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@MiketheSnow post photography editing? I find that one a bit too obvious to buy...
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UK ferners, has there been much talk on the illegal immigrants boating across from France? Patriot social media (not facebook for obvious reasons) is awash with stories and videos. Last night it looks like locals in the Welsh town of Penally went at it against police to try and stop 250 of these migrants (all military aged men) being hosted at a disused barracks there.
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
UK ferners, has there been much talk on the illegal immigrants boating across from France? Patriot social media (not facebook for obvious reasons) is awash with stories and videos. Last night it looks like locals in the Welsh town of Penally went at it against police to try and stop 250 of these migrants (all military aged men) being hosted at a disused barracks there.
Very divisive in that area.
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
Maybe the real privilege is having money and the organisations that lump the colour of someone's skin in along with financial status are the real racists causing societal harm.
Having money is the real privilege.
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There's often good reasons for delaying or withholding information on CSE cases.
E.g. there is an ongoing investigation into CSE in Telford where a number of people have already been convicted and the latest trials were subject to a media black-out to avoid miscarriages of justice and jury-tampering.
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
Maybe the real privilege is having money and the organisations that lump the colour of someone's skin in along with financial status are the real racists causing societal harm.
And such a bloody waste of talent.
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@Godder said in British Politics:
Having money is the real privilege.
I'd argue having good parents who value education and hard work is more important than money...
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
@Godder said in British Politics:
Having money is the real privilege.
I'd argue having good parents who value education and hard work is more important than money...
Both do better than either though.
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I imagine there a few on here that may be interested in the plight of Laurence Fox.
Essentially he's a b-list actor (in the true word, not in a negative way) who dared on TV to disagree with the notion that Markle was not heavily criticised because she is not 100% white. He then said that Britain was the most open tolerant country in Europe. In the face of this, he was then called a white privileged male, at which point he got upset and said that is blatant racism.
Anyway, obviously doing this puts him right on top of the central divide of woke vs anti-woke. He was part of an actors union which then immediately disassociated themselves with him. He got lawyers and they backed down big time. But essentially it ruined his career in acting. Although it arguably made him much more famous.
Anyway he's kept plodding along making statement every now and again but recently he's started up a political party. Which is actively against the woke movement & is trying to reclaim what being truly liberal is really about. However, he's had a bit of a shitty start. Basically sainsbury's released a statement about how they created safe spaces for black people during BLM & are addressing their ethnic pay -gap concerns. Fox basically said this is pathetic and refused to shop there ... so the twitterati (including a large amount of blue-ticks) has called him a racist on the back of these comments. So he responded in kind calling a couple of them paedophiles. Based on nothing, to make the point that they can't just call him a racist based on nothing.
So obviously this has hugely kicked off ... hugely. Some are taking legal action and it's all going quite viral.
Its fascinating stuff, and the implications of how these things go will be interesting.
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@MajorRage He’s making a brave stand and I hope he gains some traction. Though in talking to many from my kids’ generation I despair that is already entrenched and too late.
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@MajorRage have him on Twitter as I agreed with his anti-woke stance. Not sure how I got in to him. Gone off him a bit as some of his tweets have been a bit less considered.
Suspect this may be a calculated gambit from him though.
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