population in 1950 was 357 million. So, as a result of being exploited by the British, more than twice as many Indians as in 1800 were able to live, on average, ten years longer.
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  900.  @andrewhall7176  I suspect you are correct. I have been trying to give him honest, accurate, and factually correct answers, but it is becoming increasingly obvious that he cares for none of these things. I have encountered such people before, and concluded that the wisest solution is to ignore them. Which I intend to do in his case from now on.
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  901. Is there any reference to inferiority or superiority here? Surely the point is simply that a number of individuals are being falsely described for fashionable reasons? As an Irish opponent of the Duke of Wellington said of him. 'Being born in a stable doesn't make him a horse' after someone described the (Dublin born) Duke as Irish.
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  902.  @paulchadwick9419  What investment? If you impose additional costs on small businesses and the private sector, they will respond by cutting costs simply in order to survive, and the easiest way to do that is to reduce the size of their workforce. Reeves, of course, has never worked in the private sector, and seems neither to know nor care about the reality of how it functions. The private sector is the cash cow which funds the public sector, How will reducing the strength of the cash cow benefit anyone? Basic economics, as my old MD repeated at our managers' meetings. - 'It takes £10 of revenue to make £1 of profit. It takes £1 of cost savings to do the same.' It isn't PhD Economics. It is painfully obvious. Take the blinkers off your spectacles.
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  903.  @HuHWhat-yi8cp  Yes. It was penned as a warning to the United States. Doubtless one section of Tommy will soon be compulsorily re-written :- For it's Mohammed this, an' Mohammed that, an' Chuck him out, the brute!" But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.
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  904. I would prefer a police officer who was capable, rather than one who looked healthy. Sergeant Singh has been insulted by being told that it is ethnicity, not ability, that matters, the Deputy Chief Constable has openly stated that the competence of his force is not uppermost in his mind, and the three Inspectors have been informed that there is little propect of promotion for them in Thames Valley. How fortunate, isn't it, that two tier policing is a mere fiction?
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  905. How romantic. You actually think he has dealt with the Hard Left in the Labour Party? Do you have any views about the Cottingley Fairies, as well?
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  906. 'Canada, a country stonger than England' Congratulations for demonstrating the extent of your ignorance.
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  907.  @WelcomeToTheMachine.  Before or after he embarked on his campaign of mass extermination? Your neo handbook needs a major revision, herr obergruppenfuhrer.
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  908.  @halfmoon106  Are you seriously suggesting that 'freedom of speech' should only be allowed to people who agree with you? The neos who post on here effectively discredit themselves by using their own words to demonstrate how amazingly stupid or retarded they really are.
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  909. It would be right up there with an April 1st review of a supposed railway book I saw many years ago, allegedly called 'Great Western Branch Lines in Scotland.' There were just as many.
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  910.  @jimjones-bk2is  He is in Rio de Janeiro at the moment.
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  911. Britain is the Second Rome, but the Rome of the 6th & 7th Centuries.
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  912. So eager was your hitler to avoid war that his forces presumably invaded Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, THe Netherlands and Belgium to prove his peaceful intent? Is that really what you think? When did hitler make these offers of peace and restoration of borders? Where might the text be read? Which historical archive contains them? 'If I remember correctly, he received and rejected one such offer right before giving his famous "fight them on the beaches" speech. Which, if true, is particularly revolting.' Actually no, you don't remember correctly, even if that is what the neo nazi hymn sheet from which you chant says so. By the way, Churchill only became Prime Minister in May, 1940, and held no political office at all between 1929 and September, 1939. You really should try harder, herr obergruppenfuhrer.
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  913.  @rosanneshinkle4133  Because a law to that effect was passed when he stood down as DPP. No, I don't know why either.
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  914. Of course he isn't human. He is a lawyer. The two groups are mutually exclusive.
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  915. The judge's daddy wrote for the Grauniad. I wonder if he actually is a Zionist?
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  916. You think that mass extermination and brainless military aggression were good ideas?
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  917. Don't be surprised if David Lammy offers refuge in Britain to the many Assad supporters alarmed by recent events. With a bit of effort, the events in Syria can be recreated on the streets of many British towns & cities.
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  918. I believe that a competent CEO is shortly to be recruited. A certain Ms. Vennells apparently interviewed very well for the role.
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  919. What the learned from that is that Blair became a multi-millionaire on the strength of it.
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  920. Perhaps, but Starmer might well say that the election will not take place because of some imagined 'emergency' or other.
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  921. 'Even if Trump "wins", I will consider Kamala to be the true, legitimate president for the next 4 years.' Then I fear a profound disappointment awaits you.
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  922.  @bl4ckkn1g8t5  But historically slavery was widespread in Africa. When the Europeans arrived, tribal leaders were eager to sell their captives, and their own people, to them in exchange for trade goods. As for 'massacres' to give you one example, look at what the Zulus did to the earlier inhabitants of the territory they occupied. Zulu expansion was a major factor of the Mfecane ("Crushing" or "destruction") that depopulated large areas of southern Africa. You can, of course, easily look this up for yourself.
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  923.  @bl4ckkn1g8t5  Read the International Labour Office report on child slavery in Africa. It identified 48 million child slaves in Africa. Exactly how 'happy' are they? China not being 'exploitative.' Now I understand. You are being ironic.
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  924. Since these Secondary School debating society clowns started doing government impressions, there has been a major shortage of village idiots elsewhere.
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  925. Except that the Blitz began in September 1940, when the failure of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain had become obvious even to Hermann.
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  926. Everyone knows that, in the early 2000s, Ford Transits really wanted to transition into Leyland Sherpas. Until, of course, Leyland Sherpas were denounced as RAYCIST!!
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  927. I wasn't sure which one was which.
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  928. I don't recall them bursting into tears of self-pity? Perhaps I missed it?
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  929. "Judge Hugo Benedict Norton-Taylor " Daddy wrote for the Grauniad, and little Hugo was born in Bruxelles.
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  930. Perhaps you are unaware that armed forces depend on industrial support? The idea that there is any difference between the military who wage war, and the civilian infrastructure which supplies the material and foodstuffs which make it possible, ended once bombing became a realistic possibility. However much you might wish to make pious criticisms from a comfy chair 80 years & more after the events.
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  931. Looks like the Canadians saw through Justin exactly as the Kiwis saw through the equally vile Jacinda.
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  932.  @HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb  I assume that it doesn't sell Real Ale, or have many CAMRA members visiting it?
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  933. How did he do that? He held no government office between 1929 & September, 1939. Better go back to your indoctrinator for further information.
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  934. Not to worry. If Biden finally disintegrates, the States have Kamala Harris immediately available.
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  935.  @Thenogomogo-zo3un  'Admiral Somerville said he "Felt like a bloody murderer" ' At the time, the British feared that the incoming collaborationalist government might have committed the French navy in support of a German invasion attempt. Furthermore, Admiral Gensoul never actually sent his government the full text of the British ultimatum, and specifically that the fleet at Mers el Kebir could re-locate to the French West Indies, where it might be placed under (neutral) US supervision.
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  936.  @Sledgehammer.  'Nice try Moshe.' No rational answer then, little neo?
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  937.  @AndrewCowell-sz9dx  'ahh but it does according to you😅😅😅😅ffffs think before typing you oxymoron 😅😅😅😅I’m in stitches😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅' You don't actually know what 'oxymoron' means, do you? By the way, your unrivalled collection of SS daggers needs a good polishing, herr obersturmbannfuhrer.
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  938.  @bermudarailway  Certainly, George had far more affection for the 'narzies' than he ever had for working-class Americans.
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  939. Isn't what the Dear Leader really saying? 'As well as increasing numbers of lads in hotels, we now need to find oodles more money to placate our Union masters by funding vast pay rises for their members. Where will we get it from? The 80% of the population who didn't vote for us. The ones, of course, that I don't intend to jail just yet.'
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  940. Who will replace him? How about a caretaker First Minister? Nicola Sturgeon perhaps!? I wonder if he will get a Camper Van as part of his resignation agreement?
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  941.  @user-xd9yo3le7o  I rather assumed that you would seek to distract, rather than try to answer. Why was he, and others, arrested, then?
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  942. But if, like Dear Rachel, you have never worked in the private sector, and neither know nor care how it actually functions, you cannot be expected to know that. So long as the public sector and the unions are appeased, that is all that matters to her.
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  943.  @candy-le4nh  Surely, the point at issue is not the response of the Labour Party, which could hardly have been anything other than what it was, but the fact that the mob behind the speaker, including a woman in what appeared to be an Amnesty International tabard, cheered and applauded the idea of the murder of other people simply because they objected to their political opinions?
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  944. They can when throwing stones back would be identified as a hate crime.
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  945.  @versioncity1  Did you actually read the article in 'Metro,' written by Nicole Vassell, on 25 September? Evidently not.
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  946.  @versioncity1  'yes I did. Your point is?' Don't you recall writing : 'No-one actually is. it's a fallacious argument.' Self-evidently, someone is.
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  947.  @versioncity1  So, you haven't read the article after all. Either that, or you are simply totally misreading it. To save you from reading it at this late stage, this is what is actually written in the 'Metro.' 'However, the majority of the criticism over this casting has been reserved for the choice to cast Elordi, a white man, as Heathcliff – a famously non-white character. And to me, the pushback is valid – even a cursory search on Google will point to Brontë’s Heathcliff being a person of colour, so why is he being represented by a white actor?'
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  948.  @versioncity1  You seem to be getting bad tempered, I observe. I did say it was taken from the article. Sorry you failed to notice. Perhaps you didn't read far enough to reach the last sentence, which is here for you. Again, cut and pasted:- 'even a cursory search on Google will point to Brontë’s Heathcliff being a person of colour, so why is he being represented by a white actor?'
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  949.  @versioncity1  If you really cannot understand the meaning of the comment in the article, then presumably English is not your first language? Whether this be so or not, I find obvious trolls tedious, and will now ignore you.
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  950.  @unibks4382  Whereever did you get that idea from? In terms of numbers, Labour received 9,708,716 votes, or 23,622 votes per MP, Tories 6,828,925, or 56,437 votes per MP, LibDems 3,519,143, or 48,877 votes per MP, Reform 4,117,610, or 823,522 per MP. Oh, the wonders of a First Past the Post system, when party can triumph with half a million less votes than it received in the Labour disaster election of 2019.
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  951. Perhaps the perpetrator had read about the Dr. Ruxton murders in Lancaster in 1935, and was inspired by Ruxton's method of disposing of the remains?
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  952. There are disturbing similarities between current western society and the Western Roman Empire of the early/mid fifth century.
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  953. Have some compassion. She has never worked in the private sector. How can you expect her to have the faintest idea, or even interest, about how it actually functions?
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  954. Do you think that Mr.Webb had a hand in Facebook dropping fact-checking? Have you ever considered that an opinion which differs from your own might not, simply because of that fact, inevitably, be 'lies and vitriol?' Or does freedom of speech in your world simply mean the right to agree with you?
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  955.  @AnthonyMcCaul-c9g  'His devoted followers (of which I assume you are one.' Why would you assume that? I believe in Freedom of Speech, as Mr. Webb does, and, as it appears, you do not. If you can tell the difference between 'a difference of opinion and downright lies' isn't it possible that other people have an equal ability so to do?
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  956.  @AnthonyMcCaul-c9g  So, you do not believe in freedom of speech at all. then? Again, by 'lies and falsehoods' I assume you simply mean any opinion which does not agree with yours? I observe that you have avoided answering my earlier question 'If you can tell the difference between 'a difference of opinion and downright lies' isn't it possible that other people have an equal ability so to do?' I am not actually surprised.
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  957.  @AnthonyMcCaul-c9g  'Freedom of speech, freedom to lie, eh Thomas?' Again, you confirm that you do not believe in freedom of speech, except when the speech concurs with your own opinion. You aren't actually doing much to sustain your argument.
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  958.  @AnthonyMcCaul-c9g  Very good, little chap. No answer, so you resort to insults.
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  959. But wouldn't that simply be a documentary?
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  960. Did you post that comment before you listened to what was said?
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  961.  @TJspaceman  OK then, I'll give you the benefit. Prthaps you simply didn't understand what he was saying.
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  962. What? A lawyer leaving a court? That would be a first.
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  963. The English Civil War was not about religion, but about the role of the Monarch in the Nation State. In other words, whether the Stuart belief in the concept of the 'Divine Right of Kings' would hold sway, or whether ultimate authority would rest with Parliament.
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  964.  @michaelholmes3331  The book 'The Peter Principle' explains it cogentlty : 'The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.'
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  965. Every morning, as I read about a new crazed idea thought up by the Dear Leader and his sixth-form debating society of a government, I become increasingly convinced that this is simply a project intended to prove wrong the long held belief that the British could never be provoked into revolution.
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  966.  @anthonyclarke5579  I doubt that they will need to learn English, as I believe that most of these forms are produced in a whole host of different languages.
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  967. When you aren''t bright enough to comment on your own account, at least have the wit to remove the obvious give-aways in your cut and paste. Like the [2] in your last sentence :- 'His content mostly focuses on the problems of immigration, multiculturalism, climate change, the black diaspora, the territorial disputes between Israel and Palestine, and supposed historical revisionism.[2]'
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  968.  @RatRace.  Do you neo half wits all show the same total lack of knowledge about histoiy?
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  969.  DIFESA_RAZZA_BIANCA  Sorry, you half-wit, but Churchill didn't declare war on anyone. You need to get the authors of the hymn sheet from which you neos chant mindlessly to write a new script.
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  970.  @sergpie  Except it didn't. Pearl Harbor & the German declaration of war, of course, did.
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  971. You don't think that invading Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, & Belgium might have played a small part, then?
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  972.  @edmundblackaddercoc8522  I do find it fascinating how you neos all recite from the same script.
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  973.  @edmundblackaddercoc8522  Indeed. One based on facts, and one based on the prejudices of fanatics.
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  974. On quotation from Arthur Harris , for whom I generally have little time, of which I approve is when he said that every city in Germany was not worth the bones of one British Grenadier.
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  975. Unfortunately, the Dear Leader's antics so far suggest that it still hasn't occurred to him that actions have consequences.
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  976.  @TheAsa1972  Really? Apart from ignorance prejudice, what actually makes you think that? If, of course, you can actually think.
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  977.  @jimbop4499  Haven't you read the agenda? Only white people can be RAYCISTS!!
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  978.  @johnlyon326  To be fair, one should pat more attention to Streeting's opinion. After all, if anyone has any first hand knowledge of what an odious, sad, little man, really is like, it is Wes.
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  979. What does that even mean?
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  980.  @photosphotos  Are you able to create a coherent phrase at all?
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  981. But isn't the RAYCISM!!! blatant though? Those far right sheep in those fields are overwhelmingly white, and isn't 'BAAA' a disgracefully racist chant?
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  982.  @EuropesLastStand  Oh look! Another fantasy quotation posted by a disgruntled neo. What a surprise.
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  983.  @toekneekerching9543  Who suggested that the defence of Greenland was involved? A Russian base there would be a serious threat to the United States. Do you remember the Cuban missile crisis? Or.come to that the occupation of Iceland in WW2 by Britain and then the US, to prevent the danger of a German base being established there? Or, Operation Ironclad in May, 1942, to prevent the danger of a similar Japanese occupation of Madagascar?
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  984.  @richardlewis7498  Is that what you think? Oh well!
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  985.  @BillSikes.  I see. As you are unable to answer with a credible response, you feel the need to resort to insults. A sure admission of defeat.
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  986. Well, if the records are correct, some of those from Lancaster were :- Abraham Rawlinson. From a Quaker family. Charles Inman. From a C of E family. Thomas Hinde. Buried in Priory Church. Dodshon Foster. A Quaker. Thomas Satterthwaite. A Quaker. John Satterthwaite. Buried in Priory Church. Does that help?
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  987. Out of interest, what actual purpose will the High Court Judge serve? I doubt that the judge or judge's staff, will do any sort of investigation at all into the circumstances surrounding the submission, but will simply carry out a cursory check to ensure that the documents have been properly completed. Doesn't this requirement simply give some semblance of spurious credibility to a proposition that will, in the fulness of time, be expanded out of all recognition, as is the case in Canada?
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  988. Be fair though. The comments were only in the 'Grauniad,' rather than in a real newspaper.
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  989. Isn't it probably because even criminal members of the new replacement population want people who look like them to guard them?
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  990.  @Annmarie-b8z  The figures are already freely available, should you care to look. Three in favour. Two against.
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  991. Actually, that isn't an accurate reflection of this site at all.
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  992. How is this 'rabble rousing?'
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  993.  @gammondinosaur3411  CanbridgeEnglish Dictionary :- 'The activity of saying, writing, or doing things that make crowds of people excited or angry, usually intentionally in order to make them act in a particular way.' Irrelevant in any case, however. I didn't ask 'what is rabble rousing' but 'how is this rabble rousing?' Only five words. Surely they didn't stretch your attention span that much?
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  994. For a further ten years, until the Indian Slavery Act was passed in 1843.
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  995. Purchasing a commission has not been possible since the Cardwell Reforms implemented in November, 1871.
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  996.  @wallacewhybrow2705  I don't have to ask 'why.' I was being ironic.
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  997. Why not give him the benefit of the doubt, and assume that on this occasion he is simply using incomplete information? Perhaps he might read Douhet's theories, and realise his error?
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  998.  @grellis6483  You consider Lord Haw Haw to be a neutral observer? How charmingly naive.
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  999. Why not? Dear Greta did, and she makes Lammy look comparatively normal.
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  1000.  @292Nigel  Assuming that were weren't simply executed or sent off as slave labour, that is.
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  1001. Perhaps Germany could never win. Which begs the question, why invade Poland and provoke the French & British to act exactly as they had threatened? 104 capital ship? Nonsense.
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  1002.  @stephfoxwell4620  You are still miles out. On 3 September, 1939, the RN (including the RCN & RAN) had 15 capital ships (twelve battleships & three battlecruisers), 7 aircraft carriers, 64 cruisers, and 193 destroyers and destroyer leaders.
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  1003.  @stephfoxwell4620  Perhaps you don't know what a Capital Ship' is? It is a battleship, battlecruiser, or a fleet aircraft carrier. The figures I gave included the RCN & RAN, as I said. Which ships 'defected' from Norway & Denmark? By September, 1940, there were eight French destroyers under RN control. Part of DF23, and based at Portsmouth & Plymouth. Britain completed five more battleships in WW2, the King George V class, and six fleet carriers, the first & second group Illustrious class. Germany in September 1939 had two battleships (the Scharnhorsts), three 'pocket battleships' the Deutschland class, and two long obsolete pre-dreadnoughts, Schleswig-Holstein, and Schlesien. Both built in 1908 and totally out of date. Italy in 1939 had two modernised battleships, two new 15 inch gunned battleships almost completed, and two older battleships also in the throes of modernisation. In short, you haven't a clue what you are talking about. Why not simply buy a book?
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  1004.  @stephfoxwell4620  'It matters not if you include or exclude Cruisers as we had 66 of them too.' Yes, it does. Because cruisers, heavy, light, or AA, are not capital ships. Just as destroyers are not capital ships. I have pointed out more than once that my figures included the Dominion navies of Canada and Australia, Why do you find it so difficult to grasp? There were indeed Norwegian ships at D-Day. HNoMS Stord & Svenner. Both British built destroyers supplied to the Royal Norwegian Navy. British 'S' class vessels, with Norwegian crews and commissioned by their Norwegian crews in late 1943. Also HNoMS Glaisdale, a British built 'Hunt' class escort destroyer supplied to the Norwegian Navy in June, 1942. AS a naval historian, I do not seek to play down the Royal Navy. In fact, quite the reverse. But nor do I wish to indulge in the kind of fantasies, hopefully only based upon ignorance, that so inspire you, and which will only result in ridicule. Your numbers for carriers are also nonsense. At the end of WW2, the RN had nine fleet carriers, assuming that Argus and the repair carrier Unicorn are included. A further four fleets were planned, and four light fleets joined the Pacific Fleet immediately after the end of the war. There were also 36 American built Escort Carriers, which were returned at the end of the war, as well as 4 British built Escort Carriers. The Escorts were not Fleet vessels, although some did serve with the main fleets from time to time. They were certainly not 'Capital Ships.' As I said, please buy a book. I would recommend 'British & Empire Warships of WW2' by Lenton & Colledge.
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  1005.  @stephfoxwell4620  I agree. It isn't a competition, as there is no contest. You are utterly outclassed, and my facts are totally correct. Have I ever suggested that Germany was not hugely inferior to the largest navy in the world? Especially after the catastrophe the Kriegsmarine experienced during the Norwegian campaign? 'I am making a very clear point.' No, you aren't. When you say, as you did, that the British had 92 capital ships and 340 destroyers, you are posting utter nonsense, and you render any claim you might seek to make meaningless. The actual numbers I stated are more than adequate to make such an argument, even if they, for no clear reason, annoy you. Ludicrous hyperbole serves no purpose. Nor does arguing that accurate information is 'sneering and pompous.' Do some proper reading, or just go away.
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  1006.  @stephfoxwell4620  'Sorry if figures from the top of my head are a bit broad brush. But they are a good reflection of the overall figures 1939-45.' By 'broad brush' I assume you mean 'made up?' Still.at least you seem to admit your ignorance, such as not actually knowing what a 'Capital Ship' really was. 'Nitpicking?' Correcting 92 to 22, and 340 to 193 is hardly nitpicking. It is simply correcting ludicrously false statements. By the way, I chose September 1939 as an obvious starting point. As I have access to the Royal Navy's Pink Lists, I know the nature and size of the fleet throughout the war. If you would like to know the Fleet strength in August, 1945, you only need to ask. Politely, of course. 'The fact that nobody has agreed with you shows that your efforts to play down the Royal Navy are pointless.' You mean unlike you, with one upvote per post? Didn't you know that upvoting your own comments is rather bad form? Show me where I have 'played down' the Royal Navy? I have simply tried to educate you in the silly errors you continue to make. Why not simply tefer to any book about the RN in the Second World War for some actual facts? Actually, as a naval historian with a number of books and articles about the naval war of 1939-1945, I have never come across such an accusation before. Those US writers I have encountered, as well as British writers of a light blue persuasion, generally accuse me (wrongly) of exaggerating the role of the Foyal Navy in the defence of Britain in the early years, and in bringing about the final victory. Still, fantasise away to your heart's content. Put simply, my information is entirely correct, and your claims are wholly bogus. Please note that I will not upvote my own post. I do not need to.
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  1007.  @stephfoxwell4620  'It is perfectly reasonable to compare Navies by their largest ships.' Of course it is. That is what I have been doing. It doesn't explain your fantasy figures, especially since they keep changing from post to post. Nor does it explain your ignorance of what a capital ship is. Have you ever considered that your knowledge of the subject is almost woefully lacking? Look in any dictionary for the definition of a Capital Ship. it will say 'a large warship such as a battleship or aircraft carrier.' More recently, Nuclear Submarines have come to be regarded as Capital Ships, but I suggest even you would not claim that any existed in WW2. Why do you continue to post when you have nothing rational to say? Especially whewn you seem wholly unable to grasp the most basic of facts?
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  1008.  @stephfoxwell4620  No, you idiot. Anyone reading my posts (seemingly, you haven't) would have been able to understand how consistent and accurate they are. Or, if they weren't sure, they could have checked in moments. Unlike yours which vary from post to post, and are entirely unsupported by any source. 'Exaggerate the strength of the Nazi Navy, play down the strength of the Royal Navy or merely score points for a more in depth knowledge of detail than most laymen.' I have referred to the Kriegsmarine once, in response to a comment of yours. I have been strictly and precisely accurate about the actual strength of the Royal Navy. I have certainly not 'played down' how strong the RN was. Nor have I indulged in lunatic ravings, which I can happily leave to you. I do have greater knowledge than most people. It comes from a First in Modern History, a specialism in 20th Century Naval Warfare, and the publishing of a number of books & articles on the subject. To quote from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle :- “My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.” 'Anyone can see that Britain was a bigger power than Germany. For Germany to wage war on the British Empire was a disaster for Germany. A catastrophic error.' Please show me where I have ever written anything which disagrees with that. Good luck. My whole purpose in replying to you was to correct your initial ignorant comments about the Royal Navy. That you are unable to accept criticism, or even try to check the facts, says rather a lot about you.
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  1009. Hold on a moment. Didn't the RAF beging bombing before the 'accidental' raid by the liberal & peace-loving Luftwaffe?
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  1010. Yet the US Navy has a destroyer call the USS Winston S. Churchill.
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