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

  1. I wonder if Lord Alli bought the jacket for him?
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  2. Or at least receive the William MacGonagall Prize for Bad Poetry.
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  3. I expect David Lammy to proclaim white snow RAYCIST!!!' in Monday's newspapers.
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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Bet of luck, you might get a spare camper van out of them.
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  9.  @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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  10.  @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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Simply the shape of things to come in the future British caliphate, I expect.
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  15.  @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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  16. Unfortunately, it appears that, in the near future, saying 'NO' will not be permitted.
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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. When Neil Dudgeon decides to step aside, I wonder who the next in line might be?
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  21. 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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  22.  @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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  23. In Britain it will become standard viewing for schoolchildren, as a vital part of the history curriculum.
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  24. Perhaps, in the mind of the author, the British in the Crimea were the enemy?
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  25. Indeed, but what applies to a political titan should not equally apply to the inconvenient peasantry.
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  26. Unfair. David Lammy would at least provide diversion & entertainment. Similar to the band on the Titanic, perhaps?
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  27. 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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  28. Lammy is somewhat disingenuous with the facts about his ancestry. His forebears were never enslaved by anyone British.
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  29.  @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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  30. 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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  31.  @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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  32. Inevitable once Starmer starts pandering to the Islamist wing of his part.
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  33. Grossly unfair. I have been to Longleat. The animals there behave with far more dignity.
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  34.  @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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38.  @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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  39.  @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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  40.  @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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  41.  @4legsgood  Really? Explain which wars 'he mongered?' Then read up about the actual facts surrounding Gallipoli. You might learn something.
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  42.  @carolebarker2195  I think you mean 'have become?'
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  43.  @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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  44.  @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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  45.  @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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  46. 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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  47.  @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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  48. 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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  49. Probably not. That would infringe their YUMAN RITES!!!
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  50. 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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