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

  1. Bet of luck, you might get a spare camper van out of them.
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  2.  @PeterPete  Presumably, by that you are really saying 'People who disagree with me are not entitled to hold an opinion.'
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  3. If reports are to be believed, in the event of Sunak becoming PM, the next Home Secretary is to be Jeremy Hunt. Those who think Patel was bad need to hold on to their hats, as they ain't seen nothin' yet.
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  4.  @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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  5. Just think. When a future 'British' government decides to impose Sharia Law on the remaining natives, my wife will at last have complete equality. She will have equal rights with our dining table, and be just as easy to replace.
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  6. There is a huge super mosque currently proposed for a site just north of Preston. The pretense of an Inquiry is being undertaken at present, although no one actually doubts the outcome. Years ago, I recall seeing an image of the fortress-like Cathedral of Albi, in France, built at the end of the Albigensian Crusade, and intended to cow a defeated and subject population. The two buildings have much in common, in both design and purpose.
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  7.  @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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  8. 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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  9. Poor people. Imagine being moved, all expenses paid, to the dismal hell hole that they, and the BBC article, apparently consider the north of England to be. Must go now, I need to feed my whippets and let the pigeons out. Now, where did I leave my flat cap? I live in Preston, by the way. We expect to get electricity any decade now.
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  10. I wonder it the two teenagers interviewed because of their alleged contacts with the Blackburn 'British' man recently killed in Texas were called Dennis & Nigel?
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  11. 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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  12. Gary clearly still remembers when, as a small black child, he was bullied.
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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. I believe Laurence Fox is being cast for the role! More seriously, isn't it characteristic of the trend that, whilst in the future many 'actors of colour' will inevitably play Hamlet, Lear, and Henry V, no white actor is ever likely to play Othello?
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  16.  @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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  17. Unfortunately, it appears that, in the near future, saying 'NO' will not be permitted.
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  18. I saw one last night in which a white male character was not portrayed as bigoted, stupid, or half-witted. How do I lodge a complaint?
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  19. I just know that I should have played over 150 Test Matches for England, and have retired with a batting average in the mid 60s. Only lack of opportunity stopped me. Oh, and lack of ability might have played a part.
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  20. I have never quite managed to work out how a country with a population of 10.1 million (according to the first, 1801, census) which was already at war with the greatest military power in Europe, managed to 'invade and occupy' India, which at around the same time had a population of around 130 million.
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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. Wasn't it David Cameron who said 'We are all in this together, but some of us are multi-millionaires.' Mr. Hunt won't experience much of a problem with heating bills. As an MP he, and the rest of the freeloaders, can claim them back as 'expenses.'
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  24. 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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  25. When Neil Dudgeon decides to step aside, I wonder who the next in line might be?
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  26. 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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  27. Surely you know that 'A Christmas Carol' was written by a former slave?
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  28. Not necessarily half-witted, but certainly fully indoctrinated.
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  29.  @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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  30.  @salforlad64  We can try, but most are still required to attend the indoctrination camps formerly known as schools and colleges.
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  31. In Britain it will become standard viewing for schoolchildren, as a vital part of the history curriculum.
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  32. At the same time that these people were being encouraged to rush to Britain to save it (at least, according to the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas) British people were being offered assisted passages to Australia and New Zealand, the so-called Ten Pound Poms. Odd, that, I suggest.
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  33. Surely you know the rules? The Japanese treated the people they conquered with nothing but compassion and courtesy. The people of Nanking talk to this day about how generous the Japanese were to them in December 1937-January, 1938. Only white people can ever, in the current climate, be described as RAYCISTS!!!
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  34. I doubt I am the only one who is becoming increasing annoyed at the manner in which Charles and William seem to find it increasingly entertaining to wander around the world apologising for British history, or, rather, apologising for what they inaccurately seem to believe British history to have been. As they seem determined to undermind the vast well of credit and respect the Queen has accumulated ed in her lifetime of service, I hope still to be around when these less than impressive individuals finally realise that their apparent contempt for the British people can only lead to one thing. As our French neighbours put it in 1789 'Vive La Republique!'
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  35. Perhaps, in the mind of the author, the British in the Crimea were the enemy?
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  36. Apparently, Aboriginal Australians discovered flight well before anyone else. Doubtless aircraft flown by these dauntless pioneers collected large numbers of Africans and flew them to that miserable island off the coast of what became Europe. Surely there are some folk memories just waiting to be found to confirm this? I believe David Olusoga is researching this issue even as I write.
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  37. Grossly unfair. Gary recently revealed that he faced racial prejudice when he was a young black child.
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  38. Indeed, but what applies to a political titan should not equally apply to the inconvenient peasantry.
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  39. Why do you think that 'Sir' Tony Blair politicised the civil service?
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  40. Unfair. David Lammy would at least provide diversion & entertainment. Similar to the band on the Titanic, perhaps?
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  41. 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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  42. Time for a re-make of the 'Battle of Britain' movie. Lenny Henry as Churchill, Idris Elba as Dowding, and large numbers of ethnic minority, transgender, pilots. There would still be room for white cast members of course, as comic, working class, ground crews.
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  43. Lammy is somewhat disingenuous with the facts about his ancestry. His forebears were never enslaved by anyone British.
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  44.  @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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  45. 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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  46.  @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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  47. I caught a TV advert last night in which the non ethnic minority actor was neither an extra nor a half wit. I was deeply shocked.
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  48. Inevitable once Starmer starts pandering to the Islamist wing of his part.
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  49. A thousand billion pounds? That is a devil of a lot of Swiss bank accounts for the lucky recipients of our largesse.
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  50.  @golden.lights.twinkle2329  In 1944. In Britain it dramatically improved the effectiveness of the AA batteries lining the coast against the V1 flying bomb. One drawback, however, seems to have been that it could also be triggered by nearby Seagulls.
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