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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3.  @mikej365  They were promised a warm welcome. I doubt that extended to the right to choose where they lived, or which schools were good enough for their children, You are, by the way, also wrong about the 'blacks' if you are referring to the Windrush generation. They were not urged to come by any British government, they chose to take advantage of an offer by the Windrush owners.
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  4. If it isn't deliberate, then his efforts have been almost heroically inept.
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  5. Wasn't Diversity Fields the less talented older brother of Gracie, who nevertheless had a long and successful career driving a tramcar for Rochdale Corporation Tramways? I believe that the gauntlets he wore whilst driving in cold weather are on display to this very day in the Town Hall entrance.
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  6.  @KemetledAfrica  Did the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason totally pass you by, or do you simply deny both?
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  7.  @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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  8.  @KemetledAfrica  How is describing the East African Slave Trade in any way 'downplaying the horrors that Europeans inflicted on Black Africans.' It simply highlights the fact that these horrors were not inflicted by Europeans only, in isolation. 'I have never heard anyone say that the transatlantic slave trade was uniquely cruel.' You don't perhaps consider that those who fixate upon the Transatlantic trade, to the exclusion of the others, are saying precisely that? Perhaps you aren't listening hard enough? '
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  9. Sadly, like the Imperial War Museum, the NMM appears to have been the victim of the same infestation. A year or so ago, it announced that it had embarked on a 're-assessment' of Nelson. Who did it choose to undertake this task? Not, as would seem logical, a distinguished naval historian, but a Woke Queen, Lucy Worsley, of dressing up on TV fame. I wonder how her 're-assessment' is progressing, and how it will turn out in the end?
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  10. 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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  11. "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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14.  @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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. The essential difference between previous groups seems to be that both the Huguenots and the Poles sought to adapt to the norms of the society around them. By contrast, the current immigrants assume, or even demand, that the existing community adapts to them.
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  18. Not the most gifted of thespians, is she? Much like the person to whom she was talking.
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  19. Something similar happened with Beachy Head Woman, acclaimed by Mary Beard & David Olusoga as proof of an African presence in England in the 1st/2nd century, on the basis that her skull had 'African' features. DNA analysis by the Crick Institute subsequently revealed her origin to have been Cyprus, but of course David & Mary have not (as yet?) retracted their claims.
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  20. What? And face cancellation, as happened to David Starkey?
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  21. David Olusoga would certainly be the presenter of choice for it.
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  22. 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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  23. I wonder if the British government funds their holiday trips?
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  24. 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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  25. Don't worry. Angela will sort it all out, and still have time to go clubbing.
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  26. Moreover, the boats landing on the Kent coast were able to do so as they were given air cover by Aboriginal aircraft. As we all know, Australian Aborigines had already discovered the secret of flight.
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  27. Simply look at recent Honours Lists. Most of them appear there somewhere.
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  28. @Racialist Slayer For two weeks? What a brutal punishment. That is how she is "getting away with it"
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  29. Perhaps, as these people wish to be referred to as 'they' then they should serve a double sentence?
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  30. It simply will not happen. The courts will overturn any such proposals, as they generally do.
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  31.  DIFESA_RAZZA_BIANCA  Good heavens! I never knew that Alfred Hitchcock ever said anything like that.
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  32.  @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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  33.  @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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  34. 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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  35. The more I read George Orwell, the more it is apparent how prescient he was. 'The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.' ‘England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box. All through the critical years many left-wingers were chipping away at English morale, trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist, sometimes violently pro-Russian, but always anti-British’.
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  36. Quite the reverse. She is exactly the sort of person NHS Management & the Civil Service actively seek out. Someone who can sit in a comfortable office on a healthy salary, and spend many years inventing spurious reasons to justify her job.
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  37. @jimmy m Leave him alone! For someone who tells us that, as a small black child, he was racially abused, he has done well for himself. I know of no one who can say 'that person kicked that ball thing into that net thing' with greater aplomb.
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  38. I wonder if Lord Alli bought the jacket for him?
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  39. You think he annoys you? He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. Manchester was my alma mater, and I studied History. Think how embarrassed I am to think that the standards set by Professor M. R. D. Foot have degenerated to the level of someone who is more a propagandist than a credible historian. Still, at least I can now ignore the regular appeals for money with a clear conscience. What exactly is 'Public History,' I wonder?
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  40. Or at least receive the William MacGonagall Prize for Bad Poetry.
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  41.  @KemetledAfrica  Oh dear. I apologise! I didn't realise you were a ranter, especially an incoherent one.
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  42. I expect David Lammy to proclaim white snow RAYCIST!!!' in Monday's newspapers.
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  43. 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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  44. Sadly, the UK is now in a similar situation to the Western Roman Empire in around 460 A.D. At that time, large numbers of 'Barbarians' crossed into the Empire from the east, not, as the popular misconception has it, to destroy it, but because they saw it as a land flowing with milk and honey. The Roman elite did nothing to prevent this, but effectively established their own proto-feudal territories, which had little or nothing in common with the failing empire. As the Gothic leader Theodoric expressed it at the time, 'Every Goth aspires to be a Roman. Only a very poor Roman would aspire to be a Goth.' By the time that the results of this understandable but selfish approach became clear, it was no longer possible to reverse it, and 400 years of civilisation rapidly collapsed.
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  45.  @brianperry  I did witness an incident at Speaker's Corner where a fundamentalist attempting to question a speaker was prevented from so doing by the police who are now regularly on duty there.
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  46.  @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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. It rather goes to show that, just as David Starkey shouldn't be asked to open the bowling in the forthcoming Ashes series, so a great former cricketer shouldn't pretend to write history books.
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  50. If she mentions that to her teacher, she may well face suspension.
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