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Frank Hester's Racist Comments About Diane Abbott
despritdan replied to Chekhov's topic in General Discussions
They should give it back to the Treasury which is where it originally came from. -
It was the 90s, you could get a lot for 50 quid back then.
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I know this sort of thing happens from personal experience. Years ago when I was living in London, I got occasional work as a TV extra through an agency. One day, some of us were hired to protest against British Airways after one of their executives had made an anti-Semitic remark after viewing a TV advert which featured a Hasidic Jew sitting on one of their planes. We had to go to a large hall where we were given large black coats and wide brimmed hats to wear and placards to carry. We were then bussed out to Heathrow Airport and gathered outside the British Airways headquarters where we were told to run around in a circle, chanting things that would make us sound Jewish and if we didn't speak Yiddish, to make something up. We all ran around waving our placards and chanting, "Ha na ha na," as their staff drove in and out through the gate making obscene gestures at us. Afterwards, we were driven back to the hall and had to form an orderly queue, where we were each given a £50 note.
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More And More Businesses Have Minimal Human Contact
despritdan replied to Chekhov's topic in General Discussions
There seems to be an assumption that everybody's 20 years old and confident using technology and AI, which isn't the case. A lot of older people find these changes bewildering and confusing. I wouldn't go somewhere where there's a screen and nobody to speak to as I'd be afraid of getting it wrong. -
Frank Hester's Racist Comments About Diane Abbott
despritdan replied to Chekhov's topic in General Discussions
The Tories privatize everything then give generous contracts to their friends. Their friends give some of the taxpayers' money they've received to the Tory party as a thank you. It's a way of transferring millions of pounds of taxpayers' money into the coffers of the Tory party. If there's money left over, it should be repaid to the Exchequer where it came from, otherwise it's blatant corruption. -
Frank Hester's Racist Comments About Diane Abbott
despritdan replied to Chekhov's topic in General Discussions
Frank Hester's comments are Manna from Heaven for people on the left, who are now indulging in an orgy of sanctimonious, self-righteous virtue signalling as they fall over themselves to express their disgust at his racist remarks, whilst being very relaxed about Diane Abbott's long history of hypocrisy and racist remarks about white people, some of which are listed in Wikipedia. In 1996, Abbott was criticised after she said that "blonde, blue-eyed Finnish girls" were unsuitable as nurses at her local hospital because they had "never met a black person before".[129] In response, Marc Wadsworth, founder of the Anti-Racist Alliance, whose mother is Finnish, pointed out that the then-current Miss Finland, Lola Odusoga, was black, of Nigerian and Finnish descent. On 4 January 2012, Abbott tweeted: "White people love playing 'divide and rule'. We should not play their game Racist cabbies In 2012 Ms Abbott sparked outrage among taxi drivers after suggesting they were racists. In a message on Twitter, Ms Abbott wrote: “Dubious of black people claiming they’ve never experienced racism. Ever tried hailing a taxi I always wonder?” She also once claimed that the British invented racism. Following the shooting of Sasha Johnson on 23 May 2021, Abbott tweeted: The issue over her son attending private school is: Abbott's decision in 2003 to send her son to the private City of London School after criticising colleagues for sending their children to selective schools, which she herself described as "indefensible" and "intellectually incoherent." When challenged about her hypocrisy, she replied, “West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children,” implying that white parents wouldn't. This is on top of her other gaffes which include her LBC interview; In 2017 Ms Abbott stumbled through an explanation of her party’s plan for an additional 10,000 police officers. During an interview with LBC, the Shadow Home Secretary gave several estimates for how much the new officers would cost, ranging from £300,000 to £80m. Hester's remarks were an attack on her for the way she conducts herself and although they had undertones of racism, he wasn't actually attacking any particular races. It's not surprising that she's so hated and brings all the opprobrium down on herself by the way she behaves and her obvious hatred of the native white population. The fact that she's an MP just illustrates how far this country's sunk. She's now milking it by claiming that she's afraid to go out in case she gets shot, which may well happen as she lives in Hackney, but when you see which demographic group is responsible for the shootings and stabbings in London, it's clear that it isn't rich white men that she needs to be afraid of but men of her own ethnicity. -
Kate Middleton - What The Hell Is Going On?
despritdan replied to Top4719's topic in General Discussions
How could the press possibly know when one of the Royal Family has farted? -
Kate Middleton - What The Hell Is Going On?
despritdan replied to Top4719's topic in General Discussions
How long will it be before the conspiracy theorists tell us she's dead and has been replaced by a look alike or a hologram? -
The starting 11 played pretty well but the subs made the difference. Theirs improved them whilst ours made us worse.
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It's main purpose seems to be for young people to take into the cinema and throw at each other during the film, leaving a nice mess for the cleaners.
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It's the constant stream of cheap immigrant labour that's created this situation.
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What's in the budget for me? As I'm a pensioner who likes to vape, nothing actually; in fact I'll be worse off because of the extra tax on refillables on top of the VAT I'm already paying. The whole idea of tax cuts when the country is nearly £3 trillion in debt is absurd and irresponsible. If they did find themselves awash with money, they should be cutting VAT which is a regressive tax, meaning it impacts on those on the lowest incomes the most. We all pay the same but we don't all earn the same and it takes a disproportionately high % of the incomes of the lowest paid. At 20%, it must be having a crippling impact on businesses as it pushes up costs. When Thatcher came to power, it was 8% but has more than doubled since. The Tories being what they are, have decided to make yet another cut in direct taxes which are the fairest form of taxes because the more you earn, the more you pay. This also means that when these direct taxes are cut, the more you earn, the more you get back and this has been their chief weapon in making the rich richer and the poor poorer. Luckily for them, few people seem to understand the difference between direct and indirect taxation and the latter are known as stealth taxes because being hidden in the cost of goods and services, nobody has a clue how much they pay in a year. I'm sure the Labour Party know the difference but I've yet to hear any promises from them that they'll reverse the policies that Thatcher started by increasing income tax and lowering VAT.
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George Galloway Wins For The Workers Party
despritdan replied to Anna B's topic in General Discussions
I've never voted for the Tories and I am complaining about how undemocratic our system is.